Four teams from each division made the playoffs – eight in total – and it was evident during the league’s first playoff run that there was little parity in WHA hockey. The opening round of ...
Then the flamboyant left wing's signing with the Winnipeg Jets gave instant credibility to a new league, the World Hockey Association, in the 1970s. One of the fastest skaters in the game ...
After attending a training camp with the Detroit Red Wings, Proceviat was ticketed for the ECHL. Thankfully, coach Porter was still well acquainted with Sudbury icon Moe Bartoli, the man around whom ...
Unlike the WHA, which was a direct competitor of the ... I played in the best roller-hockey league in New York, the famed Fort Hamilton Roller Hockey League in Brooklyn. The Mullen Brothers ...
He led the World Hockey Association’s Birmingham Bulls ... previously only 20-year-olds could be drafted into the best league in the world. Linseman’s route to pro hockey began when he took ...
The Whalers became part of the NHL when the league absorbed the WHA for the 1979-1980 season ... milestone by welcoming back some Hartford Hockey alumni. The team said the former play-by-play ...
BOSTON (AP) — Tom McVie, who coached the Winnipeg Jets to the 1979 World Hockey Association championship over Wayne Gretzky’s ...