The Worldwide association of hockey - AMH (in English: World Hockey Association - WHA) is an old professional sports association gathering teams of Hockey of the Canada and the the United States.
It was founded in 1971 and lasted until the end of the season 1978-79

History

It is officially created the June 10th 1971 by two men of the California, Dennis Murphy and Gary Davidson, and although very little taken with serious by the leaders of the National league of hockey, Worldwide association was going to revolutionize the world of professional hockey. The league allowed twelve new teams of the Canada and the the United States to try to gain the Trophée AVCO by the finance departments of AVCO accompanied by: 500000 Dollars.

The new league makes feel its presence immediately whereas it subtilizes several players with the LNH of which the very famous Bobby Hull which signs then with the Jets of Winnipeg for the sum of a million Dollars, an amount without precedent at the time. Gordie Howe, the legendary striker of the LNH, turns over on the ice and joined its two sons in the team of the Aeros of Houston. The LNH retorts then as it can by granting franknesses to Long Island and Atlanta: it is the beginning of the Islanders and the Flames, which will move later in Calgary.

Even if the AMH with final never tries to contribute for the Coupe Stanley, its impact on the LNH is undeniable, would be this only by the creation of the new franknesses. Moreover during the Season AMH 1978-79, a future tenor of the LNH joined the Racers of Indianapolis of the AMH. Contrary to the LNH which requires a minimum age for the entry of the players in the league, the AMH does not have a standard and it is 16 years old that the young player plays for Racers then for the Oilers d' Edmonton: it is about Wayne Gretzky. One of the others advanced had mainly with the AMH is that of the presence of European players .

In 1979, the AMH not managing to attract the fans uniformly is seen forced to stop its activities and four of its teams, the Oilers d' Edmonton, the Jets of Winnipeg, the Nordiques of Quebec and the Whalers de Hartford join the LNH, whereas the Stingers of Cincinnati and bulldozers of Birmingham receive an amount of money as a compensation for closing for the league.

Franknesses

These teams evolved/moved in Worldwide association:

Fishing out amateurs

The Repêchage S amateurs of association took place annually but the franknesses had with final evil to make come the young players. Those were generally also fished out by franknesses from the LNH and much more allured to go to play in older and/or prestigious teams.

The table below shows the list of the first choices of the fishings out.

On the five players above, alone Scott Campbell and Claude Larose were with the height of the hopes placed in them. Bob Neely and Blair Chapmanhad never played in association and Pat Price did not have a very high contract but remained only one season before leaving to play for the Islanders of New York.

Season of association

It seven seasons ago of association. The table below shows the winner of the Trophée AVCO as well as the finalist.

See too

References

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