The Vermont Wild was a team in the
Federal Hockey League
The Federal Prospects Hockey League (FPHL) is a professional ice hockey independent minor league with teams in the Midwestern, Southern, and Northeastern United States. The FPHL began operations in November 2010 as the Federal Hockey League. D ...
in the 2011-12 season. Based in
Morrisville, Vermont
Morrisville is a village in the town of Morristown, Lamoille County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, the village population was 2,086. Morrisville has two country clubs, a hospital, a school featuring Greek architecture and an air ...
, the team — originally dubbed the Green Mountain Rock Crushers — played their home games at the
Green Mountain Arena. Both the team and the arena were owned by Randall J. Latona, a former owner of the
Rochester Americans
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of the
American Hockey League
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and the
Rochester Knighthawks
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The Knighthawks are ow ...
of the
National Lacrosse League
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The NLL currently has fifteen teams: ten in the United Stat ...
. The Wild was the only professional ice hockey team ever to be based in the state of
Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...
.
On November 25, 2011, after playing only 10 of their 53 scheduled games, the
Federal Hockey League
The Federal Prospects Hockey League (FPHL) is a professional ice hockey independent minor league with teams in the Midwestern, Southern, and Northeastern United States. The FPHL began operations in November 2010 as the Federal Hockey League. D ...
announced that the Vermont Wild had folded.
Season-by-season record
Federal Hockey League
External links
Vermont Wild websiteFederal Hockey League website
References
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Federal Prospects Hockey League teams
Ice hockey teams in Vermont
Ice hockey clubs established in 2011
Defunct sports teams in Vermont
2011 establishments in Vermont
Sports clubs disestablished in 2011
2011 disestablishments in Vermont