Tag: State Fair Coliseum

1993-94 Dallas Freeze Central Program from the Central Hockey League

Dallas Freeze

February 6, 2024

The Dallas Freeze were one of six founding members of the Central Hockey League (CHL) upon that circuit’s creation in 1992. The CHL was a revival of an earlier league of the same name that played in many of the same cities between 1963 and 1984. The Dallas Black Hawks (1967-1982) were a league power in the old CHL. Like the Black Hawks before them, the Freeze played at Fair Park Coliseum in South Dallas. The Freeze struggled to draw interest and the team’s financial outlook deteriorated further when the NHL Minnesota North Stars relocated to Dallas before the Freeze’s second season. The CHL, which owned all of its member clubs at the time, decided to fold the Freeze after three seasons in the spring of 1995.

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1977 Dallas Black Hawks program from the Central Hockey League

Dallas Black Hawks

July 5, 2013

The Dallas Black Hawks were a minor league hockey club that at Fair Park Coliseum from 1967 to 1982.  The Black Hawks were a powerhouse in the Central Hockey League, appearing in the Adams Cup finals in ten of their fifteen seasons.  They won the championship in 1969, 1972, 1974 and 1979. From 1967 through 1978, Dallas served as a farm club of the NHL’s Chicago Black Hawks. After Chicago severed the relationship in 1978, Dallas’ CHL entry retained the Black Hawks identity for four more seasons while serving other NHL parent clubs. The Black Hawks disbanded in 1982.

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