The Syracuse Blazers were a minor league hockey team that played in the Onondaga County War Memorial and New York State Fair Coliseum

State Fair Coliseum (Syracuse)

State Fair Coliseum is an indoor arena in Geddes, New York. It hosted the NBA's Syracuse Nationals from 1949 to 1951. The arena held 7500 people and was built in 1927. It is owned by the State of New York with naming rights purchased by Coca-Cola. It is an ice hockey rink. It is home to the...

 in Syracuse, New York

Syracuse, New York

Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States, the largest U.S. city with the name "Syracuse", and the fifth most populous city in the state. At the 2010 census, the city population was 145,170, and its metropolitan area had a population of 742,603...

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The team played in the Eastern Hockey League

Eastern Hockey League

-Eastern Amateur Hockey League :The league was founded in 1933 as the Eastern Amateur Hockey League . The league was founded by Thomas Lockhart, who served as its commissioner from 1933 to 1972...

 from 1967–73 and the North American Hockey League

North American Hockey League

The North American Hockey League is one of the top junior hockey leagues in the United States and is enterting its 36th season in 2011-12. It is currently the only Junior A Tier II league, sanctioned by USA Hockey. The NAHL currently acts as an alternative to the United States Hockey League...

 from 1973-77.

The Blazers won the final Walker Cup championship of the Eastern Hockey League during the 1972-73 season, compiling a 63-9-4 regular season record and beating the Roanoke Valley Rebels 4 games to 2 in the Walker Cup finals. Ray Adduono was the leading scorer on the team (54 goals, 116 assists in 76 games) and five other players scored 100 points or more. Ron Ingram was the coach and general manager on the team.

The Blazers also won the first Lockhart Cup of the North American Hockey League, compiling a 54-16-4 record and sweeping the Long Island Cougars in the playoff finals. The Blazers won the NAHL championship again in 1976-77, sweeping the Maine Nordiques

Maine Nordiques

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 in the finals.

The Blazers and the NAHL ceased operations before the start of the 1977–78 season.

Paul Newman's classic sports film Slap Shot was filmed in part at the Onondaga County War Memorial during the Blazers 1976 season.