The Elmira Jackals record, season by season, with every ECHL and UHL result
The Elmira Jackals season by season, across seventeen years and two leagues. Nine seasons have a published regular-season record; the other eight are listed with whatever the club did publish, and the record left blank.
Section one
Every season
The full Elmira Jackals record, 2000 to 2017
Seventeen rows, one for each season the club played. The Elmira Jackals results below come from the franchise's own published summary; where that summary gave a division finish or a playoff outcome but no won-lost line, the season still appears and the record column stays empty. The Elmira Jackals record is therefore complete as a list of seasons and incomplete as a set of numbers, and the table shows which is which rather than filling the gaps. Every season below opens onto its own page, with the players and the club releases that belong to it.
| Season | League | W | L | OTL/SOL | Pts | Playoffs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-01 | UHL | Qualified | ||||
| 2001-02 | UHL | 45 | 21 | 8 | Colonial Cup Finals | |
| 2002-03 | UHL | Lost in the second round | ||||
| 2003-04 | UHL | 33 | 34 | 9 | Colonial Cup Finals | |
| 2004-05 | UHL | Missed | ||||
| 2005-06 | UHL | Missed | ||||
| 2006-07 | UHL | Missed | ||||
| 2007-08 | ECHL | 41 | 24 | 7 | Lost the Conference Quarterfinals to Reading | |
| 2008-09 | ECHL | 39 | 26 | 7 | Lost in the second round | |
| 2009-10 | ECHL | Lost in the opening round | ||||
| 2010-11 | ECHL | Lost the opening round to Greenville | ||||
| 2011-12 | ECHL | 45 | 22 | 5 | 95 | Lost the second round to Florida |
| 2012-13 | ECHL | 40 | 25 | 7 | Lost the opening round to Florida | |
| 2013-14 | ECHL | 24 | 40 | 8 | Missed | |
| 2014-15 | ECHL | 32 | 33 | 7 | Missed | |
| 2015-16 | ECHL | 37 | 30 | 5 | 79 | Missed |
| 2016-17 | ECHL | Missed |
Section two
The UHL seasons
Seven seasons of UHL results
The Elmira Jackals record in the UHL divides cleanly in two. The first four seasons produced two trips to the Colonial Cup Finals and a division-winning year; the last three produced no playoff hockey at all. The best of them was 2001-02, when a 45-21-8 season was the strongest in the Eastern Conference.
Section three
The ECHL seasons
Ten seasons of ECHL hockey, and the best Elmira Jackals record of them all
The move to the ECHL in 2007 produced six consecutive playoff seasons and then three without. The peak was 2011-12: 95 points, more than any other club in the Eastern Conference that season. The Elmira Jackals results after 2013 never recovered that level, and the last three Elmira Jackals seasons all ended in March. Taken across both leagues, the Elmira Jackals seasons split almost evenly between years that reached the playoffs and years that did not.
| Season | W | L | OTL/SOL | Affiliation | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-08 | 41 | 24 | 7 | Columbus Blue Jackets, Syracuse Crunch | Lost the Conference Quarterfinals to Reading |
| 2008-09 | 39 | 26 | 7 | Ottawa Senators, Binghamton Senators | Lost in the second round |
| 2009-10 | Lost in the opening round | ||||
| 2010-11 | Anaheim Ducks, Syracuse Crunch, Ottawa Senators | Lost the opening round to Greenville | |||
| 2011-12 | 45 | 22 | 5 | Lost the second round to Florida | |
| 2012-13 | 40 | 25 | 7 | Lost the opening round to Florida | |
| 2013-14 | 24 | 40 | 8 | New Jersey Devils, Albany Devils, Ottawa Senators | Missed |
| 2014-15 | 32 | 33 | 7 | Buffalo Sabres, Rochester Americans | Missed |
| 2015-16 | 37 | 30 | 5 | Buffalo Sabres, Rochester Americans | Missed |
| 2016-17 | Buffalo Sabres, Rochester Americans | Missed |
Section four
Notes on individual seasons
What each season record does not say
A won-lost line carries none of the context, so the club's own notes on each season are set out below: the coaching changes, the affiliation moves and the results that made one year different from the next. Read alongside the table, they are the closest thing to a complete Elmira Jackals record that survives.
- 2000-01
- The franchise opened on the road for ten games while First Arena was finished. Named UHL franchise of the year. Head coach: Todd Brost.
- 2001-02
- Won the first two rounds, then lost the championship series to the Muskegon Fury in six games.
- 2003-04
- Reached the finals from a losing regular-season record and were swept by the Muskegon Fury.
- 2006-07
- The last UHL season.
- 2007-08
- First ECHL season, a new logo, and the end of a three-year playoff drought. Record 41-24-3-4. Head coach: Steve Martinson.
- 2008-09
- Beat the Trenton Devils in seven games in the opening round. Record 39-26-2-5.
- 2009-10
- A third straight playoff appearance.
- 2010-11
- A dual affiliation, and a fourth straight playoff appearance.
- 2011-12
- The best season in franchise history. Record 45-22-2-3. Beat Reading in five to open the playoffs. Head coach: Pat Bingham.
- 2012-13
- A sixth straight ECHL playoff appearance. Record 40-25-3-4.
- 2013-14
- The first season out of the playoffs since joining the ECHL. Record 24-40-3-5.
- 2014-15
- Record 32-33-0-7.
- 2015-16
- Twenty-one road wins, a franchise record. Record 37-30-3-2.
- 2016-17
- The final season. First Arena was sold in March 2017 and the club ceased operations at the end of it.
Questions
Reading the record
Common questions about the season record
Why are eight seasons missing a won-lost record?
The club’s own published summary gave a record for nine of the seventeen seasons. For the rest it gave a division finish or a playoff outcome and no won-lost line, so the record column is left empty rather than estimated.
What does the OTL/SOL column mean?
Overtime and shootout losses. The ECHL reported them as two separate columns, so a published record of 41-24-3-4 means forty-one wins, twenty-four losses, three overtime losses and four shootout losses. Here the last two are added together.
Why does a losing team still collect points?
A team that loses in overtime or a shootout keeps one point. That is why a club can finish outside the playoffs having won more games than the team that got in — 2015-16 ended three points short on exactly that arithmetic.
Are the UHL and ECHL records comparable?
Only loosely. The United Hockey League sat below the ECHL, so the 2007 move was a step up in standard. Both used two points for a win, which makes the points column readable across the two eras and little else.
What happened in 2016-17?
It was the last season. First Arena was sold in March 2017 and the club announced that the season in progress would be its final one. No full record for it survives in any source this archive holds.
Elsewhere
Where the same ground is covered
- Kelly CupThe ECHL championship, and what a playoff run was aiming at after 2007.
- Colonial CupThe UHL championship, and the final the club reached twice.
- ECHLCurrent league standings, for what the competition looks like now.