The Edmonton Flyers are a defunct ice hockey team that was based in Edmonton , Alberta, Canada. The team existed from 1940 until 1963, first as an amateur senior ice hockey team (1940–1951), and then as a professional minor league team. The Flyers played in the Edmonton Gardens .
8-512: The Flyers were nominated by W. G. Hardy to represent Canada at the 1947 Ice Hockey World Championships , but the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association ultimately did not to send a team due to funding issues. The Flyers won the 1948 Allan Cup as Canadian senior hockey champions. The Flyers later won three Lester Patrick Cups as Western Hockey League champions. The Flyers were a minor league affiliate of
16-748: The National Hockey League 's Detroit Red Wings during their tenure in the WHL. During this time, many future NHL stars passed through the Flyers organization. Among them were Al Arbour , Johnny Bucyk , Glenn Hall , Bronco Horvath and Norm Ullman . The Flyers played in the following leagues: Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against List of Edmonton Flyers alumni who played more than 100 games in Edmonton and 100 or more games in
24-575: The National Hockey League . This Canadian ice hockey team-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 1947 Ice Hockey World Championships The 1947 Ice Hockey World Championships were the 14th World Championships and 25th European Championship was the first after the Second World War . It was held from 15 to 23 February 1947 at Štvanice Stadium in Prague , Czechoslovakia . Eight teams participated, but
32-896: The Austrians, costing them the gold medal. The 1947 congress of the Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace (LIHG) was the first meeting or the organization since World War II . During the war, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) united with the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States (AHAUS) to form the International Ice Hockey Association , and invited the British Ice Hockey Association to join. The new group
40-740: The Ice Hockey World Championships to alternate between Europe and North America, with the Olympic hockey tournaments played under the same rules as the CAHA and the National Hockey League . The CAHA attended the LIHG meeting during the 1947 championships, and pushed for the definition of amateur to be anyone not actively engaged in professional sport. The LIHG agreed to a merger where the presidency would alternate between North America and Europe every three years, and recognized AHAUS as
48-614: The competition was notably missing the reigning world champion, Canada . The world champion was decided for the first time by round robin league play. Czechoslovakia won the world championship for the first time and the European championship for the seventh time. King Gustav V had sent a telegram of congratulations to the Swedish team after beating the Czechoslovaks, but they had barely finished celebrating when they were upset by
56-538: The governing body of hockey in the United States instead of the Amateur Athletic Union . The CAHA was permitted to have its own definition of amateur as long as teams at the Olympic games adhered to existing LIHG rules. Many notable changes were made to the rules for this championship. The game was standardized to be played in three 20 minute periods, aligning with the Canadian practice. The net size
64-504: Was led by CAHA president W. G. Hardy , and was a means of shifting the control of world hockey from Europe to Canada. The CAHA severed its ties to the LIHG in 1944, and pledged allegiance to the International Ice Hockey Association instead, and a closer relationship to AHAUS. The CAHA and AHAUS agreed in 1946 to propose a merger with the LIHG to oversee international ice hockey. The proposal sought for
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