The Muskegon Fury were an
International Hockey League ice hockey team located in
Muskegon, Michigan. The team's colors were
teal,
purple, and
black. The Fury were established in 1992 after the original
Muskegon Lumberjacks of the
previous International Hockey League relocated to
Cleveland, Ohio. Up to that point, hockey had been in Muskegon for 32 consecutive seasons and Tony Lisman, owner and president of the Fury, would not let that tradition end. Lisman kept his vow to keep hockey in Muskegon by establishing the Fury in the one-season-old
Colonial Hockey League (CoHL). The Fury made it to the
Colonial Cup finals in
their third season after losing in the first round of the playoffs after their first two seasons. However, they lost to the
Thunder Bay Senators in six games. In the
1995–96 season, they won their division but were upset in the first round to the
Detroit Falcons in five games. Erin Whitten, one of the few female hockey players to play professionally, played for the Fury during the
1995–96 season before being traded to the
Flint Generals. The CoHL was renamed the United Hockey League in 1997. In the
1998–99 season, the Fury finished with the best record during the regular season and won their first Colonial Cup by defeating the
Quad City Mallards in six games. The Fury would win their second title in
2002. Despite finishing third in their division during the
2003–04 season, the Fury would win their third championship by going undefeated through all eleven games of the three playoff series to claiming the Colonial Cup. They won the regular season championship in
2004–05 and a back-to-back Colonial Cup championship. On August 30, 2006, Bruce Ramsay was named the head coach for the
2006–07 season, replacing
Todd Nelson who had accepted the assistant coaching position for the
Chicago Wolves a few days earlier after three head coaching seasons in Muskegon. In 2007, the United Hockey League changed names again to the International Hockey League in honor of the now defunct league. ==Return of the Lumberjacks==