The Elmira Jackals 2001-02 season
United Hockey League, record 45-21-8, colonial Cup Finals.
The season
What the club published
| League | United Hockey League |
| Record | 45-21-8 |
| Finish | Best record in the Eastern Conference |
| Playoffs | Colonial Cup Finals |
Won the first two rounds, then lost the championship series to the Muskegon Fury in six games.
The strongest regular season of the United Hockey League years: 45 wins, 21 losses and 8 overtime losses, and the best record in the Eastern Conference. Across all seventeen seasons only 2011-12 matches those 45 wins, and that one came nine years later in a different league.
The playoff run went two rounds and then stopped. The club won both, reached the Colonial Cup Finals, and lost the championship series to the Muskegon Fury in six games — the closest it came to a title in seventeen years of trying. Muskegon turns up again two seasons later, in the other finals appearance on this list, with a heavier result.
It was also the second of four consecutive playoff years to open the franchise: qualified in 2000-01, the finals here, the second round in 2002-03 and the finals again in 2003-04. Nothing in the thirteen seasons that followed matched that opening run.
No head coach or affiliation is recorded for this season in the summary the club published, and no points total, so those rows are absent above rather than guessed at. No release from the season survives either: the archive begins in 2004. What is left is the record, the conference finish and the series that ended it.
Releases
None survive
No club release from this season survives in the archive. The earliest that do come from 2004, which is why this season is recorded here by its results alone.