Western Hockey League (disambiguation)
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There have been four ice hockey
leagues that have used the name Western Hockey League:
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
leagues that have used the name Western Hockey League:
- For the 1921-26 professional league, see Western Canada Hockey LeagueWestern Canada Hockey LeagueThe Western Canada Hockey League , founded in 1921, was a major professional ice hockey league originally based in the prairies of Canada. It was renamed the Western Hockey League in 1925 and disbanded in 1926.-History:...
- For the 1932-33 minor pro league, see Western Canada Hockey League (minor pro)Western Canada Hockey League (minor pro)The Western Canada Hockey League was an ice hockey minor league with teams from western Canada that existed for one hockey season, 1932 to 1933...
- For the 1952-74 minor pro league, see Western Hockey League (minor pro)Western Hockey League (minor pro)The Western Hockey League was a minor pro ice hockey league that operated from 1952 to 1974. Managed for most of its history by Hockey Hall of Fame member Al Leader, it was created out of the merger of the Pacific Coast Hockey League and the Western Canada Senior Hockey League...
- For the current junior hockey league active since 1966, see Western Hockey LeagueWestern Hockey LeagueThe Western Hockey League is a major junior ice hockey league based in Western Canada and the Northwestern United States. The WHL is one of three leagues that constitute the Canadian Hockey League as the highest level of junior hockey in Canada...
(from 1966-68, known as the Western Canada Junior Hockey League, and from 1968-1978, known as Western Canada Hockey League)