Utica Jr. Comets

The franchise was originally formed in 1999 when the Bay State Breakers organization joined the Eastern Junior Hockey League. After the Breakers had become members of the USPHL in 2013, the club decided to shift its focus back towards youth hockey and sold its Premier Division team in 2015. The franchise was renamed as the Syracuse Stars, taking the same name as an earlier junior club, and reached an affiliation agreement with the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League.^[1] In 2017, the USPHL announced that they were founding a Tier II division and invited all of their member organizations to found clubs for the new level. The Stars were one of the founding members of the National Collegiate Development Conference.

In 2019, the franchise announced that it was merging with the already extant Utica Jr. Comets youth organization.^[2] The club relocated to Utica and took on the name and colors of their namesake which were nearly identical to those of the Utica Comets, another AHL franchise. The professional Comets relocated in the summer of 2021, however, at the same time the New Jersey Devils moved their minor league affiliate to the region and they subsequently took up the mantle of the Comets.^[3] The result of this was that the Jr. Comets chanced their color scheme but the club was otherwise unaffected.