Gone But Not Forgotten: Which Hockey Team Vanished?
Erling Mraz
2025-04-19 14:34:51
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As of the beginning of the 2011/12 season Coventry Chaos is no longer training or playing. The core of the old Chaos team now plays as the Honey Badgers and the Bruins. Coventry Bruins no longer exist.
Sarina Satterfield
2025-04-05 20:06:09
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Manchester Phoenix is the hockey team that vanished. Founding members of the Elite League, Phoenix would play for just one season before taking a hiatus for the next two seasons, before eventually returning at the start of the 2006/07 campaign, albeit only moving to their home rink in February. The drop to EPL was disappointing, if understandable, and despite the drop in technical quality, the entertainment level remained. As it was, the race against time proved too much, and the Phoenix will cease to exist.
Verona Boyle
2025-04-05 18:04:11
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Manchester Storm once held the record for the highest attendance at an Ice Hockey match in the UK(over 17,000) whilst there are some other teams that had been around for ages but had unfortunately disappeared - Durham for example.
Asa Spencer
2025-04-05 17:40:07
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The Baltimore Clippers, Quebec Aces, and Richmond Robins are examples of hockey teams that vanished. By the time the 1974-75 season rolled around Baltimore were in financial trouble. Despite receiving an $80,000 subsidy from city in lieu of lease payments, giving up exclusive ice rights to the Baltimore Civic Center, the Clippers formally folded January 23, 1975, cancelling the remaining thirty games left in their schedule. The SHL would be shut down by January of 1977 and the Baltimore Clippers would cease to exist from that point.
The end came for Quebec when Philadelphia opted to relocate their farm team closer to home in Richmond, Virginia for the 1971-72 season.
Team founder E. Claiborne Robins pulled the plug, citing more than $1 million in financial losses over the Richmond’s five-year AHL existence.
Bernhard Bayer
2025-04-05 16:17:53
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The Hartford Whalers were in Hartford for the first 19 years of O'Leary's life, and they've been gone for the subsequent 19 years. The Whalers franchise now operates about 600 miles to the south as the Carolina Hurricanes. People wear Whalers jerseys and other apparel, and autograph sessions with former Whalers continue to draw big crowds, and the team's booster club is still active, even though there's no team left for it to boost. Nearly two decades after the team moved away, it's not a stretch to say the Whalers are still part of the fabric of Hartford life.
Willow Stoltenberg
2025-04-05 15:33:18
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For those interested the teams no longer in the AHL are the Worcester Sharks, Portland Pirates, Manchester Monarchs (now ECHL), Lowell Devils, Springfield Falcons, Albany River Rats, Norfolk Admirals (now ECHL), Binghamton Senators, Adirondack Phantoms, Hamilton Bulldogs, Abbotsford Heat, Lake Erie Monsters (now Cleveland), Peoria Rivermen (now SPHL), San Antonio Rampage and Houston Aeros.
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