Long Beach, California

A montage of Long Beach.

Long Beach is a city of about 500,000 located just to the south of Los Angeles, California.

Teams

California Hockey League team history

1. Paramount Hornets (1957-1959) renamed Long Beach Hornets
2. Long Beach Hornets (1959-1960) renamed Paramounts
3. Long Beach Paramounts (1960-1961) renamed Buccaneers
4. Long Beach Buccaneers (1961-1962) renamed Gulls
5. Long Beach Gulls (1962-1963)

Long Beach (Southern California Hockey League, 1966-1967)

• Long Beach Ice Dogs

1. (IHL, 1996-2000) transfer to WCHL
2. (WCHL, 2000-2003) join ECHL
3. (ECHL, 2003-2007) franchise terminated

• Long Beach Sharks (Pacific Hockey League, 1977-1978) renamed Rockets February 1978
• Long Beach Rockets (Pacific Hockey League, 1978-1978) fold with league
• Los Angeles Kings (NHL, 1967-1967) played early part of season home games at Long Beach Sports Arena

note: Western States Hockey League teams with Long Beach name have been based in Lakewood, California

Arenas

• Long Beach Sports Arena

Players

• Ralph Barahona
• Jonathon Blum
• Emerson Etem
• Raymond Macias
• Rik Wilson

External Links

• Long Beach, California on Wikipedia