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The 2023–24 ECHL season was the 36th season of the ECHL. The regular season began on October 19, 2023, and ended on April 14, 2024, with the 2024 Kelly Cup playoffs to follow. Twenty-eight teams, all of which are affiliated with an NHL team, in 20 states and two Canadian provinces are scheduled to play 72 games. [1]
The league, which combined teams from the defunct Atlantic Coast Hockey League (ACHL) and All-American Hockey League (AAHL), began to play as the East Coast Hockey League in 1988 with five teams – the (Winston-Salem, North) Carolina Thunderbirds (now the Wheeling Nailers); the Erie Panthers (folded in 2011 as the Victoria Salmon Kings); the Johnstown Chiefs (now the Greenville Swamp Rabbits ...
On July 10, 2023, the ECHL awarded an expansion team to the Lake Tahoe area to start play in the 2024–25 season. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The ownership group consists of Tim Tebow and David Hodges. The club will play in the newly constructed Tahoe Blue Event Center located in Stateline, Nevada , near South Lake Tahoe, California .
Greensboro ECHL team are a future professional minor league ice hockey team based in Greensboro, North Carolina, in the Piedmont Triad. They will play in the ECHL . Their home games will be played at First Horizon Coliseum . [ 1 ]
The Bloomington Bison are an American minor league ice hockey team based in Bloomington, Illinois.Founded in 2024, the team made its debut in the ECHL in 2024–25. They are the ECHL affiliate of the New York Rangers and the Hartford Wolf Pack; they also have a working agreement with the Carolina Hurricanes.
The 2024–25 ECHL season is the 37th season of the ECHL. The regular season began on October 18, 2024, and will end on April 13, 2025, with the 2025 Kelly Cup playoffs to follow. Twenty-nine teams affiliated with an NHL team in 22 states and one Canadian province are scheduled to play 72 games.
The league added a new expansion team, the Savannah Ghost Pirates in Savannah, Georgia. [2] With the addition of Savannah to the South Division and the move of the Norfolk Admirals from the South Division to the North Division, it made all the divisions equal at 7 teams each for the first time since the 2014-15 ECHL season, not counting the 2020-21 ECHL season, where only 14 teams played in ...
The latest realignment wave has left the G5 as a weakened division. Its most high-resourced programs — Houston, UCF and Cincinnati — are now in the Big 12. SMU is in the ACC.