The El Paso Buzzards 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 Central Hockey League

Central Hockey League

The Central Hockey League is a mid-level professional hockey league, owned by Global Entertainment Corporation. Its current champions are the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs, which defeated the Colorado Eagles four games to three in the 2011 playoffs....

. They played their home games at El Paso County Coliseum

El Paso County Coliseum

El Paso County Coliseum is a 5,250-seat multi-purpose arena, in El Paso, Texas. It opened on May 22, 1942 and seats up to 7,000 people, for concerts.-Late 1940s – 1970s:In addition to rodeo, many legendary music artists have performed here....

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The Team was one of the original members of the Western Professional Hockey League starting in 1996, The team won the Leagues first two Championships in the 1996-97 season and made it back to back in 1997-98. The team was coached by Todd Brost who was a member of Canada's Olympic hockey team.

The Team was founded by Jim Burlew and John Kettle who brought in Rich Szturm to run the ice operations and start a youth hockey program for the city.

The team merged with the Central Hockey League when the WPHL and CHL became one league.

The El Paso Buzzards organization folded in 2002 and now are a defunct team.