Flint Generals™

The Flint Generals™ started play in the IHL for the 1969-70 seasons, making it an 8-team league for the first time in about ten years. Their first season was tough, with only 21 wins and missing the playoffs but they wouldn't miss a beat after that. The Generals would win at least 30 games and make the playoffs every single season for the rest of their existence, through 1984-85. That's 16 of 17 seasons with a playoff berth. But it would be much tougher for the team to win the IHL title. They bowed out of the playoffs in the first round many times and went the entirety of the 1970s without an IHL title. But in 1981 a 41-win Generals team coached by Dennis Desrosiers and 103 points from each Bernie Gallant and Jeff Pyle would finally bring home a Turner Cup to Flint after they swept the Toledo Goaldiggers. Despite two more 43 wins seasons after the title victory, the Generals would leave town and head to nearby Saginaw where they would become the Saginaw Generals for four seasons before folding. Flint didn't go without hockey though, as the Flint Spirits took their place. 

The Generals name would be re-born as an UHL and IHL team starting in 1993. The re-created team took up residence in Perani Arena after the Flint Bulldogs skipped town for Utica, NY. The Generals sported a new logo, with a hockey stick wielding General bursting through the front of their jerseys. The new Generals would be just as dominant as the old ones in the Colonial League, winning league titles in 1996 and 2000, including 7 straight playoff appearances through that 2000 title run. The team would make the jump to the IHL in 2007, as the IHL restarted and the UHL looked to be running out of time as the league lost half of its teams that year. Unfortunately, both the UHL, IHL, and Flint Generals would go out of business in 2010.