Bullfrog Owner Has Second Thoughts

Bullfrog owner Maury Silver has changed directions again, negotiating a one-year deal to have his team play in the New York-based Major League Roller Hockey rather than join a new in-line league being proposed by Fullerton businessman Dennis Murphy.

The arrangement, which won’t be completed until MLRH president Bill Raue returns from Europe this week, calls for the Bullfrogs to play 10 regular-season games at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim and 10 games in the East, plus playoffs, Silver said.

“I’m 90% sure of going with them,” Silver said. “There’s no other established league to play in. Everyone is starting up new leagues and doing this and that and nothing has come to fruition yet.”

If Silver follows through it will be a major blow to Murphy’s Professional Inline Hockey League, which was supposed to begin its first season July 1.

Without the Bullfrogs, according to Murphy, PIHL most likely will not get off the ground until at least next year.

“Maury has to do what he thinks is best for Maury and his program,” Murphy said.