Team for sale*

There's a sports team for sale, but it doesn't operate with any subsidies from local government.

In fact, team owners also own the arena, they draw thousands of fans to their games and they've built solid name recognition throughout the region even though their sport isn't native to Florida.

In an era of heavily subsidized sports, the Florida Everblades ice hockey team and Germain Arena in south Lee County are somewhat of an anomaly. The only public money the arena's owners ever received was a $1 million grant from Lee County for strengthening the building as a hurricane shelter when they built and opened it in late 1998.