There were arguments. There were accusations of skulduggery. There was a moose driving a zamboni and cross-city sniping aplenty...and that was just the staff chat. But finally, SCoC has reached a decision. Here are the AIHL teams we'll be adopting this season.
It is rare in hockey writing or blogging that an article or decision one makes catches and galvanizes the attention of not just those who read it, but a whole country.
It is rarer still that a piece or decision can galvanize a whole country on the other side of the world.
But that's what we've inadvertently managed to do the past few weeks with Chowder's decision to throw ourselves into the Australian Ice Hockey League this summer.