Sports Blog #5

            From what I hear, the Evansville Thunderbolts are an ice hockey team for the University of Evansville.  I am unsure if they are a regular college team or maybe even semi-pro, but they compete from Evansville and play other ice hockey teams within the area.  From what I have found information wise, they usually play at the Ford center in Evansville, IN.  I think that they are a pretty bad ice hockey team because not a lot of colleges in the area have their own ice hockey team.  Some simple facts that I found on their team is that they are indeed not very good.  During their last three seasons from 2016-2017 they won 14 games and lost 32 games…during the last season from 2018-2019 they won 12 games and lost 38!  I’m not sure why they aren’t very good and haven’t won more games, but I think the potential for them to win more is there they must be facing teams that are much more experienced.  My opinion about the thunderbolts is that they are facing teams that are from much colder area’s and so there main sport is ice hockey as ours would be football or basketball and so the Evansville ice hockey team is facing those teams and that is probably why they aren’t winning as much.  When I first saw that we were doing this paper on the Evansville Thunderbolts, I thought that the Thunderbolts were a track team or something…I had never heard of this ice hockey team before today.  I think that the Evansville ice hockey team should stay in place, but rather try and make them better, meaning higher a new coach and try to recruit players that have a high talent for the game so that they are able to win 38 games and lose 14 rather than the other way around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evansville_Thunderbolts