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The Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL) is a professional ice hockey league based in Huntersville, North Carolina, with teams located in the southeastern United States and Illinois in the midwestern United States.
The SPHL's history traces back to three other short-lived leagues. The Atlantic Coast Hockey League started play in the 2002–03 season. After its only season, the ACHL dissolved with member teams forming the nucleus for two rival leagues, the South East Hockey League and the World Hockey Association 2. After one season the SEHL and WHA2 disbanded, with their surviving teams rejoining with two expansion teams to form the SPHL, commencing with the 2004–05 season.
In 2009, the SPHL saw a large expansion as three new franchises in [7] For the 2011–12 season, the league added 2-time Central Hockey League champions, the Mississippi RiverKings.[8][9] For the 2013–14 season, the league expanded northward with two franchises in Illinois: the Bloomington Thunder, a new team replacing the CHL's Bloomington Blaze, and the Peoria Rivermen, who are replacing an American Hockey League club of the same name in that market.[10]
In November 2014, Shannon Szabados became the first female goaltender to win a SPHL game when the Columbus Cottonmouths defeated the Fayetteville FireAntz 5-4 in overtime.[11] In that same game Erin Blair and Katie Guay became the first female officials to referee a SPHL game.[12]
† Team was formerly the Augusta RiverHawks.
As per minor leagues, there are some rule differences between the SPHL and the NHL (and even the ECHL, AHL and the CHL, the three official developmental leagues regulated by the Professional Hockey Players' Association.
- Changed for the 2012-13 season
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