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

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of the

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and the

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of the

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. 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

announced that the Vermont Wild had folded.

Season-by-season record

Federal Hockey League

External links

Vermont Wild websiteFederal Hockey League website

References

{{FHL 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