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Wooster Oilers Excited To Make Return To USPHL Premier in 2020-21

By www.usphl.com, 05/11/20, 9:00PM EDT

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Junior hockey returns to Alice Noble Ice Arena

After one dry season, the oil is rising again in Wooster, Ohio. The Wooster Oilers have announced their return to the USPHL Premier and its Great Lakes Division after a one-year absence. The Oilers will play in 2020-21 under new ownership and management from top to bottom, with Wooster Youth Hockey Association co-founders Marty Kerr and Eric Robinson taking ownership of the nearly 15-year-old junior organization.

“Wooster is a small community with a youth hockey organization that is part of the Cleveland Suburban Hockey League, so hockey is a big part of the community,” said Kerr. “It is so big that when the Oilers [junior team] could not put together a team last year, the town rink, the Alice Noble Ice Arena, almost closed without that revenue. The Wooster Youth Hockey Association and members of the Wooster Ice Community put together a pledge drive and we raised nearly $200,000 annually over three years to save the rink. It was a tough year, but we worked hard.

The prior owners of the Oilers made the decision to sell after the junior team went dormant. Robinson met with them, and within a few months over this past year, the paperwork was completed and ownership of the Oilers junior team was transferred to Robinson and Kerr. 

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