The Topeka Tarantulas were a professional minor league ice hockey team based in Topeka, Kansas . They were a member of the Central Hockey League and played their home games at Landon Arena . The team was established in 2004 when the Indianapolis Ice moved to Topeka from Indianapolis . The Tarantulas played one season and then folded.
3-744: The Tarantulas were preceded by the Topeka Scarecrows , who played in the CHL from 1998 to 2001; another franchise also named the Topeka Scarecrows subsequently played in the United States Hockey League from 2001 to 2003. The Tarantulas went 16-39-0-2-3 (W-L-T-OTL-SOL) in their only season and then folded in 2005. Topeka was without hockey at any level until 2007 when the Topeka RoadRunners began play in
6-644: The Tier II junior North American Hockey League . The RoadRunners moved to Kansas City in 2020. This American ice hockey team-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a sports team in Kansas is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Topeka Scarecrows The Topeka Scarecrows were a professional ice hockey team located in Topeka, Kansas , playing their home games at Landon Arena . The team
9-539: Was a member of the Central Hockey League from their founding in 1998 until 2001 when there franchise was terminated by the league midseason. After the professional team disband, the ownership group would then start a new junior hockey team with the same name in the Tier I Junior A United States Hockey League playing from 2001 to 2003. The team was sold and then moved to St. Louis , Missouri and became
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