Anaheim Could Get a Different Roller Hockey Team

Bill Raue, president of Virginia-based Major League Roller Hockey, which has teams in Canada and England, said the year-old organization has signed several former Roller Hockey International players and intends to establish an eight-team California division with at least one team in Orange County.

Long Beach businessman William Clapper, a travel agent for the financially ailing RHI, will control the California division and is exploring putting a team at the Anaheim Convention Center, Raue said.

“We are an affordable, viable model for roller hockey,” Raue said. “[Class] A baseball leagues are the model for what we are doing.”

Maury Silver, president of the Anaheim Bullfrogs of Roller Hockey International, called MLRH “strictly minor league” and said he is not worried about competing to sign players.