The Mississippi Sea Wolves were a professional hockey team based in Biloxi, Mississippi , and play in the Mississippi Coast Coliseum . The Sea Wolves were members of the ECHL .
5-629: The Sea Wolves were founded in 1996 and had considerable success over their 10 seasons in the ECHL. They reached the playoffs in five of their first seven years and a league championship in 1999, when they defeated the Richmond Renegades in a best-of-seven series to claim the Kelly Cup . Damages from Hurricane Katrina to the Mississippi Coast Coliseum forced the team to suspend operations for
10-509: The 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons under the ECHL's hardship provisions. Hurricane Katrina resulted in extensive damage to the team’s home arena, including flood damage to team offices, locker rooms, ice-making equipment, and two Zambonis. During the 2006–07 ECHL All-Star Game, the league officially confirmed the Sea Wolves would return in 2007–08. On March 30, 2009, the Sea Wolves announced that the organization would be suspending operations again for
15-849: The 2009–10 season, but a little more than a month later the team's management announced that professional hockey would continue to be played on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the form of the Mississippi Surge in the Southern Professional Hockey League . The Surge played at the Coast Coliseum from the 2009–10 season through 2013–14. In 2021, the Federal Prospects Hockey League hosted three neutral site games in Biloxi. Biloxi Pro Hockey sold 20,163 tickets in
20-934: The Freezer . The Renegades folded in 2003, but were succeeded by the Richmond RiverDogs of the United Hockey League . In their 13 seasons, the Renegades won the Riley Cup as league champion in the 1994–95 season, the Brabham Cup in 1995–96 as regular season champion, and the Northern Conference championship in 1998–99. In the 1999 Kelly Cup Finals they blew a 3–1 series lead to the Mississippi Sea Wolves . The Renegades' rivals for most of their existence were
25-623: The month of December and an announcement was made on December 30 that a new Sea Wolves team would return in 2022. The new team began play in the 2022–23 FPHL season. Richmond Renegades (ECHL) The Richmond Renegades were a professional ice hockey team in Richmond, Virginia that played in the East Coast Hockey League from 1990 until 2003. The Renegades played at the Richmond Coliseum , which they marketed in later years as
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