Iowa Heartlanders

The Iowa Heartlanders are a professional minor league ice hockey team in the ECHL based in Coralville, Iowa, a suburb of Iowa City. The team will begin play in the 2021–22 ECHL season with home games at Xtream Arena.
History.
On September 17, 2020, Newfoundland Growlers' majority owner Dean MacDonald (through his group Deacon Sports and Entertainment) came to an agreement with the city of Coralville to place an ECHL team in Xtream Arena, pending league approval, for the 2021–22 season. On January 12, 2021, the team was approved by the ECHL Board of Governors to join the league for the 2021–22 season. In March 2021, the team announced it had hired former ECHL commissioner Brian McKenna as team president. The team name, Iowa Heartlanders, was announced on May 20, 2021.