The Alabama Slammers were a professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team. They were a member of the World Hockey Association 2

World Hockey Association 2

The World Hockey Association 2 was a minor professional ice hockey league created at the instigation of the organizers of the proposed recreated World Hockey Association to serve as its development league. The WHA2 teams — some of which had played the 2002–03 season in the Atlantic Coast...

, and played their home games at Pelham Civic Center

Pelham Civic Center

Pelham Civic Complex is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Pelham, Alabama. It features two NHL size ice skating rinks with a holding capacity of 500 skaters, a skating school, ice skating birthday party rooms, and a multi-purpose banquet area. Its hockey capacity is 3,500; the arena has of...

 in Pelham, Alabama

Pelham, Alabama

Pelham is a city and suburb of Birmingham in Shelby County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 14,369, but has grown to 21,352 recorded by the 2010 census. It was named for famed Confederate American Civil War officer John Pelham...

, a suburb of Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...

. The Slammers were one of eight minor league hockey teams purchased or founded by real estate mogul David Waronker

David Waronker

David Waronker is a real estate investor, the President of CBD Real Estate Investment, L.L.C., and a lifelong ice hockey enthusiast. Waronker was the founder and commissioner of the World Hockey Association 2.- Biography :...

 starting in 2003. By January 2007 all but one of those teams had ceased operations. They were coached to a 34-20-0-4 record, second in the league, by former NHL centerman Garry Unger

Garry Unger

Garry Douglas "Iron Man" Unger is a former professional ice hockey centre who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League from 1967 until 1983.- Playing career :...

. They were defeated by the Macon Trax

Macon Trax

The Macon Trax were a minor-league professional ice hockey team based in Macon, Georgia. They played in the low minor leagues Atlantic Coast Hockey League , World Hockey Association 2 and Southern Professional Hockey League , playing their home games at the Macon Coliseum...

 in the semifinal round of the WHA2 playoffs.

The league folded after one season, with the remaining teams moving to the Southern Professional Hockey League

Southern Professional Hockey League

The Southern Professional Hockey League is a low-level professional ice hockey league based in Charlotte, North Carolina, with teams located in the southeastern United States.- History :...

, but the Slammers folded before making the move.

2003-04 roster

• #30 Jamie Ronayne
• #34 Jeff Kilgore
• #17 Bobby Quinnell
• #18 Jorin Welsh
• #29 Mark Loeding
• #7 Stephane Desjardins
• #2 Tom Wilson
• #12 Joe Savioli
• #3 Doug Mann
• #15 Hugo Belanger
• #9 Tony Patterson
• #27 Chad Peck
• #16 Jeff Coulter
• #8 Justin Schabes
• #61 Mike Craigen
• #24 Ryan Prentice
• #11 Jeff Mead
• #19 Doug Lawrence
• #44 Everett Caldwell
• #22 Jaroslav Kresec
• #91 Jason Renard
• #15 Jeff Cheeseman