1949 - 50 United States National Senior Championship These are the 1949 - 50 Amateur Hockey Association of the United States Championships : Participating Teams . " New York Rovers won the Eastern League playoff title . Toledo Buckeyes won the Eastern League regular season title . " Quarter Final . " Best of 3 " Toledo Buckeyes beat Eveleth Rangers 2 wins to none . Semi Finals . " Best of 7 " Spokane Flyers beat New York Rovers 4 wins to 3 . " Best of 3 " Chatham Maroons beat Toledo Buckeyes 2 wins to none . Final . " Note : The Spokane Flyers had advertised their semi final with the New York Rovers as the National Championship Final . The Flyers were not willing to cheat their fans by playing another final against the Chatham Maroons . Also the players were very tired . " " The Amateur Hockey Association of the United States ruled all this a misunderstanding and named Spokane and Chatham as co - champions . " " Spokane tried to arrange a challenge series during the following season but Chatham was not interested . " Description . From the Spokane Jets 1973 - 74 Guide By Paul Delaney 1950 Flyers - - National Champs In 1969 - 70 the Spokane Jets won their first Allan Cup , but twenty years before ( in 1949 - 50 ) , the Spokane Flyers won their second national ( AHAUS ) title by defeating the New York Rovers four games to three . The Flyers , with Wyatt " Scoop " Bentley as ( playing ) coach , began their assault on a WIHL championship with a five game exhibition schedule with Seattle ( Bombers ) , Calgary Stampeders , and Edmonton Flyers ; winning one , losing two and tieing two . A 2 - 1 loss at Edmonton was witnessed by more than 6 , 000 fans . A 3 - 0 whitewash of the Kimberley Dynamiters opened the regular season , and the Flyers reeled off seven wins and a tie in their first ten games . Five months later , Spokane clinced the league crown , when they tied the Trail Smoke Eaters 4 - 4 , at the ( Elm Street ) Arena in Spokane . Playdowns Spokane opened the playoff with Trail , winning the first game 11 - 3 . Trail took the second game but lost 4 - 2 and 2 - 1 in the final two games ( for the WIHL Championship ) . Not being eligible for further Canadian competition , the Flyers looked to other United States teams to continue in the playoffs . In the east , the New York Rovers , the team Spokane played the year before in the national playdowns , was engaged in a playoff with Milwaukee ; the winner getting to play Spokane for national honours . The Rovers won the series and game one for the championship was set for April 8 . The Rovers came to town loaded . They had a young crewcut goalie named Gump Worsley , and a big defenceman named Ray Hamilton . Worsley later went on to play with New York , Montreal and Minnesota in the National Hockey League , while Hamilton came back to British Columbia to play for the Trail Smoke Eaters . Frank Sullivan , the Flyers pickup player from Kimberley , notched the winning goal of the first game , two minutes and two seconds into overtime , for a 3 - 2 Spokane win , before a packed house of 2 , 811 in the old Elm Street Arena . Things got a little tough from then on out . New York won the next three games , 4 - 1 , 3 - 2 and 3 - 1 before Spokane , with their backs to the wall , won 5 - 2 . Spokane built up a 3 - 1 lead , and held on to win game six 3 - 2 , and then captured the series on April 19 with a 5 - 2 win . See Also . United States National Senior Hockey Championships