United States Hockey League (1945–1951)

The United States Hockey League (USHL) was a North American ice hockey minor league , which was founded in 1945 and dissolved in 1951. The league was the successor to the American Hockey Association, which was dissolved in 1942 . From 1961 to 1979 there was an amateur league of the same name , which was then converted into the most important American junior league.

history

The United States Hockey League was founded in 1945 by several teams from the American Hockey Association , which had been dissolved three years earlier . Because the United States entered the war in World War II , the teams' arenas were needed elsewhere. In the USHL played in the 1945/46 season with the teams from Dallas, Fort Worth, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Omaha, St. Paul and Tulsa seven of the eight teams that had competed in the last AHA season. Only the St. Louis Flyers had joined the American Hockey League in 1944 . After six successful years, the USHL's game operations were discontinued in 1951 and all teams in the league were dissolved, although some of them had decades of tradition.

Teams

Dallas Texans (1945-1949) Denver Falcons (1950–1951) Fort Worth Rangers (1945-1949) Houston Huskies (1947-1949) Houston Skippers (1946-1947) Kansas City Mohawks (1949–1951) Kansas City Pla-Mors (1945–1949; became Kansas City Mohawks )

Louisville Blades (1949-1950) Milwaukee Sea Gulls (1950–1951) Minneapolis Millers (1945-1950) Omaha Knights (1945–1951) St. Paul Saints (1945–1951) Tulsa Oilers (1945–1951)

master

1945/46: Kansas City Pla-Mors 1946/47: Kansas City Pla-Mors 1947/48: Houston Huskies

1948/49: St. Paul Saints 1949/50: Minneapolis Millers 1950/51: Omaha Knights

literature

• Dan Diamond (Ed.): Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Hockey League . 1st edition. Total Sports, 1998, ISBN 0-8362-7114-9 .

Web links

• Information on the individual seasons in the Hockey Database