The Salem Ice Dogs are an American

United States

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Junior ice hockey

Junior hockey is a catch-all term used to describe various levels of ice hockey competition for players generally between 16 and 20 years of age...

 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...

 organization playing in Salem, Massachusetts

Salem, Massachusetts

Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County...

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Junior B EmJHL Team

The organization fields a team in the Atlantic Division of the Empire Junior B Hockey League. They play out of The Richard H. Rockett Arena at Salem State College

Salem State College

Salem State University is a four-year public institution of higher learning located in Salem, Massachusetts. Salem State University, established in 1854 as Salem Normal School, is located approximately fifteen miles north of Boston, Massachusetts. Salem State enrolls over 10,000 undergraduate and...

. The Arena is a public skating rink in the winter, and in the summer it is converted to an indoor tennis facility.

About two dozen Salem Ice Dogs alumni have made the jump into College Hockey.