The Central Alberta Hockey League (CAHL) is a defunct senior amateur hockey league that operated in Alberta , Canada from 1956 to 1966.
7-633: The creation of the CAHL coincided with the folding of the original Western Canada Junior Hockey League (WCJHL). The junior -aged Edmonton Oil Kings became inaugural members of the senior-aged CAHL. The Oil Kings were the strongest junior team in all of Western Canada over this period, advancing to the Western junior championship Doyle Cup in all 10 CAHL seasons, moving on to the Canadian junior championship Memorial Cup in seven consecutive seasons, winning
14-872: A dedicated league governor rather than a provincial governing body. All four teams from the Southern Alberta Junior Hockey League combined with two teams from the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League to become a six-team league. The remaining junior teams in Saskatchewan reorganized as the South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League for the 1948–49 season. Earlier in 1948, the stronger junior teams based in Saskatchewan and Manitoba proposed an inter-provincial league. Manitoba Amateur Hockey Association president Jimmy Dunn
21-604: A meeting with CAHA president W. B. George in August 1954. The teams sought permission for the champions of any western leagues to add three players from their own league starting in the inter-provincial playoffs to determine the western representative for the Memorial Cup, and contended that the imbalance in competition caused lack of spectator interest and less prestige for the event. At the next CAHA meeting in January 1955,
28-540: The 1963 and 1966 Memorial Cups . Teams who played in the CAHL included: This ice hockey article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Western Canada Junior Hockey League (1948%E2%80%931956) The Western Canada Junior Hockey League was a junior ice hockey based in Alberta and Saskatchewan from 1948 until 1956. It was formed by teams which sought a higher level of competition and more formal organization. Its teams were eligible for
35-613: The Memorial Cup as the national junior champion of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association , and were runners-up in five seasons as the Abbott Cup junior champion of Western Canada. The Western Canada Junior Hockey League (WCJHL) formed in 1948 after junior ice hockey teams from Alberta and Saskatchewan wanted to form a league with a higher level of competition with more formal organization by
42-716: The junior champions of Western Canada in five seasons, which included the Regina Pats in 1950, 1952, 1955, 1956, and the Edmonton Oil Kings in 1954. In each of these seasons, the WCJHL champion lost to the Eastern Canada champion at the head-to-head Memorial Cup national junior championship. The WCJHL and other junior teams in Western Canada addressed the imbalance in Memorial Cup competition in
49-654: Was opposed to the idea since he felt it would have a negative effect on junior hockey in Winnipeg. The WCJHL operated under the joint jurisdiction of the Alberta Amateur Hockey Association and the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association , and participated in the playoffs for the Memorial Cup as organized by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA). Teams from the WCJHL won the Abbott Cup as
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