Baltimore Clippers

This article deals with the team active from 1962 to 1981, for the EHL franchise of the same name, which existed from 1945 to 1950, see Baltimore Clippers (1945–1950) ; for the EHL franchise, which played in the EHL from 1954 to 1956, see Charlotte Checkers (EHL) .

Baltimore Clippers
founding	1962
resolution	1981
history	Baltimore Clippers 1962-1981
Stadion	Baltimore Civic Center
Location	Baltimore , Maryland
Team colors	black, orange and white
league	American Hockey League (1962–1976) Southern Hockey League (1976–1977) Eastern Hockey League (1979–1981)
Cooperations	New York Rangers ( NHL ) Pittsburgh Penguins ( NHL )
Calder cups	no

The Baltimore Clippers were an American ice hockey franchise of the American Hockey League based in Baltimore , Maryland . The venue for the Clippers was the Baltimore Civic Center .

history

The Baltimore Clippers were founded in 1962 as a team in the American Hockey League . In the 14 years in which they played in the AHL, they won the title of their division three times (1971, 1972 and 1974), as well as the title of best AHL team of the regular season (1971). After a World Hockey Association team was first settled in Baltimore in January 1975 with the Baltimore Blades as the successor to the Michigan Stags , the Clippers withdrew from the AHL's game operations during the 1974/75 season. This was mainly due to a lack of audience interest. After the dissolution of the Blades, which took place in the summer of 1975, the Clippers returned to the AHL for another year before the team was incorporated into the Southern Hockey League . During the first season of the Clippers in the new league, this was dissolved and the Clippers team was then dissolved. From 1979 to 1981, the team entered the Eastern Hockey League again . When this stopped the game operations, the Clippers were finally dissolved.

In the years after the Clippers and Blades broke up, other franchises played in Baltimore. The Baltimore Skipjacks played their games first in the 1981/82 season in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League , then from 1982 to 1993 in the American Hockey League . With the Baltimore Bandits , another AHL team was represented in Baltimore from 1995 to 1997.

Trainer

Abbreviations: GC = games, W = wins, L = defeats, T = draws, OTL = defeats after
overtime , Pts = points, Win% = win rate

Surname	season	Regular season							Playoffs
		GC	W.	L.	T	OTL / SOL	Pts	Win%	GC	W.	L.
George Sullivan	1962/63	31	14th	15th	2	0	30th	.452	3	1	2
Aldo Guidolin	1962-1964	113	53	52	8th	0	114	.470	-	-	-
Jack Crawford ***	1964-1966	72	35	32	5	0	75	.486	5	2	3
Terry Reardon ***	1966-1968	144	63	61	20th	0	146	.438	9	4th	5
Aldo Guidolin	1968/69	74	33	34	7th	0	73	.446	4th	1	3
Rudy Migay	1969/70	72	25th	30th	17th	0	67	.347	5	1	4th
Terry Reardon *** Jim Morrison (1971-74) Kent Douglas (1974-76)	1970-1976	346	147	148	0	0	345	.425	33	16	17th
Larry Wilson Don Grierson	1976-1977	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

* Change during the current season; ** Interim trainer; *** Data incomplete

Team records

Career records

Games: 523 Bobby Rivard

Goals: 176 Bobby Rivard

Assists: 259 Bobby Rivard

Points: 435 Bobby Rivard

Penalty minutes: 715 Aldo Guidolin

Well-known former players

• George Sullivan
• John Arbor
• Bobby Rivard

Web links

• The Internet Hockey Database Statistics Baltimore Clippers
• The Internet Hockey Database - Player List Baltimore Clippers