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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]
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 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).
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 ...
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.
In July 2021, the team hired Pierre McGuire as senior vice president of player development. McGuire, who had most recently been a broadcaster with the NHL on NBC, had previously been an assistant coach with the Senators. [3] In August 2021, the Senators announced their new ECHL affiliation with the Atlanta Gladiators. [4]
The Colorado Eagles, who won it in 2018 for their second consecutive title, moved to the American Hockey League in 2018–19. In 2019, the Eagles' ownership did not return the Kelly Cup to the ECHL before the playoffs, leading to the league creating a replacement trophy for the 2019 Kelly Cup playoffs.