Stockton Heat



The Stockton Heat is a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League (AHL) which began play in the 2015–16 season.

The team is based in Stockton, California and is affiliated with the Calgary Flames of the NHL.

The Heat plays its home games at Stockton Arena. It is a relocation of the Adirondack Flames joining several other AHL franchises to form a new AHL Pacific Division in California.

The Heat replaced the ECHL's Stockton Thunder which played from 2005 until 2015, after which they moved to Glens Falls, New York where they became the Adirondack Thunder.