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The Edmonton Hockey Club was officially founded on 20 November 1896. [2] and consisted of two team, the senior Thisles, and the junior Stars. The Stars played against their cross-river rivals, the South Edmonton Shamrocks, for the first time on 1 January 1896, and the Thistles first played the Shamrocks on 31 January 1896. [3]
The city of Edmonton had a rich history with the Western Hockey League (WHL), with Edmonton Oil Kings owner Bill Hunter serving as a driving force behind the establishment of the league in 1966. [1] The Oil Kings were a successful early franchise, but relocated to Portland in 1976 after the establishment of the professional Edmonton Oilers of ...
The Edmonton Oil Kings are a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, that play in the Western Hockey League (WHL). The team, founded in 2006, shares an ownership group with the National Hockey League 's Edmonton Oilers .
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The Edmonton Eskimos were a Canadian amateur and later professional men's ice hockey team that existed from 1911 to 1927. After playing in senior hockey in the Alberta -based Big-4 League , the Eskimos joined the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) for the inaugural 1921–22 WCHL season , and played for the Stanley Cup against the Ottawa ...
The World Hockey Association had envisioned that franchises in Calgary and Edmonton would create an effective rivalry. When the Calgary Broncos were unable to start their inaugural season, the Oilers were briefly renamed the Alberta Oilers with the intention of splitting games between the two cities.
The Flyers played in the Edmonton Gardens. [1] The Flyers were nominated by W. G. Hardy to represent Canada at the 1947 Ice Hockey World Championships, [2] but the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association ultimately did not to send a team due to funding issues. [3] [4] The Flyers won the 1948 Allan Cup as Canadian senior hockey champions. [5]
The Edmonton Mercurys were a Canadian intermediate-level senior ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, during the 1940s and 1950s.The team represented the Canada men's national ice hockey team twice, winning the 1950 World Ice Hockey Championships in London and the 1952 Winter Olympics Gold Medal in Oslo.