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The 2021–22 ECHL season was the 34th season of the ECHL. The regular season was scheduled to run from October 21, 2021, to April 17, 2022, with the Kelly Cup playoffs to follow. Twenty-seven teams in 20 states and two Canadian provinces were each scheduled to play 72 games. [1]
The 2021 Kelly Cup playoffs of the ECHL began on June 7 following the conclusion of the 2020–21 ECHL regular season, and ended on July 2 with the Fort Wayne Komets winning their first Kelly Cup over the South Carolina Stingrays in four games. [1]
At least 739 players have played at least one game in the NHL after appearing in the ECHL. [2] As of the 2024–25 season, 29 of the 32 NHL teams held affiliations with an ECHL team, [3] with only the Carolina Hurricanes, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Ottawa Senators having no such franchise affiliation. NHL teams sometimes lend contracted players ...
The league announced a remainder of the schedule on February 10. [13] Due to COVID-19 related postponements and teams' arenas availability, several games throughout the season were rescheduled or cancelled. During the season, the Brampton Beast announced the team had ceased operations entirely on February 18, 2021. [14]
21 – Gilbert Dionne: scored 134 goals in 313 games with the team, and won the 1999 IHL All Star Game MVP Award in a game played at US Bank Arena. 22 – Don Biggs: The centerpiece of the team for many years, Biggs played 458 games for Cincinnati, scoring 147 goals and tallying 444 points total. Both totals are records for any player from any ...
The Americans were one of 14 ECHL teams to elect to play the pandemic-delayed 2020–21 season. They finished with the top seed in the Western Conference, but were eliminated by the Fort Wayne Komets in the conference finals of the 2021 Kelly Cup playoffs. In the 2021–22 season, the Americans became the first ECHL affiliate of the NHL ...
The team was the first tenant announced for Enmarket Arena, which was planned to be completed in January 2022. [2] The ECHL approved the membership of the expansion team on January 27, 2021, to begin play in the 2022–23 season. [3] On October 27, 2021, the team name was announced as the Savannah Ghost Pirates. [4]
In the team's second season in Jacksonville, the franchise qualified for the ECHL playoffs for the first time since it joined the league in 2012. Following the season, Geary sold his shares of the team and the controlling interest was acquired by SZH Hockey LLC, a group led by Andrew Kaufmann on July 16, 2019. [13]