KHL launches 3x3 hockey Championship
In a groundbreaking move, the Kontinental Hockey League has officially announced the launch of its inaugural 3x3 hockey tournament, set to begin in December 2024 Read more»
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# | Player name | Pos | Team | GP | G | A | P | PIM | +/- |
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1. | Mike Smietana | F | New Mexico Ice Breakers | 33 | 13 | 23 | 36 | 32 | |
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It started its first season in 1994 as a Junior B league with six teams. The WSHL currently has 16 teams in three divisions, Western Division, Mountain Division, and Mid-West Division. In 2006, it was promoted to the Tier III Junior A classification.
In August 2011, the WSHL became the first league to jump from USA Hockey to the Amateur Athletic Union.In April 2020, the WSHL lost the Fresno Monsters, Las Vegas Thunderbirds, Northern Colorado Eagles, Ogden Mustangs, Ontario Avalanche, Pueblo Bulls, San Diego Sabers, Southern Oregon Spartans, and the Utah Outliers to the United States Premier Hockey League, another independent junior hockey organization. The Oklahoma City Jr. Blazers then left on May 19, 2020, to join to the North American 3 Hockey League (NA3HL).On May 26, 2020, the WSHL announced it would be dormant for the 2020-21 season due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, stating the league was already they have begun preparing to return for the 2021-22 season. In June 2020, the El Paso Rhinos also left for the NA3HL for the 2020-21 season with the intention of joining the NAHL for the 2021-22 season.
In January 2021, the league stated that it still intended to return for a 2021-22 season.In August, the league gave an update with six new teams and five returning teams split into two divisions: Northwest and Provincial.The schedule was released in September and the league had lost the Vancouver Devils expansion team.The season started the last weekend of October and the expansion Utah Altitude folded after one game played. By November 5, the Northwest Division was announced as going dormant for the season with no games played by Bellingham, Rogue Valley, or Seattle Bellingham and Vernal then joined the Provincial Division, but Bellingham withdrew after playing five games. By January 2022, the six remaining teams left the WSHL and started another league called the Can-Am Junior Hockey League (CAJHL) to finish the season independently.
In a groundbreaking move, the Kontinental Hockey League has officially announced the launch of its inaugural 3x3 hockey tournament, set to begin in December 2024 Read more»
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