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The International Hockey League (IHL) was a minor professional ice hockey league in the United States and Canada that operated from 1945 to 2001. The IHL served as the National Hockey League (NHL)'s alternate farm system to the American Hockey League (AHL). After 56 years of operation, financial instability led to the league's demise.
The 1969–70 IHL season was the 25th season of the International Hockey League (IHL), a North American minor professional league. Eight teams participated in the regular season, and the Dayton Gems won the Turner Cup. Bill Beagan succeeded Andy Mulligan as IHL commissioner in August 1969. [1]
It moved to Cleveland in 1992 as part of the IHL's move upmarket, bringing professional hockey back to Cleveland for the first time in 14 years. It later folded along with the IHL at the end of the 2000–01 season. In the 1995 hockey action movie Sudden Death starring Jean-Claude van Damme, Lumberjacks players impersonated the Chicago Blackhawks.
The Ice Dogs lost the 1997 IHL Turner Cup finals four-games-to-two against the Detroit Vipers. The Ice Dogs were also the first professional sports franchise to ever broadcast their full season (1997–98) schedule on the internet, at Broadcast.com, with Ted Sobel calling the play for all five of their IHL seasons in Los Angeles/Long Beach.
The 1957–58 IHL season was the 13th season of the International Hockey League, a North American minor professional league.Outside of the Louisville Rebels, who relocated from Huntington, the league's teams all remained intact from the previous season.
During the IHL years, the Cyclones set a team record of eight consecutive 90+ point seasons, [2] ending when the International Hockey League ceased operations in 2001. During the Cyclones' nine years in the IHL, they won their only division and conference regular season championships in the 1995–96 season , but lost in a seven-game semifinal ...
The team is the third International Hockey League (IHL) franchise in Grand Rapids, following the Grand Rapids Rockets of the 1950s and the Grand Rapids Owls of the late 1970s, and owes its existence to the construction of a 10,000-plus capacity arena in the downtown area.
The Las Vegas Thunder were a professional ice hockey team competing in the International Hockey League.The team's home rink was at the Thomas & Mack Center.They began play in the 1993–1994 season, folding on April 18, 1999.