Bobby Hull was instrumental in two hockey leagues in two decades ... goals in 63 games and was voted MVP in his first year in the WHA. The best of his seven seasons in the upstart league was ...
He refereed some of hockey's best-ever players, including Gordie Howe and a young Wayne Gretzky in the WHA. Minnesota Wild right winger Ryan Hartman is suspended for 10 games for his actions on ...
and knowledge of the game transcended his title and time in our city as the team made the transition from the WHA to the NHL. His ability to tell a story only added to the legend of the hockey ...
The Whalers became part of the NHL when the league absorbed the WHA for the 1979-1980 season ... milestone by welcoming back some Hartford Hockey alumni. The team said the former play-by-play ...
Pro hockey had departed four years earlier ... have been included in the NHL in 1979 had it survived to the end of the WHA. “We were part of the WHA, and there was some residual resentment ...
Rob Simpson caught up with NHL Executive Vice President and Director of Hockey Operations Colin Campbell to talk about his time in the WHA, the Hockey Hall of Fame selection committee and his near ...
one-game strike in protest of violence in hockey during the 1977-78 season. He retired after playing only four games that season, but came back for one more year after the NHL accepted four WHA ...