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Fort Wayne Komets

Year of foundation: 1952
Colours: Orange, black and white
Club status: active
Address: 1010 Memorial Way, Suite 100
Fort Wayne, IN 46805
Phone: +1 (260) 483-0011
Fax: (260) 483-3899
Email: komets@komets.com
WWW: Fort Wayne Komets

Fort Wayne Komets is minor league affiliate of: Colorado Avalanche
San Antonio Rampage

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Season 1997-1998

This club in 1997-1998: IHL

Pos	Player name	Born	Height	Weight	Shoots
G	Marc Magliarditi	09.07.1976	180 cm	82 kg	right	Show profile»
G	Bruce Racine	09.08.1966	185 cm	87 kg	left	Show profile»
G	Richard Shulmistra	01.04.1971	188 cm	85 kg	right	Show profile»
D	Chris Armstrong	26.06.1975	180 cm	88 kg	left	Show profile»
D	Aaron Boh	04.04.1974	183 cm	84 kg	left	Show profile»
D	Rich Bronilla	15.07.1975	188 cm	97 kg	right	Show profile»
D	Ed Campbell	26.11.1974	188 cm	95 kg	left	Show profile»
D	Trevor Doyle	01.01.1974	190 cm	92 kg	right	Show profile»
RD	Guy Dupuis	10.05.1970	188 cm	90 kg	right	Show profile»
D	Derek Eberle	18.07.1972	178 cm	93 kg	left	Show profile»
D	Kirk Llano	10.01.1973	180 cm	89 kg	right	Show profile»
D	Dwight Parrish	06.04.1972	180 cm	88 kg	right	Show profile»
D	Todd Reirden	25.06.1971	195 cm	102 kg	left	Show profile»
D	Grant Richison	05.05.1967	188 cm	93 kg	left	Show profile»
RD	Wes Swinson	26.05.1975	185 cm	82 kg	left	Show profile»
LW	Andrei Bashkirov	22.06.1970	183 cm	88 kg	left	Show profile»
C	Norman Batherson	27.03.1969	184 cm	92 kg	left	Show profile»
C	Eric Boguniecki	06.05.1975	171 cm	88 kg	right	Show profile»
LW	Eric Boulton	17.08.1976	185 cm	100 kg	left	Show profile»
LW	Ian Boyce	24.01.1968	176 cm	79 kg	right	Show profile»
C	Vyacheslav Butsayev	13.06.1970	188 cm	102 kg	left	Show profile»
LW	Dan Currie	15.03.1968	187 cm	95 kg	left	Show profile»
C	Lee Davidson	30.06.1968	180 cm	81 kg	left	Show profile»
LW	Dave Duerden	11.04.1977	188 cm	91 kg	left	Show profile»
LW	Trevor Halverson	06.04.1971	185 cm	91 kg	left	Show profile»
RW	Scott Kirton	04.12.1971	192 cm	100 kg	right	Show profile»
RW	Eric Nickulas	25.03.1975	180 cm	92 kg	right	Show profile»
RW	Roman Oksiuta	21.08.1970	188 cm	104 kg	left	Show profile»
RW	Konstantin Shafranov	11.09.1968	183 cm	90 kg	left	Show profile»
C	Mark Turner	09.05.1968	178 cm	84 kg	right	Show profile»
RW	Steffon Walby	22.11.1972	185 cm	86 kg	right	Show profile»
C	Paul Willett	10.05.1969	182 cm	79 kg	left	Show profile»

Coach name	State	Born	Coach position
John Torchetti		09.07.1964	Head Coach	Show profile»

* no longer in the club

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Allen County War Memorial Coliseum Fort Wayne

Adress: 4000 Parnell Avenue
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805
Phone: +1 260.482.9502
Email: ndennison@memorialcoliseum.com
Web: http://www.memorialcoliseum.com
Capacity: 10500
Opened in: 1952

The team was previously a member of the International Hockey League before it merged into the CHL in 2010. The Komets also played in the previous incarnation of the International Hockey League from 1952 until 1999, when they joined the United Hockey League (which took the IHL name in 2007). They have won seven post-season championship titles in the IHL in 1963, 1965, 1973, 1993, 2008, 2009 and 2010 with one in the UHL in 2003. They play their home games at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The current Komets franchise (formerly the Flint Spirits) replaced the original Fort Wayne Komets that relocated and became the Albany Choppers in 1990 before folding in that same season. 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.

Retired Numbers: #91 Colin Chaulk

League winners:

2020-2021: ECHL
2011-2012: CHL
2009-2010: IHL
2008-2009: IHL
2007-2008: IHL
2002-2003: UHL
1992-1993: IHL
1972-1973: IHL
1964-1965: IHL
1962-1963: IHL

from 1952 to present:

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Recent newsShow all news»

Current CHL champion Fort Wayne Komets announced that the franchise has withdrawn from the Central Hockey League and has been admitted as a member of the ECHL. The Fort Wayne membership will take flight with the 2012-13 ECHL season.
The Dayton Gems announced they were ceasing operations and that a new team playing in Federal Hockey League will be estabilished in Dayton.
Along with the move of Evansville from CHL to ECHL, these changes reflect the end of two-year agreement between the CHL and the defunct International Hockey League (IHL). Among the former IHL teams Bloomington Blaze and Quad City Mallards have signed long-term CHL agreements, while Dayton, Evansville and Fort Wayne are no longer affiliated with the CHL.

(18 May 2012)

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Fast factsseason 1997-1998

Youngest player: Dave Duerden (21 years)
Oldest player: Bruce Racine (31 years)
Shortest player: Eric Boguniecki (171 cm)
Tallest player: Todd Reirden (195 cm)
Nationalities: Canada (19), Kazakhstan (1), Russia (3), USA (9)

Leagues

Fort Wayne Komets participates in season 1997-1998: IHL

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