The Arkansas RiverBlades was a short-lived minor-league ice hockey team located in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The Arkansas RiverBlades was an East Coast Hockey League franchise which played at the newly opened ALLTEL Arena. The team logo was unveiled in February of 1998 and the Canadian brothers Dave Berryman and Tim Berryman were granted a lease for Alltel Arena in March. The ECHL franchise was granted in May 1998. In the summer of 2002 the Fayetteville Force, a Central Hockey League team out of North Carolina offered to switch franchises with Berryman who turned the offer down.