Fort Worth Texans

Fort Worth Texans
founding	1967
resolution	1982
history	Indianapolis Capitols 1963 Cincinnati Wings 1963–1964 Memphis Wings 1964–1967 Fort Worth Wings 1967–1974 Fort Worth Texans 1974–1982
Stadion	Will Rogers Coliseum
Location	Fort Worth , Texas
league	Central Hockey League
Cooperations	Detroit Red Wings ( NHL ) (1967–1973) New York Islanders (NHL) (1973–1979) Colorado Rockies (NHL) (1979–1982)
Adams Cups	1977/78

The Fort Worth Texans were an American ice hockey franchise of the Central Hockey League based in Fort Worth , Texas .

history

The franchise of Memphis Wings of the Central Professional Hockey League became the season 1967/68 to Fort Worth, Texas, relocated and renamed Fort Worth Wings. The team was named after the Detroit Red Wings from the National Hockey League , whose farm team it was until 1973. In the CHL, the team from Fort Worth was one of the most popular teams, which led to an intense rivalry, especially with the Dallas Black Hawks . Although the team sometimes had several NHL teams as cooperation partners, it was quite unsuccessful in its first few years and never got beyond the first playoff round.

After the end of the commitment of the Detroit Red Wings, the team owners changed the name of the team in Fort Worth Texans and the New York Islanders were found as a new cooperation partner in the mid-1970s, who dominated the NHL at that time. Like their cooperation partner, the Fort Worth Texans played in the colors blue, white and orange from then on. In the 1977/78 season they finally won the Adams Cup , the championship of the CHL, for the first and only time . From 1979 to 1982, the Texans with the possessed Colorado Rockies while still an NHL partner, but the Texans were among the weaker teams in the league and because of the declining audience section represented the Fort Worth Texans following the 1981-82 season , a game operation .

Season statistics

Abbreviations: GP = games, W = wins, L = defeats, T = draws, OTL = defeats after overtime, SOL = defeats after shootout , Pts = points, GF = goals scored, GA = goals against, PIM = penalty minutes

season	GP	W.	L.	T	OTL	SOL	Pts	GF	GA	space	Playoffs
1967-68	70	34	25th	11	-	-	79	245	199	2nd, Southern	Defeat in the final
1968-69	72	23	29	20th	-	-	66	210	237	5th, South	not qualified
1969-70	72	31	25th	16	-	-	78	217	206	4th, CHL	Defeat in the first round
1970-71	72	35	28	9	-	-	79	232	198	3rd, CHL	Defeat in the first round
1971-72	72	30th	30th	12	-	-	72	238	246	3rd, CHL	Defeat in the first round
1972-73	72	31	35	6th	-	-	68	254	267	3rd, CHL	Defeat in the first round
1973-74	72	30th	28	14th	-	-	74	237	241	4th, CHL	Defeat in the first round
1974-75	78	26th	40	12	-	-	64	264	322	4th, Southern	not qualified
1975-76	76	29	31	16	-	-	74	287	271	5th, CHL	not qualified
1976-77	76	35	32	9	-	-	79	272	261	4th, CHL	Defeat in the first round
1977-78	76	44	29	3	-	-	91	262	251	1st, CHL	Adams Cup
1978-79	76	33	39	4th	-	-	70	260	277	4th, CHL	Defeat in the first round
1979-80	80	37	34	9	-	-	83	312	298	3rd, CHL	Defeat in the final
1980-81	80	24	53	3	-	-	51	201	309	7th, CHL	Defeat in the first round
1981-82	80	20th	57	3	-	-	43	273	401	5th, South	not qualified

Team records

Career Records (Wings)

Games:	230		Ross Perkins
Gates:	78		Ross Perkins
Assists:	124		Rick McCann
Points:	181		Rick McCann
Penalty minutes:	365		Craig Reichmuth

Career Records (Texans)

Games:	304		Neil Nicholson
Gates:	97		Dave Salvian
Assists:	178		Neil Nicholson
Points:	230		Neil Nicholson
Penalty minutes:	455		Alex McKendry

Known players

Don Ashby Bob Bourne Ed Hatoum

Göran Högosta Ron Kennedy Pat Price

Darcy Regier Glenn Resch

Jim Rutherford Steve Tambellini

Web links

• The Internet Hockey Database Statistics Fort Worth Wings
• The Internet Hockey Database - Player List Fort Worth Wings
• The Internet Hockey Database Statistics Fort Worth Texans
• The Internet Hockey Database - Player List Fort Worth Texans