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Hockey for All Centre (stylized as hockey for all centre) is an ice hockey facility in Winnipeg, Manitoba, near the Red River Exhibition.. Owned by True North Sports & Entertainment, the 172,000-square-foot (16,000 m 2) complex contains four arenas, and serves as the practice and training facilities of the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League and Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey ...
From 1968, the league was renamed the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL), and finally the Western Hockey League from 1978 after the admission of American-based teams to the league. The league was the brainchild of Bill Hunter , who desired to build a western league capable of competing with the top leagues in Ontario and Quebec .
Canada Life Centre. Exterior of Canada Life Centre (as MTS Centre) in 2010. Canada Life Centre (formerly Bell MTS Place) is an indoor arena in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The arena is the home of the National Hockey League 's Winnipeg Jets and their American Hockey League affiliate, the Manitoba Moose. [9][10][11]
The National Hockey League is one of the top attended professional sports in the world, as well as one of the top two attended indoor sports in both average and total attendance. As of the 2018–19 season the NHL averaged 18,250 live spectators per game, and 22,002,081 total for the season. [1][failed verification]
www.nhl.com. The National Hockey League (NHL; French: Ligue nationale de hockey [liɡ nɑsjɔnal də ɔkɛ], LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams – 25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, [5] is awarded annually to the league ...
Founded in 1996 as Edmonton Ice; became the Wenatchee Wild in 2023. Winnipeg Monarchs. Winnipeg. 1976-77. 0. 0. Became the Calgary Wranglers in 1977.
The team was founded in 1972, joined the NHL in 1979, and moved to Phoenix in 1996. On December 27, 1971, Winnipeg was granted one of the founding franchises in the World Hockey Association (WHA). By 1979, many of the WHA's teams had folded, but the Jets were absorbed into the NHL along with the Quebec Nordiques, Edmonton Oilers and Hartford ...
The Dominion Women's Amateur Hockey Association was founded in winter 1933. Lady Bessborough, the wife of Governor General of Canada Lord Bessborough donated a championship trophy. In 1978, Cookie Cartwright organized the Ontario Women's Hockey Association to generate interest in women's ice hockey.