Long Beach Ice Dogs

The Long Beach Ice Dogs is an ice hockey team in the ECHL, an AA hockey league that operates in North America. The Ice Dogs have come a long way, starting out in San Diego, California, in 1990. Then known as the San Diego Gulls, the team played in the now defunct International Hockey League until 1995, when the team moved north to become the Los Angeles Ice Dogs. After two seasons and poor attendance, the team was on the move again, this time to Long Beach, California, where it retained the "Ice Dogs" name. In 1999, the team's owner, seeing that the end was near for the IHL, 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.

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Ice hockey - ECHL - San Diego, California - 1990 - San Diego Gulls - International Hockey League - 1995 - Long Beach, California - 1999 - West Coast Hockey League - 2003

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The team plays at the Long Beach Sports Arena, but 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.

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Long Beach Sports Arena - 2005 - Los Angeles Kings - Grand Prix of Long Beach

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