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1975–76 Toronto Toros Season
The 1975–76 Toronto Toros season was the team's third season in Toronto, fourth of the franchise. The Toros missed the playoffs. Regular season Season standings Schedule and results , - , 1 , , October 11 , , Toronto Toros , , 3–7 , , Quebec Nordiques , , 0–1–0 , , 0 , - , 2 , , October 14 , , Houston Aeros , , 3–6 , , Toronto Toros , , 1–1–0 , , 2 , - , 3 , , October 17 , , Edmonton Oilers , , 4–4 , , Toronto Toros , , 1–1–1 , , 3 , - , 4 , , October 18 , , Toronto Toros , , 1–3 , , New England Whalers , , 1–2–1 , , 3 , - , 5 , , October 24 , , New England Whalers , , 5–4 , , Toronto Toros , , 1–3–1 , , 3 , - , 6 , , October 25 , , Toronto Toros , , 2–3 , , Quebec Nordiques , , 1–4–1 , , 3 , - , 7 , , October 28 , , Quebec Nordiques , , 4–6 , , Toronto Toros , , 2–4–1 , , 5 , - , - , 8 , , November 4 , , Toronto Toros , , 3–4 , , Indianapolis Racers , , 2–5–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Baun
Robert Neil Baun (September 9, 1936 – August 14, 2023) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League for 17 seasons from 1956 to 1973. His nickname was "Boomer". Playing career Baun played junior hockey with the Toronto Marlboros of the Ontario Hockey Association from 1952 to 1956, winning the Memorial Cup in 1955 and 1956. After turning professional, Baun played most of the 1956–57 season with the Rochester Americans, the Toronto Maple Leafs affiliate in the American Hockey League. They would be the only minor league games Baun would ever play. He was called up to the Leafs during the season and played in Toronto for the next 11 seasons, winning the Stanley Cup in 1962, 1963, 1964, and 1967. Baun was one of the hardest and cleanest hitters of his time. He was not considered an offensive threat as a defenceman, never scoring more than 20 points in a season in the NHL. His highest single-season goal total was eight in 1959–60. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winnipeg Jets (1972–96)
The Winnipeg Jets are a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg. The Jets compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division (NHL), Central Division in the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference. The team is owned by True North Sports & Entertainment, playing its home games at Canada Life Centre. The franchise was established as the Atlanta Thrashers on June 25, 1997, and began play in the 1999–2000 NHL season. True North Sports & Entertainment then bought the team in May 2011, and List of defunct and relocated National Hockey League teams, relocated the Jets to Winnipeg prior to the 2011–12 NHL season, 2011–12 season, making them the first NHL franchise to relocate since the Hartford Whalers became the Carolina Hurricanes in 1997. The team was renamed the Jets after Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996), Winnipeg's original WHA/NHL team, which relocated after the 1995–96 NHL season, 1995–96 season due to financial issues to become the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Binkley
Leslie John Binkley (born June 6, 1934) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Pittsburgh Penguins and in the World Hockey Association (WHA) for the Ottawa Nationals and Toronto Toros between 1967 and 1976. He later served as a scout for both the Pittsburgh Penguins and Winnipeg Jets. Career Les Binkley spent his early career in the minor leagues and did not play in the NHL until his thirties. After spending the 1960–61 season as the trainer and emergency goalie for the Cleveland Barons of the American Hockey League (AHL), he won the Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award as the AHL's top rookie in 1962 and was awarded the Harry "Hap" Holmes Memorial Award four years later for allowing the fewest goals in the league. Binkley was the starting goaltender for the Pittsburgh Penguins in the team's inaugural season in the NHL. During the 1970 Stanley Cup playoffs, Binkley won six games--the first postseason vict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Viens
Mario Viens (born August 7, 1955) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He won the Michel Brière Memorial Trophy as the Most Valuable Player in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for his outstanding play with the Cornwall Royals during the 1974–75 QMJHL season The 1974–75 QMJHL season was the sixth season in the history of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Ten teams played 72 games each in the schedule. The Sherbrooke Castors finished first overall in the regular season to capture the Jean Roug .... References External links * 1955 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Shaw (ice Hockey)
James Morris Shaw (born October 18, 1945) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. During the 1973–74 and 1974–75, Shaw played 37 games with the Toronto Toros of the World Hockey Association The World Hockey Association () was a professional ice hockey major league that operated in North America from 1972–73 WHA season, 1972 to 1978–79 WHA season, 1979. It was the first major league to compete with the National Hockey League (N ... (WHA). Awards and honors References External links * 1945 births Living people Baltimore Clippers players Canadian ice hockey goaltenders Dallas Black Hawks players Fort Wayne Komets players Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Ice hockey people from Saskatoon Nova Scotia Voyageurs players Saskatoon Blades players Toronto Toros players 20th-century Canadian sportsmen {{Canada-icehockey-goaltender-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Wood
Wayne Wood (June 5, 1951 – November 10, 2019) was a Canadian ice hockey goaltender. He played 104 games in the World Hockey Association with the Vancouver Blazers, Toronto Toros, Calgary Cowboys, and Birmingham Bulls. He played between the pipes as a goaltender with the Montreal Junior Canadiens during a time when they won two Memorial Cups. Shortly after, Wood was drafted by the New York Rangers and then went on to enjoy an 11-year career in the WHA and AHL. During his time in the AHL, he won the Calder Cup Championship (1981) with the Adirondack Red Wings where he was MVP of the playoffs. Wood was born in Toronto, 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 .... He died in Moncton, New Brunswick on November 10, 2019. References External links * 1951 births L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Napier (ice Hockey)
Mark Robert Napier (born January 28, 1957) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played over a thousand professional games between the National Hockey League and World Hockey Association. He was a two-time Stanley Cup winner in the NHL. Biography As a youth, Napier played in the 1968 and 1969 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with minor ice hockey teams from Toronto. An alumnus of the Toronto Marlboros organization, Napier turned pro as a teenager for the Toronto Toros of the WHA and also played for the Birmingham Bulls (WHA), Birmingham Bulls. One year before the WHA folded, Napier joined the Montreal Canadiens, winning the Stanley Cup with them in 1979 Stanley Cup Finals, 1979. He also played for the Minnesota North Stars before joining the Edmonton Oilers, winning his second Cup with them in 1985 Stanley Cup Finals, 1985. In 1986–87 NHL season, 1987, he was traded again, and would finish his career in North America in a Buffalo Sabres uniform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Václav Nedomanský
Václav Nedomanský (born 14 March 1944) is a Czech former ice hockey forward. Nedomanský is best known as the first Czechoslovak hockey player to defect to North America to play. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2019. He is also a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame (1997), Slovak Hockey Hall of Fame (2002), Czech Ice Hockey Hall of Fame (2008) and was named into the IIHF All-Time Czech Team (2020). Playing in Czechoslovakia Nedomanský played for Slovan Bratislava of the Czechoslovak Extraliga for twelve seasons. In 1968, he was a member of the Czechoslovak national ice hockey team which won silver medals at the Winter Olympics in Grenoble and bronze medals in 1972 at the Winter Olympics in Sapporo. He also played for Czechoslovakia in nine IIHF World Championships, and was named top forward at the 1974 World Championships. He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1997. Career after defection Nedomanský defected in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary Cowboys
The Calgary Cowboys were an ice hockey team that played two seasons in the World Hockey Association (WHA) from 1975 to 1977. The Cowboys played at the Stampede Corral in Calgary. The franchise was founded in 1972 as the Miami Screaming Eagles, though it never played a game in Miami. The team was based in Philadelphia and Vancouver, known in both markets as the ''Blazers'', before relocating to Calgary. The franchise folded in 1977. History Miami, Philadelphia and Vancouver Originally in 1972, the franchise was to be based out of Miami, Florida, called the Miami Screaming Eagles. But due to money problems and a lack of a suitable arena, they never played a game in Miami. Instead, they moved to Philadelphia and debuted as the Philadelphia Blazers the same year. After only one season in Philadelphia, the team relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia, and became the Vancouver Blazers in 1973–74, then two years later relocated to Calgary to become the Cowboys in 1975–76. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleveland Crusaders
The Cleveland Crusaders were a professional ice hockey team from Cleveland. They played in the World Hockey Association from 1972–73 WHA season, 1972 to 1975–76 WHA season, 1976. Their home ice was the Cleveland Arena from 1972 to 1974, and the Richfield Coliseum from 1974 to 1976. History The team was owned by Nick Mileti, who had been the founder of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers, and also owned Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians. Mileti had made a bid for a franchise in the National Hockey League but was denied. He had also owned the nine-time American Hockey League champion Cleveland Barons (1937–73), Cleveland Barons, but moved them to Jacksonville, Florida to make room for the Crusaders. On July 27, 1972, the Crusaders made their first big signing when they signed Gerry Cheevers, star goalie of the Boston Bruins to the WHA in a move that Cheevers stated was for "the security of my family". The first coach for the Crusaders was Bill Needham, a mainstay of the Baro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cincinnati Stingers
The Cincinnati Stingers were an ice hockey team based in Cincinnati that played in the World Hockey Association from 1975 to 1979 and in the Central Hockey League during the 1979–80 season. Their home arena was Riverfront Coliseum. They are the only major league hockey team to have played in Cincinnati. History The Stingers franchise was awarded in 1974 as part of the WHA's ill-conceived attempt at expansion. They entered the league for the 1975–76 WHA season along with the Denver Spurs. Most of the league's existing teams were not financially stable, and franchise relocations were commonplace. The Stingers achieved enough stability that they were the only one of the WHA's five expansion teams that lasted through to the end of the league, but they were left out of the NHL–WHA merger in mid-1979. The WHA insisted on including all three of its surviving Canadian teams, though below-average attendance made it unlikely that the Stingers would have made the cut. The Stingers, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Diego Mariners
The San Diego Mariners were a professional ice hockey team based in San Diego, California, that competed in the World Hockey Association (WHA). The team played its home games at the San Diego Sports Arena. Previous to being in San Diego, the team was known as the New York Raiders, New York Golden Blades, and the Jersey Knights. After folding in 1977, San Diego Mariners' name was adopted by an unrelated franchise in the low-level, minor professional Pacific Hockey League (PHL). Notable alumni Star players for the Mariners included defenseman Harry Howell, center Andre Lacroix, and goaltender Ernie Wakely. The Mariners were coached by Howell (as player-coach) during their first season and Ron Ingram the succeeding two seasons, qualifying for the WHA playoffs each year. Demise Late in the Mariners' second season in 1975–76, owner Joseph Schwartz defaulted on paying his players' salaries and the league's assessments, and the league took over the team. In August 1976, McDon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
