Long Beach Ice Dogs

Long Beach Ice Dogs
founding	1996
resolution	2007
history	San Diego Gulls 1990-1995 Los Angeles Ice Dogs 1995-1996 Long Beach Ice Dogs 1996-2007
Stadion	Long Beach Sports Arena
Location	Long Beach , California
Team colors	navy blue, gold
league	International Hockey League (1996–2000) West Coast Hockey League (2000–2003) ECHL (2003–2007)
Cooperations	Montréal Canadiens ( NHL ) Dallas Stars (NHL) Boston Bruins (NHL)
Turner Cups	no
Kelly Cups	no

The Long Beach Ice Dogs were an American ice hockey franchise based in Long Beach , California . The Ice Dogs' venue was the Long Beach Sports Arena .

history

The Los Angeles Ice Dogs were relocated to Long Beach , California , following the 1995/96 season and took their place in the International Hockey League , in which they played under the name Long Beach Ice Dogs until 2000. In their first season, the team reached the final of the Turner Cup in the 1996/97 season , but lost to the Detroit Vipers in the best-of-seven series with 2: 4 wins. In the following three years the team reached at least the second play-off round, but despite the successes in the IHL, the team, which was always coached by former Canadian NHL professional John Van Boxmeer for the first four years , switched to West Coast Hockey in 2000 League . When this was dissolved three years later, Long Beach joined with some other teams in the league of the now nationwide operating ECHL . After the 2006/07 season, the owners of the Ice Dogs announced that they could not maintain the franchise due to ongoing losses, whereupon they were suspended from the ECHL's gaming operations.

Team records

Career records

Games: 303 Mike Matteucci

Goals: 110 Patrik Augusta

Assists: 145 Dan Lambert

Points: 227 Patrik Augusta

Penalty minutes: 935 Mike Matteucci

Known players

• Doug Ast
• Patrik Augusta
• Philippe Boucher
• Nikolai Chabibulin
• Mike Crowley
• Mark Hardy
• John Lilley
• Patrik Štefan
• Sean Tallaire
• Kevin Todd
• Joel Ward

Web links

Commons : Long Beach Ice Dogs  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The Internet Hockey Database - Stats / Player Listings Long Beach Ice Dogs