• The 196768 WCJHL season was the second season of the Western Canada Junior Hockey League (WCJHL). The league adopted its new name after being known as...
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  • champions Selkirk Steelers. During the summer of 1967, the MAHA agreed to allow three teams to enter the WCHL: the Brandon Wheat Kings and the Flin Flon Bombers...
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  • 1966–67 CMJHL season. The CMJHL was renamed the Western Canada Junior Hockey League, expanding into Manitoba, for the 196768 WCHL season. The Bruins scored...
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  • Canada Hockey League's (WCHL) Flin Flon Bombers, from the 196768 through 1977–78 WCHL seasons. The Americans played at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls...
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  • (WCJHL). From 1968, the league was renamed the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL), and finally the Western Hockey League from 1978 after the admission of...
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  • The 1966–67 CMJHL season was the inaugural season of the Canadian Major Junior Hockey League. The fledgling league was formed by five members of the former...
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    1924 WCHL championship and won the Stanley Cup with the Bruins in 1929. Oliver played nearly 600 games in a professional career that spanned 16 seasons and...
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  • After their one season in the MJHL, the Bombers joined the WCHL, now the top level of junior hockey in Western Canada, for the 196768 season, and they immediately...
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  • Junior Hockey League (BCJHL) as an expansion team for the start of the 196768 season. This brought the league to a total of six teams. After a 1971 realignment...
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  • first season as the Calgary Buffaloes before becoming the Centennials (marking the Canadian Centennial that year) in the renamed WCHL for the 196768 season...
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    First All-Star Team (1967) Turnbull Cup MJHL Championship (1967) WCJHL First All-Star Team (1968) WCHL All-Star Team (1969 and 1970) WCHL Goal Scoring Leader...
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  • The 1968–69 WCHL season was the third season of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL), featuring eight teams and a 60-game regular season. The Flin Flon...
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  • required to win the Stanley Cup. The 1967 expansion saw the number of teams double from six to twelve for the 196768 season, and with it the creation of the...
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  • and the WCHL merged to form the Western Hockey League (WHL) and the championship reverted to a single series. After winning in the 1924–25 season, the Victoria...
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    Pat Ginnell took Clarke to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota following the 196768 season and the doctors concluded that as long as he took care of himself he...
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  • season, which Dawson denied. The MJHL felt it should have been consulted on the terms proposed to the WCHL for rejoining the CAHA, and that the WCHL jeopardized...
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    "Mervyn", he played for the Calgary Tigers of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) and the Montreal Maroons and New York Americans of the National Hockey League...
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  • play for the Memorial Cup against WCHL teams. The Peterborough Petes finished first overall in the regular season, winning the Hamilton Spectator Trophy...
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  • Portland Winter Hawks. A second incarnation of the team played only one season in 1977–78 before moving to Great Falls, Montana. The Alberta Amateur Hockey...
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  • (CAHA) regarded the new league as an "outlaw league" and, ironically for WCHL members, banned its teams from competing for the Memorial Cup. Because of...
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  • (WCHL) in 1925. It was the last time a non-NHL team won the trophy, as the Stanley Cup became the de facto NHL championship in 1926, after the WCHL ceased...
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    enforcers and holds the NHL record for most penalty minutes in a single season, at 472. Schultz was born in Waldheim, Saskatchewan, but grew up in Rosetown...
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  • coach Punch McLean moved the team to New Westminster for the 1971–72 WCHL season. Once the team arrived in New Westminster, the success continued throughout...
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    Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). Dispute over age-limits leads to CAHA again revoking its sanction and the ability for WCHL teams to compete for the Memorial...
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  • (NHL) establishing the NHL Amateur Draft in 1967. Ron Butlin became president of both the CHA and the WCHL with the objective of the getting a better financial...
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  • the Western Canada Hockey League from 1967 to 1977 under three names. The team played as the Winnipeg Jets from 1967 to 1973; the Winnipeg Clubs from 1973...
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    recorded at the time since the NHL had begun recording the stat in 1967. For the 1973–74 season, Mikkelson lost his spot on the Islanders with the arrival of...
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  • Selkirk Steelers join league 1967 – Brandon Wheat Kings leave to join WCHL 1967 – Selkirk Steelers leave to join CMJHL 1967 – St. James Braves become the...
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    two other major leagues: the PCHA and the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). As a result, ice hockey players were among the best paid athletes in North...
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  • League (WCHL Major Junior) 1972–73 season; WCHL All-Star Team, 1972–73; Voted the Best Defenceman in Swiss hockey three consecutive seasons; German Championship...
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