Greenville Swamp Rabbits

Greenville Swamp Rabbits
founding	2010
history	Johnstown Chiefs 1987–2010 Greenville Road Warriors 2010–2015 Greenville Swamp Rabbits since 2015
Stadion	BI-LO Center
Location	Greenville , South Carolina
Team colors	blue, copper, white, silver
league	ECHL
Conference	Eastern Conference
division	South Division
Head coach	Brian Gratz
General manager	Chris Lewis
owner	Neil Smith
Cooperations	Carolina Hurricanes ( NHL ) Charlotte Checkers ( AHL )
Kelly Cups	no

The Greenville Swamp Rabbits are an American ice hockey franchise based in Greenville , South Carolina . It has played in the ECHL since the 2010/11 season . A cooperation in the National Hockey League exists with the Carolina Hurricanes .

history

The Johnstown Chiefs of the ECHL were 2,010 to Greenville, South Carolina, relocated and renamed the Greenville Road Warriors. The cause of the relocation was a $ 100,000 annual loss and increased rental costs for the Cambria County War Memorial Arena . In Greenville, the Road Warriors fill the void that was created in 2006 with the disappearance of the Greenville Grrrowl . On June 29, 2010, former professional ice hockey player and assistant coach for the Cincinnati Cyclones , Dean Stork , was officially introduced as the franchise's first head coach.

In the first season 2010/11 you were directly the point best main round team of the Eastern Conference of this league and in the 2013/14 season the Warriors were subject to the Cincinnati Cyclones in the playoffs in the Eastern Conference final .

In August 2015, the name of the franchise was changed to its current name, alluding to the Swamp Rabbit Trail running in the area . It is a network of hiking trails that runs on disused railroad tracks and that got its name from the swamp rabbit that lives there .

From 2010 to 2018 there was a cooperation with the NHL team New York Rangers and their AHL partner the Hartford Wolf Pack . With Brandon Halverson, Mackenzie Skopski and Cam Talbot , three players from Greenville made it to the NHL. At the beginning of the 2019/20 season, a cooperation with the Carolina Hurricanes was entered into.

Ice hockey players of the franchise, who played successfully in high-class European leagues in their further career, are u. a.

Brandon Alderson Jack Combs Jordan Knackstedt Josh Nicholls

Trevor Parkes Blake Parlett Vinny Saponari Mark Voakes

Web links

• Official website (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ echl.com, Dean Stork named Head Coach of Greenville Road Warriors ( Memento of the original from February 12, 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. 
2. ↑ Cyclones to complete for third Kelly Cup after OT win. cincinnati.com, May 28, 2014, accessed September 24, 2018 . 
3. ^ Swamp Rabbits to seek NHL affiliation. (No longer available online.) Swamprabbits.com, April 9, 2018, archived from the original on April 12, 2018 ; accessed on September 24, 2018 (English). 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.