Hockey

Before the Cincinnati Swords, Stingers, Cyclones, and Mighty Ducks, Cincinnati had the Mohawks. They were a member of the American Hockey League (AHL) from 1949 to 1952, before moving to the International Hockey League (IHL), where they won 5 straight championships. Their home ice was the??Cincinnati...

After a few seasons in the West Coast Hockey League, the Fresno Falcons opted for a new logo and color scheme in 1998, before changing logos again in 2003.

The New York Raiders were a charter franchise of the World Hockey Association and first hit the ice with the rest of the league in 1972. The team, however, could not compete for fans with the established New York Rangers of the National Hockey...

The Connecticut Whale was the nickname the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League switched to in 2010. The name honored the departed, and sorely missed, Whalers, who had departed for North Carolina in 1997. In 2013, The Whale switched back to its...

The Binghamton Whalers were an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League, playing in Binghamton, New York at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena. OS16148

The original Houston Aeros played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) from its inception in 1972. The league and the Aeros gained instant credibility with the signing of hockey legend Gordie Howe. The team won two championships, 1974-74 and 1974-75, but folded in 1978,...

Encouraged by the initial success of his American Basketball Association (ABA), which challenged the National Basketball Association (NBA), Gary Davidson and his cohorts turned their attention to hockey. On November 1, 1971, Davidson announced the formation of the World Hockey Association (WHA) to challenge...

The Michigan Stags played in the World Hockey Association arriving in Detroit in 1974. They were previously the Los Angeles Sharks from 1972 until their move to the Motor City. Halfway through their only season in Michigan they moved to Baltimore and became the...

After only one season, the Ottawa Nationals relocated to Toronto in 1973 for the??second season of the??World Hockey Association (WHA). As the Toronto Toros they found success on the ice and at the gate, making the playofffs in their first two seasons in their...

The San Antonio Rampage began as the the Tidewater Wings, members of the American Hockey League (AHL), in 1971. They changed their name in 1972 to the Virginia Wings. In 1979, they moved to Upstate New York and became the Adirondack Wings. In 2002,...

The original Minnesota Fighting Saints were charter members of the World Hockey Association in 1972. The team played its home games in St. Paul, while the rival NHL Minnesota North Stars played in suburban Bloomington. The Fighting Saints folded halfway through the 1975-76 season....

After the NHL's??California Golden Seals??sold their Columbus farm team of the same??nickname??to local interests, it was renamed the Owls and played on until 1977 when it moved to Grand Rapids. Their home ice was Stadium Arena.

The Cleveland Crusaders played in the World Hockey Association from 1972 to 1976. In their first two seasons they played at the old Cleveland Arena before moving to the Richfield Coliseum in 1974. They relocated to Minnesota when hockey's California Golden Seals moved to town...

The Louisville Icehawks first hit the ice in 1990 as members of the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL). Their home was Broadbent Arena at the Kentucky Exposition Center. They played for five seasons in Kentucky before moving to Jacksonville, Florida in 1995.

The Providence Reds (also known as the Rhode Island Reds) started in the Canadian-American Hockey League in 1926. They continued with that circuit when it became the American Hockey League in 1936. In 1976, they became the Rhode Island Reds, before moving to Binghamton,...

The Omni Coliseum, known simply as The Omni in Atlanta, opened in 1972 and was the home of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and NHL's Atlanta Flames. The Atlanta Chiefs soccer team played their indoor games there as did the Atlanta Attack soccer team. The...

The Bell System was a network of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated telephone service in North America for over a century. It was formed in 1877 and broken up on anti-trust grounds in 1983. Colloquially, the system...

The Stingers were Cincinnati's only major league hockey team. The team played at Riverfront Coliseum (now U.S. Bank Arena) from 1975 to 1979, and they were members of the World Hockey Association (WHA). When the WHA merged with the National Hockey League in 1979,...

The New England Whalers were charter members of the World Hockey Association (WHA) and played 7 seasons in that league starting in 1972. The team made the playoffs in every season, won three straight Eastern Division Titles and won the Avco World Trophy defeating...

The Kansas City Blades played in the International Hockey League (IHL) from 1990 until 2001 when the league ceased operations. They played their games at Kemper Arena.

The Flyers played in the American Hockey Association from 1928 to 1942 before moving to the American Hockey League where the played for the 1944-45 season and again during the 1952-53 season.

The Birmingham Bulls first hit the ice in 1976 as members of the World Hockey Association (WHA). The team had spent the previous three seasons as the Toronto Toros before heading to Alabama. The Bulls drew 8,400 fans a game in their first season,...

The Calgary Cowboys began as the Philadelphia Blazers in the inaugural season of the World Hockey Association in 1972. The team moved to Vancouver in 1973, keeping their nickname. In 1975 they moved to Calgary and became the Cowboys. They folded in 1977.

They started in 1972 as the New York Raiders, a charter member of the World Hockey Association (WHA). They became the New York Golden Blades a year later, but 20 games into their second season they became the Jersey Knights. In 1974 they became...

The Chicago Hounds played one season in the United Hockey League. There home ice was the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates. They were founded in 2003 as the Richmond (VA) Riverdogs. They moved to Chicago in 2006 and folded in 2007.

The Macon Whoopee played in the Central Hockey League (CHL) from 1996 to 2001. The team took its name from a previous squad that played in the city for part of the 1973-74 Southern Hockey League season. After the second Whoopee team folded, the??Tallahassee...

The New Jersey Meadowlands, also known as the Hackensack Meadowlands after the primary river flowing through it, is the general name for the large ecosystem of wetlands in northeastern New Jersey,?? a few miles west of New York City. Sports fans are familiar with...

You can still hear the call all these years later.

The Chicago Shamrocks??played in the American Hockey League from 1930 to 1932. The team was dissolved when owner James Norris bought the NHL Detroit Falcons out of bankruptcy and renamed them the Red Wings.

Initially awarded to the province of Ontario in 1972 for the first season of the World Hockey Association (WHA), the team originally planned to play in Toronto at Maple Leaf Gardens, and when that fell through, nearby Hamilton. When the season began, they were...