World Hockey Association | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 09/06/2019

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00:03:12 1 History
00:03:21 1.1 Founding
00:06:52 1.2 Teams
00:10:21 1.3 Problems
00:17:22 1.4 Talent competition
00:18:54 1.5 International play
00:21:09 1.6 Decline and merger
00:27:52 2 Legacy of the WHA
00:30:50 2.1 Fate of surviving teams
00:34:56 3 Hockey Hall of Fame members
00:35:17 4 Trophies and awards
00:36:28 5 Timeline of teams
00:37:17 6 WHA All-Star Game
00:38:47 7 See also



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The World Hockey Association (French: Association mondiale de hockey) was a professional ice hockey major league that operated in North America from 1972 to 1979. It was the first major league to compete with the National Hockey League (NHL) since the collapse of the Western Hockey League in 1926. Although the WHA was not the first league since that time to attempt to challenge the NHL's supremacy, it was by far the most successful in the modern era.
The WHA tried to capitalize on the lack of hockey teams in a number of major American cities and mid-level Canadian cities, and also hoped to attract the best players by paying more than NHL owners would. The WHA successfully challenged the NHL's reserve clause, which bound players to their NHL teams even without a valid contract, allowing players in both leagues greater freedom of movement. Sixty-seven players jumped from the NHL to the WHA in the first year, led by star forward Bobby Hull, whose ten-year, $2.75 million contract was a record at the time. The WHA also took the initiative to sign European players.
The WHA had an acrimonious relationship with the NHL, resulting in numerous legal battles, as well as competition for control of players and markets.  In spite of this, merger talks began almost immediately, as the WHA was constantly unstable, with franchises occasionally relocating or folding in the middle of the season.  NHL owners voted down a 1977 plan to merge six WHA teams (the Edmonton Oilers, New England Whalers, Quebec Nordiques, Cincinnati Stingers, Houston Aeros, and Winnipeg Jets) into the NHL before a 1979 merger was approved.As a result, the WHA ceased operations, and four teams joined the NHL for the 1979–80 season: the Edmonton Oilers, New England Whalers, Quebec Nordiques, and Winnipeg Jets. Of these four teams, two of the Canadian teams — the Nordiques and Jets — eventually moved south to Denver and Phoenix, respectively. The Whalers later moved from Hartford to Raleigh, North Carolina.  The Oilers and the Jets are the only WHA merger teams to retain both their original name and city.
The final WHA game was played on May 20, 1979, as the Jets defeated the Oilers to win their third Avco World Trophy.