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The Jersey Larks are a defunct professional
ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice h ...
team which played in the
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during the 1960-61 season. Based in Cherry Hill,
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, they played their home games out of the Haddonfield Ice House. Coached by
Ray Miron Joseph Rodolph "Ray" Miron (March 20, 1923 – August 28, 2015) was an owner of the new Central Hockey League (CHL), as well as a National Hockey League (NHL) executive, serving in the Toronto Maple Leafs organization and as general manager of th ...
in their only season of play, the Larks posted a regular-season record of 24 wins, 39 losses, and 1 tie, to qualify for the playoffs, before losing in the second round. They would move to Knoxville, Tennessee after the 1960-61 EHL season, becoming the Knoxville Knights.


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