1994 RHI season

The 1994 RHI season was the 2nd season of Roller Hockey International. It began on June 4, 1994, with the regular season ending in August. The Murphy Cup playoffs ended in September, with the Buffalo Stampede defeating the Portland Rage to win their first Murphy Cup. The Vancouver Voodoo hosted the 1st RHI All-Star Game at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia on July 9, 1994.
==League business==
===Franchise changes===
====Arena changes====
The Vancouver Voodoo played games at both their original home the PNE Agrodome, as well as the much larger Pacific Coliseum. The Calgary Rad'z made the Max Bell Centre their permanent home arena. The Anaheim Bullfrogs' home, Anaheim Arena, was renamed the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim.
====New logos and uniforms====
The Anaheim Bullfrogs, Florida Hammerheads, Los Angeles Blades, and Oakland Skates debuted new logos and uniforms for the season, while the San Diego Barracudas and St. Louis Vipers debuted new uniforms.
====Contraction====
The Toronto Planets folded after only one season in the league.
====Relocation====
The Connecticut Coasters relocated to Sacramento, California to become the Sacramento River Rats, and the Utah Rollerbees relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada to become the Las Vegas Flash.
====Expansion====
The league doubled in size from 12 teams to 24 by adding 13 new franchises, including the Atlanta Fire Ants, Buffalo Stampede, Chicago Cheetahs, Edmonton Sled Dogs, Minnesota Arctic Blast, Montreal Roadrunners, New England Stingers, New Jersey Rockin Rollers, Philadelphia Bulldogs, Phoenix Cobras, Pittsburgh Phantoms, San Jose Rhinos, and Tampa Bay Tritons.
===Realignment===
With the larger RHI, for this season the league realigned its teams into two conferences, each with two divisions, each with six teams. Following what new National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman had done with the NHL's realignment, RHI new conferences and divisions were now geographically-named. Teams were placed into either the Eastern Conference, in the Atlantic Division or Central Division, or the Western Conference, in the Northwest Division or Pacific Division.
In addition, the playoff format was altered to resemble that of the pre–1993 NHL. Whereas the playoffs had previously been bracketed and seeded by league, they were now broken down by division and conference: the top four teams in each division were seeded one to four, with one playing four and two playing three, with the two winners playing in the division finals. Then the two division winners would play for the right to play for the Murphy Cup. The length of the playoff series were also expanded from a single elimination until the Murphy Cup Finals which was a best-of-three games, to best-of-three games in all series, with the third game being a one 12–minute period. Game one would be played at the lower seeded team's home arena, while games two and three would be played at the higher seeded team's home arena. 
===Season schedule===
RHI increased its regular season schedule from 14 to 22 games per team.
==Regular season==
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division 	GP	W 	L 	SOL	GF 	GA 	PIM	Pts
Buffalo Stampede (2) 	22	15	3 	4 	196	159	749	34
Montreal Roadrunners (4) 	22	13	9 	0 	161	148	487	26
Philadelphia Bulldogs (5) 	22	12	10	0 	187	185	431	24
New Jersey Rockin Rollers (7)	22	11	10	1 	158	165	622	23
Tampa Bay Tritons 	22	11	11	0 	178	166	643	22
Florida Hammerheads 	22	4 	17	1 	139	188	647	9
Central Division 	GP	W 	L 	SOL	GF 	GA 	PIM	Pts
Minnesota Arctic Blast (1)	22	18	3 	1 	260	187	407	37
Pittsburgh Phantoms (3) 	22	13	9 	0 	207	193	424	26
Chicago Cheetahs (6) 	22	12	10	0 	182	190	368	24
Atlanta Fire Ants (8) 	22	10	10	2 	168	190	300	22
St. Louis Vipers 	22	8 	12	2 	154	173	495	18
New England Stingers 	22	5 	17	0 	173	219	344	10
Western Conference
Northwest Division 	GP	W 	L 	SOL	GF 	GA 	PIM	Pts
Vancouver Voodoo (2) 	22	15	6 	1 	188	157	412	31
Calgary Rad’z (5) 	22	12	8 	2 	183	160	473	26
Phoenix Cobras (6) 	22	11	9 	2 	174	187	616	24
Portland Rage (7) 	22	11	10	1 	197	173	523	23
Edmonton Sled Dogs 	22	9 	10	3 	164	170	328	21
Sacramento River Rats	22	5 	17	0 	145	221	618	10
Pacific Division 	GP	W 	L 	SOL	GF 	GA 	PIM	Pts
Los Angeles Blades (1) 	22	18	4 	0 	180	133	406	36
San Jose Rhinos (3) 	22	13	7 	2 	167	159	535	28
Anaheim Bullfrogs (4) 	22	13	8 	1 	185	155	634	27
San Diego Barracudas (8)	22	9 	9 	4 	171	178	319	22
Oakland Skates 	22	10	12	0 	144	171	511	20
Las Vegas Flash 	22	6 	15	1 	152	186	558	13
===Statistical leaders===
====Scoring leaders====
Player 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	
John Young 	Minnesota Arctic Blast	22	30	49	79	+9 	18
Randy Skarda 	Minnesota Arctic Blast	21	18	59	77	+20	109
Chris Valicevic	Portland Rage 	22	25	50	75	+18	37
Mark Woolf 	San Jose Rhinos 	22	40	34	74	+9 	20
Gerry St. Cyr 	Portland Rage 	22	42	31	73	+4 	104
John Hanson 	Minnesota Arctic Blast	22	35	37	72	+19	18
Sean Krakiwsky 	Calgary Rad'z 	22	30	42	72	+10	30
Tim Hanus 	Minnesota Arctic Blast	22	36	35	71	+29	27
Kent Hawley 	Philadelphia Bulldogs 	22	29	37	66	–3 	28
Brian Downey 	Portland Rage 	22	19	47	66	+1 	28
====Leading goaltenders====
Player 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Max Mikhailovsky	Los Angeles Blades 	19	856 	15	3	0	100	0	.863	5.60
Marc Delorme 	Montreal Roadrunners	18	522 	9 	5	0	67 	0	.837	6.16
Ken Kinney 	Vancouver Voodoo 	15	575 	9 	3	0	77 	0	.842	6.43
Lance Carlson 	Portland Rage 	18	736 	9 	4	2	101	0	.844	6.58
Randy Jaycock 	Calgary Rad'z 	11	476 	6 	3	0	66 	0	.835	6.65
Chris Gordon 	Anaheim Bullfrogs 	11	490 	5 	4	1	68 	0	.816	6.66
Grant Sjerven 	San Jose Rhinos 	15	523 	7 	3	1	73 	0	.838	6.69
Scott Humphrey 	St. Louis Vipers 	13	473 	5 	4	1	68 	0	.858	6.89
Nick Vitucci 	Buffalo Stampede 	22	1037	15	3	4	150	0	.827	6.94
Todd Bojcun 	Florida Hammerheads 	12	449 	1 	6	1	66 	0	.850	7.04
==Playoffs==
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