1962-63 EPHL Season

This is the 1962-63 season of the Eastern Professional Hockey League. It was the league's fourth and last season.
The Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers folded. The parent New York Rangers moved the team to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Clippers of the American Hockey League,
The Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds were moved to Syracuse where they were not successful. The team was then moved by the parent Chicago Blackhawks to St. Louis.
The league folded at the end of the season and then was moved to the central United States and became the Central Professional Hockey League.
==Standings==
Regular Season 	GP	W 	L 	T 	GF 	GA 	Pts
Kingston Frontenacs 	72	42	19	11	298	229	95
Hull-Ottawa Canadiens	72	40	25	7 	279	224	87
Sudbury Wolves 	72	27	32	13	293	305	67
St. Louis Braves 	72	26	37	9 	275	302	61
Played an interlocking schedule with the International Hockey League.
The Syracuse Braves moved to St. Louis on January 1. They had a record of 6-18-6-18 92-126.
==Playoffs==
===Semi Finals===
Best of 5
Date 	Winner 	Loser 	Location
April 3	Sudbury 3	Hull-Ottawa 2 OT	Hull
April 5	Sudbury 1	Hull-Ottawa 0 	Sudbury
April 6	Sudbury 5	Hull-Ottawa 3 	Hull
Sudbury Wolves beat Hull-Ottawa Canadiens 3 wins to none.
===Final===
Best of 7
Date 	Winner 	Loser 	Location
April 10	Kingston 6	Sudbury 2 	Kingston
April 12	Sudbury 5 	Kingston 3	Sudbury
April 13	Kingston 5	Sudbury 3 	Kingston
April 15	Kingston 4	Sudbury 0 	Sudbury
April 17	Kingston 6	Sudbury 3 	Kingston
Kingston Frontenacs beat Sudbury Wolves 4 wins to 1.
Kingston Frontenacs were awarded the Tom Foley Memorial Trophy.
==Last League Game==
The last game played in the EPHL was on April 17, 1963. The Kingston Frontenacs beat the Sudbury Wolves 6-3 to win the best-of-seven final series four games to one. Attendance was almost 4000.
Sudbury's Gord Labossiere scored the league's final goal while Norm Armstrong of the Wolves got the last penalty.
Bruce Gamble was the goalie for the Frontenacs and Gerry Cheevers was in nets for the Wolves.
==NHL Affiliations==
*Kingston Frontenacs - Boston Bruins
*Hull-Ottawa Canadiens - Montreal Canadiens
*Sudbury Wolves - Detroit Red Wings
*St. Louis Braves - Chicago Blackhawks
==Team Photos==
62-63KinFro.jpg|Kingston Frontenacs
==Game Ads==
62-63EPHLHullGameAd.jpg|Hull
62-63EPHLStLouisGameAd.jpg|St. Louis
62-63EphlExhHullGameAd.jpg|Pre-season @ Ottawa. Boston lost 2-1.
62-63EphlExhOttawaGameAd.jpg|Pre-season @ Ottawa. Montreal won 5-2.
62-63EphlExhOttawaGameAd2.jpg|Pre-season @ Ottawa. Chicago won 2-1.
==See Also==
Eastern Professional Hockey League
Category:EPHL seasons
Category:1963 in hockey