From: jjm+@andrew.cmu.edu (James J. Murawski)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: NHL (Cleveland) Trivia Question
Date: 14 Oct 92 13:02:56 GMT
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On 13-Oct-92 in Re: NHL (Cleveland) Trivia ..
user Paul Andrew Platosh@andr writes:
>>>Hartford was known as "New England" in the WHA.  I'll bet the reason for the
>>>name change upon entry to the NHL was Boston taking issue with it, but I
>>>don't actually know this to be true.
>> 
>>I don't think the New England Whalers played in Hartford during the WHA 
>>days ... anyone remember for certain?
> 
>No, The New England Whalers played in the Garden.  The old story goes
>that the reason the Whalers are (were, I should say) green is that their
>uniforms were made from excess fabric from the Celtics uniforms.  I
>believe that the owner of the Celts also owned the Whalers, but I'm not
>sure.  There was a connection, anyway.
> 
>After entry into the NHL and the subsequent move to Hartford, the
>management felt that they wanted to sever all ties with Boston, and
>hence the name change.

For the third time........................

On 28-Aug-92 in Whalers in Hartford, I wrote
>On 28-Aug-92 in Re: Baldwin in Hartford (Wa..
>user Patrick L Humphrey@is.ri writes:
>>existence.  He was none too popular after the Whalers moved to Hartford
>>after their entry into the NHL in 1979, but folks forget that his Whalers
>>were the WHA's first champions in 1973...so I wouldn't say he was too sleazy
>>back then.
> 
>The Whalers didn't move to Hartford at the time of their entry into the NHL.
>The Whalers played most of their WHA seasons in Hartford as the New England
>Whalers (I believe it was only the first or first two years of the WHA that
>they didn't play in hartford).  I went to several Whalers WHA games in
>Hartford in the 1970s.
> 
>The Whalers had to play about a season and a half away from home in the late
>1970s.  In January of 1977 (or maybe 1978), the roof of the Civic Center
>collapsed under the weight of snow and ice at about 4AM when the place was
>empty.  This caused the Whalers to play their home games in either New Haven,

As I said back on August 28th, I attended several Whalers games in the Hartford
Civic Center in the 1970s (the only one that I actually remember who the
opposing team was when the Whalers & Howe played the Jets & Hull one Friday
night in February [I forget what year]).

From the confusion here on the net, it appears that I am the only rsh'er who
actually attended WHA games in Hartford back in the '70s.  I lived 20 miles
from the Civic Center for the first 18 years of my life, and during my early-
to-mid teen years, the Whalers played in Hartford as the New England Whalers
of the WHA.

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