Minneapolis Millers (AHA)

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Minneapolis Millers
founding 1925
resolution 1950
history Minneapolis Millers
1925-1950
Location Minneapolis , Minnesota
league Central Hockey League (1925–1926)
American Hockey Association (1926–1931)
Central Hockey League (1931–1935)
American Hockey Association (1936–1942)
United States Hockey League (1945–1950)

The Minneapolis Millers were an American ice hockey team from Minneapolis , Minnesota . The team played between 1925 and 1950 in the American Hockey Association, among others .

history

The franchise began playing in the amateur league Central Hockey League, which existed for only one year for the 1925/26 season. Subsequently, in 1926, the team was one of the six founding members of the American Hockey Association professional league . They won their championship title for the first time in the 1927/28 season . From 1931 to 1935 the Millers played in the professional Central Hockey League . The team then returned in 1936 to the American Hockey Association, in which the Oklahoma City Warriors had already ended the 1935/36 season after a franchise relocation during the current season under the name Minneapolis Warriors. In the 1936/37 season , the Millers again won the championship title of the AHA. After the league stopped playing after the 1941/42 season , the Millers were also inactive. With the establishment of the United States Hockey League as the successor league of the AHA in 1945, the team from Minneapolis was reactivated. Despite the championship title in the 1949/50 season , the team was subsequently dissolved.

From 1959 to 1963 a team of the same name played in the International Hockey League .

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