Johnstown Tomahawks

Johnstown Tomahawks
City	Johnstown, Pennsylvania
League	NAHL
Division	North
Founded	1996
Home arena	Cambria County War Memorial Arena
Colors	Navy, Red, and White
Owner(s)	James Bouchard, Jack Ham
General manager	Rick Boyd
Head coach	Jason Spence
Media	The Tribune-Democrat, FastHockeyTheTomablog
Franchise history
1996-2001	St Louis Sting
2001-2004	Springfield Spirit
2005-2006	Wasilla Spirit
2006-2012	Alaska Avalanche
2012-present	Johnstown Tomahawks

The Johnstown Tomahawks are a Tier II Junior A ice hockey team in the North American Hockey League's North Division. The team plays its home games at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

Franchise history

Alaska Avalanche logo.

The franchise was originally called the St Louis Sting, and in 2001 moved to Springfield, Missouri as the Springfield Spirit. In 2005, they made their most recent move to Wasilla, Alaska as the Wasilla Spirit. The Avalanche played out of the Curtis D. Menard Memorial Sports Center in Wasilla until the end of the 2009-10 Season. The Avalanche moved to Palmer, Alaska beginning in the 2010-11 season and played at the Palmer Ice Arena.^[1][2]

The team relocated to Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 2012, taking the place of the ECHL's Johnstown Chiefs, who moved to Greenville, South Carolina in 2011. They became known as the Johnstown Tomahawks ^{[3] [4]}

The Tomahawks played their first game on September 8th, 2012 against the Port Huron Fighting Falcons. They would fall 4-3 in overtime. They would earn their first win, a 6-5 shootout victory on September 13th, 2012 over the Kenai River Brown Bears. Their first home game in Johnstown was played on September 29th, 2012 at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena in which the Tomahawks fell 3-2 in a Shootout to the Michigan Warriors.

Season records

Note: as of conclusion of 2009-10 season^[5][6]

References

1. ↑ http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2010/08/27/sports/doc4c776b9087414753189129.txt
2. ↑ http://www.adn.com/2010/07/27/1384160/palmer-council-approves-ice-arena.html
3. ↑ http://tribune-democrat.com/latestnews/x1521922382/Alaska-hockey-team-relocates-to-Johnstown
4. ↑ http://www.warmemorialarena.com/
5. ↑ http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/leagues/149.html
6. ↑ http://www.pointstreak.com/prostats/standings.html?leagueid=164&seasonid=2025

External links

• Official site
• Cambria County War Memorial Arena
• Johnstown Tomahawks Team Information Page

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