Toledo Walleye
| Toledo Walleye | |
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 2016–17 ECHL season
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| City | Toledo, Ohio |
| League | ECHL |
| Conference | Western |
| Division | Central |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Home arena | Huntington Center |
| Colors | Powder blue, navy blue, gold, white |
| Owner(s) | Toledo Arena Sports, Inc. |
| General manager | Neil Neukam |
| Head coach | Dan Watson |
| Captain | Alden Hirschfeld |
| Media |
Toledo Blade WCWA (1230 AM) BCSN |
| Affiliates |
Detroit Red Wings (NHL) Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) |
| Franchise history | |
| 1991–2007 | Toledo Storm |
| 2009–present | Toledo Walleye |
| Championships | |
| Regular season titles | 1 (2014–15) |
| Division Championships | 2 (2014–15, 2015–16) |
| Conference Championships | 0 |
| Kelly Cups | 0 |
The Toledo Walleye are a professional hockey team based in Toledo, Ohio. The Walleye are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the ECHL. The Walleye were founded in 1991 as the Toledo Storm and play their home games at the Huntington Center, which opened in 2009.
Since the beginning of the 2009–10 season, the team has been affiliated with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League and the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League.
The team is currently owned and operated by Toledo Arena Sports, Inc. The current ownership group is a subsidiary of Toledo Mud Hens Baseball Club, Inc., another ownership that owns and operates the Toledo Mud Hens.
The Walleye were founded in 1991 as the Toledo Storm, playing their home games at Toledo Sports Arena across the river from downtown Toledo. The Storm were the first hockey team to play in Toledo since the International Hockey League's Toledo Goaldiggers suspended operations in 1986, eventually moving to Kansas City in 1990. In the Storm's inaugural season, the team won the West Division title and the Henry Brabham Cup after posting the league's best record in the regular season. The following year the Storm won its first Jack Riley Cup, defeating the Wheeling Thunderbirds in six games. The Storm came back the following season and won its second Riley Cup, defeating the Raleigh Icecaps in five games, becoming only the second team in league history to win back-to-back league titles (the first being the Hampton Roads Admirals in 1991 and 1992). The Storm were dominant in its first few years, winning four division titles in their first five seasons and posting a winning record in thirteen of the sixteen seasons the team played. The Storm won its second Brabham Cup in 2003 and made the American Conference finals during the 2005–06 season, ultimately losing to the Gwinnett Gladiators in five games. The Storm's final game came on April 19, 2007 during the 2007 North Division semifinals losing to in-state rival, Cincinnati Cyclones by a score of 4–0 getting swept in the series 3 games to 0. In sixteen seasons in the ECHL, the Storm posted a 610-395-103 record, winning two Riley Cups, two Brabham Cups and six division titles.
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