San Antonio Dragons
May 9, 2014
The San Antonio Dragons were part of a short, strange minor league hockey cold war in South Texas during the mid-1990’s. In 1996, long-time Peoria Rivermen owner Bruce Saurs announced that he would move his International Hockey League club to San Antonio. It was an odd choice. Hardly an ice hockey hotbed, San Antonio already had an established minor league team – the Iguanas of the Central Hockey League – at Freeman Coliseum. In the winter of 1996-97 both teams split dates in the building and fought over the arena lease.
