The Tallahassee Tiger Sharks were a minor professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

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 team that played in the ECHL

ECHL

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 from 1994–2001. Under this period they served as a minor league

Minor league

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 affiliate to New York Islanders

New York Islanders

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 (1994–95), Florida Panthers

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 and Montreal Canadiens

Montreal Canadiens

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.

While in Tallahassee, they played their games at the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center. Several local attempts have been made by local residents to revive or bring a new ice hockey team to Tallahassee; none have proved to be successful.

Previous franchise identities included:

• Virginia Lancers
  Virginia Lancers
  The Virginia Lancers were a minor league hockey team that played in several leagues from 1983 until 1990. Their home ice was the Vinton Sports Complex, which held 3400 people.-Atlantic Coast Hockey League :...
  
   (1988–1990)
• Roanoke Valley Rebels (1990–1992)
• Roanoke Valley Rampage
  Roanoke Valley Rampage
  The Roanoke Valley Rampage were a minor league hockey franchise in the ECHL during the 1992-93 season. The Rampage played their games at the LancerLot in Vinton, Virginia...
  
   (1992–1993)
• Huntsville Blast
  Huntsville Blast
  The Huntsville Blast was a minor league professional ice hockey team and member of the East Coast Hockey League . The Blast played at the Von Braun Center Arena in Huntsville, Alabama for the 1993–94 ECHL season. Previously the franchise played as the Roanoke Valley Rampage in Vinton, Virginia...
  
   (1993–1994)

The franchise became the Macon Whoopee

Macon Whoopee

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 for the 2001-2002 season. Afterwards it became the Lexington Men O' War

Lexington Men O' War

The Lexington Men O' War were a minor league professional ice hockey team and member of the ECHL. The Men O' War played at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky from 2002-2003. Like Lexington's previous team before them , success on the ice did not bring good attendance figures...

 and is currently, since 2005, the Utah Grizzlies

Utah Grizzlies

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.

The Tiger Sharks' first colors were: Black, Gray,and White was used as an accent color but is considered by many to be an official color. For the 1998-99 season the colors then changed to Red , White and Black.

Famed hockey coach Terry Christensen coached the Tiger Sharks for many of the team's years of existence. Another coach was former tough guy NHLer Jeff Brubaker.

Notable former Tiger Sharks

• Louis Bedard
• Brent Cullaton
  Brent Cullaton
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• Nicholas Edlund
• Mitch Fritz
  Mitch Fritz
  Mitch Fritz is a retired Canadian ice hockey forward who last played for the Norfolk Admirals under the Tampa Bay Lightning organization of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Ben Guite
  Ben Guite
  Ben Guite is a Canadian ice hockey forward who is under contract with the San Jose Sharks in the National Hockey League . He is the son of former WHAer Pierre Guite.- Playing career :...
  
  
• Rodrigo Lavinsch
• Todd Reirden
  Todd Reirden
  Todd Reirden is a retired American ice hockey player and currently an Assistant Coach with the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins. Before that he was Head Coach of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League. Reirden played in the NHL with the Edmonton Oilers, St...
  
  
• Manon Rhéaume
  Manon Rhéaume
  Manon Rhéaume is a Canadian ice hockey goaltender. An Olympic silver medalist, she achieved a number of historic firsts during her career, including becoming the first and only woman ever to play in a National Hockey League exhibition game.In 1992 Rhéaume signed a contract with the Tampa Bay...
  
  
• Michael Ryder
  Michael Ryder
  Michael Wayne Glen Ryder is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who plays for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League. He was born in St John's, Newfoundland.-Pre-NHL:...
  
  
• Alexander Savchenkov
• Alexander Smirnov
  Alexander Smirnov
  Alexander Smirnov may refer to:*Aleksandr Smirnov , Russian athlete; competed for Russia at the 2000 Summer Olympics*Aleksandr Sergeyevich Smirnov , Russian football player...
  
  
• Cal Ingraham

Mascot

The Tiger Sharks' mascot was an ice-skating 6 feet (1.8 m) gray tiger shark named Frenzy.
Frenzy was immensely popular among Tiger Sharks fans (and Tallahassee natives in general)
The following website has some light-hearted "biographical" info on Frenzy:

External links

• http://webspace.webring.com/people/ds/sabrescentice/pages/frenzy.htm