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	History of Hockey - Stats Hockey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The equipment used in hockey was also evolving with skates that strapped to your boots in the first 50 years of the century to skates that were clamped or screwed into your boots in the later 50 years of that century.
		The National Hockey League eventually gained control of the Stanley Cup in 1926 and from then on it could only be won by NHL teams instead of other league champions challenging for this cup.
		Hockey helmets were not worn on a regular basis until the early 1970's and were eventually mandated by the NHL for the 1979-80 season.
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	Eastern Hockey League
		Eastern Professional Hockey League - The Eastern Professional Hockey League (EPHL) was a minor professional ice hockey league which operated in Ontario, and Quebec from 1959 to 1963.
		Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association - The Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association was an ice hockey league in Canada that played three seasons.
		Canadian Amateur Hockey League - The Canadian Amateur Hockey League was a hockey league founded in 1898, replacing the organization that was formerly the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada before the 1898-99 season.
	www.venues-canada.com /easternhockeyleague.html (727 words)

	Early Leagues2 - Washington Capitals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the years that followed, several leagues blossomed in hockey hotbeds across Canada and the U.S. When leagues folded, it was because of financial shortcomings or bitter disputes between competitive club owners.
		The league was nicknamed the “Trolley League” because the teams traveled by the electric railway which connected the four centers involved.
		In 1909 the Canadian Hockey Association was formed, an offspring of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League which had allowed professionals to play alongside amateurs during the preceding season.
	www.washingtoncaps.com /history/EarlyLeagues2.asp (1571 words)

	Stanley Cup - MSN Encarta
		The Stanley Cup is one of the most popular sporting events of the year in Canada, which is home to six NHL franchises and a majority of the NHL’s players.
		The Montréal Amateur Athletic Association (AAA) team, champion of the Amateur Hockey Association in 1893, was awarded the first Stanley Cup title.
		The growth of professional hockey turned the Stanley Cup championship into a professional event by 1910, when the National Hockey Association (NHA), based in eastern Canada, had become the dominant league in the country.
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	Hockey autographs, Vintage autographs, Hockey Hall of Fame players
		He was elected as a charter member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945, and he was also given the honour of turning the sod for the construction of the Hockey Hall of Fame building that opened in 1961.
		Primeau led the league in assists in 1930-31 with 32, and later repeated the feat in 1931-32 and 1933-34 with 37 and 32 respectively.
		All hockey memorabilia and their images are the exclusive property of the owner and may not be reprinted, copied or used without written permission from the owner.
	www.proaxis.com /~hockeybum/Vintage_autographs3.shtml (4229 words)

	Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association was an ice hockey league in Canada that played three seasons.
		They formed in 1906 replacing the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League.
		In 1909 they were replaced with the Canadian Hockey Association.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Canada_Amateur_Hockey_Association (91 words)

	Hockey tickets NHL Hockey Tickets Ticketcity.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Until the mid-1980s it was generally accepted that ice hockey derived from English field hockey and Indian lacrosse and was spread throughout Canada by British soldiers in the mid-1800s.
		The players adopted elements of field hockey, such as the "bully" (later the face-off) and "shinning" (hitting one's opponent on the shins with the stick or playing with the stick on one "shin" or side); this evolved into an informal ice game later known as shinny or shinty.
		Early hockey games allowed as many as 30 players a side on the ice, and the goals were two stones, each frozen into one end of the ice.
	www.ticketcity.com /hockey.asp (474 words)

	NHL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The league had also expanded into the United States, with the Boston Bruins in 1924, the New York Americans and the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1925 and the New York Rangers, Detroit Cougars (later to become the Red Wings), and Chicago Blackhawks in 1926.
		The rise of the Western Hockey League, which many pundits thought planned to transform into a major league and challenge for the Stanley Cup, spurred the NHL in 1967 to undertake its first expansion since the 1920s.
		The National Hockey League also presents numerous trophies, in addition to the Stanley Cup for the overall playoff champion, as well as the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl for the Western Conference playoff champions and the Prince of Wales Trophy for the Eastern Conference playoff champions.
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	PARTICIPANT MIDGET HOCKEY LEAGUES
		The Major Midget League Championships will be held during the week of March 20, 2005 in Kelowna, B.C. The winner will represent BCAHA at the Pacific Regional Play downs of the Hockey Canada National Midget Championships.
		The initial league was comprised of 14 teams (Calgary and Edmonton each had 4 teams, Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Fort Saskatchewan, Sherwood Park, Red Deer and St. Albert) and started play in the fall of 1984 with six teams in the South Division and Eight Teams in the North Division.
		This season, the league is as strong this year as ever with parity playing huge part in the success of the league.
	www.hockeycanada.ca /8/2/4/7/index1.shtml (881 words)

	Rocky Mountain Hockey Schools - Hockey Camps - Rocky Mountain Adventure Hockey Camp - Colorado Resident Hockey Camps
		Canada is a diminished force in international and professional hockey not as a result of advances made in Europe and the United States, but because the country no longer produces its own highly skilled players.
		Canada still sends more players to the National Hockey League than any country, but most of them are second- or third-line performers—checkers and role players, the “unskilled labor of the NHL”, as former Hockey Canada head Derek Holmes calls them.
		In Canada, fighting and brawling increased in the junior leagues and in minor hockey, prompting the Ontario government to commission a report on violence in amateur hockey in 1974.
	www.rmhshockey.com /GameInCrisis.htm (14064 words)

	Hockey - The Early Days
		In 1921-22 a third league was formed in the West, the Western Canada Hockey League, with teams in Edmonton, Calgary, Regina and Saskatoon.
		The league was renamed the Wesern Hockey League for the 1925-26 season, but that was to be the last year for the league.
		The Regina franchise of the WCHL was moved to Portland and the league was renamed the Western Hockey League.
	www.makojo.com /earlyhockey.html (4960 words)

	Hockey St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		It is thought that hockey derives its name from the French word for a shepherd's crook, in reference to the shape of the sticks with their curved playing end.
		The most innovative of the leagues was the PCHA formed by the wealthy Patrick family.
		In 1917 the NHA gave way to the National Hockey League, which was to become the dominant professional league in the world.
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	HUSKIES HOCKEY CLUB
		He is recognized by Amateur Hockey Association of Illinois (AHAI) hockey officials as one of the top youth development coaches in the Chicago area and has been chosen coach of the year by this organization.
		She began playing in the boys league in Canada and switched to girl's hockey at the age of twelve.
		Erin is a USA Hockey certified level four coach and has been an assistant coach with the Huskies for two years, Naperville North JV, and been a Head coach in Canada for four years at the AA level securing two Ontario Provincial Titles at the Female Bantam AA level.
	www.huskieshockeyclub.com /directors.html (738 words)

	Hockey Summary — Infoplease.com
		Until 1910, professionals and amateurs were allowed to play together on “mixed teams,” but this arrangement ended with the formation of the first “big league,” the National Hockey Association, in eastern Canada in 1910.
		The World Hockey Association was organized in Oct. 1972 and was dissolved after the 1978–1979 season when the NHL absorbed four of the teams.
		Hockey, once considered a cold-weather sport, has increased its fan base to the southern and western part of the United States.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0112673.html (579 words)

	Ice Age
		Charter membership in the five-team International Professional Hockey League, the world's first pro league in 1904 at a time when the NHL was an amateur league.
		The team was formed from the stars of the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets, the champions of the U.S. Amateur Hockey Association in 1924 and 1925.
		According to Total Hockey, the official encyclopedia of the NHL, Pittsburgh was one of the first cities in North America to lure amateur Canadian players for what was a standard $30 a week stipend and a local job in the early 1900s.
	www.post-gazette.com /sports_headlines/19990502hockey4.asp (2161 words)

	Ghosts of The Past
		Westwick was born on April 23, 1876 in Ottawa, Ontario, the same locale where he would develop and hone hockey skills that would carry him to a Hall-Of-Fame career.
		Westwick, formerly a goalie in junior hockey, was forced to play forward during a game and impressed his coach so much with his puck handling and skating style that he never again donned the goalie pads.
		After his final year of Senior hockey with the Ottawa Capitals in 1899-1900, Westwick joined back with the Ottawa Silver Seven in the Canadian Amateur Hockey League where the forward continued his scoring prowess.
	www.sportznutz.com /nhl/ghostsofthepast/westwick_harry.htm (511 words)

	Hangout - Ice Hockey
		It is named for Lord Stanley, Earl of Preston and Governor General of Canada, who purchased the silver cup in 1892 for an amateur ice hockey competition.
		From 1910 to 1926, teams from several Canadian professional ice hockey leagues and associations (including the NHL) battled for the cup.
		When the bottom band is filled at the base, the oldest of the five large bands is removed from the trophy and stored along with the original cup at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, Canada.
	www.state.nj.us /hangout_nj/200301_hockey_p4.html (270 words)

	Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's Quebec hockey fighting column
		After all, a league that has clubs named the Laval Chiefs (after the goon team of Slap Shot movie fame) and the Paramedic might be right up his alley, and we know what Con Smythe had to say about alleys.
		The article suggests as well that some teams in the league are controlled by motorcycle gangs, a claim to which the league has not responded, but which may partly explain the propensity to violence.
		Though often blighted by thuggery, the QSMHL is filling the gap in the Quebec hockey landscape left by the absence of American Hockey League teams and the lack of affordable professional hockey.
	www.tomifobia.com /black/hockey_fighting.shtml (729 words)

	USA Hockey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ruggiero was a member of the New England Hockey Writers Association All-Star Team, and in March became one of three finalists for The Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, presented annually by The USA Hockey Foundation to the top women's intercollegiate varsity ice hockey player in the nation.
		In addition, McCaig was named the Director of Hockey Atlanta, in which he developed on- and off-ice programs for both youth and adults and increased the number of coaching clinics annually from seven in 1987 to 100 last year.
		Originated in 1991, the USA Hockey Distinguished Achievement Award is presented annually to a U.S. citizen who has made hockey his or her profession and has made outstanding contributions, on or off the ice, to the sport in America.
	www.usahockey.com /usa_hockey/main/n236/030521_congressaward (3179 words)

	Major League Hockey Franchises
		League formed by the all-pro teams of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association.
		The Quebec Bulldogs were one of the five founding franchises of the Amateur Hockey Association in 1886.
		Leagues other than the NHL are specified after team names.
	home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~wyatt/hockeyf.html (430 words)

	Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League was a hockey league founded in 1905 and only played the 1905-06 season.
		They were formed out of the Canadian Amateur Hockey League and adding the Montreal Wanderers and Ottawa Silver Seven from the Federal Amateur Hockey League.
		In 1906, the league formed into the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Canada_Amateur_Hockey_League (121 words)

	Cleveland Youth Hockey Assoc. AAA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Through competitive youth hockey as a wholesome sport fitness, which is physically and mentally stimulating, we can enable young hockey players to develop not only athletic ability, but the concept of team play, self esteem and build friendships that will last throughout their lives.
		This new league was formed by the teams of the Western Division of the Eastern Elite Amateur Hockey League (EEAHL) because of numerous issues related to travel requirements imposed on parents and players by that league.
		The Cleveland Youth Hockey Association (CYHA), through its various elite youth hockey teams, provides for an economically and socially diverse group of children aged eight through fourteen, an opportunity to compete both nationally and internationally at the highest levels of youth hockey.
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	Legends of Hockey - Historic Trophies - Arena Cup
		The Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association was formed December 11, 1905, to effect a consolidation of clubs who previously had been members of the Canadian Amateur Hockey League and the Federal Amateur Hockey League.
		Manufactured by Birks and handcrafted by early silversmiths using sterling silver, the 90-ounce trophy was adopted as the new league’s centerpiece.
		The league’s only winners were the Montreal Wanderers who incidentally won the Stanley Cup the same years.
	www.legendsofhockey.net /html/silver_splasharenacup.htm (128 words)

	Open Directory - Sports:Hockey:Ice Hockey:Leagues
		If the league you are seeking is unlisted, please submit it to the most appropriate category (i.e., junior, youth, etc.) with a comment saying "League not listed."
		Sites for minor hockey (not professional) should be submitted to junior hockey or youth hockey.
		Minor league hockey in North America has expanded from the traditional enclaves of the frozen north, becoming a beloved feature of many large and small cities in the west, the south, the midwest, and the northern and eastern states and Canada.
	dmoz.org /Sports/Hockey/Ice_Hockey/Leagues/desc.html (394 words)

	Cecil “Cece” Hart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A pioneer Canadian sportsman, Cece Hart coached the National Hockey League’s Montreal Canadiens to back-to-back Stanley Cup Championships in 1929–30 and 1930–31.
		A direct descendant of Canada’s first Jewish settler, Aaron Hart, Cece enjoyed great success from 1900 to 1922, playing, coaching, organizing, and managing amateur baseball and hockey teams for the Star Club of Montreal.
		of secretary-treasurer of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association.
	www.jewishsports.net /biopages/CecilCeceHart.htm (108 words)

	CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Hockey AHL Moose sign top Pats player
		Just a few days ago, Rick Rypien was putting the finishing touches on his career in the Western Hockey League with the Regina Pats.
		Rypien, a 20-year-old from Coleman, Alta., enjoyed personal success with 22 goals and 51 points in 63 games with the Pats, but the season itself was a struggle as the Pats finished dead last in the WHL with a record of 12-50-4-6.
		One of those 12 wins came on Saturday night at the Agridome against the Brandon Wheat Kings, and Rypien made sure his final game on home ice was a memorable one as he tallied three goals and an assist in a 5-3 win that cost the Wheaties first overall in the Eastern Conference.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Hockey/AHL/2005/03/23/969990.html (501 words)

	Virginia Junior Hockey Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		At the end of their intensive four day training camp, the Virginia Statesmen of the Empire Junior B Hockey League traveled up to Canada to further train and compete with their Junior A affiliate the Blind River Beavers of the NOJHL (Northern Ontario Junior “A” Hockey League).
		While focusing on various individual areas according to background and strength, as a team, the committee will reinforce the Statesmen goal of providing motivated elite-level hockey players the opportunity to challenge themselves against the best in the country, measuring success by the opportunities players are given to pursue their dreams at the next level.
		B League, the Statesmen are proud to announce that our Tier I teams have been invited to join the prestigious and highly competitive Empire West Amateur Hockey League (EWAHL).
	www.virginiastatesmen.org (896 words)

	Hockey memorabilia for sale, Page 3
		Hockey Memorabilia Vintage Hockey Autographs Hockey Postcards Hockey Trophies
		NHL Wire Photos Hockey Team Photos Pacific Coast Hockey League
		All photos are property of the owner and may not be reprinted or used without written permission.
	www.hockeylegend.com /saleitems3.htm (85 words)

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