Jacksonville Icemen

Jacksonville Icemen
founding	2017
history	Evansville IceMen 2008–2016 Jacksonville Icemen since 2017
Stadion	Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
Location	Jacksonville , Florida
Team colors	Dark blue, light blue, white   
league	ECHL
Conference	Eastern Conference
division	South Division
Head coach	Jason Christie
Cooperations	Winnipeg Jets ( NHL ) Manitoba Moose ( AHL )
Kelly Cups	no

The Jacksonville Icemen are an American ice hockey franchise from Jacksonville , Florida , that will play in the ECHL from the start of the 2017/18 season . It acts as a farm team of the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League and plays its home games in the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena from.

history

The forerunners of the Jacksonville Icemen were the Evansville IceMen , which also ran into the ECHL from 2012 to 2016 . During the 2015/16 season, all negotiations between the team and the city of Evansville about a new lease for its home ground, the Ford Center, failed . As a result, owner Ron Geary announced the team's move to Owensboro , Kentucky , in January 2016 . Another month later, the ECHL confirmed the move of the IceMen to Owensboro, although the team should not start playing until the 2017/18 season to allow enough time for renovations at the new venue. In September 2016 Geary announced, however, that the renovations to the arena ( Owensboro Sports Center ) would be significantly more complex and expensive than originally thought, so that the final decision was made against the purchase and relocation of the team to Owensboro. In February 2017, it was announced that ECHL had agreed to move the team to Jacksonville , Florida . In July 2017, the team announced a collaboration with the Winnipeg Jets from the National Hockey League and the Manitoba Moose from the American Hockey League (AHL).

The first head coach was the Canadian Jason Christie , who had previously looked after numerous ECHL teams, including the Utah Grizzlies , the Ontario Reign and the Tulsa Oilers .

Web links

• Official website
• Jacksonville Icemen at eliteprospects.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matthew Harding: BREAKING: Evansville IceMen Announce Move. thesinbin.net, January 19, 2016, accessed April 16, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ECHL Approves IceMen Move to Owensboro. oursportscentral.com, March 14, 2016, accessed April 16, 2018 . 
3. ↑ John T Martin: IceMen won't play in Owensboro. courierpress.com, September 30, 2016, accessed April 16, 2018 . 
4. ^ ECHL approves IceMen Transfer of Home Territory to Jacksonville. (No longer available online.) Echl.com, February 8, 2017, archived from the original on March 10, 2017 ; accessed on April 16, 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.  
5. ↑ IceMen become ECHL affiliate of Winnipeg, Manitoba. echl.com, July 6, 2017, accessed on April 16, 2018 .