| New Mexico Scorpions | |
 | |
| City: | Rio Rancho, New Mexico |
|---|---|
| League: | Central Hockey League |
| Conference: | Southern Conference |
| Division: | Southwest Division |
| Founded: | 1996 |
| Home Arena: | Santa Ana Star Center |
| Colors: | Red, Black, Gold |
| Franchise history | |
| 1996 to Present: | New Mexico Scorpions |
| Championships | |
| Regular Season Titles: | 1 (1996) |
| Division Championships: | 1 (2007) |
| Conference Championships: | None |
| Ray Miron President's Cup: | None |
The New Mexico Scorpions are an inactive Central Hockey League team located in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The team was established in 1996 as a part of the six-team Western Professional Hockey League. In 2001, the league merged with the Central Hockey League to form a sixteen-team league. In July 2009, the team announced it was ceasing operations for the 2009-10 CHL season.
The Scorpions played in Tingley Coliseum at Expo New Mexico, the state fairgrounds in Albuquerque. The team suspended operations for the 2005-06 season in order to prepare to move to the Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho for the 2006-07 season.
New Mexico captured the regular-season title in 1996, but has undergone a streak of futility in league playoffs. The Scorps are 5-of-10 in playoff series and 27-of-39 in playoff games. They reached the league final in 2000, but lost to the Shreveport Mudbugs (now Bossier-Shreveport) in six games. In 2007, they won the CHL Southwestern Division Championship and reached the Southern Conference Championship series by defeating the Amarillo Gorillas and the Arizona Sundogs. They lost to the Laredo Bucks 4 games to 1.
The owners include former NHLers Dave Ellett and Brian Savage. The coach is Randy Murphy. The team's archrival is the Arizona Sundogs.
External links
| This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at New Mexico Scorpions. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Ice Hockey Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA). |