Abilene Aviators

Abilene Aviators
founding	1998
resolution	2000
history	Abilene Aviators 1998-2000
Location	Abilene , Texas
league	Western Professional Hockey League
President's Cups	no

The Abilene Aviators were an American ice hockey team based in Abilene , Texas . The team played in the Western Professional Hockey League from 1998 to 2000 .

history

The Abilene Aviators were founded in 1998 as a franchise of the Western Professional Hockey League . The team name was chosen based on the Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene . In their first season, the 1998/99 season, the Aviators, as winners of the WPHL West Division, immediately reached the playoffs for the President's Cup , in which they automatically moved into the second round due to their first place in their division defeated the Fort Worth Brahmas in the best-of-three series with a sweep . After the team was unable to continue the successful season from the previous year in the 1999/2000 season and had only six wins in 26 games, those responsible decided at the beginning of the season to take the club out of the WPHL and to dissolve it.

Season statistics

Abbreviations: GP = games, W = wins, L = defeats, T = draws, OTL = defeats after overtime, SOL = defeats after shootout , Pts = points, GF = goals scored, GA = goals against, PIM = penalty minutes

season	GP	W.	L.	T	OTL	SOL	Pts	GF	GA	space	Playoffs
1998/99	69	43	23	-	3	-	89	261	230	1., WPHLW	Defeat in the second round
1999/00	26th	6th	16	-	4th	-	16	70	115	6th, WPHLC	not qualified

Team records

Career records

Games: 94 Terho Koskela

Goals: 49 Jean-François Grégoire

Assists: 57 Jean-François Grégoire

Points: 106 Jean-François Grégoire

Penalty minutes: 270 Éric Naud

Web links

• The Internet Hockey Database Statistics Abilene Aviators
• The Internet Hockey Database - Player List Abilene Aviators