Legacy
With the December 2008 demise of the Fresno Falcons only two of the original 1995 WCHL teams - the Alaska Aces and Bakersfield Condors - remain active in the ECHL. All of the subsequent expansion teams which played in the WCHL except the Idaho Steelheads have since ceased operations as well. (The Las Vegas Wranglers - although planned for the WCHL - never actually played in the league). Efforts to resurrect the Reno Renegades/Rage organization as an ECHL team have been repeatedly delayed by problems in finding a suitable home arena in the Reno area. However, since 2003 former WCHL teams have accounted for four Kelly Cup championships in the ECHL, Idaho in 2004 and 2007, and Alaska in 2006 and 2011.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)