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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOSTON (AP) — Tom McVie, who coached the Winnipeg Jets to the 1979 World Hockey Association championship over Wayne Gretzky’s ...

BOSTON — Tom McVie, who coached the Winnipeg Jets to the 1979 World Hockey Association championship ... coach in the team’s National Hockey League history back in 1979,” the Jets posted ...

before transitioning to head coach with the Dayton Gems of the International Hockey League. He started his NHL coaching ...