Florida Everblades

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Florida Everblades
founding 1998
history Florida Everblades
since 1998
Stadion Hertz Arena
Location Estero , Florida
Team colors navy blue, green, white
league ECHL
Conference Eastern Conference
division South Division
Head coach Brad Ralph
Cooperations Nashville Predators ( NHL )
Milwaukee Admirals ( AHL )
Kelly Cups 2011/12

The Florida Everblades are an American ice hockey team from Estero , Florida . The team has played in the ECHL since 1998 .

history

The Florida Everblades was founded in 1998 as a franchise of the East Coast Hockey League . In its first year, the team reached the ECHL playoffs for the first time, in which, after a bye and a victory over the Birmingham Bulls, they were only defeated in the third round by the eventual champions Mississippi Sea Wolves . The Florida franchise had its most successful period to date from 2003 to 2005, when they reached the Kelly Cup playoff finals twice in a row under Canadian coach and former NHL player Gerry Fleming . In both finals, however, you lost to the opponent - first the Idaho Steelheads and then the Trenton Titans .

In June 2010, Greg Poss was introduced as the Florida Everblades head coach. The Everblades have been the Tampa Bay Lightning farm team since the 2010/11 season . In the 2011/12 season, the Everblades won all eleven home games during the finals on their route to the first Kelly Cup win in history and also defeated the Las Vegas Wranglers 4-1 in the final series of the ECHL championship after the Florida franchise had also clearly defeated the Greenville Road Warriors , Elmira Jackals and Kalamazoo Wings . Striker Brandon MacLean scored the decisive goal for the first triumph in the fifth game of the final series during extra time . Goalkeeper John Muse then received the award for most valuable player in the playoffs.

Team records

Career records

Games: 374 Mathieu RoyCanadaCanada
Goals: 145 Reggie BergUnited StatesUnited States
Assists: 207 Tom BuckleyUnited StatesUnited States
Points: 319 Reggie BergUnited StatesUnited States
Penalty minutes: 560 Mathieu RoyCanadaCanada

(Status: end of season 2017/18)

Numbers that can no longer be assigned

Well-known former players

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Everblades Name Poss Head Coach ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echl.com
  2. Tampa Bay Lightning: Lightning Enter Into Affiliation Agreement with ECHL's Florida Everblades