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The Cherry Hill Arena was an indoor arena located in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, built in 1959. [1] It was originally known as the Ice House and renamed the Delaware Valley Gardens before assuming its most familiar name.
The Jersey Devils were a minor professional ice hockey team based in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The Devils were formed when the Philadelphia Ramblers , a member of the Eastern Hockey League (EHL), relocated from Philadelphia to Cherry Hill at the end of the 1963–64 season.
[7] The arena in Cherry Hill was available because the previous pro hockey tenant, the Jersey Devils, had folded when the Eastern Hockey League went out of business at the end of the previous season. The arena was also closely cramped, with players not having adequate changing and dressing facilities; visiting teams had to dress at their hotel.
The team was initially based in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and played its home games at the Cherry Hill Centrum (formerly Cherry Hill Arena), an arena that had previously served as home to the Jersey Knights of the World Hockey Association and the Jersey Devils of the Eastern Hockey League.
Arena: Convention Hall, Camden, New Jersey Cherry Hill Arena, Cherry Hill, New Jersey Team History: Baltimore Bullets 1958–1961. Camden Bullets 1961–1966 Hartford Capitols 1966–1973 Camden Bullets 1970–1971 Cherry Hill Demons 1971–1972. Championships: 1964 Division titles: 1965 Head coach: unknown
The team drew as few as 500 ticket buyers to some home games, and the latest (of 18) owners folded operations. The league took over operations and moved the team to the Greater Philadelphia metropolitan area township of Cherry Hill, New Jersey on November 21, 1973, renaming the franchise the Jersey Knights. [1]
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Another short-lived team that played in the Centrum (the renamed Cherry Hill Arena) was the Jersey Aces, which started the 1979–80 Northeastern Hockey League season in Cherry Hill but moved mid-season, playing the final 18 games of its season in Hampton, Virginia, where it continued operating until 1981. In 2017, and starting again in 2022 ...