A New Parent Team

After going a few seasons as an independent team, the Blades entered into a two-year agreement to be the minor-league affiliate of the NHL’s Vancouver Canucks. Canucks legend Stan Smyl served as the Blades head coach. The team failed to make the playoffs. And, on April 15, the Blades beat the Grand Rapids Griffins, 5-4. No one knew that would be the final Blades game. On June 4, the shocking news that the International Hockey League was ceasing operations was released. And with that, the Blades folded up shop. It would be eight years before the Kansas City area would get professional hockey back when the Central Hockey League came to Independence in the form of the Missouri Mavericks.

Jersey Number	Position	Player	Seasons with Team
7	D	Bryan Allen	2000-2001
27	C	Rob Bonneau	2000-2001
4	D	Ryan Bonni	2000-2001
22	LW	Mike Brown	2000-2001
19	C	Colin Chaulk	1999-2001
27	C	Travis Clayton	2001
16	LW	Glenn Crawford	2001
12	D	Regan Darby	2000-2001
14	C	Harold Druken	2000
27	RW	Greg Eisler	2001
10	D	Greg Hawgood	2000-2001
16	D	Darrell Hay	2000
28	D	Bryan Helmer	2000-2001
21	C	Josh Holden	2000-2001
18	LW	Steve Kariya	2000-2001
25	LW/C	Pat Kavanagh	2000-2001
8	D	Zenith Komarinski	2000-2001
26	LW	Brad Leeb	2000-2001
27	C	Blair Manning	2001
33	G	Alfie Michaud	2000-2001
11	LW	Ryan Ready	2000-2001
24	RW	Jarkko Ruutu	2000-2001
32	G	Corey Schwab	2000-2001
23	C	Jeff Scissons	2000-2001
17	RW	Vadim Sharifijanov	2000-2001
27	RW	Jonas Soling	2001
6	D	Brent Sopel	2000-2001
9	RW	Sean Tallaire	2000-2001
28, 16	LW	David Vallieres	1998-2001
5	D	Jan Vodrazka	1999-2001
2	D	Rene Vydareny	2001
35	G	Stephen Wagner	2001
16, 18, 13	LW	Dody Wood	1992-1995, 1996-1997, 1998-2001
6	LW	Patrick Yetman	2001