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	Encyclopedia: Major professional sports league
		The major professional sports leagues are those professional sports leagues with the largest fan bases and television audiences (and therefore, the largest revenues and player salaries).
		The Central Hockey League (CHL) is a low-level professional hockey league.
		Major League Soccer (founded 1996) - as the largest sport in the world, and a sport that is immensely popular elsewhere, proponents believe that MLS should be included due to the reputation of the game.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Major-professional-sports-league (5637 words)

	Ontario Hockey League
		The Ontario Hockey League is one of the three ice hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League.
		The league is professional and is for players aged 15-20.
		1951 The OHA (Ontario Hockey Associatio) is born with Windsor Spitfires.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/o/on/ontario_hockey_league.html (564 words)

	Encyclopedia: Canadian Professional Hockey League
		The Canadian Professional Hockey League (CPHL) was announced during the National Hockey League's 2004-05 season player lockout.
		League founders hoped it would start in October 2005, but no further announcements on the CPHL's future have been made.
		Timmins, with a population of 43,686 (2001), is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada on the Mattagami River.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Canadian-Professional-Hockey-League (241 words)

	Inside Britannica
		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.
		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.
		The National Hockey Association (NHA), the forerunner of the National Hockey League, was organized in 1910 and became the strongest association in North America.
	newsletters.britannica.com /articles/dec03/icehockey.html (1641 words)

	The Cardiff Devils Ice Hockey Club - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hockey has been played for longer than any of us has been alive, but we can't tell you exactly when it was invented, or by whom, because no one really knows for sure.
		The first national hockey organization, the Amateur Hockey Association (AHA) of Canada (which limited players to seven a side), was formed in Montreal in 1885, and the first league was formed in Kingston during the same year, with four teams: the Kingston Hockey Club, Queen's University, the Kingston Athletics, and the Royal Military College.
		Thus the first acknowledged professional hockey team in the world was formed in the United States, in 1903, in Houghton, Michigan.
	www.thecardiffdevils.com /fanZone/history.htm (1346 words)

	MSN Encarta - Wayne Gretzky
		Gretzky, Wayne, born in 1961, Canadian professional ice hockey player, nicknamed The Great One, who is the National Hockey League (NHL) career leader in goals, assists, and points (goals and assists combined).
		His accomplishments earned him wide recognition as the greatest hockey player ever, and he was especially noted for his ability to improve the performances of his teammates by complementing their playing strengths.
		He began playing organized hockey in grade school and was soon such a dominant scorer that he was moved out of his age bracket to play with youngsters several years older.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574313/Gretzky_Wayne.html (1433 words)

	Canpro - Canadian Professional Hockey League 1929 - 1930
		In the fall of 1929 a new minor professional hockey league was formed in Southern Ontario, under the name "Canadian Professional Hockey League".
		The Canadian or "Canpro" league, as it was often called, was affiliated with the NHL and served as a farm league for the International Hockey League (IHL).
		As a farm league for the IHL, which itself was a farm league for the NHL, the Canpro league adopted a rule being tested out west that required the puck carrier to enter the attacking zone before other attacking players.
	www.uoguelph.ca /~bhanna/Canpro (339 words)

	Encyclopedia: 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.
		Although the teams were top-level minor pro teams, the league struggled to survive in small markets, and a team from New York State was added in 1962 when only three Canadian teams remained.
		This addition failed to prevent the demise of the league; the American team, in fact, moved to Missouri halfway through the season because of poor attendance.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Eastern-Professional-Hockey-League (203 words)

	Ontario Hockey Association Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Canadian Junior A Hockey League (CJAHL), an association of Canadian Junior A hockey leagues and teams, formed in November 1993, emerging from the Canada West Association of Junior 'A' Hockey.
		The Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) is an Alberta-based Tier II Junior A hockey league that belongs to the Canadian Junior A Hockey League (CJAHL).
		It was formed as a five-team league in 1963.
	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Ontario_Hockey_Association (684 words)

	Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
		While there were various leagues and teams throughout the early half of the 20th century, it wasn't until 1949 that Quebec produced its first Memorial Cup winner, the Montreal Royals.
		By 1953, the top junior league in Quebec was a small 4-team league and had turned to the OHA to provide competition through an interlocking schedule.
		The league also became embroiled in a dispute with the CAHA that resulted in the league briefly becoming ineligible for Memorial Cup competition.
	www.officialgamepuck.com /Quebec%20Major%20Junior%20Hockey%20League/QMJHLhistory.htm (540 words)

	Ontario Hockey League -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Most of the teams are based in (additional info and facts about Ontario, Canada) Ontario, Canada, but some are from (A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region) Michigan or (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) Pennsylvania.
		1988 The (A port city in southeastern Ontario at the western end of Lake Ontario) Hamilton Steelhawks are relocated to (A city in western New York State at the falls of the Niagara river; tourist attraction and honeymoon resort) Niagara Falls.
		1951 The OHA (Ontario Hockey Association) is consists of the Windsor Spitfires, Waterloo Hurricanes.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/O/On/Ontario_Hockey_League.htm (2133 words)

	The Toronto Arenas 1917 to 1918 - leafstats.8m.com
		The roots of professional hockey in Toronto can be traced back to 1908 when the Toronto "Professionals" took to the ice in the Ontario Professional Hockey League.
		The league also included teams from the Ontario towns of Guelph, Brantford and Berlin (Kitchener), and was nicknamed the "Trolley League" because the towns could all be reached by the electric railway lines of the day.
		Some hockey historians have gone so far as to refer to Livingstone as the George Steinbrenner of his day but such a comparison does not paint the man known as "Livvy" in the proper light.
	ca.geocities.com /leafstats/190817_history.html (1298 words)

	Eastern Professional Hockey League -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although the teams were top-level minor pro teams, the league struggled to survive in small markets, and a team from (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York State was added in 1962 when only three Canadian teams remained.
		This addition failed to prevent the demise of the league; the American team, in fact, moved to (A midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union) Missouri halfway through the season because of poor attendance.
		During its final season the league played an interlocking schedule with the (additional info and facts about International Hockey League) International Hockey League.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/Ea/Eastern_Professional_Hockey_League.htm (255 words)

	ECHL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ECHL is a professional hockey minor league based in the United States and Canada, generally regarded as being a tier below the American Hockey League.
		Since that time, the League has met with great success, reaching its largest size in 2003 of 31 teams before being reduced to 28 teams for the 2004 season.
		In a change reflective of the nationwide presence of the ECHL, the East Coast Hockey League changed its name to simply ECHL on May 19, 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Coast_Hockey_League (631 words)

	Kingston Frontenacs Hockey Club \| Ontario Hockey League
		Besides playing in the OHL and professionally in the American league and Europe, Cimellaro has coaching experience in the United Hockey League and the Western Professional Hockey League.
		Professional play: A free-agent signing of the Ottawa Senators, Cimellaro played two games in the National Hockey League.
		Finished career as player-assistant coach for the Waco Wizards of the Western Professional Hockey League and the Adirondack Ice Hawks of the United Hockey League.
	www.kingstonfrontenacs.com /news/2003-06-11a.html (722 words)

	2nd Period -- Professional Hockey in Canada -- Minor Professional Hockey - American Hockey League
		As the name suggests, the American Hockey League didn't include any Canadian-based teams when it was formed in 1936 as a minor pro league for the NHL, though the rosters were stocked with Canadian players.
		Eventually, the league took on a much more Canadian flavour with teams over the years in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Ontario, Prince Edward Island and, of course, Quebec.
		The Maple Leafs farm club was in St. John's, Newfoundland; the Edmonton Oilers had one in Hamilton, Ontario; the Montreal Canadiens affiliate was in Quebec City; and the Calgary Flames farm team was based out of Saint John, New Brunswick.
	www.virtualmuseum.ca /Exhibitions/Hockey/English/Pros/minorpro.html (193 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Hockey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		In 1917 the NHA gave way to the National Hockey League, which was to become the dominant professional league in the world.
		College hockey in the United States, and women's hockey throughout the world, seemed set for more success; in Russia, however, once mighty teams were in a state of poverty-stricken post-communist collapse.
	www.findarticles.com /g1epc/tov/2419100589/p1/article.jhtml (1181 words)

	PlayYourGame.com - Ontario Hockey League
		The Ontario Hockey League (OHL) is one of three major junior leagues that comprise the Canadian Hockey League (CHL).
		It is considered to be one of the major breeding grounds for hockey talent and is heavily recruited by the NHL and other professional leagues.
		Although travelling and a heavy playing schedule are a part of OHL life, the league has focussed on being a weekend league with 89.9% of games falling between Thursday and Sunday.
	www.playyourgame.com /ohl.html (158 words)

	Lalonde Family Web Site - Newsy Lalonde
		He is recognized by the Hockey Hall of Fame as the dominant player of hockey's first quarter century.
		He began his professional career with the Cornwall Rovers in 1905 when he was only 16.
		The National Hockey League was born on November 26th 1917 with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators and Toronto Arenas as charter members.
	web.uvic.ca /~lalonde/history/newsy.html (1542 words)

	Edmonton Oilers Heritage Website - The World Hockey Association
		The World Hockey Association (WHA) was officially proclaimed in a Delaware courtroom in the late spring of 1970, after a decades long evolution in the sports business world.
		Since its inception and until the 1970s, the National Hockey League (NHL) allowed teams to have a reserve clause —if a player's contract was ending, a club could automatically renew the contract, without negotiation.
		Early on, the new league suffered problems, as legitimate investors of potential teams could not be differentiated between the scam artists.
	www.oilersheritage.com /history/WHA_leagues_WHA.html (912 words)

	PlayYourGame.com - Ontario Provincial Junior 'A' Hockey League
		The Provincial Junior "A" Hockey League (OPJHL) is made up of a total of 36 teams, the largest number of teams in any Canadian Junior 'A' hockey league.
		The league consists of four conferences, the East, West, North and South.
		The OPJHL is a major feeder for OHL hockey as well as turning out players for both the University and Professional levels.
	www.playyourgame.com /opjhl.html (79 words)

	A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey - Ea
		The East Coast Hockey League is a minor professional league, founded by Henry Brabham and Bill Coffey.
		A divsion of the Central Hockey League from 1996-.
		A division of the Western Professional Hockey League.
	www.azhockey.com /Ea.htm (2052 words)

	CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Hockey - Ontario native wins Hockey Enforcers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sixteen hockey players signed on to duke it out with each other - no sticks, pucks or hockey - just skating to centre ice and letting the fists fly for 60 seconds, or until the referee called a halt.
		Mayrand plays minor professional hockey in Sorel, Que., in the fight-happy North American Professional Hockey League, while Sgroi spent last season with Wilkes-Barre of the American Hockey League.
		There was a whiff of bush league about the event with another ex-NHLer, Lyndon Byers, also not showing up due to an injury.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Hockey/News/2005/08/28/1191926-cp.html (1014 words)

	Original Stars Hockey League: Schedule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Original Stars Hockey League is hoping to fill the hockey void caused by the NHL work stoppage.
		A new league called the Original Stars Hockey League (OSHL) is hoping to fill the void caused by the work stoppage.
		It is a six-team league comprised of NHL players, and will stage games in cities throughout Canada until a new NHL collective bargaining agreement is reached.
	www.toronto.com /profile/875782 (334 words)

	Guelph Maple Leafs in a league of their own \| The Guelph Mercury
		Even archivists at the Hockey Hall of Fame were stumped when asked about the Canadian Professional Hockey League.
		The Canadian Professional Hockey League was made up of four teams -- the Brantford Indians, the Kitchener Flying Dutchmen, the Galt Terriers and the Maple Leafs.
		The IHL was first known as the Canadian Professional Hockey League and when they changed their name, they let the minor pro league become the Can-Pro league."
	www.guelphmercury.com /news/special/175_anniversary/news_special_020405144546.html (639 words)

	Barry Ashbee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William Barry Ashbee was born in Weston, Ontario, on July 28, 1939.
		Coming up in the pre-expansion years of just six NHL teams, he made his professional debut in 1959 with Kingston of the Eastern Professional Hockey League before moving onto Hershey (1962-65), the Boston Bruins’ American Hockey League affiliate.
		A memorial award was given annually to the MVP on the Weston Collegiate Hockey Team in Barry Ashbee's honour.
	www.westonplace.ca /barryashbee.html (574 words)

	Women's Professional Hockey League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In addition, league president Ed Saunders indicated that the organization is seeking to establish a partnership in the Toronto area.
		On Monday, February 2nd, Women's Professional Hockey League, Inc. announced that it had arrived at five finalists in the franchise site selection process for its four teams: Hookset, NH; Marlboro, MA; Billerica, MA; Pierrefonds, QUE; Bridgeport, CT. The league is scheduled to commence its inaugural season on November 1st.
		Women's Professional Hockey League, Inc. is composed of a group of people, including players like Erin Whitten, Karyn Bye, Katie King, and many others who are interested in creating greater opportunity in the sport of women's ice hockey.
	www.whockey.com /news/wphl_98.html (940 words)

	Oatman Links Issue 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Though Eddie never played in the National Hockey League, he was among the elite goal scorers of his era.
		Eddie played with clubs that won five league championships, and he was a successful coach and captain of five different hockey teams.
		Born in 1889 in Tillsonburg, Ontario, Eddie began playing organized hockey at age 10 and continued for the next eight years in youth leagues in his hometown.
	home.rochester.rr.com /woatman/oatman/links/Issue9-2001.htm (1666 words)

	CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Hockey - New league keeps aims, salaries low
		Another option for locked-out National Hockey Leaguers could be available in October, albeit it's a tight squeeze.
		The Northern League of Professional Hockey announced plans to operate in the Ontario/New York/New England area in 2005-06 with modest aims and payrolls.
		The NLPH will borrow from the East Coast Hockey League's rulebook, and have no-touch icing, as well as full two-minute power plays and consider goalies to be fair game out of their crease.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Hockey/News/2004/12/17/787285-sun.html (364 words)

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