11 Facts About Idaho Steelheads

Idaho Steelheads are an American professional minor league ice hockey team based in Boise, Idaho, and a member of the ECHL.

Idaho 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.

Idaho Steelheads have been a member of the ECHL since 2003, winning the league's Kelly Cup championship in 2004 and 2007.

Idaho Steelheads won the 2004 Kelly Cup in its first season in the ECHL, defeating the Florida Everblades in the Kelly Cup finals.

The Idaho Steelheads were the first team to win the ECHL championship in its first year in the league since the Greensboro Monarchs won the title in the league's second season of operation .

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Later that year the Idaho Steelheads won their second Kelly Cup by defeating the Stockton Thunder, Las Vegas Wranglers and Alaska Aces in the playoffs, and ultimately the Dayton Bombers in the league finals.

In June 2012, the Idaho Steelheads named SPHL Augusta RiverHawks head coach Brad Ralph as Sauter's replacement.

In early 2019, it was confirmed that the Idaho Steelheads had been approached by the upcoming Seattle Kraken with an interest in the Idaho Steelheads becoming their American Hockey League affiliate, although the Kraken later filed for an AHL expansion team in Palm Springs, California, which came to be the Coachella Valley Firebirds.

Until their 2014 suspension of operations, the Idaho Steelheads had a rivalry with the Las Vegas Wranglers due to their frequent playoff meetings.

All Idaho Steelheads games are broadcast on AM 1350 KTIK in Boise and have been since the 1997 inception of the franchise.

KTIK and the Idaho Steelheads were under the same ownership until Citadel Broadcasting's 2002 purchase of the station.