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An unlikely destination for ice hockey due to both its warm climate and modest population (28th in the nation in 2022), Oklahoma didn't have its fist major ice hockey team until 1964. Seeking to increase its footprint in hockey's the suddenly expanding sphere of influence, the Toronto Maple Leafs established the Tulsa Oilers as a farm team in ...
The Oklahoma City Barons were a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League (AHL). The team's first season was 2010–11 . They played their home games at the Cox Convention Center , in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma .
The Oklahoma City Blazers were a professional ice hockey team based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, that played in the Central Hockey League.The Blazers played at the Myriad Convention center (later renamed the Cox Convention Center and later leased by Oklahoma city to Prairie_Surf_Studios), which was located in downtown Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City has since joined the big leagues with the Thunder and plenty of other entertainment options, but for fans who miss the Blazers, who want to see high-level hockey, the Oklahoma ...
Oklahoma City Blazers (1992–2009), a team which played in the Central Hockey League from 1992 to 2009; Oklahoma City Jr. Blazers, a team that played in the Western States Hockey League from 2014 to 2020; renamed to the Oklahoma City Ice Hawks in the North American 3 Hockey League in 2021.
On April 4, 2022, the Warriors and city of Wichita Falls mutually agreed to part ways at the end of the 2021–22 season. [5] The Warriors then relocated to the Blazers Ice Centre in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for the 2022–23 season. [6] [7] Team owner Mary Ann Choi died suddenly during a game on Nov. 19, 2023. [8]
In 1933, Noel Lyons purchased the rights to start a franchise in Oklahoma City from the American Hockey Association. The team debuted in November of that year, playing out of the second Oklahoma Coliseum (the first was destroyed by fire in 1930). The team was unsuccessful in its first season, losing nearly twice as many games as they won.
The Thunder is the city's second "permanent" major professional sports franchise after the now-defunct AFL Oklahoma Wranglers and is the third major-league team to call the city home when considering the temporary hosting of the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets for the 2005–06 and 2006–07 NBA seasons.