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The 2010–11 Las Vegas Wranglers season was the 8th season for the Las Vegas Wranglers in the ECHL. Ryan Mougenel returned for his second season as Las Vegas' head coach and general manager. Las Vegas would also enter their second season as the ECHL affiliate of the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League and the San Antonio Rampage of the American Hockey League. The Wranglers would open the season on October 16, with a 4–3 victory against the Bakersfield Condors at the Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield, California. The Wranglers would host their eighth home opener at the Orleans Arena six days later, dropping a 3–1 decision to the Victoria Salmon Kings. Las Vegas would finish the regular season on April 2 with a 4–3 loss to the Stockton Thunder, leaving the Wranglers with a final record of 38 wins, 29 losses, 3 overtime losses and two shootout losses for a total of 81 points. The finish would place Las Vegas in third in the Western Conference's Pacific Division and was the fourth best record in the Western Conference, guaranteeing Las Vegas of a sixth consecutive appearance in the Kelly Cup playoffs. During the 2011 Kelly Cup playoffs, the Wranglers would be matched against the 5th-seeded Idaho Steelheads in the Western Conference Quarterfinals, the fourth time the two teams had met in the Kelly Cup playoffs since the teams joined the ECHL in 2003. The series began on April 5 in Las Vegas, with Michael Ouzas and Idaho's Jerry Kuhn keeping the goal scorless for almost 100 minutes of gameplay, before Ryan Huddy scored with 2:16 left in the second overtime to give Las Vegas a 1–0 victory in Game One. The two teams would return the following night with Kuhn and Ouzas once again showing exceptional skill sending the series into its second consecutive game of multiple overtimes, ending when Idaho's Dustin Friesen scoring 8:13 into the third overtime period to give Idaho a 3–2 victory, tying the series at 1–1. The series would return to Boise's Qwest Arena during the April 8–9 weekend, with the Las Vegas and Idaho splitting the two games, Idaho winning Game Three 3–1 and Las Vegas winning Game Four 5–1. Idaho would win the series on April 12 in Game Five in Las Vegas, with a 3–1, marking the second consecutive season that the Wranglers were eliminated in the Western Conference Quarterfinals. == Preseason == Following the end of the 2009–10 season, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that team owner Jonathan Fleisig was in negotiations to sell the team to an unidentified buyer that planned on keeping the franchise in Las Vegas. Fleisig had bought former co-owner Charles Davenport's ownership in the team in near the end of 2009. In mid-June 2010, the ECHL Board of Governors gave unanimous approval for the transfer of ownership from Fleisig to Wranglers Hockey LLC led by Gary Jacobs, a real estate developer from San Diego who is also managing owner of the Lake Elsinore Storm minor league baseball team. On June 23, Las Vegas announced that its preseason schedule would include two games with the Bakersfield Condors. The first game would be on October 7 at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas and the second contest was on October 9 at Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield. Las Vegas made their first signings of the preseason in late July, resigning defensemen Barry Goers, who entered his first full professional season after joining Las Vegas following the completion of his collegiate career at University of Massachusetts Lowell at the end of the 2009–10 season, and John Schwarz, who entered his second season with the Wranglers.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2010–11 Las Vegas Wranglers season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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