Do Not Read the New Haven Register

BOULDER, Colorado -- A couple of days ago, I wrote a very heart-felt post about the dearly departed New Haven Coliseum. In that post, I wrote that the last professional hockey team to play in New Haven were the New Haven Knights of the United Hockey League. I also wrote that they played one season in the Coliseum, 2001-02. This is incorrect.

It is incorrect because much of the information in that post was taken from an article written by Brett Orzechowski in the January 14th issue of the New Haven Register. In that article, there is an inset listing all of the professional sports teams that graced the Coliseum, and there it is written that the Knights played a single season.

I went to many Knights games, and this seemed wrong to me - but I have not really lived in New Haven full time for a few years, so I figured I was mistaken. Luckily, I keep every ticket stub of every game I attend, and when adding a ticket from Tuesday's Rocky Mountain Rage game (they lost to the Laredo Bucks 5-1 in Broomfield - that's the Central Hockey League, by the way), I found a stub from a game between the Knights and the Elmira Jackals, dated December 22nd, 2000. Two seasons, not one.

Not only is a great city like New Haven without a premier sports and entertainment venue, but for years it has been plagued with an abysmal local paper. Do some fact checking, and some copy editing, for God's sake. All you had to do was look on Wikipedia.

And for all you Register readers, just watch television instead. Seriously.