Greenville Road Warriors
| Greenville Swamp Rabbits | |
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 2016–17 ECHL season
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| City | Greenville, South Carolina |
| League | ECHL |
| Conference | Eastern |
| Division | South |
| Founded | 1987 (In the AAHL) |
| Home arena | Bon Secours Wellness Arena |
| Colors | Navy blue, orange, gold, silver, white |
| Owner(s) | Fred Festa |
| General manager | Chris Lewis |
| Head coach | Brian Gratz |
| Captain | Bretton Cameron |
| Affiliates |
New York Rangers (NHL) Hartford Wolf Pack (AHL) |
| Website | http://www.swamprabbits.com/ |
| Franchise history | |
| 1987–2010 | Johnstown Chiefs |
| 2010–2015 | Greenville Road Warriors |
| 2015–present | Greenville Swamp Rabbits |
The Greenville Swamp Rabbits are a professional ice hockey team located in Greenville, South Carolina. They play in the South Division of the ECHL's Eastern Conference and play their home games at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in downtown Greenville. The franchise had previously played as the Johnstown Chiefs from the ECHL's inception in 1988 until the team's relocation in 2010 and subsequently as the Greenville Road Warriors until being re-branded as the Swamp Rabbits in 2015. The Swamp Rabbits are the second ECHL franchise to play in Greenville, as the city hosted the Greenville Grrrowl from 1998 until 2006. The team is currently affiliated with the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League and the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League.
The franchise was founded as the Johnstown Chiefs prior to the 1987–88 All-American Hockey League season. The next season, the franchise became one of the founding members of the East Coast Hockey League, which would be rebranded as the ECHL in 2003. The Chiefs would flounder for several years as the owners of the team tried to find new local ownership, but failed. After losing a reported $100,000 per year and facing an expensive rent posted by the their arena's new owners, the Chiefs began taking offers to relocate the team. On February 13, 2010, the Tribune-Democrat began reporting that parties in Greenville, South Carolina, were in negotiations with Chiefs' owner Neil Smith about relocating the team for the 2009–10 season out of the BI-LO Center.
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