Oklahoma Coyotes
| Las Vegas Coyotes | |
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| City | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Home arena | Ice Arena at the Santa Fe Hotel |
| Colors |
Red, Gold, Black |
| Murphy Cups | None |
| Conference Championships | None |
| Division Championships | None |
| Franchise history | |
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Atlanta Fire Ants (1999) |
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Red, Gold, Black
Atlanta Fire Ants
(1994)
Oklahoma Coyotes
(1995–1996)
The Las Vegas Coyotes were an inline hockey team which competed in Roller Hockey International. The team was founded as the Atlanta Fire Ants in 1994 and had a two-season stint in Oklahoma City before the team relocated to Las Vegas. The team's home games were played at the Ice Arena at the Santa Fe Hotel and the team folded following the dissolution of the RHI after the 1999 season. The Coyotes were the second attempt by the RHI to field a team in the Las Vegas Valley, the Coyotes predecessor, the Las Vegas Flash, played one season in the league.
The Atlanta Fire Ants began play during the 1994 season, one of twelve expansion franchises as the RHI doubled its membership for their second season. The Fire Ants played their home games at the Omni Coliseum in downtown Atlanta and were members of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference with the Chicago Cheetahs, Minnesota Arctic Blast, New England Stingers, Pittsburgh Phantoms and St. Louis Vipers. The Fire Ants would finish the season with a record of 10–10–2, finishing in fourth place in the Central Division and narrowly qualifying for the Murphy Cup playoffs as the eighth and final seed. The Fire Ants were swept in the best-of-three game Central Division semifinals against Minnesota, losing Game One 14–4 and Game Two 9–8. The Fire Ants would finish their only season in Atlanta averaging 3,388 spectators in eleven home games, ranking 16th out of the 24 teams.
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