Photo Courtesy Sugar Land Ice and Sports CenterSugar Land's new North American 3 Hockey League South Division team—the Sugar Land Imperials—will play its first regular season game Oct. 4 against the Dallas Stars at the Dr. Pepper StarCenter–Euless. The first home game is slated for Oct. 11 when the Imperials will play the McKinney Warriors at the Sugar Land Ice and Sports Center at 16225 Lexington Blvd.
On April 19, it was announced that the Houston Aeros—a team based in Sugar Land since the early 1990s—would be starting its 2013–14 season as Des Moines, Iowa's new team. The city of Sugar Land spent the summer searching for another team to fill the vacancy, and it has been decided that the Sugar Land Imperials will fill that void.
The Imperials will be based out of the Sugar Land Ice and Sports Center—an 8,000-square-foot public facility equipped with a large locker room, on-site medical facilities and a gym—as Houston's first NA3HL South Division team.
Former Houston Aero forward and the Imperial's head coach Jarod Palmer will take the helm of the expansion franchise alongside general manager Jamie Feltus.
