the bossier-shreveport mudbugs were a professional ice hockey team which played in the bossier city-shreveport metropolitan area of louisiana. from 1997 to 2001, the bossier-shreveport mudbugs were members of the western professional hockey league, until a 2001 merger between the wphl with the central hockey league. from 2001 to 2011, the bossier-shreveport mudbugs played in the central hockey league. from 1997 until 2000, they were known as the shreveport mudbugs, changing the name to the bossier-shreveport mudbugs after the team relocated from the hirsch coliseum in shreveport to the centurytel center in bossier city.