Old Defunct ECHL Logos Ranked!

[@Post2PostProductions]

Have a great day everyone!

[@BPWiffleBall]

thank you. you to

[@Chef.WolfHTT]

Thank you. You to

[@frankiegaliffa3850]

Richmond Renegades were the team I grew up on

[@shaka_41]

You to

[@jcsalty457]

You too!!!

[@monarched]

re:The Checkers. The ECHL version's identity was transferred to the AHL Checkers after their then-parent club the Carolina Hurrincanes moved the Albany(NY) River Rats to Charlotte. The ECHL Checkers folded shortly afterward.

[@rickjohnson2773]

Mobile mysticks (Mis-stick) the last year they played was the greatest year of hockey i have ever seen

[@nickjones9304]

My dad was a GM for the Knoxville Cherokees. Which later moved to Florence SC and became the Peedee Pride. Peedee is a region in the Florence South Carolina area. They named the team using Peedee with hopes of getting more fans from across the area. Some of my fondest childhood memories were watching the Peedee pride play in the Florence civic center. People were always trying to get free tickets from me😂

[@soufcwm]

My parents were season ticket holders for the Pee Dee pride I actually still have the old white jersey and a couple of the pucks when they won the palmetto cup and and they're inaugural season

[@patrickblack2158]

The Macon Whoopie is a southern play on the phrase "making whoopie". The bee is because of another play on words. The "birds and the bees". I got a Greenville Grrrowl cup and a Greenville Swamp Rabbits hat.

[@allthrills9973]

You should do the same style video as this, but for defunct AHL teams

[@mcdaviddeservesbetter8]

17:33 “You don’t even know my real name. I’m the f**king Lizard King.”

[@CRM1998]

Fun fact; Alaska Aces moved to my current team Maine Mariners !

[@robserrano8971]

ONTARIO REIGN should have kept that logo instead of current logo

[@Chef.WolfHTT]

Fun fact near PNC towards the fair grounds their is this arena looking building. It is named Dorton Arena which was the home of the Icecaps

[@ohiotalk1475]

The Bombers were my first ever hockey game. I miss having hockey in Dayton.

[@rvbagentky6532]

The rivalry with the Cyclones was legendary

[@ohiotalk1475]

@@rvbagentky6532 That was my first every Bombers game was against the Cyclones. It was Christmas Eve I believe. There was a massive snow storm coming towards the Dayton Area that night. I remember leaving the Nutter Center staff handing everyone loaves of bread.

[@jerlv9]

I remember living in Pensacola Florida the year they got the Ice Pilots. Their original logo, I thought was absolutely amazing!

[@stevensherman4756]

Very nice post. My favorite ECHL logo was from the Louisiana IceGators - a team that drew solid crowds to the Cajundome in Lafayette. Fun game environment with a raucous crowd to boot. Second choice was the Texas Wildcatters from Beaumont where the opener had the players skate out with flaming hockey sticks. Fire and ice didn’t mix well, leading to a delay of the game for inexperienced ice repairs. Both teams ended operations thanks to hurricanes - Katrina in LA and Ike in TX. Add in Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola and Jacksonville and it made for great road trips in the 90s.

[@MrJordwalk]

1) Louisville IS LITERALLY just a re-coloured version of the Atlanta Hawks logo! 2) It's pronounced "MISS-ticks" and that logo doesn't reflect the team's name either, because a Mystic is like a seer, a wizard, a sage, etc.

[@goalhorncrazy9779]

The Macon Whoopee is a pun from a song called “Making Whoopee”, and the “Whoopee” in the song is exactly what your thinking it is dirty minded ones reading this

[@TheRobobuck]

The Columbus Chill are the current Reading Royals.

[@robserrano8971]

I wuz in Reading PA in the early 2000s traveling nd found out dat det were affiliated w da LA KINGS. I bought a black t-shirt w a dope af Lion in Purple, Grey. Rocked for years till it faded away.

[@danielflynn8530]

There is 2 teams based in Canada for the ECHL and that is the New Foundland Growlers not growl and the Brampton beast. There is plans to place a team in Three Rivers canada Quebec as soon as a new arena is built. This maybe some exciting news for you.

[@Post2PostProductions]

Still not close to me unfortunately

[@codylittlefield7885]

Hell yeah! Love that the Aces made #1. It was really a sad day when they folded. Anchorage really loved the Aces. They had an amazing heritage jersey too.

[@joshcarr7820]

I was able to attend many Cincinnati cyclones games against many of these teams, even seeing them play in three Kelley cup finals ‘08, ‘10, and ‘14

[@jkaser85]

I’ve been to a few jacksonville lizard kings games back in the late 90’s when I first got into hockey .

[@seanquigg4909]

The Hampton Roads Admirals became the Norfolk Admirals, who were in the AHL for while, and are now back in the ECHL. They are named that because the Hampton Roads area is home to Naval Station Norfolk and the US Navy Atlantic Fleet.

[@CHARLTON2015]

Awesome video! I'm from Victoria and remember when they held a contest to choose the name for the new ECHL team. I remember people being shocked that Salmon King won lol. I had seasons tickets for the first 2 years. It was great and a big step up from watching Junior hockey. Unfortunately the team didn't last to long. Most people weren't that familiar with the ECHL and they were marketed pretty poorly. It did get us a nice new stadium downtown and we eventually got a WHL team back in town. Also the first year we had the team was during the04-05 lockout so we got to see Scott Gomez and the Alaska Aces which was pretty cool.

[@soggydog1212]

They were my childhood lol, this video is absolute blasphemy

[@adammacmillan]

I lived in Chicago when the Chicago express was there. Wish they lasted more that a year so I could have seen a game. Plus they played 45 min away from Chicago

[@AJEDDY97]

Okay, so I'm a Bakersfield Condors fan, so I saw a few of these logos as a kid before they moved to the AHL, and I forgot how much I loved logos like Fresno, Long Beach, San Francisco, and Alaska. I DESPERATELY wanted Henderson (Vegas's AHL affiliate) to reference the Wranglers in some way, since they're going to be playing in the Orleans Arena, where the Wranglers used to play, while their arena in Henderson is being built. I was also hoping that the Barracuda's pitiful attendance numbers would lead to a revival of either the San Francisco Bulls or the Fresno Falcons. i'd have preferred the Falcons, given the old WCHL and ECHL rivalry between Bakersfield and Fresno, but oh, well. As an aside, I REALLY want Ontario to go back to that logo, even if it would be changed to Kings colors. Also, the Wildcatters name is a reference to the oil industry in Texas. Google's definition of a wildcatter is "a prospector who sinks exploratory oil wells", thus the little oil rig on the guy's hat/helmet. That team, if my memory serves, moved to Ontario to become the Reign (mark 1), who then moved to Manchester when LA, San Jose, Edmonton, Calgary and Anaheim moved their AHL teams west, which bumped Ontario to Manchester, Bakersfield to Norfolk, and Stockton to Adirondack. Manchester has since folded, while Bakersfield uses a variant of their old logo, and the Stockton Thunder logo moved with the team, getting a recoloring from black, gold, and white, to red, gold, and white.

[@Oilerator_]

Too bad the Alaska Aces had to move just 3 years ago. They moved to Maine and became the Maine Mariners. I have a friend in Alaska and he was a big fan of them, sucks that they moved because Alaska will likely never get another professional hockey team again. Quite expensive to have a team there.

[@CrescentCitySweaters]

The Louisville IceHawks is the worst logo of the bunch because of the textual issues and because they literally just stole the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks logo

[@guyelliott8350]

I grew up watching the Fresno Falcons I recognize a lot of those teams from back in the day

[@LILWOOLEY618]

You have seen a lot of these logos before. Several of the teams or team names and logos moved to other leagues, like the SPHL, AHL, or a number of junior leagues.

[@robserrano8971]

Hey Neil, it was the old Ontario Reign logo because of the Inland Empire but now they use KINGS colors.

[@cookiescuz1443]

Hey Post2Post I live in Roanoke Virginia and Norfolk is in Virginia which is about 4 hours east of and I go to watch the Admirals play all the time

[@Skippyhazurmuny]

I used to live in Dayton when the bombers were around. Was disappointed when they folded but could see how since they could barely get 15 fans in the stands

[@ogreman2229]

11:45 the Macon Whoopie is an intentional double entendre. The bird is a stork (ref: folk tales about storks delivering babies) and the bee is a reference to the saying “the birds and the bees.”

[@crazydrummer181]

Go Seawolves!!!!! 1999 Kelly Cup Champions!!!! Some of these are very nostalgic. I grew up going to Seawolves games. Hurricane Katrina pretty much sealed the fate of the team.

[@rockyjoelnoe]

I loved the Aces, During the lockout I lived in France and the hour difference meant that when I woke up I could still catch some of the Aces games. I was sad they are no longer a team. Yes, the Reign and Checkers in the AHL were first in the ECHL. Speaking of France have you done any rankings on the Ligue Magnus (French top tier league) ?

[@noahschramm3264]

Johnstown was were the movie Slap Shot was filmed hence the "Chiefs" name

[@skatetestdummy]

Hey, love the channel here in Little Rock...Arkansas is known for its Black Bear population...

[@admirals818]

My first thought when Neil suggested the bear should be brown was that there are only black bears in Arkansas (although I suppose even 'black bears' can sometimes be brown).

[@NovaScotiaNewfie]

Pensacola is home to the Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. Squadrons there do operate the F/A 18 E Super Hornet.

[@RobotWillie]

Macon, GA is actually where much of the first installment of the Walking Dead video game series by Telltale takes place. Its similar in size to my city Spokane, WA. As well it is said more like Bacon with an M in front instead of a B. It is about 83 miles from Atlanta so its not really a suburb and is its own separate city pretty much. I have sent a set of logos from the World Football League so I hope you do a video for that!

[@Pens724]

That Johnstown Chiefs with the arrowhead does look great on a jersey. I have 1 in black from their last season in existence.

[@I_Love_CANADA]

The Birmingham Bulls were once in the ECHL, they then folded I believe and there is a SPHL team called the Birmingham Bulls that use the same logo. So from your SPHL logo ranking a few years ago, that's where you saw the logo.

[@djbalerio1260]

I think the Mobile and Macon teams were in the CHL Central Hockey Leauge with my Jackalopes before moving to the ECHL I kinda miss the Alaska team to

[@warlikeswine4289]

If you ever want to go too an ECHL game, I would suggest an Idaho Steelheads game. Especially if they are playing the Utah Grizzlies. Boise and SLC are hours apart so there is a good rivalry their. Not quite the rivalry of when the Alaska Aces where in the ECHL, those games where more riots waiting to happen than sporting events since the Steelheads and the Aces always seemed to be fighting for the Western division.

[@kalemacpherson2270]

San Francisco Bulls looks like the Rocks Brahma Bull logo

[@BrentScott-wj1nh]

Hey fellow east coaster, Macon (rhymes with bacon) is a city in Georgia. The team name is pronounced "mystics". The Johnstown Chiefs were the main team in the movie "Slap Shot", it's an ironic ECHL.

[@patrickblack2158]

I got a Pensacola IcePilots hat to go along with the Greenville Swamp Rabbits hat. Ebay is a great thing

[@admirals818]

Would you have ranked the Macon Whoopee logo higher if you understood it at the time of the filming? It's pretty clever... not just the name, but the bird and the bee. And don't feel bad about the Louisville mispronunciation. People in Louisville even mispronounce the name of poor King Louis (loo-ee) XVI of France, for which the city is named.

[@harrierjames7727]

Wow - so many teams in that list from Roanoke/Virginia area!

[@chincosugarear4430]

I seen the wheeling nailers at reading royals both when royals was capitals farm team and flyers

[@AshtainOneal45]

Birmingham Bulls now have a team in the SPHL same logo and everything

[@dylanwynkoop4578]

I’m not gonna lie, I think you would like the Chill logo more if you saw the Jersey Neil, you don’t know how much I want the Jackets to do a Chill throwback, that or a Mad Cows throwback, now that would be hilarious

[@ezwelchman]

I think he should review all the jerseys for these teams as well.... cuz honestly some of them are absolutely outrageous

[@dylanwynkoop4578]

@@ezwelchman definitely, I’d love to see that

[@SIHLoffical]

I know it’s 2024 now and I didn’t live during the time, but the Columbus Chill mean a lot to me. My parents who know nothing about hockey know who the Columbus Chill were. One of my friends plays for the CCHYA team of the same name. I don’t think he realizes the dashes are ice spikes. They have no reason to be #50

[@BIG_Tom_75]

The Roanoke express logo actually represents the city of Roanoke the star is due to Roanoke being called the star city and the express name and train is to symbolize the railroad industry impact on the city and the games between them and Richmond were brutal rivalry games almost a sure fire bet to have at least 1 line brawl

[@chitown7395]

Tried to see if someone posted about the Texas Wildcatters but I did not see it. If they did already my mistake. The Texas Wildcatters is because a Wildcatter is one who drills for oil.

[@Bstack_34]

I sent a ECHL jersey to you a few years ago. It was a wheeling nailers jersey. Also the Carolina thunderbirds/Winston-Salem thunderbirds was the franchise before the wheeling nailers. Another thing is the Macon whoopee is kind of a joke because making whoopee is a slang term for something and I have no idea how that was an actual team with that name.

[@tiernanreed8562]

Whoopee is a type of bird

[@Post2PostProductions]

Still have the jersey!

[@Woofdogman]

@@tiernanreed8562 U have the same first name as me

[@tiernanreed8562]

Your missing the quad city mallards

[@Post2PostProductions]

Please rewatch the first minute of the video.

[@tiernanreed8562]

@@Post2PostProductions you should rank the sphl logos and jerseys

[@jimgifford3386]

Johnstown is the chiefs because thats were they filmed slapshot.....the greatest movie ever!

[@danger170388]

The Whoopee logo has a hidden message, the whooping crane with the bee, "the birds and the bees"

[@GR1FFINDOOR]

The Pee Dee Pride played in Florence, SC. The Pee Dee is for the Pee Dee region of South Carolina, the area around the watershed of the Pee Dee river.

[@CSIS25]

Can you emagine Newfoundland Growlers vs Alaska Aces.... The distance would be crazy to travel for a play off game lol

[@Mvproszn]

I like the old Cincinnati Cyclones logo with Jason Voorhees in

[@dansonofchris]

Absolutely LOVE old minor league logos! Some of the best ever if you ask me!

[@aydenpettusheatnation4717]

luv these vids, keep it up neil!!!!!

[@trehhamilton4761]

Funny how life works, you were talking about not being able to see the ECHL in the beginning of the video and then the Growlers were introduced not long after. Have you been to a Growlers game?

[@gregjonathan1609]

I actually have a signed aces jersey from when they were still the anchorage aces instead

[@jasonrenaldo8920]

My top 5 1. Elmira Jackals 2. Ontario Reign (I think it’s better than their AHL logo) 3. Chicago Express 4. Alaska Aces 5. Birmingham Bulls The Jackals were affiliated with the Sabres in late 2000s to early 2010s. Craig Rivet played for them for a year or so, before he retired from hockey. Probably one of the reasons I really like the logo, lol.

[@jacobguy3343]

It's Mobile Mystics cuz Mardi Gras that's my home town sadly never got to see a game I wanna see a game of the new Mississippi Sea wolves tho!

[@benjamingenoway6569]

Hey Neil great vid

[@motsumilioness]

I love the river frogs. Not sure about the tongue with the puck though, but it's otherwise pretty awesome. (Says the one who loves all frogs)

[@TheSonicsean]

IIRC the Hampton Roads Admirals became the Norfolk Admirals because the owners bought a franchise in the AHL

[@bertdozer44]

Maybe I'm biased, being from BC, but HOW are the SalmonKings ranked worse than any of those wordmark "logos"? 😂😂

[@bertdozer44]

PS. The Baton Rouge KingFish became the Victoria SalmonKings lol.

[@michaelnewey9420]

the reign and Monarhs of Manchester were an affilate switch post the 2014-15 season which the Regin had gone to their current logo.

[@garyamaral1648]

I'm not positive about some of these, but I'll give it a go: I believe that the Mobile "Mysticks" is a hockey play on the word "Mystic". The Macon Whoopee. I'm assuming that this a play on the phrase "Makin' Whoopy". Macon is pronounced like bacon with a "M". Birds and the bees, again relating to the name. If you're not familiar with that phrase, ask your parents;-) Maybe they should have been named the Macon Bacon. Yes, the Checkers have had a couple of iterations in Charlotte with the ECHL Checkers ~1993 and the AHL Checkers ~2010. Yes, the Chesapeake Bay can freeze every few years

[@60_junior]

Have u seen our new Brampton Beast logo and Jerseys, we used them for the first time last season

[@AceMatthew25414]

14:00 looks like a Gremlin

[@staceybert1975]

New Orleans brass first logo check of the 2nd logo you'll love it

[@bryanjodoi7557]

Come to the BOK Center in Tulsa for a Tulsa Oilers game.

[@racesfanrockks4]

I have a aces jersey

[@dakotalynde1913]

Shocker to me that Vegas and Alaska were at the top. The steelheads were big time rivals with Alaska and Vegas back in the day. Those were the best games to go to cuz there were always fights and big hits

[@bennybolin7916]

YES lol I remember going to a ton of Wranglers games as a kid. There were SOOOO MANY fights and huge brawls at the games, the aces fans always had their fans travel to the Orleans to invade it. It was so much fun, I miss it 🥺

[@seanleeper3731]

Birmingham Bulls are a SPHL team now so you may have seen it then

[@4hasnain]

That salmon king logo is baller. Mainly because it's so bad that it's great.

[@shaka_41]

I've never seen so many transitions of gradients on a logo before jesus christ

[@recorderboi2232]

I got a few ice pilots jerseys but they aren’t with that logo

[@staceybert1975]

Macon,Ga

[@darlaullery228]

Columbus chill top 50 and Dayton Gems number 3 great choice

[@stevenloeffler1266]

Chicago and alaska are the best ones

[@carlstieren5437]

some of the Lizard Kings Jerseys were actually pretty cool for the time....do a google search the logo you showed was only one version of the logo the other was more animated.

[@AlphaDog0303]

Bring back the LV Wranglers!

[@bennybolin7916]

PLEASE YES

[@danielherbut1768]

Columbus chill use to be Huntington blizzard

[@richiefoster794]

Im still a hardcore Aces fan

[@joetomas694]

bro ik the logo sucks, but I looked up their jerseys and those things are beautiful. I would cop that Jaxonville jersey its actual heat. go lizard kings ig lol

[@EpilepticBob]

Pretty sure the Mobile team was the Mystics because of the Dragon. Not the Mysticks

[@dominiccarranza2184]

"It's going to be a long video" Me: Whoooooooooooooo Cares. Long, short, medium quality not quantity matters

[@firebird200]

Lol

[@AceMatthew25414]

I never knew my home town team ripped of the Las Vegas Wranglers....I thought the name and logo was unique 😥

[@bennybolin7916]

I used to go to a ton of wranglers games as a kid. I miss them so much and I try to preserve their history

[@sammydee9215]

RIP Aces.

[@ezwelchman]

Mysticks... would be Mystics... like Mystic with an S

[@ottodetroit]

smaller headshot (or none) for you and bigger screen for the logos would greatly improve this video

[@riverchy744]

God damn I miss the sea wolves

[@martywhitehead8152]

Go to new found land or trois rivers they have an echl teams

[@goaheadcalldonshipley7659]

Neil you might enjoy this documentary, it’s about lower level minor pro players in another league that many ECHL players would go back and forth between in the 90s when minor league hockey exploded. It gives a reasonable idea of what the ECHL was like when many of these teams you’re looking at existed. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJnKXmV6rZyMl6M

[@Post2PostProductions]

Thanks for the rec!

[@wumfusbill5154]

It is pronounced lew-a-ville, not Louisville. Love the vids Neil!

[@Havok999]

Wait seriously? How am I just hearing this now

[@hcky11lfgr]

Roanoke Express #1!!!