New Mexico Scorpions

The New Mexico Scorpions were an American ice hockey team from Rio Rancho, New Mexico, who played from 1996 to 2001 in the Western Professional Hockey League and from 2001 to 2009 in the Central Hockey League.

History

The franchise was founded in 1996 as one of the six teams of the then upscale from the baptism Western Professional Hockey League, this league one belonged to the merger with the CHL in 2001.

The Scorpions wore their home games at Tingley Coliseum in the first Expo New Mexico, the exhibition center of Albuquerque, one of the suburbs of Rio Rancho, from. During the 2005/06 season but the team finally sat out the game mode because support in Albuquerque on the part of the city and the fans became weaker and weaker and the team better on the move to the Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho for the 2006 season / 07 could prepare.

1996 won the Scorpions the WPHL title for the winner of the regular season, in the play-offs separated the team from early on. Unlike in 2000, when the club reached the play-off finals and lost in six games against the Bossier - Shreveport Mudbugs.

To the owners of the Scorpions were among the former NHL player Dave Ellett and Brian Savage, was coached the team whose biggest rival was the league rivals Colorado Eagles, last edit by Randy Murphy.

Beginning of July 2009 gave the leaders announced that the team will not participate in the game operation of the CHL due to lack of investors in the season 2009/10. In the following period, the team took the game operation is no longer on.