Encyclopedia Dubuque
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DUBUQUE THUNDERBIRDS
DUBUQUE THUNDERBIRDS. Hockey team. The DUBUQUE FIGHTING SAINTS hockey team was sold to East Coast investors in 1996. The team was relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2001, and efforts were quickly started to find another team.
Before the Saints left Dubuque, Theodore J. SCHERR and others had the Saints replacement, the Dubuque ThunderBirds. In 2002 the ThunderBirds reestablished junior hockey in Dubuque as a member of the Minnesota Junior Hockey League. Scherr and Ken Gaber served as co-general managers until Gaber became president of the MJHL and moved to the Twin Cities. The ThunderBirds moved to the Central States Hockey League in 2006-2007.
On November 19, 2009, Dubuque officially returned to the United States Hockey League.