A brief history of team playing a partial season in 1975 at the old El Paso County Coliseum before moving to North Dakota. The team now resides in Cleveland, Ohio. A page dedicated to the Dayton Gems, who played in the IHL in the 60's and 70's, with biographies of the Gems' best players. The Blazers were born as an expansion team in the EHL during the 1967-8 season. The EHL suspended operations at the end of the season and the Blazer franchise became a part of the newly formed North American Hockey League for the 1973-4 season.
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The team played for 25 years from 1969 to 1994. They survived two hockey leagues going out of business, a pro basketball team, the Utah Stars, who won a championship, and won championships in two of the hockey leagues it was in. About the history of the Fort Wayne Komets hockey team from 1952 through the present. History of the IHL team that played in Fort Worth from 1952-1999. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.