South Carolina Stingrays

South Carolina Stingrays
founding	1993
history	South Carolina Stingrays since 1993
Stadion	North Charleston Coliseum
Location	North Charleston , South Carolina
Team colors	navy blue, red
league	ECHL
Conference	Eastern Conference
division	South Division
Head coach	Spencer Carbery
owner	Anita Zucker Edwin Pearlstine Greenwald Family
Cooperations	Washington Capitals ( NHL ) Hershey Bears ( AHL )
Kelly Cups	1996/97 , 2000/01 , 2008/09

The South Carolina Stingrays are an American ice hockey team from North Charleston , South Carolina , which currently plays in the ECHL . Since 2014 they are the farm team of the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League . The home ground of the Stingrays is the North Charleston Coliseum , which has a capacity of 10,568 people for ice hockey games.

The team was founded in 1993 under the owner Marcel Dionne and shortly thereafter sold to a local investment group. Overall, the team was able to win the championship three times, in 1997, 2001 and 2009. They are the first team from the ECHL to win both the preliminary round champion and then the Kelly Cup .

Blocked numbers

• 12 - Mark Bavis : played from 1994 to 1996 with the Stingrays and came with the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 killed
• 14 - David Seitz : played for the Stingrays from 1996 to 2004 and holds the current record with the most goals, assists and points
• 24 - Brett Marietti : longtime captain of the Stingrays

Web links

Commons : South Carolina Stingrays  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Official website