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Revision as of 21:51, 28 April 2009
| Tupelo T-Rex | |
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| City | Tupelo, Mississippi |
| League | WPHL |
| Division | Southeast Division |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Home arena | Bancorpsouth Arena |
| Colors | green, white, yellow, purple |
| Owner(s) | Monty Fletcher |
| Head coach | Bill Kidd |
| Media | Juliana Nykolaiszyn |
| Franchise history | |
| 1998 to 2001 | Tupelo T-Rex (WPHL) |
Team History
The Tupelo T-Rex were a professional ice hockey team, a member of the Western Pro Hockey League and played their home games at BancorpSouth Center from 1998 through 2001. In 2001, following the team's recent run to the WPHL finals, The Western Pro Hockey League joined the Central Hockey League and the T-Rex folded.
Issues With Tupelo and SEHL
Several attempts to re-start the franchise, most notably as a team in the South East Hockey League failed, as it turned out that, despite not fielding a team, the Central Hockey League had a 5 year non-compete clause with the BancorpSouth Center. Thus, no professional hockey team could enter the venue in Tupelo. In addition to problems surrounding the facility's legal issues with the team, the T-Rex had attempted membership with the Atlantic Coast Hockey League and attempted the move to the SEHL, but were barred from this move due to the non-compete clause the CHL held over the arena.[1]
Team Future
As of the present, the future of the T-Rex no longer exists in Tupelo. The legal issues the team faced from its efforts to merge to either the SEHL or CHL blocked occupied too much time for the team to recover. Since then, the only ice hockey to have come back to the Bancorpsouth Arena has been the Mississippi State University Men's DIII club team.