Idaho Steelheads
| Idaho Steelheads | |
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 2016–17 ECHL season
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| City | Boise, Idaho |
| League | ECHL |
| Conference | Western |
| Division | Mountain |
| Founded | 1996 (In the WCHL) |
| Home arena | CenturyLink Arena |
| Colors | Blue, black, white, silver |
| Owner(s) | Idaho Sports Properties LLC |
| Head coach | Neil Graham |
| Media |
KTIK-FM Idaho Statesman |
| Affiliates |
Dallas Stars (NHL) Texas Stars (AHL) |
| Franchise history | |
| 1997–present | Idaho Steelheads |
| Championships | |
| Regular season titles | 2 (2002–03, 2009–10) |
| Division Championships | 5 (2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2009–10, 2014–15) |
| Conference Championships | 5 (2000–01, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2006–07), 2009–10) |
| Kelly Cups | 2 (2003–04, 2006–07) |
The Idaho Steelheads are an American professional minor league ice hockey team based in Boise, Idaho. The team began playing in 1997 and has been a member of the ECHL since 2003.
During the 2003–04 season and since the 2005–06 season the Steelheads have been an affiliate of the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars. The Austin-based Texas Stars have been Idaho's AHL affiliate since the 2009–10 season. Home games are played at the 5,000-seat CenturyLink Arena in downtown Boise.
The team was founded by Diamond Sports Management in 1996, headed by Cord Pereira. The Steelheads play in the Mountain Division of the ECHL's Western Conference in 2016–17.
The Steelheads are named for a species of seagoing rainbow trout native to Idaho streams and rivers and popular with local anglers. Despite this, the original primary and alternate logos consisted of a puck bouncing off a hockey mask and the state of Idaho respectively. When the team underwent a rebrand in the 2006–07 season, a trout was included in Idaho's alternate. After the departure of the Victoria Salmon Kings in 2011, the Steelheads made the trout logo their new primary one.
The Steelheads began play as part of a four-team expansion in the West Coast Hockey League in 1997, along with the Tacoma Sabercats, Phoenix Mustangs and Tucson Gila Monsters, which have all since ceased operations. Former New York Islanders defenseman Dave Langevin became Idaho's first head coach. During its inaugural season, in addition to its WCHL schedule the Steelheads played two exhibition games in Boise against the Russian Super League team CKA-Amur (now Amur Khabarovsk). The Steelheads finished third in the WCHL North Division in 1997–98, but were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the Anchorage Aces (now the Alaska Aces).
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