The Federal Prospects Hockey League League’s 2023-24 will be its 13 th full season as a professional hockey league. Lead by Commissioner Don Kiran, who started the league and Andrew “Sarge” Richards, the FPHL has grown as an attractive option to play unaf fi liated pro hockey. The league now consists of eleven teams located in the Midwest, Northeast and Southern United States. The league is looking forward to continuing to add more members in the 2024-25 season also!
2023-24 Ac4ve Teams
Team (Division)
Founded
Home Arena
Capacity
City
Baton Rouge Zydeco (C)
2023
Raising Cane’s River Center
8,900
Baton Rouge, LA
Binghamton Black Bears (E)
2021
Visions Veterans Memorial Arena
5,000
Binghamton Black Bears
Blue Ridge Bobcats (E)
2023
Appalachian Regional Exposi4on
3,000
Wytheville, VA
Carolina Thunderbirds (C)
2017
Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Annex
3,050
Winston-Salem, NC
Columbus River Dragons (C)
2019
Columbus Civic Center
7,259
Columbus, GA
Danbury Hat Tricks (E)
2019
Danbury Ice Arena
3,050
Danbury, CT
Elmira River Sharks (E)
2023
First Arena
3,784
Elmira, NY
Motor City Rockers (C)
2022
Big Boy Arena
2,900
Fraser, MI
Mississippi Sea Wolves (C)
2022
Mississippi Coast Coliseum
8,900
Biloxi, MS
Port Huron Prowlers (C)
2015
McMorran Place
2,200
Port Huron, MI
Watertown Wolves (E)
2013
Municipal Arena
1,500
Watertown, NY
Points/Standing The FPHL uses the Olympic scoring system when awarding points based on game results. This means that a team receives three (3) points for a regulation win, two (2) points for overtimes win, one (1) point for an overtime loss and no points (0) for a regulation loss. Wins and losses in the shootout are treated as overtime wins and losses. This season all teams will play a schedule that consists of 28 home and 28 away for a total of 56 regular season games. The league will have two divisions, the Continental, and the Empire, with the top four team in each division advancing to the Commissioners Cup Playoffs. Playoffs The 2024 Commissioners Cup Playoffs will feature the four top teams in each division advancing to the 1 st round of the playoffs with the higher seed having home ice advantage in the best of three series. The division winners with then advance to the Division Champion in a best of three series with the winners advancing to the playoff championship round. The Empire & Continental playoff champions are then scheduled to play in the league playoffs in a best of fi ve series.
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