The Edmonton Eskimos were a Canadian ice hockey team that played in the Western Canada Hockey League from 1921 to 1928. The Eskimos beat the Regina Capitals to win the 1923 WHL playoffs. They were also the 1923 regular league champions. The Eskimos came in second in the 1922 and 1926 WCHL playoffs. Team alumni include Eddie Shore. An Edmonton Eskimos team also played in the Alberta Senior Hockey League in the late 1930s. Other teams in the ASHL included the Calgary Stampeders 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. ... This article refers to the professional Western Canada Hockey League, and not the amateur Western Canada Hockey League (junior). ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article refers to the junior Western Hockey League, and not the pro Western Hockey League (professional). ... 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Eddie The Edmonton Express Shore (born November 25, 1902 in Fort QuAppelle, Saskatchewan, Canada - died 1985) was a professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League (NHL). ... // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ... The Calgary Stampeders are a defunct ice hockey team that was based in Calgary, Alberta. ... 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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The EdmontonEskimos, owned by local hockey man Kenny McKenziewho also acted as the general manager of the clubbore the same name as the famed Edmonton amateur club that challenged for the Stanley Cup in 1908 and 1910.
Shore led his Eskimos to the Western Hockey League (the league was renamed in 1925 when the surviving teams from the now-defunct PCHL joined) final in 1925-26.
The WCHL and the Eskimos folded in 1926, killing professional hockey in Western Canada until the emergence of the World Hockey Association and the rise of the NHLs Vancouver Canucks in the early 1970s.
Eddie "The Edmonton Express" Shore (born November 25, 1902 in Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, Canada - died March 16, 1985) was a professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League (NHL).
In 1924, he began his hockey career with the Regina Capitals in the Western Hockey League.
Eddie Shore was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947.
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