Talk:List of ice hockey leagues

message: I think the only person who realy considers the ECHL a "higher caliber" of hockey than the CHL or the UHL is the ECHL itself and the ECHL fans that have been brainwashed by their PR machine.  They might have a better league front office and a union, but the players are pretty much equal.
Could we please refrain from listing leagues that haven't played any games. Ex: According to its website: the Canadian Professional Hockey WAS scheduled to start in 2004. Is it still on for next season? Is there any press about it? Any venue leases signed? Any actual teams? Anyone can register a domain name and declare that they are forming a league. This article isn't titled "List of Rumored Ice Hockey Leagues". And how far down do we let this go? It looks like we're listing regional pickup leagues. We have to draw a line somewhere. I play kickball in a rec league, but I don't feel the need to wikify it. Comments? ccwaters 21:40, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Level of calibre

message: USHL is NOT considered major junior in the United States...it is considered normal Jr A "Tier 1", as NAHL is considered Jr A "Tier 2" 66.99.53.29 15:09, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  USHL 

message: What's this about the SEHL reforming for this season? I can't anything that suggests that's happening. It looks like they tried to regroup for last season but only managed to round up 2 teams: Tupelo and Birmingham (Pelham). Something tells me its dead. ccwaters 11:14, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  SEHL 

message: Would it be possible to build/reference some sort of article about the "Junior"/"Senior" A/B/C variants of hockey leagues in Canada? As an ignorant American, I had no idea that "Junior B" was an equivalent (roughly, as I am starting to understand it) of college-level hockey amateur teams... but paid? You understand my confusion, I hope. I'm searching for clarity here, and you seemed like the folks to know... -- nae'blis (talk) 21:07, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a plan, but let me give you a precis.  "Major Junior" leagues run from (roughly) ages 16-20, and are pretty much feeders into pro hockey.  They aren't pro teams, per se (not according to the NCAA, anyway, but that hasn't always been their take), but the players receive stipends.  Junior A are the top level junior teams that aren't in the OHL/WHL/QMJL troika.  Junior B & C are lower levels that either feed into the Junior A or college programs.  "Senior" leagues are fully adult loops; technically, the NHL and the various minor pro leagues are all "senior" leagues, as is the local beer-and-pretzels leagues running out of your hometown hockey rink.  The best of them (the "Senior A" loops) are organized into regional leagues and are heavily stocked with former pro and college players.  Ravenswing 21:18, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Junior B, etc 

message: Is it necessary to list out all the conferences in both Division I and Division II/III?  No other leagues have conferences listed.  It seems to me that there should just be two entries on this article, one for Division I and one for Division II/III.  DII and DIII should be listed together I'm guessing due to the very low number of Division II teams and also that DII/DIII play each other.Limasbravo 15:44, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Beyond that, the separate "conferences" are in fact leagues.  We don't clump Canadian major junior teams into a generic "Hockey Canada" label, however much HC is an umbrella organization much alike to the NCAA, nor do we compact the CHL/UHL/etc teams into a bloated "Low Minors" category.  Is there a reason why listing the conferences is onerous?  Ravenswing 11:34, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What division II? There hasn't been any Div II conferences in at least 10 years. Not sure the of the exact time frame, but there were just a handful of schools during the 90ies, and the last championship held was 1999.  ccwaters 13:36, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Division II teams still exist, there just is no Division II championship due the small amount of them.  The ECAC Northeast division has four of them (So. New Hampshire, Stonehill, Franklin Pierce, and Assumption).  And yes, they're leagues.  Terminology, my bad.  I guess they should be kept then  (Rats, I forgot to sign my name last time)Limasbravo 15:43, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  : Never noticed that before. So, those four plus St. Anselm  (ECAC East) are it? What makes them Div II? Do they give out scholarships? Are they just stragglers that haven't made the switch up or down?. ccwaters 16:06, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

text:   : Here is a good link to see the NCAA teams/Divs.  I would say until there are no more DII teams out there we should at least recognize the fact that there are teams playing DII —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Khoogheem (talk • contribs) 19:08, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I really don't know about the circumstances, but I'd immagine it's other athletics they are in besides hockey.  I'm sure they wouldn't want to switch everything to be Division III, but them deciding to "play up" and be Division I is a huge step up.  They'd have to worry about needing better facilties and other things like that.  I'm not sure if D-II can give out scholarships or not.  There are a number of D-II schools that "play up" right now in Division I, my favorite team the University_of_Minnesota_Duluth Bulldogs are one example.  Limasbravo 13:47, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm an RIT alum. I don't recall seeing any of the ECAC NE Div II schools come in when I was there (and RIT hockey was Div III). That's why I never noticed. RIT's schedules back then were mostly in conference ECAC West, the SUNYs, Eastern power schools (Norwich, Middlebury) and occasionally a lower tier Div I team. ccwaters 13:58, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  NCAA 

message: According to the league's web site, this isn't a "renaming," but an entirely new corporate entity.  The presumption so far on Wikipedia is that the league's just changed names, but is that how we want to handle it?    Ravenswing  13:01, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm glad you mentioned that RG. Do you have any further details as to why its a completely new corporate entity? Flibirigit 15:57, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Language such as "Paul L. Pickard has been named the first President/CEO of the new IHL," which wouldn't be necessary for a mere name change, as Pickard was President of the UHL, and "The Bloomington PrairieThunder, the Flint Generals, the Fort Wayne Komets, the Kalamazoo Wings and the Muskegon Fury join the league after being member clubs of the UHL during the 2006-07 season."    Ravenswing  18:51, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Okay. I see your point, as mentioned on the web site. Does anyone know why the new league was formed, and the fate of the UHL? Was there also a similar situation when teams switched from the Colonial Hockey League? Flibirigit 05:15, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[United Hockey League]] / [[International Hockey League (2007-)|International Hockey League]]

message: This should be split between Canada and the United States. There really is no reason to combine them like this, especially since the European section is divided by country. A matter of consistency. NorthernThunder (talk) 01:42, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This suggestion is still worth consideration fourteen years later. If there are no objections, I will attempt to undertake the reorganization by country in the near future. Spitzmauskc (talk) 15:50, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  North American section 

message: This womens leauge should be added to the list for Oceania. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Women's_Ice_Hockey_League  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.217.166.15 (talk) 23:27, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australian Womens Ice Hockey Leauge.  

message: Are there no South American ice hockey leagues? I guess it wouldn't be too surprising if there weren't, but every other populated continent is mentioned, so it's still somewhat surprising that S. America isn't there. 174.124.184.66 (talk) 03:59, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  South America? 

message: The overlap with List of ice hockey leagues appears considerable.  It should be merged, or more clearly differentiated. SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:36, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[List of ice hockey teams in the United States and Canada]] 

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