CanesFanBudMan
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Confirmed with Link: Greenville is our new ECHL affiliate!!!
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garnetpalmetto
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My hunch is they'd keep their colors and branding. Very rarely does something like an affiliation change cause a team, especially at the ECHL/Double-A level, to go through having to redo their branding, especially considering ECHL-NHL affiliation deals are typically only a year long.
tarheelhockey
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Hell yeah. Let’s get some Greenville folks in the forum.
garnetpalmetto
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Charlotte as our AHL affiliate, Greenville as our ECHL affiliate...the old Columbia Inferno fan in me still feels a little dirty about cheering for either of them. But, welcome to the family!
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I’m from the ECHL Checkers days, lol. If only we got the Stingrays too.
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garnetpalmetto
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There'd just be something even more wrong about that. I do miss the old ECHL American Conference, East Division. Talk about rivalry games to travel to between the Augusta Lynx, Charlotte Checkers, Columbia Inferno, Greenville Grrrowl, Pee Dee Pride, and South Carolina Stingrays, I think the only barn I didn't check out was South Carolina's.
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tarheelhockey
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I feel like that would have been a bit of an ego blow for the old school Rays fans.
Well, Bugs Beanie was pretty famous.
garnetpalmetto
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No doubt. Plus the Rays have been with the Caps for.ev.er. I'm trying to remember the other affiliations from that time - the Checkers were with the Rangers, Columbia was with the Canucks and then the Leafs, Greenville was with Edmonton (I think?) and I think Augusta and Pee Dee were independent.
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so, marriage material
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Stingrays used to be affiliated with the Sabers in their early years. They also had short affiliations with the Leaves, Canucks, and a recent few seasons of affiliation with the Broons. It's hard to believe the Stingrays have now been around for 25+ years.
garnetpalmetto
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I was thinking 2004-2005 - since Pee Dee was gone the following year and at that time, Gwninett wasn't in that division - they were in the American Conference South Division with Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pensacola, and Texas. The East and South divisions would essentially be combined in 2005-2006 when Pee Dee went dark and Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas all either went dark or suspended operations for a season due to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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cptjeff
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They're out of stock on the good blue ones, you'll have to wait a bit.
I did buy a tee shirt (PIM leader Travis Howe) and a pair of the star spangled game worn socks. Screw it, I got pickup games to play.
cptjeff
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Yeah, I suspect they let their stock run down for the offseason and will restock jerseys, hats, and player tees to fit next year's branding and players once they have an idea of what next season looks like.
Canes
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I saw somewhere that they plan on refreshing their jerseys this season anyway. Just wait until those are in stock.
cptjeff
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Makes sense, those white jerseys could use some work. The blue ones are pretty though.
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