Alaska Aces Florida Everblades South Carolina Stingrays (3 each)
Most recent
Florida Everblades
Website
List of winners
Riley Cup
Sport
Ice hockey
Competition
ECHL
Awarded for
Playoff champions
History
First award
1989
Final award
1996
First winner
Carolina Thunderbirds
Most wins
Hampton Roads Admirals Toledo Storm (2 each)
Most recent
Charlotte Checkers
The Patrick J. Kelly Cup goes to the playoff champion of the ECHL. The Kelly Cup has been awarded to teams since 1997. Prior to 1997, the playoff winner was awarded the Riley Cup, named after former American Hockey League president Jack Riley. The current cup is named after Patrick J. Kelly, the league's first commissioner. The cup is loaned to the winning team for one year and is returned at the start of the following year's playoffs,[1] although the trophy itself has been replaced three times with the first two iterations preserved in the Hockey Hall of Fame.[2] The Kelly Cup Playoffs Most Valuable Player award is also given out as part of the Kelly Cup Championship ceremonies. Nick Vitucci, Dave Gagnon and Cam Johnson (ice hockey) are the only players to win the award on multiple occasions, with Johnson the only player to win the award in consecutive years. [3]
Eighteen different teams have won the ECHL Championship, with nine (Alaska, Allen, Cincinnati, Colorado, Florida, Hampton Roads, Idaho, South Carolina, and Toledo) winning multiple times. The Alaska Aces, Hampton Roads Admirals. Florida Everblades, and South Carolina Stingrays hold the record for most championships won with three.[4] The Colorado Eagles, who won it in 2018 for their second consecutive title, moved to the American Hockey League in 2018–19. In 2019, the Eagles' ownership did not return the Kelly Cup to the ECHL before the playoffs, leading to the league creating a replacement trophy for the 2019 Kelly Cup playoffs.[5][6] The Eagles' ownership eventually returned the cup before the 2019–20 season, and the league returned its status to be the primary trophy.[7][8] The 2019 Kelly Cup was the fourth copy of the trophy, but was allowed to be kept by the Newfoundland Growlers when the previous cup returned to circulation.[2]
^ECHL Trophies Archived 2008-02-15 at the Wayback Machine
^ ab"STATEMENT FROM THE ECHL REGARDING THE KELLY CUP". ECHL. June 1, 2019.
^"Kelly Cup Playoffs MVP All-Time Winners". Archived from the original on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
^"Kelly Cup All-Time Winners". Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
^"The Kelly Cup was never returned so the ECHL created a replacement trophy". WTVG. May 31, 2019.
^"STATEMENT FROM EAGLES OWNER MARTIN LIND REGARDING KELLY CUP". Colorado Eagles. May 31, 2019.
^"Growlers to Celebrate Opening Night with Two Kelly Cups". OurSports Central. October 10, 2019.
^"ECHL RECEIVES RETURNED KELLY CUP". ECHL. November 11, 2019.
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