North Oaks is a gated community in the northeast part of the twin cities and is set to join the NEHA. With their status as a gated community, North Oaks has a reputation for being a very wealthy and is likely to be disliked by most of their leaguemates because of this. The Acorns will play their home games at the 600 seat North Oaks Recreation Center.

The team will be called the "Acorns", playing off the towns name, North Oaks. Their logo is a simple roundel with the town name surrounding an Acorn in the team colors of Brown and Green.

Barnesville is a town in northwest Minnesota with a population of 2,000 set to join the Itasca Hockey Association. The Spuds will play their home games at the Clay County Fairgrounds which can fit 1,000.

The team will be called the "Spuds", named after the towns most famous product. Barnesville is home to the Barnesville Potato Days which bring tens of thousands to this small town every year to celebrate everything potatoes. Barnesville is located in the Red River Valley which is famous for having land perfect for growing potatoes. The Spuds have a fairly simple brand, using a Blocky B logo along with a Spuds wordmark on their uniforms. Their official team colors are Spud Brown and Orange.


That concludes the 1988 Offseason, let me know what you think, comments are appreciated!

These expansion teams are so good! Dayton, New Prague, and Champlin are my favourites.

North Oaks is probably my favorite, all of them are really nice, great job as always!

Mmmmm... Waconia and Glencoe? Heck yeah.