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| Years Active | 1993-2007 |
| Home ice | Long Beach Sports Arena |
| Based in | Long Beach, California |
| Colors | Navy Blue, Gold |
| Owner | Steven Bash Ted Foxman Isaac Bash, M. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center is a Convention center located in Long Beach California. Long Beach is a city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific coast D. |
The Long Beach Ice Dogs were a professional ice hockey team in the ECHL. Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team Sport played on Ice. The ECHL (formerly the East Coast Hockey League) is a Professional Ice hockey league based in Princeton New Jersey, with teams scattered They had suspended operations at the end of the 2006–2007 season.
The Ice Dogs trace their origins to the San Diego Gulls, a team in the now-defunct International Hockey League that began play in 1990. The second San Diego Gulls team was founded in 1990 as part of the International Hockey League. The International Hockey League (IHL was a minor Professional Ice hockey league in the United States and Canada from 1945 to 2001 Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) In 1995, the team moved north to become the Los Angeles Ice Dogs. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Due to poor attendance at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, the team was on the move again after just one season, this time to Long Beach, California, where it retained the "Ice Dogs" name. The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena is a multipurpose sports Arena in the University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles California at Exposition Long Beach is a city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific coast In 2000, Barry Kemp, the television executive who had become the team's owner, withdrew the team from the IHL and moved it to the West Coast Hockey League, where it remained until the league was folded in 2003 by the member clubs, which were then admitted into the ECHL at the behest of owners who had interests in both leagues. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. West Coast Hockey League was a minor league in Ice hockey in United States from 1995 to 2003. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Kemp had sensed, correctly, that the WCHL was about to fold.
The team played at the Long Beach Sports Arena, just one hundred yards from Long Beach Harbor. Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center is a Convention center located in Long Beach California. In 2005, it was forced to play first-round ECHL playoff games in the HealthSouth Training Center, owned by the Los Angeles Kings, when the Long Beach facilities were being used as garage space for the Champ Car Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach during the ECHL playoffs. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Toyota Sports Center (formerly HealthSouth Training Center) is a practice facility for the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Sparks The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles California. Champ Car, was the name for a class and specification of cars used in American Championship Car Racing for many decades primarily for use in the Indianapolis The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach is an Open-wheel race held on a temporary road course in Long Beach California.
In the summer of 2006, Kemp sold the Ice Dogs to a new investment group led by Chicago businessman Ted Foxman. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. [1] The new ownership group plans to keep the team in Long Beach. The future of the team there has been uncertain because the Ice Dogs typically have the lowest average attendance in the ECHL. The owners also plan to promote boxing cards at the Long Beach Arena. Boxing (sometimes also known as English boxing or pugilism) is a Combat sport in which two participants generally of similar weight,
On October 20, 2006, the Ice Dogs reached an affiliate agreement with the NHL's Boston Bruins[2]. Events 1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The Boston Bruins are a professional Ice hockey team based in Boston Massachusetts.
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Suspension of operations
On April 20, 2007, the ECHL announced the suspension of the team's operations, citing an item from the league's recent board of governors' meeting: "Long Beach owner (executive partner) Ted Foxman informed the Board that the Ice Dogs would not play in Long Beach Arena in 2007–08. Events 1303 - The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII. " The ECHL added that the team's status would be clarified at the league's next meetings in June. [3]
Team co-owner Steven Bash told the Press-Telegram that the team was simply losing too much money for it to continue operations. Although there was an outside chance that the team could operate next year in a different city, this is not considered to be very likely.
Bash added that the Ice Dogs were negotiating a buyout of the remaining five years of their lease with Spectacor Management Group, which operates the Long Beach Arena. A buyout is an Investment transaction by which an entire company or a controlling part of the Stock of a company is sold SMG, formerly known as Spectacor Management Group is a worldwide property management group that specializes in managing publicly owned facilities headquartered in Philadelphia If the team folds, a dispersal draft would be scheduled within weeks for the players still under contract to the Ice Dogs. A dispersal draft is a process in professional sports for assigning players to a new team when their current team goes out of business consolidates with another team or for some other
As for Kemp, he is expected to be awarded an expansion franchise, to play in Ontario, California, starting in 2008. [4]
On June 18, 2007, during the ECHL Board of Governors Annual Meeting, the Ice Dogs membership in the ECHL was immediately terminated due to the Long Beach ownership group being unable to continue to operate in 2007–08. Events 618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. [5]
Notes
- Popular NHL goaltenders Manny Legace of the St. Louis Blues and Nikolai Khabibulin of the Chicago Blackhawks played for the Long Beach Ice Dogs during their pro career. The National Hockey League ( NHL) is a professional Ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America This article is about the goaltender in Ice hockey. For the similar position in other sports see Goalkeeper. Emanuel Legacé (born February 4, 1973 in Alliston, Ontario) is a Canadian professional Ice hockey Goaltender The St Louis Blues are a professional Ice hockey team based in St Nikolai Ivanovich Khabibulin (Николай Иванович Хабибулин Nikolaj Ivanovič Chabibulin; born January 13, 1973 in Sverdlovsk Jaroslav Modry, Mark Hardy, Jaroslav Halák, Domenic Pittis, and Patrik Augusta also spent some time with the Long Beach Ice Dogs. Jaroslav Modrý (born February 27 1971 in České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech professional Ice hockey player Mark Hardy may refer to Mark A Hardy, Columbia University surgeon Mark Lea Hardy, Swiss hockey player Jaroslav Halák (born May 13, 1985 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) is a professional Ice hockey Goaltender for the Domenic (also' Domenico') Pittis (born October 1, 1974 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian professional Ice hockey Patrik Augusta (born November 13, 1969 in Jihlava, Czech Republic) is a retired
- At the time the team folded, it was the ECHL affiliate of the Boston Bruins of the NHL, after spending the past several years as the affiliate of both the Montreal Canadiens and the Dallas Stars. The Boston Bruins are a professional Ice hockey team based in Boston Massachusetts. The Montreal Canadiens (Les Canadiens de Montréal are a professional Ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Dallas Stars are a National Hockey League team based in Dallas Texas.
- For a couple of seasons, the concrete beneath the ice at the Long Beach Arena was a light blue color, stemming from a previous sponsorship with the airline JetBlue. Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center is a Convention center located in Long Beach California. Because of this, the blue lines on the ice were actually painted yellow, but also marked by blue lines on the dasher boards. Also the creases in front of the goals were white instead of the typical light blue, since the rest of the rink was light blue. After the airline left as a sponsor, team officials decided to leave the ice blue because it reflected less light than the normal white concrete during television broadcasts. Currently, the ice has returned to the typical white color, though they don't play there anymore.
References
- ^ Press-Telegram, June 18, 2006, page D1
- ^ Hockey's Future Magazine [1]
- ^ MLN - The Raw Feed[2]
- ^ Long Beach Press-Telegram, April 23, 2007[3]
- ^ ECHL. The Long Beach Press-Telegram is a major conservative daily newspaper published in Long Beach California. The Long Beach Press-Telegram is a major conservative daily newspaper published in Long Beach California. com [4]
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