Category: Central Hockey League 1992

2003-04 Memphis RiverKings Program from the Central Hockey League

Memphis RiverKings

April 19, 2024

The Memphis RiverKings were a long-running minor league hockey promotion that played from 1992 through 2007 in the Central Hockey League. The RiverKings played in Memphis proper at the Mid-South Coliseum from 1992 through 2000 before relocating to the new DeSoto Civic Center in Southaven, Mississippi for the 2000-01 season. After moving to Mississippi, the RiverKings won back-to-back Miron Cup CHL championships in 2002 and 2003. The franchise changed its name to the Mississippi RiverKings in 2007 and went out of business in 2018.

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1993-94 Dallas Freeze Central Program from the Central Hockey League

Dallas Freeze

February 6, 2024

The Dallas Freeze were one of six founding members of the Central Hockey League (CHL) upon that circuit’s creation in 1992. The CHL was a revival of an earlier league of the same name that played in many of the same cities between 1963 and 1984. The Dallas Black Hawks (1967-1982) were a league power in the old CHL. Like the Black Hawks before them, the Freeze played at Fair Park Coliseum in South Dallas. The Freeze struggled to draw interest and the team’s financial outlook deteriorated further when the NHL Minnesota North Stars relocated to Dallas before the Freeze’s second season. The CHL, which owned all of its member clubs at the time, decided to fold the Freeze after three seasons in the spring of 1995.

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2000-01 Border City Bandits program from the Central Hockey League

Border City Bandits

February 26, 2022

The Border City Bandits were an ill-conceived minor league hockey outfit that went belly-up midway through their first and only Central Hockey League season during the winter of 2000-01. The border cities, in the Bandits case, were the twin cities of Texarkana on either side of the Arkansas-Texas boundary. The Bandits established their offices in Texarkana, Texas but played their games across the border in a converted rodeo arena in Texarkana, Arkansas.

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San Angelo Outlaws Western Professional Hockey League

San Angelo Outlaws

March 7, 2021

Western Professional Hockey League (1997-2001) Central Hockey League (2001-2002) Born: 1997 – WPHL expansion franchise Re-Branded: 2002 (San Angelo Saints) First Game: October 15, 1997

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Bloomington Prairie Thunder International Hockey League

Bloomington PrairieThunder

January 11, 2021

United Hockey League (1992-1997) International Hockey League (2007-2010) Central Hockey League (2010-2011) Born: September 21, 2005 – UHL expansion franchise Folded: May/June 2011 First Game:

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