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unusual facts about minor league hockey



WXPX-TV

The station also broadcast games from the now-defunct Atlanta Knights minor league hockey franchise, which was affiliated with the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning.


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Cumberland County Crown Coliseum

During the early stages of its construction, Fayetteville’s Crown Coliseum was mentioned as a possible temporary home for the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes, but this was blocked by minor-league hockey executive Bill Coffey who had signed an exclusive lease agreement with the arena for the Fayetteville Force of the Central Hockey League.

Del Taco

In an effort to improve its reputation, Del Taco launched a sports-sponsorship program with teams in eight U.S. states, including the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Phoenix Coyotes hockey teams, basketball’s Los Angeles Clippers and Utah Jazz, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas’s football and basketball teams, and several minor league hockey and baseball teams.

EnergySolutions Arena

Notably, on June 8, 1996, the Delta Center hosted the largest crowd in the history of American minor league hockey: 17,381 fans attended Game 4 of the 1996 Turner Cup Finals.

Eric Nadel

He had minor league hockey play-by-play stints in Muskegon, Oklahoma City, and Dallas and was also the radio voice of the Dallas Diamonds of the Women's Professional Basketball League.

Guyle Fielder

He is the third-leading scorer in professional hockey history, behind only Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe, and holds the records as the leading games played, career assists and career points in minor league hockey history.

Kenny MacAulay

He has gone on to play at various levels of minor league hockey in the United States, suiting up for the Stockton Thunder also of the ECHL, while playing for four American Hockey League teams; Rockford IceHogs, Portland Pirates, San Antonio Rampage, and Norfolk Admirals.

Ned Dowd

The film, Slap Shot (1977), written by his sister, Nancy Dowd, is based in part on his experiences playing minor league hockey.

Robin Bouchard

Dick Roberge, a forward who played in throughout the 1950s, 1960's, and 1970's scored 756 career goals in his 18 year career, has also been viewed as minor-league hockey's all-time goal-scoring leader.