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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 ECHL (formerly the East Coast Hockey League) is a minor professional ice hockey league based in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, with teams across the United States and Canada. Competitively, it is a tier below the American Hockey League (AHL).
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]
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]
In March 2021, the team announced it had hired former ECHL commissioner Brian McKenna as team president. [3] The team name, Iowa Heartlanders, was announced on May 20, 2021. [4] On June 17, the Heartlanders announced they would be the affiliate of the Minnesota Wild. [5] On July 27, 2021, the Heartlanders named Gerry Fleming as their inaugural ...
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 ...
On January 19, the Montreal Canadiens had announced that the new team would serve as their ECHL affiliate. [1] On June 10, 2021, the team name was announced as the Trois-Rivières Lions, named after the only previous professional team to play in the city, the Trois-Rivières Lions, from 1955 to 1960. [6] On June 15, Éric Bélanger was named ...
On October 1, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Gladiators enacted the ECHL's COVID-19 voluntary suspension policy and opted out of playing in the 2020–21 season. [19] [20] The team announced they would return to play in the 2021–22 season.