The Ohio Junior Blue Jackets were a Tier 1 junior ice hockey team playing in the East Division of the United States Hockey League (USHL). The 2006-07 USHL media guide (p. 37) lists the Ohio Junior Blue Jackets as the successor to the Thunder Bay Flyers , who played their last USHL game in 2000; however, the team infrastructure was based upon a move of the Cleveland Junior Barons of the NAHL . The Junior Blue Jackets' home ice was at Nationwide Arena , which is also home to the National Hockey League team Columbus Blue Jackets .
7-453: It was announced on May 11, 2008 that the Jr. Blue Jackets ceased operations for the 2008-2009 season after the owners and league worked to find a suitable location where this franchise could be a success. After finding no location on short notice for the upcoming season, the team ceased operations. The USHL Board of Governors approved the transfer of 10-12 veteran players on Ohio's protected list to
14-491: A USHL team, intended as an anchor tenant for the then-under-construction Urban Plains Center and owned by local businessman Ace Brandt. Dean Blais , former coach of the North Dakota Fighting Sioux hockey program, was hired as the franchise's initial coach and general manager. After a name-the-team contest, the choices were narrowed to Fargo Force, Fargo Phantoms, and Fargo Fire. Twelve people submitted
21-656: A sports team in Ohio is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fargo Force The Fargo Force is a Tier I junior ice hockey team in the Western Conference of the United States Hockey League (USHL). The Force have won two league championships in 2018 and 2024 and was awarded USHL Organization of the Year for 2008–09 and 2012–13 . In early 2007, Fargo was granted
28-533: The Fargo Force , an expansion team for the 2008-2009 season. With the agreement the expansion draft was cancelled and Fargo had to give up their first three rounds picks of the USHL Entry Draft. Note: "All players on the Ohio affiliate list will become free agents" (USHL). This American ice hockey team-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
35-666: The Force name; as a result, they won a dinner with head coach Dean Blais and each received two season tickets to the Force's inaugural season. As a result of the Force's entry, the area's previous hockey team, the Fargo-Moorhead Jets of the North American Hockey League announced they were leaving the area in April 2008, and folded later that year. Marks retired following the 2014–15 season and
42-422: Was named head coach. Lamoureux left after the 2020–21 season and was replaced by Scott Langer who had spent the previous five seasons with the North American Hockey League 's Aberdeen Wings . On October 16, 2021, owner Ace Brandt died of cancer. Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, OTL = Overtime Losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against Notable Fargo Force players picked in
49-659: Was replaced by former University of North Dakota player/assistant coach Cary Eades, who had just led the Sioux Falls Stampede to the 2014–15 Clark Cup Championship. In 2018 , Fargo won the Clark Cup Finals over the Youngstown Phantoms to win their first championship in team history. Following the 2018–19 season , Eades stepped down from his coaching position, retaining the general manager title, and associate coach Pierre-Paul Lamoureux
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