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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 league, formed by Vinton, VA oil man, Henry Brabham, and for whom the regular season championship trophy, the Brabham Cup, was named, 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 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]
All teams had a deadline to voluntarily opt out of the 2020–21 season by November 30, [3] but two teams had been granted extensions: the Fort Wayne Komets and Toledo Walleye. [4] The Komets and Walleye were then approved to postpone their start to February. [5] The league announced its schedule through February 11, 2021. [6]
The team played their games at the Cincinnati Gardens. They lost in the first round of the playoffs in the 1990–91 season. In the 1991–92 season, the Cyclones lost in the Riley Cup semifinals. The team's owner at the time, Doug Kirchhofer, was granted an International Hockey League franchise and chose to move the Cyclones name to that ...
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 ...
A new Central Hockey League was created in 1992 as a centrally owned league, owned by Ray Miron and Bill Levins. The league was operated by Ray and Monte Miron and funded by Chicago businessman and minor league sports entrepreneur Horn Chen. With the creation of the new CHL the Tulsa Oilers were a team once again.
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]