St. Clair Shores Fighting Saints

The St. Clair Shores Fighting Saints were a minor professional ice hockey team in the Federal Hockey League that began play in the 2016–17 season based in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. The Fighting Saints played their home games at the St. Clair Shores Civic Arena during their first season. In their second season, they relocated to Kingsville, Ontario, as the North Shore Knights and played home games in several other cities in Ontario and Quebec.^[1]

St. Clair Shores Fighting Saints
City	St. Clair Shores, Michigan
League	Federal Hockey League
Founded	2016
Home arena	St. Clair Shores Civic Arena
Colors	Blue, green, gold, white
Owner(s)	Global Hockey Management (Michael Kolarik)
General manager	Brandon Contratto
Head coach	Dave Debol
Media	St. Clair Shores Sentinel The Macomb Daily Michigan Regional Sports Network
Franchise history
2016–2017	St. Clair Shores Fighting Saints
2017–2018	North Shore Knights

History

On April 20, 2016, it was announced that St. Clair Shores had landed an FHL team to begin play for the 2016–17 season at the Civic Arena.^[2] On May 10, it was announced that Brandon Contratto would be the general manager, Michael Kolarik of Global Hockey Management would run the team, and St. Clair Shores native and former Hartford Whalers player Dave Debol would serve as head coach.^[3]

On May 18, the Fighting Saints name, logo, colors and jerseys were announced.^[4]

When the schedule was released for the 2017–18 season, the Fighting Saints were listed with home games in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Témiscaming, Quebec, South River, Ontario, and Kingsville, Ontario.^[5] The team was later announced to have relocated to Kingsville as the North Shore Knights.