ECHL Players Serves Strike Notice to League Spencer Lazary | December 23, 2025 Late last night, members of the ECHL officially served strike notice to the league. Related: NHL Rumors: Jarry Timeline, Maple Leafs and Faulk, Rust Trade This comes as the league…
Hockey Is Taking Off in Idaho — and the Utah Mammoth Are Helping Drive the Momentum Chase Beardsley | December 17, 2025 It was only Kory Scoran’s first full season of pro hockey in 2007 when he won the Kelly Cup with the ECHL’s Idaho Steelheads in Dayton, Ohio. It had been…
Savannah Ghost Pirates Looking for Consistency This Season Sylvie McCarthy | November 5, 2025 The Florida Panthers are the reigning back-to-back Stanley Cup Champions. The Panthers are not off to a great start this season with Matthew Tkachuk, Aleksander Barkov, and Dmitry Kulikov all…
Hurricanes’ ECHL Affiliate Greensboro Gargoyles Unveil Jersey & First Players Zach Martin | August 23, 2025 For the first time in a long time, the Carolina Hurricanes have an affiliate ladder that includes both the American Hockey League (AHL) and the ECHL. After re-establishing their agreement…
What Europe’s Hockey Leagues Can Learn From Each Other Andrew Epps | August 11, 2025 Finland’s Liiga does not match the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) or Switzerland’s National League on market power. Budgets, broadcast reach, and top-end salaries are higher in Sweden and Switzerland, which…
Utah Grizzlies Most Likely Relocating With Potential Sale Chase Beardsley | June 24, 2025 Around a year ago, the Salt Lake City hockey community had one of the greatest days of their lives. The Arizona Coyotes were sold to the NBA’s Utah Jazz owner,…
Canadiens’ AHL & ECHL Affiliates Shining in the Playoffs William Bourget | May 29, 2025 For several years, the Montreal Canadiens’ development system was a weak spot in the organization. Both the American Hockey League’s Laval Rocket and the ECHL’s Trois-Rivières Lions struggled to build…
Looking at Utah’s Minor League Affiliations Chase Beardsley | August 2, 2024 The Utah Hockey Club is gearing up for the franchise’s first-ever puck drop as we inch closer and closer to hockey season. With that time approaching, players will start to…
Hurricanes’ 2024-25 Pipeline: Illinois to Carolina Zach Martin | July 25, 2024 What a year can make regarding the ever-changing landscape of hockey affiliations. During the summer of 2023, the Carolina Hurricanes lost their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliation with the Chicago…
Lightning Affiliates Both Win Playoff Series to Advance to Next Round Jim Bay | May 11, 2024 While the Tampa Bay Lightning lost in their first-round series, their American Hockey League and ECHL affiliates advanced out of the first round in their respective playoffs. On Friday (May…
Lightning & Affiliates Prepared for Long Playoff Runs Joel Enns | April 21, 2024 Spring is here, and so are the Stanley Cup Playoffs. After a hard-fought season, the Tampa Bay Lightning are gearing up to battle for some postseason hardware once again, but…
Trois-Rivières Lions to Be Sold, Newfoundland Growlers to Fold Harrison Smajovits | April 2, 2024 The fate of two stuggling ECHL teams has been decided. One fate with the chance to live on. Another whose fate was sealed. The ECHL has terminated the membership of…