Category: LBC: From The Archives

Old Time Hockey: The curious case of the Chicago Black Hawks and Led Zeppelin

By Todd Little | Jun 7th 2022 | 3 min read |

While they didn’t win a Stanley Cup, the Chicago Blackhawks (then known as the Black Hawks) were one of the NHL’s best clubs during the early 1970...

Old Time Hockey: Unheralded 1983 Team USA set stage for defense of 1980’s Miracle

By Todd Little | Jun 1st 2022 | 6 min read |

The Miracle on Ice in 1980 is the crowning achievement in America’s long history of play in international hockey and one of, if not the greatest spo...

Florida Hockey History: A look back at the Jacksonville Bullets

By Todd Little | Jul 1st 2020 | 4 min read |

The Jacksonville Bullets were one of four charter members, along with the West Palm Beach, Lakeland Ice Warriors and Daytona Beach Sun Devils, of the ...

Florida Hockey History: A look back at the West Palm Beach Blaze

By Todd Little | Jun 24th 2020 | 4 min read |

The West Palm Beach Blaze were one of four charter members, along with the Jacksonville Bullets, Lakeland Ice Warriors and Daytona Beach Sun Devils, o...

Florida Panthers predecessors: A look back at the AHL’s Jacksonville Barons

By Todd Little | Jun 9th 2020 | 4 min read |

After the loss of the Eastern Hockey League’s Rockets, it only took a little bit over a year for professional hockey to return to the northern Flori...

Florida Panthers predecessors: A look back at the EHL’s Suncoast Suns

By Todd Little | Jun 4th 2020 | 5 min read |

Seven years after placing the first modern professional team in Florida, the Jacksonville Rockets, the Eastern Hockey League added a second franchise ...

Florida Panthers predecessors: A look back at the EHL’s Jacksonville Rockets

By Todd Little | May 18th 2020 | 6 min read |

Unless you are somewhat of a hockey history buff, you might not know that the story of pro hockey in the state of Florida did not begin in 1992 with t...