Jacksonville Icemen

ECHL Player Profile: Goaltender Ryan Bednard

After returning to the Greenville Swamp Rabbits roster from an AHL PTO with the Grand Rapids Griffins, goalie Ryan Bednard has put on quite a show for the Kelly Cup Playoffs. Bednard, 26, has spent a couple of seasons goaltending for different teams. Before getting a contract with Greenville after goaltender Micheal McNiven tore his […]

ECHL: Icemen Game One Recap: Skating In Quicksand

The race for the Kelly Cup started this evening at VyStar Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. The second-place Jacksonville Icemen hosted the third-place Greenville Swamp Rabbits for game one of the seven-game series. This is Jacksonville’s third trip to the Kelly Cup playoffs, their second consecutive year in the postseason. The Swamp Rabbits enter the […]

ECHL: Kelly Cup Round One Preview: #2 Jacksonville Icemen vs #3 Greenville Swamp Rabbits

After a barnburner points race to close the season and determine playoff seeding, the ECHL’s South Division playoff field is set. The second-seeded Jacksonville Icemen will take on the third-place Greenville Swamp Rabbits in a sure-to-be ultra-competitive first-round matchup. The Icemen most recently closed out the season with a win over the Orlando Solar Bears, […]

ECHL: Icemen Take Second Place in the South

There was free hockey on the table Saturday evening. For the Jacksonville Icemen, that wasn’t a good thing. Heading into Saturday’s game on a four-game win streak, the Icemen would look to continue their end-of-season run against the first-place South Carolina Stingrays. The Stingrays, who have been on the ugly side of a couple of […]

ECHL: Icemen Keep Division Title Hopes Alive

The second-place Jacksonville Icemen took on the sixth-place Orlando Solar Bears Friday evening in a late-season showdown at the Amway Center. Jacksonville entered the game on a three-game win streak continuing an end-of-season points push for playoff position. Orlando started the evening on a four-game winless streak, with their most recent victory being a 6-4 […]

ECHL: Jacksonville Icemen Post Game: Nothing Like The Last Minute

After clinching a spot in the playoffs last Friday in a 4-3 win at home over the Atlanta Gladiators, the Jacksonville Icemen took a trip down to Estero, Florida, Wednesday evening to take on the Florida Everblades. The Icemen, currently second in the ECHL’s South Division, are in a race for first place in the […]

ECHL: Icemen Player Spotlight: Matheson Iacopelli

With the 2022-2023 regular season coming to a close, the Jacksonville Icemen are getting set for another Kelly Cup playoff appearance. There will be some new names donning Icemen sweaters this postseason, one of whom fans have heard a lot lately; Matheson Iacopelli. With four goals in his last four games, Iacopelli is beginning to […]

ECHL: Atlanta Gladiators Loss to the Jacksonville Icemen Officially Eliminates the Team From the Playoffs.

A successful start to a must-win game for the Atlanta Gladiators turned into a heartbreaking loss, eliminating the team from the playoffs. The Gladiators went down early in Friday night’s interdivisional game against the Jacksonville Icemen. Chris Grando opened the scoring for the Icemen 12:47 into the game. Atlanta committed back-to-back penalties within 53 seconds […]

ECHL: The South Divison Playoff Race: Four Teams Separated By Five Points

The South Divison race is heating up as the top four teams are separated by five points, and the gap between second and fourth is just two points and is proving to be the division to watch in the ECHL. South Carolina is the only team in the division that has clinched the playoffs, and […]

Jacksonville Icemen hockey player is skating towards the camera with the puck as a Solar Bears player follows behind over his left shoulder

ECHL: Icemen Weekend Recap – No April Fools

The Jacksonville Icemen took on the Orlando Solar Bears in back-to-back games this weekend, contending for critical points in the ECHL’s South Division playoff race. Going into the weekend, the Icemen found themselves in the third spot in the division, just two points back from first place and just one point back from second. Orlando […]