Tahoe Icemen
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| City | South Lake Tahoe, California |
| League | WSHL |
| Division | Northwest |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Home arena | South Lake Tahoe Ice Arena |
| Owner(s) | Tahoe Hockey Partners, LLC Greg Jamison Spencer Jamison Van Oleson |
| General manager | Mickey Lang (2016–17) |
| Head coach | Mickey Lang (2016–17) |
| Franchise history | |
| 2012–2013 | Bay Area Seals |
| 2013–2015 | Lake Tahoe Blue |
| 2015–present | Tahoe Icemen |
The Tahoe Icemen are an Amateur Athletic Union-sanctioned junior ice hockey team based in South Lake Tahoe, California. The Icemen currently play in the Northwest Division of the Western States Hockey League. Home games take place at South Lake Tahoe Ice Arena.
The team was founded by Chris Collins in 2012 as the Bay Area Seals and played out of the Cow Palace in Daly City, California. After scheduling issues concerning the continued use of the Cow Palace as a home rink, the franchise was moved to South Lake Tahoe to start the 2013–14 season with help from Greg Jamison, former President and CEO of the National Hockey League's San Jose Sharks, and Van Oleson, owner of Tahoe Sports Entertainment (which runs South Lake Tahoe Ice Arena).
After a start to the team's first season that saw them earn only 3 wins in their first 18 games, the Seals would finish strong and earn second place in the Pacific Division and their first Thorne Cup playoff appearance. The Seals would make a strong playoff run but would lose the Thorne Cup Championship game to Idaho Jr. Steelheads by a final score of 2-4.
By finishing as runner-up in playoffs, the Seals were invited to be the second of the WSHL's representatives (along with the Jr. Steelheads) at the 2013 United Hockey Union National Championship Tournament. In the three-game round-robin stage of the tournament, the Seals would lose to the Lake George Fighting Spirit of the Northern States Hockey League (NSHL) before beating the Hartland Hounds and Tennyson Chevrolets, both of the Midwest Junior Hockey League (MWJHL), to move on to the tournament's semi-final round. They beat the NSHL's Syracuse Stampede before losing the UHU National Championship game to the Jr. Steelheads by a score of 1-5.
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