WHA All-Star Game

The World Hockey Association All-Star Game was a friendly game in the American World Hockey Association , which was played in January from 1973 to 1979.

history

As in all major leagues, the WHA organized an all-star game every year . It was based on its big competitor, the National Hockey League, and in the first few years a team from the Eastern Division played against that from the Western Division . The first all-star game of the WHA was only a disappointing 5,000 spectators. In the later years it was more popular. Even in the third year of the WHA, after the league had been divided into three divisions, the east played against the west. The Canadian Division teamswere divided. A year later, the stars from the Canada-based teams played against those of the US teams. A year later they returned to the East versus West format.

In 1978 there was only one division. One thought of the early years of the NHL, when the All-Stars competed against the Stanley Cup winner. In the WHA, the All-Stars played against the winner of the Avco World Trophy, the Quebec Nordiques . The last edition was played in three games between the WHA All-Stars and HK Dynamo Moscow . Despite terrible snowstorms, the stars made it to Edmonton to take part in the games.

All-Star Game Results

year	winner	loser	Result	All-Star Game MVP	Stadion	spectator
January 6, 1973	Eastern Division	Western Division	6: 2	Wayne Carleton	Colisee de Quebec	5,435
3rd January 1974	Eastern Division	Western Division	8: 4	Mike Walton	St. Paul Civic Center	13,196
January 21, 1975	Western teams	Eastern teams	6: 4	Réjean Houle	Edmonton Coliseum	15,326
January 13, 1976	Canadian teams	American teams	6: 1	Real Cloutier Paul Shmyr	Richfield Coliseum	15,491
January 18, 1977	Eastern Division	Western Division	4: 2	Louis Levasseur Willy Lindström	Hartford Civic Center	10,337
17th January 1978	Québec Nordiques	WHA All-Stars	5: 4	Marc Tardif Mark Howe	Colisee de Quebec	6,413
January 2, 1979 January 4, 1979 January 5, 1979	WHA All-Stars	Dynamo Moscow	4: 2 4: 2 4: 3	-	Edmonton Coliseum	8,038 11,220 15,590

literature

• Scott Adam Surgent: The Complete Historical and Statistical Reference of the World Hockey Association 1972-1979 , Xaler Press, 1995. ISBN 0-9644774-0-8 .