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World Hockey Association
Homepage:
http://www.worldhockeyassociation.net/
Overview:
The World Hockey Association
was created in October of 1972 by Dennis
Murphy and Gary Davidson with the intention
of changing professional hockey forever.
Unorthodox methods are
the trademark of the WHA. The WHA claims
to be the first leaque to introduce coloured
pucks. A variety of different colored pucks
were tried and each was retired because
of performance or durability difficulties.
The colored pucks may have
failed but the effort did not end the WHL's
attempts at creativity. One of its teams,
The New York Golden Blades, wore skates
painted white with gold skate blades. Another
team had jungle green sweaters with bright
gold trim.
In a move that proceeded
the NHL's "streaking" puck by
20 years, the WHA added electronic chips
into the pucks so they would show up and
streak on TV in the 1970s.
The WHA has no rules or
regulations on stick curvatures. The banana
blade reigned supreme in the WHA and as
a result so did high scoring games.
Teams in the WHA play for
the Avco Cup.
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