Nashville Ice Flyers
Shop retro Nashville Ice Flyers tees, long sleeves, hoodies, crewnecks and more. After a rough debut as the Nighthawks, the club overhauled its roster, took a new name and design, went 41 and 19 in 1997 to 1998 and swept Huntsville at Nashville Municipal Auditorium. Celebrate Music City hockey before the big leagues arrived by browsing all of our Ice Flyers gear, then read the team history below. Every design comes from an American small business devoted to preserving the history of fondly remembered and long-lost hockey teams.
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Nashville Ice Flyers History
The Nashville Ice Flyers were a short-lived team from 1996-98. The team was originally the Nashville Nighthawks for the 1996-97 season, changing their name and design for the subsequent campaign. The team played at Nashville Municipal Auditorium both seasons.ย
For the 1996-97 season, they were dreadful and posted a 12-52-0-2 record and ditched their coach mid-season. For year two, they did complete overhaul of the roster and saw an impressive turnaround take place. They would go 41-19 and make the playoffs. In the first round, they would sweep Huntsville in three games. Unfortunately they would lose in the second round to Columbus, the best team in the league that season. After that, the team would fold as Nashville's NHL franchise came to town.ย
