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AHL Crunch Owner Uses Twitter To Hint At Move From Syracuse Despite Stadium Lease

The AHL Syracuse Crunch and Onondaga County "agreed to a lease" at War Memorial Stadium through the '23-24 season, but Crunch Owner Howard Dolgon "sent out a pair of tweets suggesting that there might be some uncertainty about the team's long-term future in the city," according to Lindsay Kramer of the Syracuse POST-STANDARD. Dolgon in the tweets said that the team, now in its 23rd season, is "awaiting word of a couple decisions in the next few days, and then will be in a position to make some decisions of its own." Two pending moves in particular "loom large." Dolgon has been "trying to secure a deal to play an outdoor game at NBT Bank Stadium in December, a project that he sees as getting bogged down." Dolgon also has "requested that Onondaga County funnel money it gets from the upcoming state budget into much needed upgrades and repairs" at the team's War Memorial arena. These improvements would "include a restaurant, a new scoreboard and seats and a modern marquee." Dolgon is "irked that while he plays in perhaps the worst building in the AHL, the county is quick to help out the debt-ridden" Triple-A Int'l League Syracuse Chiefs with "bonuses like a new scoreboard and a very generous new lease." If there is "no money coming in the Crunch's direction, Dolgon has strongly hinted he will assess his AHL marketplace options" (Syracuse POST-STANDARD, 3/31).

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