The Port Huron Flags were a

minor league Minor leagues are professional sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports. Minor league teams tend to play in smaller, less elaborate venues, often competing in smaller cities/markets. This term is used in Nort ...

professional

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

team located in

Port Huron, Michigan Port Huron is a city in and seat of government of St. Clair County, Michigan, United States. The population was 28,983 at the 2020 census. The city is bordered on the west by Port Huron Township, but the two are administered autonomously. Po ...

. The Flags competed in the

United Hockey League The United Hockey League (UHL), originally known as the Colonial Hockey League from 1991 to 1997 and last known as the International Hockey League from 2007 to 2010, was a low-level minor professional ice hockey league, with teams in the Unite ...

for two seasons from 2005 to 2007. The Flags' mascot was a bear named Slapshot, based on the

Hanson Brothers The Hanson Brothers are a fictional trio of siblings who played for the fictional minor league ice hockey team the ''Charlestown Chiefs'' in the 1977 movie '' Slap Shot'' and its two sequels. The characters – ''Dave'', ''Steve'', and ''Jeff ...

from the movie ''

Slap Shot ''Slap Shot'' is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by George Roy Hill, written by Nancy Dowd, and starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean. It depicts a minor league ice hockey team that resorts to violent play to gain popularity ...

''. Owners attempted to sell the Flags in May 2007, but negotiations with several groups failed. The team officially ceased operations on May 18, 2007.

Season-by-season results

References

External links

Port Huron Flags at HockeyDB
Defunct United Hockey League teams Ice hockey clubs established in 2005 Ice hockey clubs disestablished in 2007 Defunct ice hockey teams in Michigan 2005 establishments in Michigan 2007 disestablishments in Michigan Port Huron, Michigan {{Michigan-sport-team-stub