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ECHL: Greenville Swamp Rabbits Name Chad Costello Head Coach

The Greenville Swamp Rabbits have named Chad Costello as the team’s sixth head coach and General Manager. This comes a little over a month after the Swamp Rabbits had fired Kyle Mountain after his first season as the team’s head coach. Mountain had spent his first season in Greenville as an assistant coach. For Greenville, […]

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AHL & ECHL: 2024–25 Teddy Bear Toss Champions

The annual Teddy Bear Toss had once again united fans, players, and hockey communities across the ECHL and AHL in a shared mission: delivering warmth, comfort, and joy to children and families in need. With thousands of stuffed animals raining down onto the ice after each team’s first goal, the 2024–25 season’s tosses brought in […]

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ECHL: Rapid City Rush Announce That Scott Burt Won’t Return

The Rapid City Rush have announced that Coach and General Manager Scott Burt will not be returning for the 2025-26 season. Burt joined Rapid City for the 2021-22 ECHL season. He was able to help lead the team to a 36-25-6-5 record, earning the Rush their first playoff appearance since the 2014-15 season. Rapid City […]

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ECHL: Cade Borchardt Heads Overseas

The Kansas City Mavericks can’t win for losing this past week, suffering another loss. They first suffered a significant loss to the Toledo Walleye in the Kelly Cup Playoffs third round. Now, Cade Borchardt has signed a contract for the 2025-26 season with Kalevan Pallo (KalPa), part of the Finnish Liiga. The Liiga has 16 […]

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ECHL Western Conference Finals – Recap Game 5: Kansas City Mavericks vs. Toledo Walleye

Saturday night in Ohio, two teams meet for what could be the final time of the season. The Toledo Walleye host the Kansas City Mavericks for game five of the Western Conference Finals. Toledo leads the series 3–1 and sits just one win away from a return to the Kelly Cup Finals. A victory in […]

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ECHL Western Conference Finals – Recap Game 4: Kansas City Mavericks vs. Toledo Walleye

Ohio’s for lovers, well, until you meet in game 4 of the Western Conference Finals like the Toledo Walleye and Kansas City Mavericks did Thursday night. The Mavericks needed the win to tie things up. Toledo looks to be the first team to win at home. For the goaltenders, Walleye starts Carter Gylander, who brought […]

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ECHL Western Conference Finals – Game 3 Recap: Kansas City Mavericks vs Toledo Walleye

The Kansas City Mavericks came into Game 3 with their backs against the wall—and played like it. After dropping the first two games of the Western Conference Finals, the Mavericks responded with urgency, scoring five times and riding a red-hot power play to a 5–2 win over the Toledo Walleye. The series now stands at […]

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ECHL Western Conference Finals – Game 2 Recap: Toledo Walleye vs Kansas City Mavericks

In Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals, Toledo took a 2-0 lead in the series after defeating Kansas City 2-0 on May 15, 2025. They followed that performance with another win in Game 2, securing a 4-3 victory over the Mavericks and extending their series lead to 2-0. Both teams battled fiercely in a […]

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ECHL Western Conference Finals – Game 1 Recap: Toledo Walleye vs Kansas City Mavericks

For the second year in a row, the Western Conference Finals started in Missouri on Thursday. Game one of the possible seven-game series saw the Kansas City Mavericks and the Toledo Walleye rematch. KC was last season’s Mountain Division and Western Conference Champion; They look to repeat this series. Toledo was last season’s Central Division […]

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2025 IIHF Worlds: Watch These Former ECHL Stars Shine

The 2025 IIHF World Championship is already underway and will run through May 25 in Stockholm, Sweden, and Herning, Denmark, with 29 players boasting ECHL experience. So, if you haven’t already, tune in and cheer for these players as they represent their countries and make their mark on the world stage. The ECHL has always […]

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