The Lakeland Prowlers were a low-level minor league professional hockey team that competed for one season in the Southern Hockey League during the winter of 1995-96. The team had an excellent debut season on the ice, finishing with the best regular season record in the SHL before suffering an upset loss in the first round of the playoffs. But the Prowlers would go out of business along with the SHL itself during the summer of 1996.
Southern Hockey League (1995-1996) Central Hockey League (1996-2000) Born: 1995 Re-Branded: April 2000 (Huntsville Tornado) First Game: October 26, 1995 (L 4-3 vs. Lakeland Prowlers)
The Jacksonville Bullets were a low-level minor league hockey team that began play in 1992-93 as an founding member of the 5-team, all-Florida Sunshine Hockey League. The formation of the Bullets marked the return of pro hockey to Jacksonville for the first time since the American Hockey League’s short-lived Jacksonville Barons left town in 1974. The Bullets folded in the face of superior competition form the ECHL’s Jacksonville Lizard Kings in 1996.
Southern Hockey League (1995-1996) Born: 1995 – SHL founding franchise Folded: 1996 First Game: October 26, 1995 (L 8-7 vs. Daytona Beach Breakers) Last Game: April 13, 1996 (L
Southern Hockey League (1995-1996) Born: June 1995 – The Daytona Beach Sun Devils rebrand as the Breakers Folded: July 16, 1996 First Game: October 25,
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