ECHL in Greensboro in 2025-26: Greensboro Gargoyles

[Martin Veillette]

any other articles about it?

https://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2024/10/07/professional-hockey-returns-greensboro-nc-echl-nhl.html

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[HisIceness]

Future Hurricanes ECHL team would be my guess. Back to the place they started too.

Greensboro has a history of the game going back to I believe 1959. The 80s and 90s Monarchs of the ECHL were very popular. The AHL stint in 96-97 didn't go well.

Glad they're getting a new life. The Coliseum is dated but will be a good ECHL venue.

 

[JMCx4]

In announcing naming rights on Oct. 1 for what has been rebranded as First Horizon Coliseum, officials with Oak View Group, the new manager of the coliseum, said work was underway to bring another professional sports franchise to Greensboro. They signaled that an announcement would be coming this week, but Andrew Brown, director of marketing for First Horizon Coliseum, Greensboro Complex and Oak View Group, told TBJ on Sunday that the announcement is being postponed. The reason is logistical, he said, and the new timing is to be determined. ...

Is "logistical" a euphemism for "never mind"?

Unless/until OVG gets their act together, I wouldn't expect other sports news outlets to publish anything more than regurgitations of the B-Journal content.

 

[oxinthebox]

Official Site of The ECHL | ECHL approves Expansion Membership for Greensboro

The ECHL Board of Governors has approved an Expansion Membership for Greensboro, North Carolina, to begin play in the 2025-26 Season as the League's 30th team.

echl.com

 

[sneakytitz]

Great to hear. Zawyer runs their teams very well. This is good for the league and will help reduce travel for the rest of the South division.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Too bad the GOAT name Greensboro Grasshoppers is already taken by a minor league baseball team.

 

[JMCx4]

Great to hear. Zawyer runs their teams very well. This is good for the league and will help reduce travel for the rest of the South division.

Soon to be renamed "The Zawyer Division."

 

[GindyDraws]

Too bad the GOAT name Greensboro Grasshoppers is already taken by a minor league baseball team.

Bring back the Generals and put some respect on that name.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Hopefully Norfolk and Greensboro have a rivalry…

 

[JMCx4]

Bring back the Generals and put some respect on that name.

I'm ready for duty ...

 

[HisIceness]

Too bad the GOAT name Greensboro Grasshoppers is already taken by a minor league baseball team.

Icehoppers

 

[JMCx4]

Icehoppers

IceChoppers

 

[HisIceness]

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Greensboro is classic echl..

 

[FrHockeyFan]

 

[Martin Veillette]

GREENSBORO GARGOYLES

 

[JMCx4]

I'll be interested to see how the organization imagines the soft-and-cuddly version of the Gargoyle for the mascot costume.

 

[MikeFolignosHelmet]

Nice logo

 

[godot]

Safe bet. Always like to see more purple in sports.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

They going to tie in with Disney’s 1990s animated show?

 

[JMCx4]

League press release, providing more details than a hockey fan deserves ... Introducing The Greensboro Gargoyles

 

[JMCx4]

They going to tie in with Disney’s 1990s animated show?

If an FPHL team can partner with a 1970s new wave band, an ECHL expansion team can at least try to engage Disney for a booster shot of Gen Y nostalgia.

ETA: Or a more likely scenario would be ... the Disney legal team is sending a Cease & Desist order to Zawyer Sports & Entertainment right now.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

It's no Grasshoppers, but Greensboro Gargoyles is a solid name.

 

[HisIceness]

Gargoyles is such a weird word and isn't the easiest to say although I suppose it could be worse. I thought for sure they'd go Monarchs or even give Generals a second chance. I mean the city is named after a general in the revolutionary war who fought at the battle of Guilford (the county Greensboro is in), it just seemed to make sense to go that route again. There's even a popular local beer/bar with that name so you'd have that tied in too.