Macon Trax

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Macon Trax
Southern Professional Hockey League
(2004–05)
Founded2002
Home arenaMacon Coliseum
ColorsBlack, Gray, Yellow, White
Owner(s)Macon Hockey Club, Inc.
Head coachBrian Curran (2002–03)
Tom Stewart (2003–05)

The Macon Trax were a minor-league professional

Macon Telegraph
that the team was "always a bridesmaid, never a bride."

The Trax were one of eight minor league hockey teams purchased or founded by real estate mogul David Waronker starting in 2003. By January 2007 all but one of those teams had ceased operations. Following the termination of the Trax in 2005, the team's players were dispersed by draft to the

Pee Dee Cyclones and Florida Seals
, two new teams entering the SPHL for the 2005–06 season. Stewart was given a coaching contract with the Florida team, which lost in the 2006 SPHL finals. The Seals would later suspend operations in January 2007.

Nearly a decade after the Trax folded, the SPHL returned to Macon during the 2015–16 season. The new team, the Macon Mayhem, was formerly known as the Augusta RiverHawks. The RiverHawks relocated to Macon after the ice refrigeration system at the James Brown Arena malfunctioned in late February 2013, forcing the team to suspend its operations.[1]

2004–2005 season roster

  • Tom Wilson
  • Lou Dimasi
  • Chris Davidson
  • Art Mnatsakanov
  • Bob Macmillan
  • Chris Duggan
  • Steve Zoryk
  • Craig Miller
  • Jeff Roukes
  • Mark Allen
  • John Gurskis
  • Edan Welch
  • Dominick Dawes
  • Casey Handrahan
  • Craig Geerlinks
  • Mark Cairns
  • Ryan Rivard
  • David Deeves
  • Terry Denike

References

  1. Southern Professional Hockey League. June 25, 2014. Archived from the original
    on July 14, 2014. Retrieved June 25, 2014.