London Knights were an English ice hockey team based in London. They first played in the UK's Ice Hockey Superleague in September 1998 and folded in April 2003. They won the British Championship as EIHL playoff champions in 2000. The Knights became the first British team to reach the finals of the Continental Cup in January 2001, where they narrowly missed taking the title. When the Superleague folded after the 2002-03 season and the London Arena was sold, the team announced that it would not be fielding a team in the 2003-04 season.
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| - London Knights were an English ice hockey team based in London. They first played in the UK's Ice Hockey Superleague in September 1998 and folded in April 2003. They won the British Championship as EIHL playoff champions in 2000. The Knights became the first British team to reach the finals of the Continental Cup in January 2001, where they narrowly missed taking the title. When the Superleague folded after the 2002-03 season and the London Arena was sold, the team announced that it would not be fielding a team in the 2003-04 season.
- In 1994 the Knights were sold to St. Thomas, Ontario, real estate developer Doug Tarry, Sr.. He died before the team had played a game under his ownership, and the team was inherited by his son, Doug Tarry, Jr.. Upon taking command, Tarry carried out further renovations on the Gardens including a name change to the "London Ice House." He also alienated a fair portion of the team's fan base by changing the team's uniforms from traditional green and gold to eggplant and teal, and changing the logo to a cartoonish Spider-Man caricature, instantly and derisively nicknamed "Spiderknight"[1] by the faithful. The 1995–96 OHL season went down in history as the worst in the history of the Canadian Hockey League. The Knights set a new record for futility by winning only three games all season in six
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| - London Knights were an English ice hockey team based in London. They first played in the UK's Ice Hockey Superleague in September 1998 and folded in April 2003. They won the British Championship as EIHL playoff champions in 2000. The Knights became the first British team to reach the finals of the Continental Cup in January 2001, where they narrowly missed taking the title. When the Superleague folded after the 2002-03 season and the London Arena was sold, the team announced that it would not be fielding a team in the 2003-04 season.
- In 1994 the Knights were sold to St. Thomas, Ontario, real estate developer Doug Tarry, Sr.. He died before the team had played a game under his ownership, and the team was inherited by his son, Doug Tarry, Jr.. Upon taking command, Tarry carried out further renovations on the Gardens including a name change to the "London Ice House." He also alienated a fair portion of the team's fan base by changing the team's uniforms from traditional green and gold to eggplant and teal, and changing the logo to a cartoonish Spider-Man caricature, instantly and derisively nicknamed "Spiderknight"[1] by the faithful. The 1995–96 OHL season went down in history as the worst in the history of the Canadian Hockey League. The Knights set a new record for futility by winning only three games all season in sixty-six tries, finishing with nine points and a 3-60-3 record. The years following the so-called "Knightmare" season were improved, but the team was still a long way from the league's upper echelon. Meanwhile, the Ice House was falling apart as the Tarry family had stopped putting money into it as a part of their lobbying the city of London for a new arena. However, the re-signing of former Head Coach Gary Agnew, and the signing of future NHLers Rico Fata and Tom Kostopoulos heralded a marked turnaround for the team's fortunes. In 1999, the Knights went on an unexpected playoff run, in which they defeated the number-one-in-the-CHL Plymouth Whalers in seven games in the quarterfinals and ultimately went all the way to the OHL championship, which they lost in seven games to the Belleville Bulls.
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