Louisiana Hockey Apparel

Six defunct Louisiana hockey teams from Lafayette, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Lake Charles, Monroe, and Alexandria, on shirts, hoodies, hats, and jerseys you will not find anywhere else.

For about eight years in the late 1990s, Louisiana was a hockey state. Two minor leagues, one of them the Western Professional Hockey League, put six teams in six cities almost at once, and Lafayette drew crowds that embarrassed markets three times its size. By 2005 they were all gone. This is where they live on.

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Louisiana hockey history

Lafayette, the team that started it. The Louisiana IceGators opened at the Cajundome in 1995 and were an immediate phenomenon: a Cajun-country town with no hockey tradition packed the building night after night and led their league in attendance in the team's early seasons, outdrawing cities with three times the population. The IceGators played ten seasons, and their success is the reason every other team on this page existed.

Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The Baton Rouge Kingfish followed into the same league in 1996 and played seven seasons at the Riverside Centroplex, sharing a rivalry with Lafayette an hour down the interstate. The New Orleans Brass arrived in 1997, opened in the old Municipal Auditorium, and moved into the New Orleans Arena when it was built; when the NBA's Hornets relocated to the city in 2002 and took the building's dates, the Brass folded.

The WPHL towns. The Western Professional Hockey League, a Texas-based independent league that never affiliated with the NHL, put three teams in Louisiana's smaller cities in the late 1990s: the Lake Charles Ice Pirates, the Monroe Moccasins, and the Alexandria Warthogs. All three played their first seasons within a year of each other and were gone by the time the WPHL merged into the Central Hockey League in 2001.

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