Ronald Earle Huston (born April 8, 1945 in Manitou, Manitoba) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockeyforward who played 79 games in the National Hockey League for the California Golden Seals. He would also play 159 games in the World Hockey Association for the Phoenix Roadrunners. Huston returned to the Western International Hockey League for the start of the 1977-78 season as a member of the Spokane Flyers and led the league in scoring with 119 points. He followed the Spokane Flyers to the Pacific Hockey League the following season. When the Pacific Hockey League folded at the end of the 1978-79 season, he once again returned to the WIHL for the 1979-80 season, this time as a player-coach of the Cranbrook Royals, a team where he started his playing career after he completed his time in junior hockey with the Brandon Wheat Kings. He would continue his role as a player-coach when he moved on to the Elk Valley Blazers of the WIHL from the 1980-81 to the 1982-83 seasons.
After his retirement as a player, Huston worked as an electrician, a trade that he started when he was a member of the Cranbrook Royals in the latter half of the 1960s.
Roderic Jean Brind'Amour is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. He is the head coach for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Jonathan Darryl Klemm is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League. As of 2018, he is an associate coach for the Winnipeg Ice of the Western Hockey League, formerly known as the Kootenay Ice which relocated from Cranbrook, British Columbia to Winnipeg before the 2019–20 season
Robert Earle Clarke, also known as Bob Clarke and Bobby Clarke, is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played his entire 15-year National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Philadelphia Flyers and is currently an executive with the team. Clarke is acknowledged by some as being one of the greatest hockey players and captains of all time. He was captain of the Flyers from 1973 to 1979, winning the Stanley Cup with them in both 1974 and 1975. He was again captain of the Flyers from 1982 to 1984 before retiring. A three-time Hart Trophy winner and 1987 Hockey Hall of Fame inductee, Clarke was rated number 24 on The Hockey News' list of The Top 100 NHL Players of All-Time in 1998. In 2017 Clarke was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
The Barrie Flyers were a Canadian senior ice hockey team from Barrie, Ontario. They were members of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) and played in the OHA Senior A Hockey League from 1966 to 1979, then in the Major Intermediate A Hockey League from 1979 to 1983. The name Barrie Flyers was previously used by a junior ice hockey team from 1945 to 1960.
Reginald Stewart Bentley was a Canadian ice hockey player who played 11 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Chicago Black Hawks as part of a 20-year senior and professional career. During his time with Chicago, he played on a line with his brothers Doug and Max, the first time in NHL history that three siblings played on one line.
The Western International Hockey League (WIHL) was a senior level ice hockey league that featured teams from the Western United States and Western Canada. It operated from 1946–62 and 1963–88. It grew out of the West Kootenay League, which operated in southeast British Columbia from the 1920s.
Donald Kenneth Nachbaur is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. He played eight seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Hartford Whalers, Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers between 1980 and 1990. He would later spend four years in the Austrian Hockey League. After retiring Nachbaur turned to coaching, and spent several years as a head coach in the Western Hockey League (WHL). He was formerly the assistant coach for the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL, and also worked as the head coach of the Spokane Chiefs of the WHL.
The 1946–47 Western International Hockey League season was the first season of the WIHL. The West Kootenay League expanded to Los Angeles and Spokane and changed its name.
1954–55 was the ninth season of the Western International Hockey League.
1955–56 was the tenth season of the Western International Hockey League.
1965–66 was the 19th season of the Western International Hockey League.
1969–70 was the 23rd season of the Western International Hockey League.
1974–75 was the 28th season of the Western International Hockey League.
1975–76 was the 29th season of the Western International Hockey League.
1976–77 was the 30th season of the Western International Hockey League.
1977–78 was the 31st season of the North American senior amateur Western International Hockey League, the final round of which was won by the Kimberley Dynamiters.
1978–79 was the 32nd season of the Western International Hockey League.
1979–80 was the 33rd season of the Western International Hockey League.
Roy McBride was a former professional ice hockey player and coach.
Kris Knoblauch is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach, former player and the current head coach of the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League (AHL). He had a total of 13 seasons of coaching experience before joining Hartford, including two seasons as an assistant coach with the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL), and seven years as a head coach in the Canadian junior leagues, during which time he compiled a record of 298–130–16–13.
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