Lehigh Valley Phantoms


The Lehigh Valley Phantoms are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League based at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a core city of the Lehigh Valley.
The Phantoms franchise has been the top minor league affiliate for the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers since the 1996–97 season. The Phantoms used three geographical monikers in their history. Philadelphia was the team’s first geographical moniker as the team was based at the Spectrum in Philadelphia as the Philadelphia Phantoms. The team relocated to Glens Falls, New York and adopted the "Adirondack" geographical moniker as a reference to Glens Falls being based near the Adirondack Mountains, becoming known as the Adirondack Phantoms. The team relocated to Allentown and adopted the Lehigh Valley geographical moniker, becoming known as the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. The team has kept the “Phantoms” name under those three geographical monikers.

History

In March 2011, plans were announced for a new arena, the PPL Center, in the downtown area of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Demolition at the arena site began in January 2012. In February 2012, it was announced that the Adirondack Phantoms, a franchise that originated as the Philadelphia Phantoms, would relocate to the PPL Center in Allentown from Glens Falls, New York. The franchise originally intended to begin play in Allentown in 2013, but due to litigation over the construction of PPL Center, the team did not play until the 2014–15 AHL season. The purple color used since the team's inception was replaced by electric blue when the team relocated to the Lehigh Valley.
The arena has been consistently full. During the 2015–16 season, the PPL Center was filled at a 97.9% capacity on average, and had 24 sellouts in the 38 Phantoms home games, including the last 13. The Phantoms finished seventh in the AHL attendance rankings with an average of 8,244 fans, surpassed only by teams with larger venues.

Mascots

On August 13, 2014, the Phantoms introduced their new mascot, "meLVin", a puck-nosed pladottle that was yellow in color. meLVin wears the number 55, which is LV in Roman numerals. The LV refers to "Lehigh Valley". He became the third mascot for the Phantoms, after "Phlex" and "Dax".

Season-by-season results

Records as of May 12, 2020.

Current roster

Updated July 18, 2020.

Team records

As of the 2019–20 season
;Single season
  • Goaltending records need a minimum 25 games played by the goaltender
;Career

Individual awards

;Les Cunningham Award
;First All-Star Team
;Second All-Star Team

Head coaches

  • Terry Murray: 2014–2015
  • Scott Gordon: 2015–2018, 2019–present
  • Kerry Huffman: interim 2018–19 season