in 2007, the columbus team won the sphl commissioner's cup as the team with the best season record, but was ousted in the first round of playoffs by the jacksonville barracudas, who won the series three games to one. in 2008, the snakes' 22–24–6 regular-season record was a columbus hockey team's first losing record since 2002–03 and the first one by a non-echl team.