1949-50 United States National Senior Championship

These are the 1949-50 Amateur Hockey Association of the United States Championships:
==Participating Teams==
*Eastern Hockey League:		New York Rovers
*Eastern Hockey League:		Toledo Buckeyes
*International Hockey League:	Chatham Maroons
*Northern Amateur League:		Eveleth Rangers
*Western International Hockey League:	Spokane Flyers
New York Rovers won the Eastern League playoff title. Toledo Buckeyes won the Eastern League regular season title.
==Quarter Final==
Best of 3
Date 	Winner 	Loser 	Location
April 8	Toledo 7	Eveleth 1	Toledo
April 9	Toledo 7	Eveleth 2	Toledo
Toledo Buckeyes beat Eveleth Rangers 2 wins to none.
==Semi Finals==
Best of 7
Date 	Winner 	Loser 	Location
April 8 	Spokane 3 	New York 2	Spokane
April 9 	New York 4	Spokane 1 	Spokane
April 11	New York 3	Spokane 2 	Spokane
April 13	New York 3	Spokane 1 	Spokane
April 15	Spokane 5 	New York 2	Spokane
April 16	Spokane 3 	New York 2	Spokane
April 17	Spokane 5 	New York 2	Spokane
Spokane Flyers beat New York Rovers 4 wins to 3.
Best of 3
Date 	Winner 	Loser 	Location
April 16	Chatham 5	Toledo 4	Toledo
April 17	Chatham 2	Toledo 1	Chatham
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.
==Team Photos==
49-50ChaMar.png|Chatham Maroons
1949-50_Spokane_Flyers.png|Spokane Flyers
49-50SpokaneFlyers2.png|Spokane Flyers
==Game Ads==
49-50USNatSpokaneGameAd.png|Spokane
49-50USNatSpokaneGameAd2.png|Spokane
49-50USatSFToledoGameAd.png|Semi Final @ Toledo
==USAHA Senior B Championship==
;New England Series
*3/4: Dedham HC - Concord Sacred Heart (NH) 4:3
*3/4: Housatonic (New Milford, CT) - Lynn Pics 7:1
*3/4: New Haven Rangers - Berlin Maroons 5:4
*3/4: Bates Manufacturing Lewiston - Fitchburg 5:2
*3/5: Bates Manufacturing Lewiston - Housatonic (New Milford, CT) 5:2 - semifinal
*3/5: Dedham HC - New Haven Rangers 4:2 - semifinal
*3/5: Bates Manufacturing Lewiston - Dedham HC 5:4 - final
;Final
*3/18: Rochester (MN) Mustangs - Bates Manufacturing Lewiston 3:1
*3/19: Bates Manufacturing Lewiston - Rochester Mustangs 5:2
==See Also==
United States National Senior Hockey Championships
Category:1950 in ice hockey