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COPYRIGHT 2003 Las Vegas Review-Journal
BYLINE: STEVE CARP, REVIEW-JOURNAL
On the surface, the success of the Las Vegas Wranglers of the recently expanded ECHL should be as sure a thing as hitting an empty net from just outside the crease. But if the Wranglers plan on being the flagship franchise in the 31-team league, they're going to have to do more than tuck the puck across the goal line.
But commissioner Brian McKenna, whose league stretches from Atlantic City to Alaska and whose initials ECHL no longer stand for "East Coast Hockey League," is betting on Las Vegas to come in a winner.
The Wranglers, along with Gwinnett, Ga., and Beaumont, Texas, are the three start-from-scratch franchises that have joined up with the ECHL, which had taken in the six-team West...
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