New Orleans Brass

New Orleans Brass
founding	1997
resolution	2002
history	New Orleans Brass 1997-2002
Stadion	Municipal Auditorium (1997–1999) New Orleans Arena (1999–2002)
Location	New Orleans , Louisiana
Team colors	purple, gold
league	East Coast Hockey League
division	Southwest Division (1997-2002)
Cooperations	San Jose Sharks ( NHL ) Edmonton Oilers ( NHL ) Nashville Predators ( NHL )
Kelly Cups	no

The New Orleans Brass were an American ice hockey franchise from New Orleans , Louisiana that played in the East Coast Hockey League from 1997 to 2002 . The Brass played their home games from 1997 to 1999 in the Municipal Auditorium and from 1999 to 2002 in the New Orleans Arena .

history

The franchise was founded in 1997 and began playing in the East Coast Hockey League . The head coach was Ted Sator , who had previously led the two National Hockey League teams New York Rangers and Buffalo Sabers as head coach . In their first season, the Brass qualified for the play-offs. In the first round, the team lost four games against the Pensacola Ice Pilots and was eliminated from the competition.

In the following season, they made it to the finals again. In the first two rounds, the team prevailed against the Jacksonville Lizard Kings and Louisiana IceGators , before being eliminated in four games against Pee Dee Pride in the semifinals of the Southern Conference . Still, this represented the franchise's greatest success .

Even after moving to the new venue, the New Orleans Arena , for the 1999/2000 season , the play-offs were reached. In these, the team failed early and did not get beyond the second round. In 2002 the franchise was finally dissolved.

Farm teams

The New Orleans Brass had several collaborations with teams from the NHL . In the 1998/99 season they were on the farm teams of the Edmonton Oilers and in the 2000/01 season of the Nashville Predators and the San Jose Sharks .

Team records

Career records

Games: 297 Steve Cheredaryk

Goals: 112 Jeff Lazaro

Assists: 195 Jeff Lazaro

Points: 307 Jeff Lazaro

Penalty minutes: 978 Steve Cheredaryk

Former players

• Martin Bartek
• Gordie Dwyer
• Martin Hohenberger
• Alexei Volkov

Web links

• All New Orleans Brass seasonal stats
• New Orleans Brass Player List