The Macon Trax were a minor-league professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team based in Macon, Georgia

Macon, Georgia

Macon is a city located in central Georgia, US. Founded at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is part of the Macon metropolitan area, and the county seat of Bibb County. A small portion of the city extends into Jones County. Macon is the biggest city in central Georgia...

. They played in the low minor leagues Atlantic Coast Hockey League

Atlantic Coast Hockey League (2002)

The Atlantic Coast Hockey League was a professional minor league ice hockey league based in the United States. The second league to bear the name Atlantic Coast Hockey League, it operated for only one season, 2002–2003, before its franchises split into two new leagues.-History:The 2002 incarnation...

 (2002–03), World Hockey Association 2

World Hockey Association 2

The World Hockey Association 2 was a minor professional ice hockey league created at the instigation of the organizers of the proposed recreated World Hockey Association to serve as its development league. The WHA2 teams — some of which had played the 2002–03 season in the Atlantic Coast...

 (2003–04) and Southern Professional Hockey League

Southern Professional Hockey League

The Southern Professional Hockey League is a low-level professional ice hockey league based in Charlotte, North Carolina, with teams located in the southeastern United States.- History :...

 (2004–05), playing their home games at the Macon Coliseum

Macon Coliseum

The Macon Coliseum is a multi-purpose arena and convention center in Macon, Georgia, United States. It was home to the Macon Whoopee and Macon Trax ice hockey teams and also the Macon Knights arena football team until 2006. It is currently home to the Georgia Gwizzlies, a basketball team that plays...

. The team went to the championship finals in both the WHA2 and the SPHL, losing in each series to the league champion. This history prompted head coach Tommy Stewart to tell the Macon Telegraph that the team was "always a bridesmaid, never a bride."

The Trax were one of eight minor league hockey teams purchased or founded by real estate mogul David Waronker

David Waronker

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 starting in 2003. By January 2007 all but one of those teams had ceased operations. Following the termination of the Trax in 2005 its players were dispersed by draft to the Pee Dee Cyclones and Florida Seals

Florida Seals

The Florida Seals was a minor league ice hockey franchise, a member of the Southern Professional Hockey League . Originally based in Orlando, Florida, they later moved to Kissimmee, Florida, a suburb thirty miles south of Orlando in Osceola County...

, two new teams entering the SPHL for the 2005-06 season. Stewart was given a coaching contract with the Florida team, which lost in the 2006 SPHL finals. (The Florida Seals also ceased operations as of January 2007)

2004-2005 season roster

• Wilson, Tom
• Dimasi, Lou
• Davidson, Chris
• Mnatsakanov, Art
• MacMillian, Bob
• Duggan, Chris
• Zoryk, Steve
• Miller, Craig
• Roukes, Jeff
• Allen, Mark
• Gurskis, John
• Welch, Edan
• Dawes, Dominick
• Handrahan, Casey
• Geerlinks, Craig
• Cairns, Mark
• Rivard, Ryan
• Deeves, David
• Denike, Terry
• Jimy Krugar