Baton Rouge Zydeco wraps up inaugural season
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BATON ROUGE — The Baton Rouge Zydeco missed the Federal Prospects Hockey League playoffs in its inaugural season, but swept the Mississippi Sea Wolves to end the year and set an attendance for the 14-year-old league.The Zydeco brought hockey back to Baton Rouge 20 years after the Kingfish left for Victoria, British Columbia, and became the Salmon Kings.The team's average attendance of 3,958 was two more than the crowds in Binghamton, New York. It won six of its last eight games, and...

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