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Austin Sutter

Jul 9, 2026

19:30
But, you know, if you want to kind of share some of the behind the scenes stuff and why you guys care so much.
19:36
Yeah, that's a great question.
19:37
I think, well, as you know, much like DFW or Odessa or really anywhere in the state, we're in football country.
19:45
Right.
19:45
And I think that's always been kind of the the you know, the comparison is is is you got these hockey teams in these southern markets competing with football, right? But what a lot of people don't realize, I don't think, is that professional hockey was in Texas well before professional football ever was.
20:08
If you just visit the Farmers Branch Dallas Star Center there and you get a chance to see the Texas Hockey Museum that they put together in the Hall of Fame, whatever it is, you'll see that on the walls that the Dallas Blackhawks were a professional hockey team.
20:25
well before any professional football team existed, right? And that's the case here in our little panhandle or the Texas plains of Amarillo is we had pro hockey here in 1968 and they built the Amarillo Civic Center Coliseum where we currently are today or it's home to the Amarillo Wranglers NHL team.

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38:58
It's like, okay, how flexible are they? Can they do every age group or is it just, you know, the wins and losses from this or that, but can you kind of talk a little bit about the differences in the age groups and how you have to approach them differently?

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