Peoria Rivermen

Peoria Rivermen is a professional hockey club that played in the American Hockey League in 2005-2013. Based in Peoria , Illinois , USA . It was the farm club of the St. Louis Blues NHL team.

Peoria Rivermen
A country	USA
City	Peoria , Illinois
Founded	2005
Former names	Springfield Indians 1926–1951 Syracuse Warriors 1951–1954 Springfield Indians 1954–1967 Springfield Kings 1967–1974 Springfield Indians 1974–1994 Worcester IceCats 1994–2005 Peoria Riverman 2005–2013 Utica Comets 2013 – present
Home arena	Carver Arena (9542)
Colors	Dark blue, blue, gold, white
Hockey league	AHL
Division	West
The conference	Western
Affiliated clubs	St. Louis ( NHL ) Alaska ( ECHL )
Trophies	-
Conference wins	-
Division wins	-

Previously, the name Peoria Riverman was played by the teams of the International Hockey League (1984-1996; in 1982-1984, Peoria Transformers; winner of the Turner Cup 1985, 1991) and ECHL (1996-2005; winner of the 2000 Kelly Cup). In 2013, after the AHL franchise moved to New York State, a team called “Peoria Riverman” appeared in the Southern Professional Hockey League .