Bill Text: IL SR0965 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates the Peoria Rivermen hockey team on winning the 2023 - 2024 SPHL championship.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-05-17 - Resolution Adopted [SR0965 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SR0965-Introduced.html
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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION | ||||||
| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate wish to | ||||||
| 3 | congratulate the Peoria Rivermen hockey team on winning the | ||||||
| 4 | 2023 - 2024 SPHL championship; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, The SPHL (Southern Professional Hockey League) is | ||||||
| 6 | a professional ice hockey independent minor league based in | ||||||
| 7 | Huntersville, North Carolina, with teams located primarily in | ||||||
| 8 | the southeastern United States as well as in Illinois and | ||||||
| 9 | Indiana; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, The Peoria Rivermen's championship win in 2024 | ||||||
| 11 | marks its first championship win on home ice in 25 years; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, The Peoria Rivermen beat the Huntsville Havoc 5 | ||||||
| 13 | to 1 before a crowd of 5,902 at Carver Arena who witnessed a | ||||||
| 14 | once-in-a-generation moment unfold on the ice as Peoria won | ||||||
| 15 | the SPHL title for the second time in three years; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, The 42-year old Peoria Rivermen franchise won the | ||||||
| 17 | title at Carver Arena on the 25th anniversary of the team's | ||||||
| 18 | ECHL Kelly Cup championship that marked its last cup win | ||||||
| 19 | secured on home ice; and
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| 20 | WHEREAS, The Peoria Rivermen became the first team in SPHL | ||||||
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| 1 | history to lose Game 1 of a best-of-three championship series | ||||||
| 2 | and come back to win the title; and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, The Peoria Rivermen are also believed to be the | ||||||
| 4 | first team in pro hockey history to win a championship on home | ||||||
| 5 | ice at all three levels of the minors, having won once at | ||||||
| 6 | Carver Arena in the old International Hockey League (class | ||||||
| 7 | AAA), once in the ECHL (class AA), and now once in the SPHL | ||||||
| 8 | (class A+); and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, The Peoria Rivermen last won the SPHL | ||||||
| 10 | championship title in 2022; therefore, be it
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| 11 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL | ||||||
| 12 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we congratulate the | ||||||
| 13 | Peoria Rivermen hockey team on winning the 2023 - 2024 SPHL | ||||||
| 14 | championship, marking its second championship win in the SPHL; | ||||||
| 15 | and be it further
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