Ten years ago Eugene Melnyk actually did something good. He bought the Mississauga IceDogs and let the world know he would kick them out of the Hershey Centre at the end of the 2006-07 season. He wanted a better rink for his OHL team, the St. Michaels Majors, and saw a better fit for them in the suburbs, than in the garage they played in at St. Michaels College.
The Mississauga IceDogs, founded in 1998 with Don Cherry as part of the ownership group, were looking to become homeless, forced to wander the Ontario landscape, begging for ice time and rummaging though trash bins for half drunk bottles of Gatorade.