The Denver Grizzlies hockey team is an anomaly in our One-Year Wonders category, a fraternity of defunct teams typically defined by chaos, dysfunction and insolvency. But the Grizzlies, an International Hockey League club owned by veteran minor league baseball operator David Elmore and Donna Tuttle, were a roaring success both on the ice and at the box office.
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Superb minor league hockey team that never finished worse than 12 games over .500 or lower than 2nd place in the division in six seasons of play between 1995 and 2001. The Solar Bears won the 2001 Turner Cup as the final champions of the International Hockey League. But the IHL folded just two weeks later after 56 seasons of play, taking the Solar Bears down with it.
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