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Windsor Gotfredsons
The Windsor Gotfredsons were a minor league professional ice hockey team and one of the four founding members of the International Hockey League in 1945. The team was based in Windsor, Ontario and played at the Windsor Arena. After one season, they became known as the Windsor Staffords, and two years later became Windsor Ryan Cretes. The team played five seasons total, folding in 1950. Season-by-season results See also *List of ice hockey teams in Ontario This is a list of men's ice hockey teams that compete in Ontario. This list includes active professional, university, and junior men's ice hockey teams. Alphabetical list of teams The leagues are correct for the 2024–25 season. __NOTOC__ A B ... * Wilfred "Boomer" Harding, first Black player in the International Hockey League, with the Windsor Staffords in 1946 References Defunct ice hockey teams in Ontario International Hockey League (1945–2001) teams Sport in Windsor, Ontario Ice hockey clubs established in ...
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Minor League
Minor leagues are professional sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports. Minor league teams tend to play in smaller, less elaborate venues, often competing in smaller cities/markets. This term is used in North America with regard to several organizations competing in various sports. They generally have lesser fan bases, much smaller revenues and salaries, and are used to develop players for bigger leagues. Minor leagues are also occasionally used as a testing ground for proposed rule changes prior to implementation at the top level. The minor league concept is a manifestation of the franchise system used in North American sports, whereby the group of major league teams in each sport is fixed for long periods between expansions or other adjustments, which only take place with the consent of the major league owners. In Europe, and many other parts of the world, association football (soccer), basketball, american football, baseball, handball, ...
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Ice Hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Two opposing teams use ice hockey sticks to control, advance, and Shot (ice hockey), shoot a vulcanized rubber hockey puck into the other team's net. Each Goal (ice hockey), goal is worth one point. The team with the highest score after an hour of playing time is declared the winner; ties are broken in Overtime (ice hockey), overtime or a Shootout (ice hockey), shootout. In a formal game, each team has six Ice skating, skaters on the ice at a time, barring any penalties, including a goaltender. It is a contact sport#Grades, full contact game and one of the more physically demanding team sports. The modern sport of ice hockey was developed in Canada, most notably in Montreal, where the first indoor ice hockey game, first indoor game was play ...
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International Hockey League (1945–2001)
The International Hockey League (IHL) was a minor professional ice hockey league in the United States and Canada that operated from 1945 to 2001. The IHL served as the National Hockey League (NHL)'s alternate farm system to the American Hockey League (AHL). After 56 years of operation, financial instability led to the league's demise. Six of the surviving seven teams merged into the AHL in 2001. History Early years The IHL was formed on December 5, 1945, in a three-hour meeting at the Norton Palmer Hotel in Windsor, Ontario. In attendance were Jack Adams (coach of the Detroit Red Wings), Fred Huber (Red Wings public relations), Frank Gallagher (amateur hockey organizer in Detroit and Windsor), Lloyd Pollock (Windsor hockey pioneer), Gerald McHugh (Windsor lawyer), Len Hebert, Len Loree and Bill Beckman. The league began operations in the 1945–46 IHL season with four teams in Windsor and Detroit, and operated as semi-professional league. In 1947, a team from Toledo, Ohio, ...
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Windsor, Ontario
Windsor ( ) is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It is situated on the south bank of the Detroit River directly across from the U.S city of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan. Geographically located within but administratively independent of Essex County, Ontario, Essex County, it is the southernmost city in Canada and marks the southwestern end of the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city's population was 229,660 at the 2021 Canadian Census, 2021 census, making it the third-most populated city in Southwestern Ontario, after London, Ontario, London and Kitchener, Ontario, Kitchener. This represents a 5.7 percent increase from Windsor's 2016 population census of 217,188. The Detroit–Windsor urban area is North America's most populous trans-border conurbation. Linking the Great Lakes Megalopolis, the Ambassador Bridge border crossing is the busiest commercial crossing on the Canada–United States border, carrying about one-quarter of the two countries' trade volume. Windsor ...
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Windsor Arena
Windsor Arena (nicknamed The Barn) is an list of indoor arenas, indoor arena located in Windsor, Ontario. Its capacity is approximately 4,400 with standing room. The arena's ice is by or . The arena was the home of the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League from 1975 to 2008, at which time the team's home was moved to the WFCU Centre. History Originally named the Border Cities Arena, it hosted the Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Cougars (later renamed the Detroit Red Wings) for the 1926-1927 National Hockey League, NHL season, while the Detroit Olympia, Olympia Stadium was under construction. The Border Cities Arena, built in 1925 for the local junior hockey team, was expanded from 6,000 to 9,000 for the Cougars. The arena was later renamed the Windsor Arena. Having been constructed in 1924, the arena is among the oldest of its type in North America. In 2006, the WFCU Centre, located in the city's east side off Lauzon Road, was approved by the Windsor city council. The ...
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List Of Ice Hockey Teams In Ontario
This is a list of men's ice hockey teams that compete in Ontario. This list includes active professional, university, and junior men's ice hockey teams. Alphabetical list of teams The leagues are correct for the 2024–25 season. __NOTOC__ A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y See also * List of women's ice hockey teams in Ontario References {{Canadian sports teams Ontario teams * Ice hockey teams Ice hockey teams in Ontario Ontario Ontario is the southernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Located in Central Canada, Ontario is the Population of Canada by province and territory, country's most populous province. As of the 2021 Canadian census, it ...
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Wilfred "Boomer" Harding
Wilfred "Boomer" Harding (6 August 1915 – 14 September 1991) was a Canadian multi-sport athlete. He was best known as a baseball player with the Chatham Coloured All-Stars, and was the first Black player in the International Hockey League. Biography Harding was born in Chatham, Ontario, to parents Sarah (Holmes) Harding and Andrew "Bill" Harding. He had seven siblings: Carl, Georgina, Florence, Beulah, James Leonard ("Len"), Andrew, and Wanda. Harding played baseball and ice hockey, while his abilities were also recognized in track as well as basketball and soccer. While attending Chatham Vocational High School, Harding won titles for pole vaulting, basketball, soccer and hockey. However, being born in 1915, when there was a color barrier in society and sports, Harding faced many challenges and struggled to advance his sports career due to the colour of his skin. Before the 1940s, black athletes were not allowed to be part of most professional leagues and were rarely wanted in ...
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Defunct Ice Hockey Teams In Ontario
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International Hockey League (1945–2001) Teams
International Hockey League may refer to: * International Professional Hockey League (1904–1907), central-eastern North America * International Hockey League (1929–1936), central-eastern North America * International Hockey League (1945–2001), across North America * International Hockey League (1992–1996), Eastern Europe, now the Kontinental Hockey League * Interliga (1999–2007), or International Ice Hockey League, central-eastern Europe, replaced the Alpenliga * International Hockey League (2007–2010), now the United Hockey League, midwest North America * Inter-National League (2012–2016), Austria, Italy and Slovenia * International Hockey League (Balkans) (2017–present), Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia See also * List of ice hockey leagues This is a list of ice hockey sports league, leagues, both professional ice hockey, professional and amateur sports, amateur, from around the world; parentheses denote year of establishment and, where applicable, year of disestabli ...
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Sport In Windsor, Ontario
Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual. Sport competitions may use a team or single person format, and may be open, allowing a broad range of participants, or closed, restricting participation to specific groups or those invited. Competitions may allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure there is only one winner. They also may be arranged in a tournament format, producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Sport is generally recognised as system of activities based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with major competitions admitt ...
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Ice Hockey Clubs Established In 1945
Ice is water that is frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 ° C, 32 ° F, or 273.15 K. It occurs naturally on Earth, on other planets, in Oort cloud objects, and as interstellar ice. As a naturally occurring crystalline inorganic solid with an ordered structure, ice is considered to be a mineral. Depending on the presence of impurities such as particles of soil or bubbles of air, it can appear transparent or a more or less opaque bluish-white color. Virtually all of the ice on Earth is of a hexagonal crystalline structure denoted as ''ice Ih'' (spoken as "ice one h"). Depending on temperature and pressure, at least nineteen phases ( packing geometries) can exist. The most common phase transition to ice Ih occurs when liquid water is cooled below (, ) at standard atmospheric pressure. When water is cooled rapidly (quenching), up to three types of amorphous ice can form. Interstellar ice is overwhelmingly low-density amorphous ice (LDA ...
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