| | Press: Going Pro with the Aces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Anchorage gave the WCHL its first sold-out games last year, and the league is maturing with better players and officials that should sustain growth at the box office. |
 | | The WCHL began play in '95-'96 with six teams: the Aces, the Fairbanks Gold Kings, the Bakersfield Fog, the Fresno Falcons, the San Diego Gulls, the Reno Renegades and the Russian Red Army Team, an affiliate member playing only eight games in the season. |
 | | McCall cites the WCHL as one of the premier up and coming leagues of minor league hockey, while crediting NHL Commissioner Jerry Bettiman and the advent of roller blades and roller hockey with helping increase the popularity of hockey across the country. |
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