In the playoffs, they won Eastern Conference Championship before falling to the Muskegon Fury in the Colonial Cup finals, where they were defeated in six games.

Brost was replaced by former Philadelphia Flyers tough guy Dave Schultz but then posted a 5–16–0 record.

After another unsuccessful season, the Jackals hired a new general manager, Robbie Nichols, and a new coach, Kris Waltze.

Paul Gillis then filled in as head coach for the remainder of the season where the Jackals finished last in the division.

Returning from a loss in Cincinnati, the team bus was involved in crash on Interstate 90 in Pennsylvania early in the morning of November 29, 2007, where several players sustained minor injuries.

On February 21, 2012, the Jackals season was threatened after the arena owner failed to pay $136,234 in taxes for three years and being hit with a foreclosure order by Chemung County.

Afr, the Jackals and First Arena owner, requested that the legislature hold off their vote until June 30, 2012, to continue the foreclosure proceedings.

The Jackals advanced to the 2012 Kelly Cup playoffs for their fifth straight season, falling in the second round to the Florida Everblades in five games.

On July 24, 2012, the county announced that First Arena would be sold to local businessman Tom Freeman, at the completion of the 2012–13 season.

[6] Now under the new ownership, the Jackals completed the 2013–14 season with a 24–40–3–5 record and third place in the Atlantic Division[7] but missed the playoffs for the first time since joining the ECHL in 2007.

Instead, they signed a multi-year agreement to be the ECHL affiliate of the NHL's Buffalo Sabres and the AHL's Rochester Americans.

Any profit above operating cost would be turned over to a local board of directors who would decide how the money should be invested in the community.

[10] In 2015–16, the Jackals set a team record of 21 road wins, missed the playoffs for the third straight year, and the average attendance was still only 2,500 per game.

[12] The IDA announced they would use $1 million to pay off team debts so any new owner could have a nearly-clean financial slate.

On March 10, 2017, the IDA announced that it had an agreement to sell First Arena to local businessman Brian Barrett.