Dayton Gems (Original)

The Dayton Gems were an American ice hockey franchise in the International Hockey League from Dayton, Ohio. The venue for the Gems was the Hara Arena.

History

The Dayton Gems were established in 1964 as a franchise of the International Hockey League. Already in its second season reached the team in the 1965/66 season for the first time the finals of the Turner Cup, but which they lost to the Port Huron Flags. Just two years later they fared against the Muskegon Mohawks. In the years 1970 and 1971, Dayton was able to retaliate with his first two Turner Cup victories against these same two teams. Your third and final success in the IHL achieved the Gems in the 1975/76 season as they face the Port Huron Flags prevailed again in the Turner Cup Finals. Despite the sporting successes turned the team from Ohio, which bear on the ice as the first North American professional team 's own players to committed helmets from 1977 to 1979, gaming operations temporarily. Although the Gems played in the 1979/80 season once again in the IHL, then the franchise was terminated, however.

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