Toronto Roadrunners

The Toronto Roadrunners were a Canadian ice hockey franchise in the American Hockey League from Toronto, Ontario. The venue for the Roadrunners was the Ricoh Coliseum.

History

Lyle Abrhams, the then owner of the club, brought the Roadrunners in 2003 as a farm team of the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League to Toronto. The successor to the Hamilton Bulldogs took the game operating in the American Hockey League on for the 2003/2004 season. Due to low viewership, a unzureichnenden business model and a dispute with the officials at the match venue, the team was relocated but after only one year as Edmonton Road Runners to Edmonton. Another reason, however, was this also the lockout in the 2004/2005 NHL season. In their single AHL season, the Roadrunners against the Cleveland Barons left with 1:2 after three games in the qualifying round of the playoffs.

Since Abrhams owned the rights to the name and logo and not the Edmonton Oilers, the team was refounded as Phoenix RoadRunners in the ECHL. The gap that is left behind in Toronto completed in 2005, the Toronto Marlies.

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

Career Records

Well-known former players

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