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The Eastern Hockey League was a minor professional United States ice hockey league.


Eastern Amateur Hockey League (1933–1953)

The league was founded in 1933 as the Eastern Amateur Hockey League (EAHL). The league was founded by
Tommy Lockhart Thomas Finan Lockhart (March 21, 1892 – May 18, 1979) was an American ice hockey administrator, business manager, and events promoter. He was president of the Eastern Hockey League from 1933 to 1972, and was the founding president of the Amat ...
, who served as its commissioner from 1937 to 1972. Lockhart, who operated a small intramural hockey league at New York City's Madison Square Garden, offered his teams – and the use of the MSG ice – in exchange for joining the league. The EAHL operated between 1933–1948 and 1949–1953. The league had a somewhat tenuous existence. It began with seven teams, and had various numbers of teams, going as low as four. There was no 1948–49 season, but the league returned for the 1949–50 season with eight teams. The league again did not operate during the 1953–54 season.


Teams

* Atlantic City Seagulls (1933–34 to 1941–42; 1947–48 to 1951–52) * Baltimore Blades/Baltimore Clippers (1944–45 to 1949–50) * Baltimore Orioles (1933–34 to 1941–42) * Boston Olympics (1940–41 to 1951–52) * Bronx Tigers (1933–34 to 1933–34; 1937–38) *
Cleveland Knights Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...
(1949–50) *
Grand Rapids Rockets The Grand Rapids Rockets are a defunct International Hockey League team. They were members of the IHL from the 1950–1951 season to 1955–1956 season. They were based in Grand Rapids, Michigan and played their home games in Stadium Arena. The ...
(1949–50) * Hershey B'ars/Hershey Bears (1933–34 to 1937–38) *
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(1938–39) *
Johnstown Bluebirds Johnstown may refer to: Places Australia * Johnstown, Queensland, a locality split between the Southern Burnett Region and the Gympie Region, Queensland Canada * Johnstown, Nova Scotia * Johnstown, Ontario, United Counties of Leeds and Grenvil ...
(1941–42) *
Johnstown Jets The Johnstown Jets were a professional ice hockey team from Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The Jets were founded in the Eastern Amateur Hockey League for the 1950–51 season, playing at the newly constructed Cambria County War Memorial Arena. The Jet ...
(1950–51 to 1952–53) *
Milwaukee Clarks The Milwaukee Clarks were a professional ice hockey team in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered ...
(1949–50) * New Haven Crescents/ Brooklyn Crescents (1943–44) * New Haven Nutmegs (1952–53) *
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(1951–52) * New York Athletic Club (1933–34) * New York-Hamilton Crescents (1933–34 to 1934–35) * New York Rovers (1935–36 to 1951–52) *
Philadelphia Falcons The Philadelphia Rockets were a minor professional ice hockey team based in the Philadelphia Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Rockets played for three seasons in American Hockey League from 1946 to 1949. Previously another Rockets team exi ...
(1942–43 to 1945–46; 1951–52) * Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets (1935–36 to 1936–37) * Rivervale Skeeters (1939–40 to 1941–42) *
St. Nicholas Hockey Club The St. Nicholas Hockey Club is an ice hockey club from Manhattan, New York City. St. Nicholas Hockey Club played in the American Amateur Hockey League between 1896–1903 and 1905–1918 and won three championship titles, in 1907, 1914 and 1915. ...
(1933–34) * Springfield Indians (1951–52 to 1952–53) *
Toledo Buckeyes The Toledo Mercurys is a discontinued International Hockey League franchise from Toledo, Ohio. The Toledo Franchise was the first IHL franchise to be granted outside of the Windsor-Detroit area, for the cost of $1000 to Virgil Gladeaux of Toledo ...
(1949–50) * Troy Uncle Sam Trojans (1952–53) * United States Coast Guard Cutters (1942–43) *
Washington Eagles The Washington Eagles were an American minor pro ice hockey team from Washington, D.C. that played in the Eastern Hockey League from 1939 to 1942. During those three seasons the Eagles played 186 games with an overall record of 102 wins, 67 losses a ...
(1939–40 to 1941–42) *
Washington Lions The Washington Lions were a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C. They were founded as a member of the American Hockey League in the 1941–42 season. The Lions played for two seasons and then disbanded during World War II. Anot ...
(1944–45 to 1946–47; 1951–52 to 1952–53)


Eastern Hockey League (1954–1973)

The league started back up for the 1954–55 season and changed its name to the Eastern Hockey League. The league operated between 1954 and 1973. It began with five teams and grew into two divisions for the 1959–60 season. The league reached it peak in terms of team number in the 1967–68 when it had twelve teams in two divisions. In its final season the league had twelve teams split into three divisions. The EHL ceased operations after the 1972–73 season. Some of its northern teams became the
North American Hockey League The North American Hockey League (NAHL) is one of the top junior hockey leagues in the United States and is in its 48th season of operation in 2022–23. It is the only Tier II junior league sanctioned by USA Hockey, and acts as an alternati ...
, while most of its Southern teams became the Southern Hockey League.


Teams

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Baltimore Clippers The Baltimore Clippers were a minor league professional ice hockey team from in Baltimore, Maryland, playing in the Baltimore Civic Center. The Clippers were members of the American Hockey League from 1962 to 1976, and then played one season in ...
(1954–55 to 1955–56) *
Cape Cod Cubs The Cape Cod Islanders were a Tier III junior ice hockey team from Massachusetts. They were most recently a member of the North American 3 Hockey League and played at the Falmouth Ice Arena in Falmouth, Massachusetts. In 2019, they announced the ...
(1972–73) * Charlotte Checkers (1956–57 to 1972–73) *
Clinton Comets The Clinton Comets were an American ice hockey team in Clinton, New York. Founded in 1927–28 as the Clinton Hockey Club and nicknamed the Comets in 1949, the team played primarily at the Clinton Arena from 1949 until 1973. The team was origin ...
(1954–55 to 1972–73) *
Greensboro Generals The Greensboro Generals were an East Coast Hockey League team based in Greensboro, North Carolina, and played at the Greensboro Coliseum from 1999 to 2004. The name was originally used by the Greensboro Generals in the Eastern Hockey League. Th ...
(1959–60 to 1972–73) *
Jacksonville Rockets The Jacksonville Rockets were a professional minor league ice hockey team based in Jacksonville, Florida. They played in the Eastern Hockey League from 1964–1972, when they folded. They were the first professional hockey team to be based in Flo ...
/Florida Rockets (1964–65 to 1971–72) * Jersey Devils (1964–65 to 1972–73) *
Jersey Larks The Jersey Larks are a defunct professional ice hockey team which played in the Eastern Hockey League during the 1960-61 season. Based in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, they played their home games out of the Haddonfield Ice House. Coached by Ray Miron ...
(1960–61) *
Johnstown Jets The Johnstown Jets were a professional ice hockey team from Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The Jets were founded in the Eastern Amateur Hockey League for the 1950–51 season, playing at the newly constructed Cambria County War Memorial Arena. The Jet ...
(1955–56 to 1972–73) *
Knoxville Knights Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state's ...
(1961–62 to 1967–68) *
Long Island Ducks The Long Island Ducks are an American professional minor-league baseball team based on Long Island in Central Islip, New York. The Ducks compete in the North Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (ALPB), an independent "partne ...
(1961–62 to 1972–73) *
Nashville Dixie Flyers The Nashville Dixie Flyers were a professional minor league ice hockey team in Nashville, Tennessee. They played in the Eastern Hockey League from 1962 until the franchise folded in 1971. Their home games were held at the Nashville Municipal Audit ...
(1962–63 to 1970–71) * New Haven Blades (1954–55 to 1971–72) &
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(1972–73) * New York Rovers (1959–60 to 1960–61; 1964–65) *
Philadelphia Ramblers The Philadelphia Ramblers were a minor professional ice hockey team based in the Philadelphia Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Ramblers played for six seasons during the infancy of the American Hockey League from 1935 to 1941. History T ...
(1955–56 to 1963–64) *
Rhode Island Eagles The Rhode Island Eagles are a defunct professional ice hockey team which played in the Eastern Hockey League during the 1972–73 season. Based in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, they played their home games in the Mount St. Charles Arena. The team was ...
(1972–73) *
Salem Rebels Salem may refer to: Places Canada Ontario * Bruce County ** Salem, Arran–Elderslie, Ontario, in the municipality of Arran–Elderslie ** Salem, South Bruce, Ontario, in the municipality of South Bruce * Salem, Dufferin County, Ontario, part ...
(1967–68 to 1969–70) and Roanoke Valley Rebels (1970–71 to 1972–73) *
St. Petersburg Suns The Suncoast Suns was a minor league professional ice hockey team based in St. Petersburg, Florida, and played home games at the Bayfront Center. The Suns began in the Eastern Hockey League in 1971, and was a founding member of the Southern Hocke ...
(1971–72) and Suncoast Suns (1972–73) *
Syracuse Blazers The Syracuse Blazers were a minor league professional ice hockey team that played in the Onondaga County War Memorial and State Fair Coliseum in Syracuse, New York. The team played in the Eastern Hockey League from 1967 to 1973 and the North ...
(1967–68 to 1972–73) *
Washington Lions The Washington Lions were a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C. They were founded as a member of the American Hockey League in the 1941–42 season. The Lions played for two seasons and then disbanded during World War II. Anot ...
(1954–55 to 1956–57) *
Washington Presidents The Washington Lions were a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C. They were founded as a member of the American Hockey League in the 1941–42 season. The Lions played for two seasons and then disbanded during World War II. Anot ...
(1957–58 to 1959–60) * Worcester Warriors (1954–55)


References


External links


Eastern Hockey League, HockeyDB

http://www.theEHL.com
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