The Oklahoma City Blazers were a professional ice hockey team that played in the Northwest Division of the Central Hockey League. The Blazers played at the Ford Center, located in downtown Oklahoma City. Their colors were burgundy, gold and white. On July 2, 2009, the Blazers ceased operations after failing to reach a lease agreement with the city.
Starting with the 2010-11 season, the market will be served by the Oklahoma City Barons AHL franchise playing at Cox Convention Center as the top affiliate of the NHL's Edmonton Oilers.
Read more about Oklahoma City Blazers: History, Original Blazers Franchise, 1965-1977, Championships
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“I know only one person who ever crossed the ocean without feeling it, either spiritually or physically.... he went from Oklahoma to France and back again ... without ever getting off dry land. He remembers several places I remember too, and several French words, but he says firmly, “We must of went different ways. I don’t rightly recollect no water, ever.””
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)
“Union of the weakest develops strength
Not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge
One of the leaves that have fallen in autumn?
But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)