Tucson Desparados
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The Tucson Desperados are a professional inline hockey
team based out of Bladeworld Indoor Sports Center in Tucson, Arizona
, United States. They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference of the Professional Inline Hockey Association
(PIHA).
As of the 2009 season the Tucson Desperados are part of the Southwest division of the AIHL.
Inline hockey
Inline hockey, often referred to as roller hockey in the United States, is a sport similar to ice hockey but played with inline skates. Like its parent sport, skaters on two teams use hockey sticks to direct a disk-shaped puck into the opponent's goal; however, various details of the game, such as...
team based out of Bladeworld Indoor Sports Center in Tucson, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...
, United States. They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference of the Professional Inline Hockey Association
Professional Inline Hockey Association
The Professional Inline Hockey Association, often abbreviated to the PIHA, is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates an elite inline hockey league of 16 franchised member clubs, all of which are located in the United States. Headquartered in Middletown, Pennsylvania, the PIHA...
(PIHA).
As of the 2009 season the Tucson Desperados are part of the Southwest division of the AIHL.