Tag: Dane County Coliseum

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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Madison Kodiaks

July 4, 2019

The Madison Kodiaks were a One-Year Wonder in the now-defunct United Hockey League during the winter of 1999-00. The Wisconsin capital’s prior UHL club, the Madison Monsters (1995-1999), departed for Knoxville, Tennessee in April 1999. The UHL quickly expanded back to Madison, awarding an expansion franchise to a group headed by former Monsters General Manager Leo Hunstiger. After one season of low attendance and substantial financial losses, the franchise moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan in July 2000.

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