The Quad City Storm is a professional minor league ice hockey team to begin play in the 2018–19 season as a member of the SPHL.

[2] On May 24, 2018, local ownership consisting of Ryan Mosley and John Dawson[3] obtained a franchise in the Southern Professional Hockey League to replace the Mallards at the TaxSlayer Center for the 2018–19 season by purchasing the franchise rights of the defunct Louisiana IceGators.

[3] The team hired longtime SPHL player Dave Pszenyczny as their inaugural head coach.

As the Mallards name was unavailable due to the ECHL retaining the trademark,[6] the new team held a name-the-team contest with new name announced as the Quad City Storm on June 21.

[7] The Storm finished their inaugural season in ninth place out of ten teams, missing the 2019 President's Cup playoffs.