During that summer, the UHL headquarters moved from Lake St. Louis, Missouri, to Rochester, Michigan.

[5][6] On July 13, 2010, the league announced an agreement with the Central Hockey League, the effects of which saw five IHL teams – the Bloomington PrairieThunder, Dayton Gems, Evansville IceMen, Fort Wayne Komets and Quad City Mallards – absorbed into the CHL.

[7][8] The remaining two franchises from the league's last season that were not absorbed into the CHL, the Flint Generals and the Port Huron Icehawks, folded.

[9] Dennis Hextall was named as the president and commissioner of the International Hockey League on September 2, 2009.

[10] Hextall was preceded by Paul Pickard, who served as commissioner for the first two years of the renamed league (2007–2009).