New Mexico Scorpions
| New Mexico Scorpions | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1996 |
| resolution | 2009 |
| history |
New Mexico Scorpions 1996-2009 |
| Stadion | Santa Ana Star Center |
| Location | Rio Rancho , New Mexico |
| Team colors | red, black, gold |
| league |
WPHL (1996-2001) CHL (2001-2009) |
| Miron Cups | no |
| President's Cups | no |
The New Mexico Scorpions were an American ice hockey team from Rio Rancho , New Mexico , that played in the Western Professional Hockey League from 1996 to 2001 and in the Central Hockey League from 2001 to 2009 .
history
The franchise was founded in 1996 as one of the six teams of the then-baptized Western Professional Hockey League , this league was part of the league until it merged with the CHL in 2001.
The Scorpions initially played their home games at the Tingley Coliseum in Expo New Mexico, the exhibition center in Albuquerque , to whose suburbs Rio Rancho belongs. During the 2005/06 season, however, the team finally suspended the game as the support in Albuquerque from the city and the fans became weaker and weaker and the team was better prepared to move to the Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho for the 2006 season / 07 could prepare.
In 1996 the Scorpions won the WPHL title for the winner of the regular season, in the play-offs the team was eliminated early. Not so in 2000, when the club reached the play-off final and lost in six games against the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs .
The owners of the Scorpions included former NHL players Dave Ellett and Brian Savage , the team, whose biggest rival was the Colorado Eagles , was coached by Randy Murphy .
At the beginning of July 2009, those responsible announced that the team would not take part in the CHL game operations in the 2009/10 season due to a lack of investors. In the period that followed, the team stopped playing.
Individual evidence
- ↑ oursportscentral.com, Scorpions Cease Operations
Web links
- New Mexico Scorpions at hockeydb.com
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