| 词条 | Tupelo T-Rex |
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| text_color = white | bg_color = #04B404 | team = Tupelo T-Rex | logo = |logosize = 180px | city = Tupelo, Mississippi | league = WPHL | conference = | division = Southeast Division | operated = 1998–2001 | arena = BancorpSouth Arena | colors = Green, white, yellow, purple {{color box|#04B404}} {{color box|white}} {{color box|#FFFF00}} {{color box|#4B088A}} | owner = Bill MacFarlane (1998–99) T-Rex 2000, Inc. (1999–2001) |President = Kevin J. Carr | coach = Peter Esdale David Latta George Dupont | GM = | media = | affiliates = |reg_season_titles = 1 (2000–01) |division_titles = |conf_titles = }} The Tupelo T-Rex was a professional ice hockey team in the Western Professional Hockey League and played their home games at BancorpSouth Center from 1998 to 2001.[1] The owners of the T-Rex would also field a junior team in the America West Hockey League from 2001 to 2003 when they were unable to continue fielding a professional team. HistoryThe franchise was originally owned by Bill MacFarlane and was later taken over by a local ownership group in January 2000.[2] During the 2000–01 season, the team brought in key play makers including Jason Firth, Brant Blackned, and Barry McKinley who helped lead the T-Rex to a regular season championship. Issues with Tupelo, CHL, and SEHLAfter the 2000–01 season, Tupelo was invited to be a part of the WPHL-Central Hockey League merger. It would have set up a local rivalry with CHL member,the Memphis Riverkings. However, the T-Rex ownership refused and decided not to join the merger. Their attempts to join two other pro leagues backfired when the CHL invoked a non-compete clause, claiming the territorial rights to Tupelo as part of the merger. With no other options, Tupelo folded as a pro franchise and began as a junior team in the America West Hockey League where they lasted two more seasons before folding again in 2003.[3] There were several failed attempts to restart the franchise, most notably as a team in the South East Hockey League, as it turned out that 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.[4] FutureCurrently there are no plans to bring the T-Rex back 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 been played at the Bancorpsouth Arena has been the Ole Miss Rebels and Mississippi State Bulldogs DIII men's ice hockey clubs. See alsoList of defunct Mississippi sports teamsReferences1. ^{{cite news |first=Jamie |last=Hall |newspaper=Southeast Missourian |publisher=Rust Communications |location=Cape Girardeau, MO |title=Tupelo waits to see whether two teams can survive |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1893&dat=20010422&id=9IsvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=otwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1421,7077479 |date=April 22, 2001 |accessdate=February 24, 2015}} 2. ^{{cite news |newspaper=Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal |location=Tupelo, MS |title=Another new regime |url=http://djournal.com/news/hedanother-new-regime/ |date=January 21, 2000 |accessdate=December 17, 2014}} 3. ^Tupelo T-Rex Statistics and History AWHL 4. ^Will Birmingham join the South East Hockey League in 2003? 7 : Ice hockey teams in Mississippi|Sports in Tupelo, Mississippi|Defunct ice hockey teams in the United States|1998 establishments in Mississippi|2001 disestablishments in Mississippi|Ice hockey clubs established in 1998|Sports clubs disestablished in 2001 |
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