The Madison Monsters were a

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professional

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team in the

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(UHL) based in

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, with home games in the Dane County Memorial Coliseum. The city of Madison was granted the franchise before the 1995–96 Colonial Hockey League (CoHL) season along with the

Quad City Mallards The Quad City Mallards were a minor league professional ice hockey team based in the Quad Cities area of Illinois and Iowa that competed in the United Hockey League, International Hockey League, Central Hockey League and ECHL. They were named aft ...

. The Monsters were the first CoHL hockey team to be established in Wisconsin. The CoHL rebranded as the United Hockey League in 1997. The team moved to

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, as the

Knoxville Speed The Knoxville Speed was a minor professional ice hockey team in the United Hockey League (UHL) based in Knoxville, Tennessee with home games at the James White Civic Coliseum. They were formerly the Madison Monsters, before team owner Andrew Wi ...

before the 1999–2000 season by team owner Andrew Wilhelm. The Monsters were replaced in Madison the following season by a UHL expansion team, the Madison Kodiaks, but only lasted one season before also relocating.

References

External links

Madison Monsters statistics at HockeyDB
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