They were replaced by the Quad City Flames of the American Hockey League for two seasons before moving to Abbotsford, British Columbia.

After the Flames left, the Quad City Mallards were reincarnated in 2009 and played home games at the arena until 2018.

In May 2018, two months after the Quad City Mallards ceased operations, TaxSlayer Center director Scott Mullen and former Mallards' owner Howard Cornfield announced a Southern Professional Hockey League team called the Quad City Storm would play the 2018–19 season.

In 2009, Western Illinois University's club hockey team, the Fighting Leathernecks, began playing there for four games per season.

The center has also hosted professional wrestling events, including the 1997 Great American Bash and 2015 King of the Ring pay-per-views, and numerous broadcasts of World Wrestling Entertainment programming, including Raw, ECW and SmackDown.

In September of that same year, TaxSlayer Chief Marketing Officer Chris Moloney announced at a press conference that the company had signed a long-term agreement to be the title sponsor of the venue, which would now be called the TaxSlayer Center beginning on October 1, 2017.