Charlotte Checkers

Charlotte Checkers
City	Charlotte, North Carolina
League	American Hockey League
Conference	Eastern
Division	Atlantic
Founded	1990
Home arena	Bojangles Coliseum
Colors	Red, black, silver, white
Owner(s)	Zawyer Sports & Entertainment
General manager	Gregory Campbell
Head coach	Geordie Kinnear
Captain	Zac Dalpe
Media	AHL.TV (Internet)
Affiliates	Florida Panthers (NHL) Savannah Ghost Pirates (ECHL)
Franchise history
1990–1993	Capital District Islanders
1993–2010	Albany River Rats
2010–present	Charlotte Checkers
Championships
Regular season titles	1 (2018–19)
Division titles	2 (2018–19, 2021–22)
Conference titles	1 (2018–19)
Calder Cups	1 (2018–19)
Current uniform
Current season

The Charlotte Checkers are a minor-league professional ice hockey team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the American Hockey League (AHL), and are the top minor league affiliate of the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Checkers play their home games at Bojangles' Coliseum.

The current organization is the third team by this name; it succeeded a Checkers franchise that played in the ECHL from 1993 until the end of the 2009–10 ECHL season. The original Checkers team played in the city from 1956 to 1977, originally in the Eastern Hockey League and then in the Southern Hockey League. The franchise is one of six teams to replace and share a name with a predecessor franchise from a lower-tier league; the others are the Bakersfield Condors, Colorado Eagles, Ontario Reign, Rockford IceHogs, and San Diego Gulls.