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The Long Beach Ice Dogs is an Ice Hockey team in the ECHL , an AA hockey league that operates in North America. The Ice Dogs have come a long way, starting out in San Diego, California , in 1990 . Then known as the San Diego Gulls , the team played in the now defunct International Hockey League until 1995 , when the team moved north to become the '''Los Angeles Ice Dogs'''. After one season and poor attendance at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena , the team was on the move again, this time to Long Beach, California , where it retained the "Ice Dogs" name. In 1999 , the team's owner, seeing that the end was near for the IHL, withdrew the team from the league and moved it to the West Coast Hockey League , where it remained until the league's 2003 merger with the ECHL. The team plays at the Long Beach Sports Arena , but in 2005 , it was forced to play first-round ECHL playoff games in the HealthSouth Training Center, owned by the Los Angeles Kings , when the Long Beach facilities were being used as garage space for the Champ Car Toyota Long Beach Grand Prix during the ECHL playoffs. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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