Raleigh IceCaps

The Raleigh IceCaps were an American Hockey franchise from Raleigh, North Carolina. The venue for the IceCaps was the Dorton Arena.

History

The franchise was founded in 1991 and took his game to operating in the East Coast Hockey League. Head coach Kurt was little Dorst, who later became the Lowell Devils coached in the AHL. The IceCaps reached in their first season already the playoffs and failed in the round of play-offs against the Hampton Roads Admirals. Already in the following season the IceCaps came with the third playoff round reached a better result, they still exceeded in the 1993/94 season with the arrival in the finals to the Kelly Cup against Toledo Storm. The series went 4-1 with victories lost and the IceCaps missed winning the Kelly Cup. By the year 1998, the Raleigh IceCaps in the last four seasons of the franchise only managed once again a place in the play-offs. In 1998, the franchise was finally dissolved because of the Carolina Hurricanes, who moved to Raleigh and took a NHL team to place the IceCaps and relocated to Augusta. There, a new team was formed under the name Augusta Lynx, which was eligible to play in the ECHL.

Team Records

Career Records

Known player

  • Russia Maxim Bez
  • Russia Alexander Chawanow
  • Latvia Rodrigo Laviņš
  • Canada Tyson Nash
  • Canada Barry Nieckar
  • Slovakia Jaroslav Obšut
  • Poland Krzysztof Oliwa
  • Canada Steve Potvin
  • United States Todd Reirden
  • Canada Trevor Sim
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