The Canadian–American Hockey League , popularly known as the Can-Am League , was a professional ice hockey league that operated from 1926 to 1936. It was a direct predecessor of the American Hockey League .
6-664: For its first ten years the Can-Am's membership varied between five and six teams. However, when the Boston Bruin Cubs dropped out after the 1935–36 season, the league was reduced to just four active teams (Philadelphia, Providence, Springfield, and New Haven). At the same time, the Rust Belt-based International Hockey League had also been cut down to just four teams; Syracuse, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. With both leagues at
12-500: A unified eight-team circuit operating under the IAHL name with the addition of the EAHL's then three-time defending champion Hershey Bears , which was awarded an IAHL franchise that day to replace the defunct Buffalo club. The league changed its name to the current American Hockey League in 1940. Two current AHL franchises have roots in the Can-Am. The Hartford Wolf Pack is descended from
18-660: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Boston Tigers (CAHL) The Boston Tigers were a professional ice hockey team based in Boston , Massachusetts from 1926 until 1936, playing in the Canadian–American Hockey League (CAHL). The club was known as the Boston Tigers from 1926 until 1931. The team then changed its name to the Boston Cubs for two seasons. It was then known as
24-664: The Providence Reds franchise, which moved to Binghamton, New York , in 1977 before moving to Hartford in 1997. The Abbotsford Canucks are descended from the Springfield Indians franchise, which moved to Worcester, Massachusetts , in 1994 before relocating to Peoria in 2005, to Utica in 2013, and to Abbotsford, British Columbia , in 2021. The championship trophy was known as the Henri Fontaine Trophy. This ice hockey league article
30-614: The Tiger Cubs for 1934–35 and finally the Boston Bruin Cubs for the final season of 1935–36. The team won the championship of the CAHL three times: in 1929, 1933, and 1935. This article about a sports team in Massachusetts is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This American ice hockey team-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to sports in Boston
36-629: The bare minimum number of teams to be viable, they decided to form a temporary "circuit of mutual convenience" known as the International-American Hockey League. For the next two years, the two leagues played an interlocking schedule with the Can-Am clubs serving as the IAHL's Eastern Division and the IHL as its Western Division. At a meeting held in New York City on June 28, 1938, the two leagues formally merged into
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