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At one point, the team was forced to sell players just to pay the bills. The Roadrunners finally gave up and folded at the end of its third season. The last active WHA Roadrunner in major professional hockey was the team's star player, Robbie Ftorek, who retired from the NHL after the 1984–85 season.
The Phoenix Roadrunners were a professional ice hockey team in Phoenix, Arizona. They were a member of the Western Hockey League from 1967 to 1974. After the 1974 season, the franchise moved to the World Hockey Association. The team played at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, aka “The Madhouse on McDowell.”
The 1973–74 WHL season was the 22nd and final season of the Western Hockey League. The Phoenix Roadrunners were the President's Cup champions as they beat the Portland Buckaroos in five games in the final series.
Wendell James Bennett [1] (born March 24, 1950) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the World Hockey Association (WHA). [2] Bennett played with the Phoenix Roadrunners during the 1974–75 WHA season. [3] He was drafted in the third round of the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft by the New York Rangers. [2]
Gordon Richard Newell (born February 18, 1948) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played seven games in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings and 25 games in the World Hockey Association for the Phoenix Roadrunners between 1972 and 1975. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1969 to 1978, was spent in ...
Phoenix Roadrunners has been the name of several ice hockey teams in Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Roadrunners (WHL) , a defunct ice hockey team in the minor pro Western Hockey League (1967–1974) Phoenix Roadrunners (WHA) , a defunct ice hockey team in the World Hockey Association (1974–1977)
The 1975–76 Phoenix Roadrunners season was the second season of operation of the Phoenix Roadrunners in the World Hockey Association (WHA). The Roadrunners qualified for the playoffs but lost in the first round to the San Diego Mariners .