 the jacksonville barracudas were a professional minor league ice hockey team based in jacksonville, florida. they were established in 2002, and played in the atlantic coast hockey league (2002â2003), the world hockey association 2 (2003â2004), and the southern professional hockey league (2004â2008), before folding in 2008. they won the wha2 championship title in 2003 and went to the playoffs three times in the sphl, advancing to the league finals in 2007 and 2008. they ceased operations after the 2007â2008 season after being unable to secure a suitable venue for the upcoming season. ==history== ===achl and wha2=== the barracudas began play in the second atlantic coast hockey league (achl) in the 2002â2003 season. their original owner was david waronker, who owned three other teams in the league. jacksonville's first professional hockey team since the jacksonville lizard kings folded in 2000, they played their first home games at the jacksonville coliseum. however, the achl's instability caused waronker to lose confidence in the league. after the season, he announced he was withdrawing his four teams and creating a new league, the world hockey association 2 (wha2), which was initially envisioned as a developmental league for a proposed revival of the world hockey association. though the revived wha never took the ice, the wha2 did play its 2003-04 season. jacksonville became the fledgling league's most successful team, taking the regular seas
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