Long Beach Ice Dogs
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| Long Beach Ice Dogs | |
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| Founded | 1993 |
| Home ice | Long Beach Sports Arena |
| Based in | Long Beach, California |
| Colors | Navy Blue, Gold |
| League | ECHL |
| NHL Affiliate | Boston Bruins |
| Owner | Steven Bash Ted Foxman Isaac Bash, M.D. |
| President | Seth Slavin |
| General Manager | Rick Adduono |
| Head Coach | Rick Adduono |
The Long Beach Ice Dogs is an ice hockey team in the ECHL, a AA hockey league that operates in North America.
The Ice Dogs can trace their origin to the San Diego Gulls, a team in the now defunct International Hockey League that began play in 1990. In 1995, the team moved north to become the Los Angeles Ice Dogs. After one season and poor attendance at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, the team was on the move again, this time to Long Beach, California, where it retained the "Ice Dogs" name. In 1999, Barry Kemp, the television executive who had become the team's owner, withdrew the team from the league and moved it to the West Coast Hockey League, where it remained until the league's 2003 merger with the ECHL. He sensed, correctly, that the IHL was about to fold.
The team plays at the Long Beach Sports Arena, just one hundred yards from Long Beach Harbor. In 2005, it was forced to play first-round ECHL playoff games in the HealthSouth Training Center, owned by the Los Angeles Kings, when the Long Beach facilities were being used as garage space for the Champ Car Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach during the ECHL playoffs.
In the summer of 2006, Kemp sold the Ice Dogs to a new investment group led by Chicago businessman Ted Foxman.<ref>Press-Telegram, June 18, 2006, page D1</ref> The new ownership group plans to keep the team in Long Beach. The future of the team there has been uncertain because the Ice Dogs typically have the lowest average attendance in the ECHL. The owners also plan to promote boxing cards at the Long Beach Arena.
On October 20, 2006, the Ice Dogs reached an affiliate agreement with the NHL's Boston Bruins<ref>Hockey's Future Magazine [1]</ref>.
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- St. Louis Blues goaltender Manny Legace played for the Long Beach Ice Dogs, when they were the former IHL affiliate of the Los Angeles Kings.
- They are currently the ECHL affiliate of the Boston Bruins of the NHL, after spending the past several years as the affiliate of both the Montreal Canadiens and the Dallas Stars.
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