Why the possibility of ice hockey’s return to Mobile is heating up after 22 years

It was almost 22 years ago when the Mobile Mysticks played before a paltry, but passionate, crowd of 1,922 fans at the Mobile Civic Center, wrapping up a seven-year stay in Mobile with a 6-2 win that featured fans tossing mullet fish onto center ice.

Hockey, and the colorful Mysticks logo, seemed to have disappeared into history after that game played on March 31, 2002. The team relocated to the Atlanta suburb of Decatur and was rebranded as the Gladiators.