Fayetteville FireAntz

Fayetteville FireAntz
founding	2002
history	Cape Fear Fire Antz 2002–2004 Fayetteville FireAntz since 2004
Stadion	Cumberland County Crown Coliseum
Location	Fayetteville , North Carolina
Team colors	black, gold, red
league	Atlantic Coast Hockey League (2002–2003) South East Hockey League (2003–2004) Southern Professional Hockey League (since 2004)
Head coach	Emery Olauson
General manager	Kevin MacNaught

The Fayetteville FireAntz are an American ice hockey team from Fayetteville , North Carolina . The team has played in the Southern Professional Hockey League since 2004 .

history

The team was founded in 2002 under the name Cape Fear Fire Antz as a franchise of the Atlantic Coast Hockey League . They replaced the Fayetteville Force in Fayetteville , which competed in the Central Hockey League from 1997 to 2001 . In the ACHL they finished fifth after the regular season in their debut season, which means they missed the playoffs. When the league was dissolved after only a year, the team joined the South East Hockey League . This league was only active for one year, so that the FireAntz joined the follow-up competition Southern Professional Hockey League in 2004 . The team, originally named after the nearby Cape Fear River , was renamed Fayetteville FireAntz on the occasion of their renewed league change.

In the SPHL, in which they have been playing since then, the Fayetteville FireAntz achieved their greatest success in the 2006/07 season when they won their championship, the President's Cup. In the final they had prevailed against the Jacksonville Barracudas in the best-of-five series with 3-1 victories. Most recently Fayetteville was in the playoff finals in the 2008/09 season, but lost to the Knoxville Ice Bears .

Season statistics

Abbreviations: GP = games, W = wins, L = defeats, T = draws, OTL = defeats after overtime, SOL = defeats after shootout , Pts = points, GF = goals scored, GA = goals against, PIM = penalty minutes

season	GP	W.	L.	T	OTL	SOL	Pts	GF	GA	space	Playoffs
2002/03	60	21st	37	-	-	2	41	180	243	5th, ACHL	not qualified
2003/04	56	25th	31	-	-	-	50	213	221	3rd, SEHL	Defeat in the first round
2004/05	56	32	24	-	-	-	64	226	158	4th, SPHL	Defeat in the first round
2005/06	56	31	19th	-	3	3	68	224	175	4th, SPHL	Defeat in the first round
2006/07	56	32	18th	-	4th	2	70	246	205	2nd, SPHL	President's Cup
2007/08	52	25th	19th	-	4th	4th	58	186	198	3rd, SPHL	Defeat in the second round
2008/09	60	30th	25th	-	2	3	65	212	214	3rd, SPHL	Defeat in the final
2009/10	56	31	22nd	-	2	1	65	231	213	3rd, SPHL	Defeat in the first round
2010/11	56	22nd	25th	-	6th	3	44	170	184	7th, SPHL	not qualified
2011/12	56	19th	32	-	4th	1	43	180	240	9th, SPHL	not qualified
2012/13	56	35	18th	-	3	0	73	195	154	1st, SPHL	Defeat in the first round
2013/14	56	21st	30th	-	3	2	47	144	183	9th, SPHL	not qualified
2014/15	56	21st	27	-	8th	0	50	143	193	7th, SPHL	not qualified

Team Records (SPHL)

Career records

Games: 275 Bobby Reed

Goals: 198 Rob Sich

Assists: 173 Chris Leveille

Points: 362 Rob Sich

Penalty minutes: 709 Rob Sich

Known players

• Rob Sich (has led all important team records since FireAntz was accepted into the SPHL )

Web links

• Official website (English).
• The Internet Hockey Database - Statistics Cape Fear Fire Antz (2002-2003)
• The Internet Hockey Database - Player List Cape Fear Fire Antz (2002–2003)
• The Internet Hockey Database - Statistics Cape Fear Fire Antz (2003-2004)
• The Internet Hockey Database - Player List Cape Fear Fire Antz (2003-2004)
• The Internet Hockey Database Statistics Fayetteville FireAntz
• The Internet Hockey Database - Player List Fayetteville FireAntz