| 词条 | Western Hockey League (1952–1974) |
| 释义 |
|logo = |pixels = |caption = |sport = Ice hockey |founded = 1952 |folded = 1974 |founder = Al Leader |motto = |countries= {{USA}} {{CAN}} |champions = Phoenix Roadrunners |most_champs = Vancouver Canucks (4) }} The Western Hockey League (WHL) was a minor pro ice hockey league that operated from its 1952-1953 season through the 1973-1974 season. Managed for most of its history by Al Leader, it was originally the Pacific Coast Hockey League (PCHL), which had absorbed three teams from the Western Canada Senior Hockey League for the 1951-1952 season before renaming itself one year later. During the 1960s, the WHL moved into a number of large west coast markets including Los Angeles and San Francisco. There was speculation that the WHL could grow into a major league capable of rivaling even the long-entrenched National Hockey League.[1] In the 1965–66 and 1967–68 seasons, the WHL played an interlocking schedule with the American Hockey League. Fears that the WHL (or a WHL/AHL merger) could become a rival major league was among the factors that finally convinced the National Hockey League to expand for the 1967–68 season.[2] Several factors led to the WHL's decision to cease operations after the 1973–74 season. The NHL and World Hockey Association had moved into many of its traditional markets, and the talent pool had become strained by the fast growth in the number of professional teams. When the NHL announced in June 1974 that the owners of both the Denver Spurs and Seattle Totems had been granted "conditional" NHL franchises (neither of which came to fruition), the WHL announced the same day that it was folding. A few of its surviving teams were absorbed into the Central Hockey League (CHL), though the Phoenix Roadrunners franchise did join the WHA for the 1974–75 season, and the Denver Spurs would jump from the CHL to the WHA for the 1975–76 season (but folded mid-season). The championship trophy of the WHL was the Lester Patrick Cup, which is currently on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame. Teams
TimelineDateFormat = mm/dd/yyyy ImageSize = width:1500 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:01/01/1952 till:07/01/1974 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:30 left:0 bottom:50 top:5 Colors = id:barcolor value:rgb(0.99,0.7,0.7) id:line value:black id:bg value:white PlotData= width:15 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:s bar:1 color:skyblue from:08/01/1952 till:07/01/1954 text:Seattle Bombers (1952–1954) bar:1 color:skyblue from:08/01/1955 till:07/01/1958 text:Seattle Americans (1955–1958) bar:1 color:skyblue from:08/01/1958 till:07/01/1974 text:Seattle Totems (1958–1974) bar:2 color:skyblue from:08/01/1952 till:07/01/1970 text:Vancouver Canucks (1952–1970) bar:3 color:skyblue from:08/01/1952 till:07/01/1963 text:Calgary Stampeders (1952–1963) bar:4 color:skyblue from:08/01/1952 till:07/01/1963 text:Edmonton Flyers (1952–1963) bar:5 color:skyblue from:08/01/1952 till:07/01/1961 text:Victoria Cougars (1952–1961) bar:5 color:skyblue from:08/01/1961 till:07/01/1967 text:Los Angeles Blades (1961–1967) bar:6 color:skyblue from:08/01/1952 till:07/01/1956 text:Saskatoon Quakers (1952–1956) bar:7 color:skyblue from:08/01/1952 till:07/01/1959 text:New Westminster Royals (1952–1959) bar:8 color:skyblue from:08/01/1952 till:07/01/1953 text:Tacoma Rockets (1952–1953) bar:9 color:skyblue from:08/01/1955 till:07/01/1961 text:Winnipeg Warriors (1955–1961) bar:10 color:skyblue from:08/01/1955 till:07/01/1957 text:Brandon Regals (1955–1957) bar:10 color:skyblue from:08/01/1957 till:07/01/1958 text:Saskatoon/Saint Paul's Regals (1957–1958) bar:10 color:skyblue from:08/01/1958 till:07/01/1959 text:Saskatoon Quakers (1958–1959) bar:11 color:skyblue from:08/01/1958 till:07/01/1960 text:Spokane Spokes (1958-1960) bar:11 color:skyblue from:08/01/1960 till:07/01/1963 text:Spokane Comets (1960-1963) bar:11 color:skyblue from:08/01/1963 till:07/01/1964 text:Denver Invaders (1963–1964) bar:11 color:skyblue from:08/01/1964 till:07/01/1967 text:Victoria Maple Leafs (1964–1967) bar:11 color:skyblue from:08/01/1967 till:07/01/1974 text:Phoenix Roadrunners (1967–1974) bar:12 color:skyblue from:08/01/1960 till:07/01/1974 text:Portland Buckaroos (1960–1974) bar:13 color:skyblue from:08/01/1961 till:07/01/1966 text:San Francisco Seals (1961–1966) bar:13 color:skyblue from:08/01/1966 till:07/01/1967 text:California Seals (1966–1967) bar:15 color:skyblue from:08/01/1966 till:07/01/1974 text:San Diego Gulls (1966–1974) bar:16 color:skyblue from:08/01/1968 till:07/01/1974 text:Denver Spurs (1968–1974) bar:17 color:skyblue from:08/01/1969 till:07/01/1974 text:Salt Lake Golden Eagles (1969–1974) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:1 start:01/01/1952 References1. ^[https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/464114362.html?dids=464114362:464114362&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+27%2C+1959&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Official+Says+Hockey+Would+Go+Big+Here&pqatl=google Los Angeles Times, 27 March 1959, p.C1: Official Says Hockey Would Go Big Here] 2. ^{{cite book| title=Net Worth: Exploding the Myths of Pro Hockey| author1=David Cruise| author2=Alison Griffiths| publisher=Stoddart Publishing| year=1991}} External links
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