Fort Wayne Komets | |
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City | Fort Wayne, Indiana |
League | ECHL (since 2012) |
Conference | Western |
Division | Central |
Home arena | Allen County War Memorial Coliseum |
Colors | Orange, black, white |
Owner(s) | The Franke family/Scott Sproat |
Head coach | Jesse Kallechy |
Media | 96.3XKE (96.3 FM) (WXKE) |
Affiliates | Edmonton Oilers (NHL) Bakersfield Condors (AHL) |
Website | komets |
Franchise history | |
First IHL Franchise | |
1952–1990 | Fort Wayne Komets |
1990–1991 | Albany Choppers |
Current ECHL Franchise | |
1985–1990 | Flint Spirits |
1990–present | Fort Wayne Komets |
Championships | |
Regular season titles | 12 (1959–60, 1962–63, 1972–73, 1977–78, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1986–87, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09) |
Division titles | 2 (2016, 2018) |
Conference titles | 2 (2012, 2021) |
Turner Cups | 7 (1963, 1965, 1973, 1993, 2008, 2009, 2010) |
Ray Miron President's Cup | 1 (2012) |
Colonial Cups | 1 (2003) |
Kelly Cups | 1 (2021) |
Current season |
The Fort Wayne Komets are a minor league ice hockey team, which currently plays in the East Coast Hockey League. They play their home games at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana. They have won post-season championship titles in 1963, 1965, 1973, 1993, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2021. In all of North American professional hockey, only the Original Six teams of the NHL and the Hershey Bears of the AHL have played continuously in the same city with the same name longer than the Komets.