South Carolina Stingrays
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The South Carolina Stingrays are an ECHL team located in North Charleston, South Carolina. They are affiliated with the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League.
The Stingrays play their home games at the North Charleston Coliseum.
The ECHL team began in 1993 with an ownership group which included Marcel Dionne, but was sold shortly afterwards to a local investment group led by Edward Pearlstine, a Charleston businessman, and the team has won two ECHL Kelly Cup Championships, in 1997 and 2001. They are the only ECHL team in the 17-year history to win both a regular season and postseason championship in the same year.
There are two retired numbers:
12 - Mark Bavis, who played from 1994-96 when the Stingrays were an affiliate of the Buffalo Sabres. Bavis, by then a Los Angeles Kings scout, was killed along with Kings Director of Pro Scouting Garrett Bailey on United Airlines Flight 175 when Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked the airliner, and steered it towards the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The Stingrays retired his jersey before the start of the 2001-02 season.
24 - Brett Marietti. A popular player and former captain, Marietti retired after the 2002-03 season, and management promptly retired his jersey in 2003.
External link
- Online Home of the South Carolina Stingrays (http://stingrayshockey.com/)