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Encyclopedia > Western Hockey League (minor pro)

The Western Hockey League was a minor pro ice hockey league that operated from 1952 to 1974. It was created out of the merger of the Pacific Coast Hockey League and the Western Canada Senior Hockey League. Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... 1952 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... 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 Canada Senior Hockey League was an ice hockey league that played six seasons in western Canada, from 1945 to 1951. ...


In the 1965-66 and 1967-68 seasons, they also played games with the American Hockey League. The American Hockey League (AHL) became the major affiliation league for the National Hockey League upon its amalgamation with the International Hockey League in 2001. ...


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Starting in 1950-51, the Southern Division was dropped and the league consisted of six to eight teams located in the Northwest and B.C. The league changed it's name for the start of the 1952-53 season, becoming the Western Hockey League (WHL).
George Senick led the league in penalty minutes with 166, and defenseman Willie Schmidt was named to the First Team All-Star Team for the Northern Division.
He would play the 1952-53 season with St. Louis in the American Hockey League, winning Rookie of the Year honors there as well, before returning to the west coast to join the Seattle Bombers and start a long and very successful run in Seattle.
Western Canada Hockey League: Information from Answers.com (1391 words)
The Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL), founded in 1921, was a major professional ice hockey league originally based in the prairies of Canada.
Instead of the two western leagues playing off to see who would play the NHL champion for the Stanley Cup, the president of the PCHA, Frank Patrick, insisted that the NHL champion had to play the winner of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association first.
This would be the pinnacle and shining moment for the Western Canada Hockey League as Victoria became the first non-NHL team to win the Stanley Cup since the formation of the NHL in 1917.
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