ECHL's 30th Member Team Reveals Name

It’s official: the ECHL’s newest team now has a name.

The Greensboro Gargoyles revealed its name and logo at a special event held at Piedmont Hall on Tuesday night.

The team’s primary colors consist of Gargoyle Grape, Greensboro Gold and Midnight. The Gargoyles’ team name and logo is portrayed as a stone monster that watches over and protects the city of Greensboro. The logo was created by The Barn Creative. The inspiration of the name and logo originated from community input, including submissions from over 2,000 fans.

The Gargoyles are owned and operated by Zawyer Sports & Entertainment, led by CEO Andy Kaufmann.

“The opportunity to bring professional hockey back to Greensboro is incredibly exciting,” Kaufmann said. “We are looking forward to uniting the community as we build towards the first time the Gargoyles take the ice together as a team in October.”

The team will begin play in the ECHL’s 2025-26 season, starting in October of 2025. A 36-game home regular-season schedule will take place at First Horizon Coliseum, the iconic 22,000-seat arena at the heart of Greensboro Complex. The arena is managed by Oak View Group.

Just before the start of the 2024-25 season, the ECHL accepted the expansion application of the team. Professional hockey isn’t new to the area, which first played host to the Greensboro Generals, who played in the Eastern Hockey League from 1959-73 and the Southern Hockey League from 1973-77.

ECHL Commissioner Emeritus Patrick J. Kelly played five seasons with the Generals from 1959-64.

Greensboro has had two previous entries in the ECHL with the Monarchs skating in the league from 1989-95 and a second incarnation of the Generals participating from 1999-2004. The Monarchs won the Riley Cup title in their first-season of existence in 1989-90, lost in the Finals on two other occasions and hold the ECHL record for the largest crowd in league history with 20,911 fans on Jan. 15, 1994 against Charlotte.

Greensboro was also home to the American Hockey League’s Carolina Monarchs from 1995-97, and the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes played their first two seasons in North Carolina in Greensboro from 1997-99 while awaiting completion of their arena in Raleigh.