Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds built. The Greyhounds returned to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan again in 1979, playing for about a month at Taffy Abel Arena on the campus of Lake Superior State University due to emergency roof repairs at the Gardens. The Greyhounds played home games at the Sault Memorial Gardens from 1949 to 2006. The building was named for the war veterans of World War II. The Gardens hosted Memorial Cup games in 1978 and 1993, and the OHL All-Star Game in 1979. The last game at the Gardens was played on Tuesday, March 28, 2006. Demolition of the Gardens began on April
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan snow a year, with a record year when fell. of snow fell in one five-day snowstorm, including in 24 hours, in December 1995. Over the winter of 2015, Sault Ste. Marie received 158.7 inches of snow, ranking it the most snowfall measured in the nation that year. Sault Ste. Marie receives an average annual of precipitation measured as equivalent rainfall. Its immediate region is also the cloudiest in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, having over 200 cloudy days a year. Temperatures in Sault Ste. Marie have varied between a record low of and a record high of . Monthly average temperatures range