Lamar Hunt Jr., President of Loretto Ventures, LLC, purchased the Topeka RoadRunners Tier II junior hockey team from Don Stone in mid-April of 2018, revealed the team’s new name Tuesday, June 5th during a gathering at the Kansas Expocentre. Hunt said after researching the history of Kansas’s capital city, that he and his team...
Lamar Hunt Jr. wants to create a “hockey ecosystem” here in the Midwest, and the newly acquired Topeka RoadRunners are the latest addition to his plan. Hunt announced Wednesday, April 18th that his company, Loretto Sports Ventures, purchased the Topeka RoadRunners junior hockey team from Don Stone. Mr. Stone had owned the RoadRunners since...
The Missouri Mavericks have announced that upon completion of the 2016-17 season their name will change to the Kansas City Mavericks. “We continue to work feverishly to grow hockey, including youth hockey, across the greater Kansas City region and believe it is very timely to have a team name that reflects just that. Our ticket sales reflect...
INDEPENDENCE, MO (June 11, 2015) — The Kansas City Mavericks announced Thursday afternoon that they have reached an affiliation agreement with the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL) for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons. Missouri joins the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League (AHL) as the Islanders primary minor...
