The Philadelphia Growl was a professional inline hockey team based in Voorhees, New Jersey. They were members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the Professional Inline Hockey Association (PIHA). The team was founded in 2003 as one of four original expansion franchises of the Professional Inline Hockey Association. The Growl were the first of these expansion teams to win the Founders Cup in 2005 and again in 2006. The Growl did not win the Cup since.
The Growl's has an all-time winning percentage of .708 (as of the end of the 2008 season) is one of the best in the PIHA.
The Growl originally played their home games in Feasterville, Pennsylvania at the Sportsplex from 2002 until 2006, and then in Voorhees, New Jersey at the Flyers Skate Zone from 2006 to the present.
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