1995-Present Utah Grizzlies

In 1994, while Salt Lake was experiencing its first winter in several decades without hockey, the sport returned to Denver in an IHL expansion team known as the Denver Grizzlies. Those Grizzlies won fifty-seven regular season games en-route to a Turner Cup Championship in front of over 12-thousand a game at the McNichols Sports Arena. The Denver team would in the end, be the victim of their own success however, as shortly thereafter the NHL's Quebec Nordiques relocated to the Mile High City, thus leaving the Denver Grizzlies packing a moving van to Salt Lake.

Fresh off a Turner Cup Championship, during the 1995-96 season the Utah Grizzlies repeated as the best in the IHL. In 1997, the Grizzlies moved into the state of the art E-Center in West Valley City, which would host hockey in the 2002 Winter Olympics.

In 2001, Salt Lake would watch another hockey league evaporate into thin air when the IHL ceased operations. The Grizzlies then moved to the AHL where they conducted business for four seasons until the summer of 2005.

On June 14, 2005, the Grizzlies announced a move to the ECHL. Jason Christie was hired as the Head Coach after five winning seasons at the helm of the Peoria Rivermen. Moving to the ECHL brought back many regional rivalries such as Phoenix, Las Vegas and Long Beach that were ignited during the Grizzlies' IHL days. In 2007-2008, the Grizzlies renewed ties with the New York Islanders and returned to the conference finals for the first time since 1996 as the E-Center hosted hockey beyond the second round for the first time ever. In 2008-2009, in Kevin Colley's first season as the Grizzlies Head Coach, he led Utah back to the playoffs for the third time in four years even as the team experienced stretches of playing with 12-13 players due to injuries and call-ups for weeks at a time. Also during the 2008-2009 campaign, four former Grizzlies in Andrew MacDonald and Trevor Smith from the 2007-2008 season made their NHL debuts with the Islanders while Joel Rechlicz and Peter Mannino, who played for Utah just this past season also made their NHL debuts. 16 former Grizzlies were on NHL rosters at the start of the 2008-2009 season.

Over the last 15 years, the Grizzlies have been at .500 or better 12 times.