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The team plays at Pechanga Arena in San Diego, the sixth professional hockey team to play there, following the original San Diego Gulls of the WHL (1966–74), the San Diego Mariners of the WHA (1974–1977), the San Diego Hawks/Mariners of the Pacific Hockey League (1977–1979), the second San Diego Gulls of the IHL (1990–1995), and the ...
Original WCHL logo. The WCHL was a successor organization of the semi-professional Pacific Hockey League.Three former PHL teams, the Alaska Gold Kings (Fairbanks, Alaska), Anchorage Aces (Anchorage, Alaska), and Fresno Falcons (Fresno, California) were joined by the Bakersfield Fog (Bakersfield, California), Reno Renegades (Reno, Nevada) and San Diego Gulls (San Diego, California) to become ...
Prior to the Gulls, the very first hockey team came to San Diego in the 1940s. They were called the San Diego Skyhawks and played at Glacier Gardens downtown. Even though they were a hockey team, they weren’t considered a pro team until the San Diego Gulls came to town. The Gulls arrived in 1966 and the Sky Hawks went out of business in 2006.
San Diego Gulls: San Diego, California: Pechanga Arena: 2000 [c 1] 2015 Matt McIlvane Anaheim Ducks: San Jose Barracuda: San Jose, California: Tech CU Arena: 1996 [c 1] 2015 John McCarthy: San Jose Sharks: Tucson Roadrunners: Tucson, Arizona: Tucson Convention Center: 1994 [c 1] 2016 Steve Potvin Utah Hockey Club [22]
The arena opened on November 17, 1966, when more than 11,000 pro hockey fans watched the San Diego Gulls (then a member of the Western Hockey League) win their season opener, 4–1, against the Seattle Totems. [8] In 2013, U-T San Diego named the arena third on its list of the fifty most notable locations in San Diego sports history. [7]
The San Diego Gulls were a professional ice hockey team based in San Diego, California, that competed in the West Coast Hockey League (WCHL) and later in the ECHL. The team, the third to use the Gulls nickname, was founded in 1995 immediately upon the departure of the IHL team of the same name .
The original San Diego Gulls, which played from 1966 until 1974, were the first tenants at the San Diego Sports Arena. San Diego's history of minor league ice hockey teams began with the San Diego Skyhawks of the Pacific Coast Hockey League, who played from 1948 to 1950, hosting home games at Glacier Gardens. A second iteration of the Skyhawks ...
On March 23, 2024, the Firebirds clinched their place in the 2023–24 playoffs following a 4–3 shootout loss against the San Diego Gulls. It was their second consecutive season with a playoff berth. [ 25 ]