Category: Colonial Hockey League

1996-97 Madison Monsters Program from the Colonial Hockey League

Madison Monsters

April 21, 2024

The Madison Monsters were a minor league hockey promotion that played four seasons at the Dane County Coliseum in Wisconsin’s state capital. The team formed as an expansion franchise in the Colonial Hockey League in 1995. The CoHL changed its name to the United Hockey League in 1997. The colorfully attired Monsters sported an ultra-90’s palette of teal and purple and also incorporated pinstripes into their garish hockey sweaters. After the 1998-99 season, the Monsters moved away to Knoxville, Tennessee. A new United Hockey League expansion franchise, the Madison Kodiaks, immediately replaced the Monsters but folded after just one season in 2000.

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1997-98 Muskegon Fury Yearbook from the United Hockey League

Muskegon Fury

December 26, 2015

After the International Hockey League’s Muskegon Lumberjacks abandoned the Western Michigan city in favor of Cleveland in 1992, a former Lumberjacks staffer named Tony Lisman swiftly organized a new franchise in the cheaper, lower-profile Colonial Hockey League.  Lisman’s Muskegon Fury entered the CoHL as an expansion franchise in the fall of 1992. The Fury were remarkably successful on the ice. The team never posted a losing season or missed the playoffs in 16 years of play and won four Colonial Cup championships. In 2008, the team reclaimed the “Lumberjacks” name, bringing the successful Fury era to a close.

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