The Calgary Stampeders are a defunct ice hockey team that was based in Calgary, Alberta. They played in the Western Canada Senior Hockey League from 1945-51, the Pacific Coast Hockey League in 1951-52 and the Western Hockey League from 1952-63. A Calgary Stampeders team also played in the Alberta Senior Hockey League in the late 1930s. Other teams in the ASHL included the Edmonton Eskimos and the Drumheller Miners; the latter team featured four Bentley brothers, three of whom played in the NHL and two of whom are enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Heart of the new west City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Location. ... The Western Canada Senior Hockey League was an ice hockey league that played six seasons in western Canada, from 1945 to 1951. ... The Pacific Coast Hockey League was an amateur ice hockey league with teams in western United States and Canada that played from 1944 to 1952. ... The Western Hockey League was a minor pro ice hockey league that operated from 1952 to 1974. ... // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ... The Edmonton Eskimos were a Canadian ice hockey team that played in the Western Canada Hockey League from 1921 to 1928. ... NHL can also be an abbreviation for National Historic Landmark or Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. ... The Hockey Hall of Fame is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; it is devoted to ice hockey rather than the field variety of the game. ...
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ASHL Standings from 1938-39, the only season in HockeyDB's records for that era
Calgary is the largest city in Alberta and the third largest civic municipality, by population, in Canada.
Calgary is well-known as a destination for winter sports and ecotourism with a number of major mountain resorts near the city and metropolitan area.
Calgary's economy is mostly centred on the petroleum industry (see oilpatch), however agriculture, tourism, and the high-tech industries also contribute to the city's fast economic growth.
Calgary, city on the Bow River in southern Alberta, Canada, at the entrance to a major route across the Rocky Mountains.
Calgary is known as the Energy Capital of Canada because a number of oil companies have headquarters in the city.
Stampede Park also has one of the city's most remarkable structures, the saddle-shaped Saddledome, which was used as an Olympic stadium and is now the home of the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League.