Duluth Hornets
Duluth Hornets | |
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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.
Web links
- The Internet Hockey Database - Statistics Duluth Hornets (1926-1932)
- The Internet Hockey Database - Player List Duluth Hornets (1926-1932)
- The Internet Hockey Database - Statistics Duluth Hornets / Wichita Blue-Jays (1932-1933)
- The Internet Hockey Database - Player List Duluth Hornets / Wichita Blue-Jays (1932-1933)
- The Internet Hockey Database - Statistics Wichita Vikings (1933)
- The Internet Hockey Database - Player List Wichita Vikings (1933)
- The Internet Hockey Database - Statistics Duluth Hornets (1933-1934)
- The Internet Hockey Database - Player List Duluth Hornets (1933-1934)