Originally formed in 1960 in
Muskegon, Michigan, as the
Muskegon Zephyrs, the team was renamed the
Mohawks in 1965 and the
Lumberjacks in 1984. The team moved to
Cleveland in 1992 as part of the IHL's move upmarket, bringing professional hockey back to Cleveland for the first time since the
Cleveland Barons played in the
NHL in 1978. It later folded along with the IHL at the end of the 2000–01 season. Cleveland returned to have hockey with the new
Cleveland Barons of the
AHL in 2001, which lasted until 2006. In the 1995 hockey action movie
Sudden Death starring
Jean-Claude van Damme, Lumberjacks players impersonated the
Chicago Blackhawks. On December 16, 2011, before a
Lake Erie Monsters game former Lumberjack
Jock Callander had his number 15 retired in honor of his career as a member of the Lumberjacks, as well as his involvement in hockey initiatives in the Cleveland area. ==Season-by-season record==