Duluth Hornets

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Duluth Hornets
founding 1926
resolution 1934
history Duluth Hornets
1926-1932
Wichita Blue-Jays
1932-1933
Wichita Vikings
1933
Duluth Hornets
1933-1934
Location Duluth , Minnesota (1926-1932)
Wichita , Kansas (1932-1933)
Duluth , Minnesota (1933-1934)
league American Hockey Association (1926-1933)
Central Hockey League (1933-1934)

The Duluth Hornets were an American ice hockey team from Duluth , Minnesota . The team played in the American Hockey Association between 1926 and 1933 .

history

The franchise was one of the six founding members of the American Hockey Association in 1926 . In their premiere season , the team immediately took first place in the regular season. In the playoffs, the Hornets initially had a bye before they beat the Minneapolis Millers in the best-of-five series with a sweep in the final . In the following period, the team reached the playoff finals twice, but lost there to the Minneapolis Millers and the Chicago Shamrocks . The 1932/33 season began as in previous years in Duluth, where they competed with the newly founded Duluth Natives from the Central Hockey League . For this reason, the team was relocated to Wichita , Kansas , for the second half of the season , where they ended the season under the name Wichita Blue-Jays. For the AHA season 1933/34 the franchise name was changed again, this time in Wichita Vikings, but the team was excluded from the league after only three completed games. Since with the Duluth Natives from the CHL, a competitor for spectators had stopped playing in the meantime, the Duluth Hornets were reactivated for the 1933/34 CHL season and played in the Central Hockey League for another year.

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