The 2025 Kelly Cup Playoffs field is getting closer to being set as we enter the final weeks of the regular season.
Apr 4
Michal Stinil leads the ECHL in scoring three weeks into the season – he leads all skaters in goals (eight) and points (14) through eight games – and it’s kind of cool to see.
Nov 6, 2024
The best part of ECHL hockey is the goaltending.
Oct 29, 2024
The ECHL has two expansion teams this season – the Bloomington Bison and Tahoe Knight Monsters – with another on the way in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Oct 25, 2024
Training camps are opening in ECHL cities across North America, an exciting time for fans tracking the best prospects, best teams and ever-changing landscape of Double-A hockey.
Oct 7, 2024
For the vast majority of players in the NHL, they're going to need a stop playing within the farm system of the club that either drafted or signed them. Some will get their start in the ECHL, the premier "AA" hockey circuit, while many will spends some time in the American Hockey League, the last step for most players before they realize their NHL dreams.
Sep 12, 2024
So what happens after an NHL team drafts a player?
Jul 9, 2024
I’d venture that almost every Florida Everblades fan would struggle to pick Matthew Wedman out of a lineup. But those same fans certainly adore him right now.
Apr 22, 2024
The Toledo Walleye will meet the Kalamazoo Wings in a battle of Central Division Rivals in the opening round of the 2024 Kelly Cup Playoffs. Veteran ECHL writer Justin Cohn breaks down the series and tells you what you need to be watching out for.
Apr 16, 2024
The 2024 Kelly Cup Playoffs are here! After a grueling 72-game season, 16 teams remain in the hunt for the ECHL's top prize.
Apr 15, 2024
The Indy Fuel’s Ross MacDougall, backtracking in front of his own net, coughed up the puck to the Wheeling Nailers’ Matt Koopman.
Apr 5, 2024
I don’t know if the Kalamazoo Wings are going to make the playoffs, though I think they will.
Mar 30, 2024
We all give a lot of love to the big scorers in the ECHL, the Brandon Hawkins and Wade Murphys of this world. And, of course, we love those big-shooting defensemen like Matt Register and Jalen Smereck. And the highlight-making goaltenders, such as Cam Johnson.
Feb 26, 2024
Any hockey team that hopes to have success in the postseason knows it must have a reliable goalie, someone who can steal a big game when the pressure is at its highest.
Jan 26, 2024
We’re coming up on the ECHL’s Christmas break, which is something players love, of course, but not all coaches do.
Dec 21, 2023
