Brampton Beast

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Brampton Beast
founding 2013
Stadion Powerade Center
Location Brampton , Ontario
Team colors black, silver, red, white
league ECHL
Conference Eastern Conference
division North Division
Head coach Brent Hughes
General manager Cary Kaplan
owner Indiana Hockey Club, LLC
Cooperations Ottawa Senators ( NHL )
Belleville Senators ( AHL )

The Brampton Beast are a Canadian ice hockey franchise based in Brampton , Ontario . It has played in the ECHL since the 2014/15 season after spending one season in the Central Hockey League . The team plays its home games at the Powerade Center . The Ottawa Senators from the National Hockey League and the Belleville Senators from the American Hockey League act as cooperation partners of the Beast .

history

Brampton had with the Brampton Battalion since 1998 an ice hockey team that played in the Ontario Hockey League . This, however, had to cope with financial problems and a dwindling audience interest for a long time, so that at the end of 2012 it was decided to relocate the franchise to North Bay , Ontario. Just two months later, the Central Hockey League began negotiations in Brampton in order to establish a new franchise in the city. In March 2013, an agreement was reached with the city and the operator of the Powerade Center , in which the new team should play from the beginning of the 2013/14 season. The first coach of the Beast was Brent Hughes .

In order to find a name for the new franchise, a competition was launched in which fans could submit possible names and choose the new name from these by majority vote. In April 2013 Brampton Beast finally prevailed against Brampton Bandits . In August 2013 it was announced that the Beasts will be cooperating with the Tampa Bay Lightning and their AHL farm team Syracuse Crunch . The team finished the first season in sixth of ten places and failed in the first play-off round.

Before the start of the 2014/15 season, three CHL teams stopped playing. As a result, the Beast and the other six remaining CHL participants were accepted into the ECHL on October 7, 2014 and the CHL's gaming operations were completely stopped. In the course of this, the ECHL was restructured so that all seven former CHL teams play in a newly created Central Division of the Western Conference . In addition, the Beast is the only Canadian of all 28 teams currently and only the second Canadian in all of ECHL history after the Victoria Salmon Kings .

After the 2014/15 season, the cooperation changed so that from now on the team worked with the Canadiens de Montréal and the St. John's IceCaps (from 2017: Rocket de Laval ). Another change of the NHL cooperation partner took place before the 2018/19 season when a corresponding agreement was reached with the Ottawa Senators .

Season statistics

Abbreviations: GP = games, W = wins, L = defeats, T = draws, OTL = defeats after overtime or shootout , Pts = points, GF = goals scored, GA = goals conceded

season GP W. L. OTL Pts GF GA space Play-offs
2013/14 66 33 26th 7th 73 209 226 6, CHL Conference quarter-finals lost, 4-1 ( Allen )
2014/15 72 23 46 3 49 181 298 25, ECHL not qualified
total 140 56 72 10 122 390 524 1 play-off participation
1 series: 1 win, 4 losses
5 games: 1 win, 4 losses

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ centralhockeyleague.com: "It's Official - Brampton in for 2013-14 Season" (English, March 8, 2013, accessed on October 16, 2014)
  2. ↑ syracusecrunch.com: "LIGHTNING ENTER INTO AFFILIATION AGREEMENT WITH THE CHL'S BRAMPTON BEAST" (English, August 22, 2013, accessed October 16, 2014)
  3. ↑ ECHL accepts seven members. (No longer available online.) Echl.com, October 7, 2014, archived from the original on October 9, 2014 ; accessed on October 7, 2014 .