BATON ROUGE — The Kingfish are back in downtown Baton Rouge.

Baton Rouge’s new Federal Prospects Hockey League minor league hockey club is adopting the name of the capital city’s late 1990s and early 2000s team, ownership announced at the Raising Cane’s River Center on Wednesday.

The team, previously known as the Baton Rouge Hockey Club before Wednesday’s rebrand, replaces the Baton Rouge Zydeco, the most recent attempt at bringing minor league hockey to Louisiana. The Zydeco folded earlier this year after three seasons.

The new team’s name is an homage to former Gov. Huey P. Long’s nickname.

The newly rebranded Kingfish were formally announced in June and are owned by Andreas Johansson, who also owns the FPHL team Binghamton Black Bear.

Even before their rebrand, the Kingfish have slowly been signing staff and team members ahead of their formal unveiling, with former Knoxville Ice Bears captain Jimmy Soper set to coach the team when it hits the ice in October at the start of the FPHL’s 2026-27 season.

Before Wednesday’s announcement, WBRZ’s news and sports staff found a trademark application from April for the Baton Rouge Kingfish as an ice hockey organization. A website domain for “BRKingfish.com” was also registered in May.

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