Gaudreau buys a stake in the USHL Dubuque Fighting Saints

[tvp2003]

Kevin Allen @ByKevinAllen
Johnny Gaudreau, Zemgus Girgensons, Dan Bylsma and Peter Luukko are buying the USHL's Dubuque Fighting Saints. Like it when hockey people buy hockey teams.

Johnny played for Dubuque for one season (with Girgensons) before getting drafted and playing three years at Boston College.

[Split98]

Neat!

Didn't have Johnny pegged as the business type, but that is a good group of guys joining together. Wonder what responsibilities any of them take on with this purchase.

[FanIn80]

This reminded me of Iggy so I had to check to see if it's still true... Iginla still (partially) owns the Blazers!

http://blazerhockey.com/ownership

[dobbles]

Good to see. I grew up not terribly far south of there, (Dubuque is actually an hour or so north of the Quad Cities; Go QC Flames!) and went to college with a guy whose family had always had season tickets. That was in the early 00's when they had dropped to tier III. I know they missed the tier I quality. Hopefully having these guys as owners gives them stability for the long term!