2015-16 Southern Professional Hockey League season

This is the 2015-16 Southern Professional Hockey League season. This was the league's 11th season.
==Membership changes==
*The former Augusta RiverHawks franchise annouced they were relocating to Macon, Georgia on June 25, 2014. The team known as the Macon Mayhem and be based out of the Macon Coliseum.
*On October 20th, 2015, the league announced that the franchise rights to the former Mississippi Surge franchise was sold and the team will play in Roanoke, Virginia for the 2016-17 season.  The team will be based out of the Berglund Center in Roanoke. The team will announce their logo and name on November 19th.
==Teams==
Team 	City/Area 	Arena 	Founded	Joined	Head Coach
Columbus Cottonmouths 	Columbus, Georgia 	Columbus Civic Center 	1996 	2004 	Jerome Bechard
Fayetteville FireAntz 	Fayetteville, North Carolina 	Cumberland County Crown Coliseum 	2002 	2004 	Jeff Bes
Huntsville Havoc 	Huntsville, Alabama 	Von Braun Center 	2004 	2004 	Glenn Detulleo
Knoxville Ice Bears 	Knoxville, Tennessee 	Knoxville Civic Auditorium and Coliseum	2002 	2004 	Mike Craigen
Louisiana IceGators 	Lafayette, Louisiana 	Cajundome 	1995 	2009 	Kevin Kaminski
Macon Mayhem 	Macon, Georgia 	Macon Coliseum 	2010 	2015 	Kevin Kerr
Mississippi RiverKings	Southaven, Mississippi (Memphis area)	Lander's Center 	1992 	2011 	Derek Landmesser
Pensacola Ice Flyers 	Pensacola, Florida 	Pensacola Bay Center 	2009 	2009 	Rod Aldoff
Peoria Rivermen 	Peoria, Illinois 	Carver Arena 	2013 	2013 	Jean-Guy Trudel
==Standings==
Team 	GP	W 	L 	OTL	GF 	GA 	PIM 	Pts
Peoria Rivermen 	56	39	12	5 	196	125	1142	83
Pensacola Ice Flyers 	56	31	20	5 	175	157	1098	67
Mississippi RiverKings	56	28	18	10 	151	161	668 	66
Fayetteville FireAntz 	56	30	21	5 	167	145	1090	65
Knoxville Ice Bears 	56	29	21	6 	163	165	903 	64
Louisiana IceGators 	56	26	26	4 	151	162	1008	56
Huntsville Havoc 	56	26	26	4 	151	158	1282	56
Macon Mayhem 	56	24	27	5 	138	157	833 	53
Columbus Cottonmouths 	56	19	29	8 	124	186	828 	46
==President's Cup Playoffs==
===Format===
With the addition of a ninth team the playoff format was changed to having the top eight teams qualify for the playoffs (up from the top six teams for 2014-15). The first round consists of four best-of-three series with the 1st place team playing the 8th place team, 2nd playing 7th, 3rd playing 6th, and 4th playing 5th. The highest seeded first round winner plays the lowest seeded first round winner and the 2nd highest seeded first round winner plays the third highest first round winner. The semifinal winners then moves on to meet the top seed in the best-of-three President's Cup Final.
===Quarterfinals===
*Peoria Rivermen defeated Macon Mayhem 2 games to 1 (2-3, 2-0, 4-1)
*Pensacola Ice Flyers defeated Huntsville Havoc 2 games to none (3-1, 5-1)
*Mississippi RiverKings defeated Louisiana IceGators 2 games to none (5-3, 5-2)
*Fayetteville FireAntz defeated Knoxville Ice Bears 2 games to 1 (0-2, 5-2, 2-0)
===Semifinals===
*Peoria Rivermen defeated Fayetteville FireAntz 2 games to none (1-0, 4-0)
*Pensacola Ice Flyers defeated Mississippi RiverKings 2 games to none (4-1, 6-5 (2ot))
===President's Cup Final===
*Pensacola Ice Flyers defeated Peoria Rivermen 3 games to none (3-2 (ot), 3-2, 5-4)
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