Knoxville Ice Bears

The Knoxville Ice Bears are an American ice hockey team from Knoxville, Tennessee. The team plays since 2004 in the Southern Professional Hockey League.

History

The team was founded in 2002 as a franchise of the Atlantic Coast Hockey League. They replaced the Knoxville in Knoxville Speed ​​, which had competed from 1999 to 2002 in the United Hockey League. In the ACHL they occupied in its debut season in second place after the regular season. In the following Playoffs they failed only in the finale. When the league was disbanded after only one year, the team of the South East Hockey League joined. Also this League was only a year long and active again eliminated the Ice Bears after a second place in the regular season until the playoff finale. In the summer of 2004, the Ice Bears joined the successor competition of SEHL, the Southern Professional Hockey League, at.

In the SPHL in which they play since then, won the Knoxville Ice Bears so far three times the champion, the President's Cup ( 2006, 2008 and 2009). In addition, they received four times the William B. Coffey Trophy as the best team in the regular season (2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009).

Season statistics

Note: GP = Games, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses by SOL = Shootout Losses by, Pts = Points, GF = Goals Scored, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalty minutes

Team Records ( SPHL )

Career Records

Known player

  • Ervīns Muštukovs
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