Birmingham South Stars
January 30, 2019
The doomed Birmingham South Stars were the third attempt to establish pro hockey at Alabama’s 16,000-seat Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center, opened in 1976. The South Stars of the Central Hockey League (CHL) followed the original Birmingham Bulls (1976-1979) of the major World Hockey Association and a later minor league edition of the Bulls that played in the CHL from 1979 to 1981. The South Stars were a farm club of the NHL’s Minnesota North Stars and shared their parent club’s green & gold colors.