Memphis Riverkings

Mississippi RiverKings
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City	Southaven, Mississippi
League	Southern Professional Hockey League
Founded	1992
Home arena	Lander's Center
Colors	Forest Green, Vegas Gold, Sienna, Black
Owner(s)	The Maddox Foundation
Head coach	Derek Landmesser
Franchise history
2007–present	Mississippi RiverKings
1992–2007	Memphis RiverKings
Championships
Regular season titles	None
Division Championships	None
Conference Championships	None
Ray Miron President's Cup	2001-2002 & 2002-2003

The Mississippi RiverKings are a professional minor league ice hockey team. The RiverKings are a member of the Southern Professional Hockey League, playing their first nineteen seasons from the 1992–93 season to the 2010–11 season in the Central Hockey League. In the summer of 2007, after 15 seasons as the Memphis Riverkings, the name was changed to Mississippi Riverkings.

For their first eight seasons, the team played their home games in the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee. Since 2000, their home has been the Lander's Center in Southaven, Mississippi, a suburb of Memphis.

The RiverKings are the oldest continuously operating professional sports franchise in the Memphis Metropolitan Area. They started their 21st year of operation in June 2012.

On June 13, 2011, it was announced the RiverKings had left the CHL to join the SPHL.^[1]

1 Affiliation
2 Retired numbers
3 Championships
4 Season-by-season record
5 References
6 External links

Affiliation

From 2001-2006, the RiverKings were affiliated with the Toronto Maple Leafs organization. This involved accepting some players on assignment from the NHL club.

Retired numbers

13 - Don Parsons
31 - Scott Brower

Championships

Year	League	Trophy
2002-2003	CHL	Ray Miron President's Cup
2001-2002	CHL	Ray Miron President's Cup

Season-by-season record

Central Hockey League champions	Conference Champions	Division Leader

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T/OTL = Ties/Overtime losses/Shootout losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes

Season	GP	W	L	T/OTL	Pts	GF	GA	PIM	Finish	Playoffs
1992–93	60	26	27	7	59	253	272	1670	4th in League	Lost in round 1 to Oklahoma City Blazers 2-4^[2]^[3]
1993–94	64	25	34	5	55	243	294	1312	5th in League	Did not qualify^[2]^[3]
1994–95	66	24	35	7	55	259	327	1534	6th in League	Did not qualify^[2]^[3]
1995–96	64	34	24	6	74	308	271	1918	3rd in League	Lost in round 1 to San Antonio Iguanas 2-4^[2]^[3]
1996–97	66	35	27	4	74	278	260	1479	3rd in Eastern	Won in round 1 against Macon Whoopee 3-2 Won in round 2 against Huntsville Channel Cats 4-2 Lost in Finals against Fort Worth Fire 3-4^[2]^[3]
1997–98	70	25	40	5	55	230	287	1948	4th in Western	Lost in round 1 to Oklahoma City Blazers 1-3^[2]^[3]
1998–99	70	36	27	7	79	313	307	1747	3rd in Eastern	Lost in round 1 to Columbus Cottonmouths 1-3^[2]^[3]
1999–00	70	9	57	4	22	313	307	1747	5th in Eastern	Did not qualify^[2]^[3]
2000–01	70	43	21	6	92	296	236	2345	1st in Eastern	Won in round 1 against Indianapolis Ice 3-0 Lost in round 2 to Columbus Cottonmouths 1-3^[2]^[3]
2001–02	64	46	14	4	92	267	186	1410	1st in Northeast	Won in round 1 against Fort Worth Brahmas 3-1 Won in round 2 against Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs 4-3 Won in Finals against Austin Ice Bats 4-1^[2]^[3]
2002–03	64	39	21	4	82	235	190	1784	2nd in Northeast	Won in round 1 against Oklahoma City Blazers 3-2 Won in round 2 against Indianapolis Ice 4-0 Won in Finals against Austin Ice Bats 4-1^[2]^[3]
2003–04	64	35	25	4	74	198	184	1400	3rd in Northeast	Did not qualify^[2]^[3]
2004–05	60	30	28	2	62	206	205	1543	4th in Northeast	Did not qualify^[2]^[3]
2005–06	64	22	37	5	49	207	254	1789	3rd in Northeast	Did not qualify^[2]^[3]
2006–07	64	39	19	6	84	227	208	1663	2nd in Northeast	Won in round 1 against Oklahoma City Blazers 4-3 Won in round 2 against Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs 4-1 Lost in Conference Finals to Colorado Eagles 2-4^[2]^[3]
2007–08	64	39	21	4	82	214	177	1611	3rd in Northeast	Lost in round 1 to Texas Brahmas 1-2^[2]^[3]
2008–09	64	44	17	3	91	242	166	1432	1st in Northeast	Bye in round 1 Won in round 2 against Oklahoma City Blazers 4-2 Lost in Conference Finals to Colorado Eagles 2-4^[2]^[3]
2009–10	64	33	24	7	73	217	216	1363	4th in Northern	Lost in round 1 to Missouri Mavericks 1-2^[2]^[3]
2010–11	66	30	31	5	65	199	229	1598	6th in Berry	^[2]^[3]
2011–12	56	25	28	3	53	167	177	976	6th in SPHL	Lost in round 1 to Knoxville Ice Bears 2-1 ^[2]^[3]

References

External links

Official website at RiverKings.com

v t e Southern Professional Hockey League

Teams	Bloomington Thunder Columbus Cottonmouths Fayetteville FireAntz Huntsville Havoc Knoxville Ice Bears Louisiana IceGators Mississippi RiverKings Mississippi Surge Pensacola Ice Flyers Peoria Rivermen

Arenas	Cajundome (Louisiana) Carver Arena (Peoria) Columbus Civic Center (Columbus) Cumberland County Crown Coliseum (Fayetteville) Lander's Center (Mississippi RiverKings) James White Civic Coliseum (Knoxville) Mississippi Coast Coliseum (Mississippi Surge) Pensacola Civic Center (Pensacola) U.S. Cellular Coliseum (Bloomington) Von Braun Center (Huntsville)

Seasons	2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13

President's Cup William B. Coffey Trophy Other Professional Hockey leagues

Mississippi Valley State · Southern Mississippi

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