The South East Hockey League was a minor ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 league formed in August 2003. It succeeded the short-lived Atlantic Coast Hockey League

Atlantic Coast Hockey League (2002)

The Atlantic Coast Hockey League was a professional minor league ice hockey league based in the United States. The second league to bear the name Atlantic Coast Hockey League, it operated for only one season, 2002–2003, before its franchises split into two new leagues.-History:The 2002 incarnation...

 and had 4 teams for its first and only season. Jim Riggs was the commissioner.

The Huntsville Channel Cats

Huntsville Channel Cats

The Huntsville Channel Cats was a professional ice hockey team based in Huntsville, Alabama. The franchise was a member of several different leagues, the Southern Hockey League , the Central Hockey League and the South East Hockey League...

 were the 2003–2004 President's Championship Cup winners. The Channel Cats defeated the Knoxville Ice Bears

Knoxville Ice Bears

The Knoxville Ice Bears are a professional ice hockey team. The team competes in the Southern Professional Hockey League. They play their home games at James White Civic Coliseum in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 2006 the Ice Bears defeated the Florida Seals to take the SPHL championship and the...

 in three straight games in the championship series.

For the 2004–2005 season, the SEHL suspended play when two of its teams folded while the other two joined with teams from the World Hockey Association 2

World Hockey Association 2

The World Hockey Association 2 was a minor professional ice hockey league created at the instigation of the organizers of the proposed recreated World Hockey Association to serve as its development league. The WHA2 teams — some of which had played the 2002–03 season in the Atlantic Coast...

 to form the Southern Professional Hockey League

Southern Professional Hockey League

The Southern Professional Hockey League is a low-level professional ice hockey league based in Charlotte, North Carolina, with teams located in the southeastern United States.- History :...

.

Teams

• Huntsville Channel Cats
  Huntsville Channel Cats
  The Huntsville Channel Cats was a professional ice hockey team based in Huntsville, Alabama. The franchise was a member of several different leagues, the Southern Hockey League , the Central Hockey League and the South East Hockey League...
  
   (folded; SPHL had an expansion team
  Huntsville Havoc
  The Huntsville Havoc are a professional ice hockey team in the Southern Professional Hockey League . They play their home games at the Von Braun Center in downtown Huntsville, Alabama.-History:...
  
   in the city)
• Knoxville Ice Bears
  Knoxville Ice Bears
  The Knoxville Ice Bears are a professional ice hockey team. The team competes in the Southern Professional Hockey League. They play their home games at James White Civic Coliseum in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 2006 the Ice Bears defeated the Florida Seals to take the SPHL championship and the...
  
   (moved to SPHL)
• Cape Fear Fire Antz (moved to SPHL as Fayetteville FireAntz
  Fayetteville FireAntz
  The Fayetteville FireAntz are a professional minor league ice hockey team based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S. They currently play in the Southern Professional Hockey League . They play their home games in the Cumberland County Crown Coliseum....
  
  )
• Tupelo T-Rex
  Tupelo T-Rex
  The Tupelo T-Rex was a professional ice hockey team, a member of the Western Professional Hockey League and played their home games at BancorpSouth Center from 1998 through 2001...
  
  , never played due to contractual issues with their arena.
• Winston-Salem T-Birds
  Winston-Salem T-Birds
  The Winston-Salem T-Birds were an ice hockey team in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They played in the South East Hockey League for the 2003-04 season...
  
   (folded; SPHL had an expansion team
  Winston-Salem Polar Twins
  The Winston-Salem Polar Twins is a name held by two professional hockey franchises in Winston-Salem, NC. The first Polar Twins franchise operated in the 1970s before folding. They were followed by the Carolina Thunderbirds...
  
   in the city)

Regular season

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Huntsville Channel Cats Huntsville Channel Cats The Huntsville Channel Cats was a professional ice hockey team based in Huntsville, Alabama. The franchise was a member of several different leagues, the Southern Hockey League , the Central Hockey League and the South East Hockey League...	56	43	13	0	233	164	86
Knoxville Ice Bears Knoxville Ice Bears The Knoxville Ice Bears are a professional ice hockey team. The team competes in the Southern Professional Hockey League. They play their home games at James White Civic Coliseum in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 2006 the Ice Bears defeated the Florida Seals to take the SPHL championship and the...	56	26	30	0	201	195	52
Cape Fear Fire Antz	56	25	31	0	213	221	50
Winston-Salem T-Birds Winston-Salem T-Birds The Winston-Salem T-Birds were an ice hockey team in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They played in the South East Hockey League for the 2003-04 season...	56	18	38	0	178	245	36

Playoffs

Semifinals

Huntsville received a bye into the final.

Final

Awards

League MVP:	James Patterson James Patterson (ice hockey) James Patterson born on October 7, 1977 in Huntsville, Alabama is a minor league hockey forwardPatterson, who played college hockey at the University of Denver, has played in the Central Hockey League, the International Hockey League, the East Coast Hockey League, the American Hockey League, the...  (Huntsville)
Rookie of the Year:	Allan Carr (Huntsville)
Defenseman of the Year:	Alex Alepin (Knoxville)
Goaltender of the Year:	Matt Carmichael Matt Carmichael (ice hockey) Matt Carmichael is a Canadian former professional ice hockey minor league Goalie that played in a number of leagues and teams other his career. Matt was named second team All-SPHL in the 2006–07 season when he went 26–19–3 with a 3.40 goals against average and a 90.3 save percentage...  (Huntsville)
Coach of the Year:	John Gibson (Huntsville)
Playoff MVP:	Matt Carmichael Matt Carmichael (ice hockey) Matt Carmichael is a Canadian former professional ice hockey minor league Goalie that played in a number of leagues and teams other his career. Matt was named second team All-SPHL in the 2006–07 season when he went 26–19–3 with a 3.40 goals against average and a 90.3 save percentage... (Huntsville)