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Toronto Roadrunners
City	Toronto, Ontario
League	American Hockey League
Operated	2003–04 AHL season
Home arena	Ricoh Coliseum
Colours	Blue, yellow, and grey
Affiliates	Edmonton Oilers
Franchise history
1984 to 1988	Nova Scotia Oilers
1988 to 1996	Cape Breton Oilers
1996 to 2002	Hamilton Bulldogs
2003 to 2004	Toronto Roadrunners
2004 to 2005	Edmonton Road Runners
2010 to present	Oklahoma City

The Toronto Roadrunners were an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They played in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Ricoh Coliseum. In their only season the Roadrunners featured players such as Jani Rita, Jamie Wright and Steve Valiquette who helped them advance to the AHL playoffs where they lost the first round to the Cleveland Barons.

While initial owner Lyle Abrhams brought the franchise to Toronto with good intentions, poor attendance, a questionable business model, and a dispute with building officials resulted in the relocation of the franchise to Edmonton, Alberta after only one season, becoming the Edmonton Road Runners.^{[citation needed]} Another factor was the desire of the parent club to have the team play in Edmonton to fill the void due to the expected 2004–05 NHL lockout. Since Abrhams owned the rights to the name and logo, the Roadrunners name and identity would return as the Phoenix RoadRunners, reborn in the ECHL. The void in Toronto was filled in 2005 by the Toronto Marlies.

Team records

Goals: 25 Jamie Wright

Assists: 30 Jamie Wright

Points: 55 Jamie Wright

Penalty Minutes: 196 Rocky Thompson

GAA: 2.52 Mike Morrison

SV%: .913 Mike Morrison, Stephen Valiquette

Goaltending Wins: 14 Steve Valiquette

Shutouts: 3 Mike Morrison, Tyler Moss

Games: 78 Jamie Wright

Roster

2004-2005

• Head Coach: Geoff Ward  Canada

Players

• 24 Jamie Wright  Canada
• 8 Tony Salmelainen  Finland
• 22 Jani Rita  Finland
• 7 Doug Lynch  Canada
• 13 Nate DiCasmirro  Canada
• 38 Mike Bishai  Canada
• 23 Joe Cullen (ice hockey)  United States
• 25 J. J. Hunter  Canada - now retired
• 37 Sean McAslan  Canada
• 33 Mikko Luoma  Finland
• 27 Michael Henrich  Canada
• 19 Jeff Woywitka  Canada
• 51 David Roche  Canada - now retired
• 10 Brad Winchester  United States
• 18 Peter Sarno  Canada
• 5 Bobby Allen  United States
• 26 Dan Tessier  Canada
• 6 Dan Smith  Canada
• 15 Dan Baum  Canada
• 2 Rocky Thompson  Canada
• 21 Marc-Andre Bergeron  Canada
• 55 Igor Ulanov  Russia
• 34 Peter Hogan  Canada
• 36 Mathieu Roy  Canada
• 30 David Cousineau  Canada
• 12 Jan Horacek
• 14 Brent Henley  Canada
• 40 Steve Valiquette  Canada
• 38 Jason Platt  Canada
• 16 Jean-Francois Plourde  Canada
• 20 Zack Stortini  Canada
• 32 David Belitski  Canada
• 44 Ryan Christie  Canada
• 29 Chris Madden  United States
• 29 Tyler Moss  Canada
• 1 Mike Morrison  United States

Season-by-season results

See also

• List of ice hockey teams in Ontario

External links

• The Internet Hockey Database - Toronto Roadrunners