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Featured article The Scottish National League was the first ice hockey league in Scotland. It operated from 1929 to 1954, with a break between 1940 and 1946 due to World War II. It was founded in 1929 by 10 teams based out of the Crossmyloof Ice Rink in Glasgow. Two teams, Doonside and Bridge of Weir, were not based in Glasgow, but still played out of Crossmyloof. In 1954, the league merged with the English National League to form the British National League. Seven of the 11 teams to play in the first season of the BNL originated from the SNL. Read more...

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Did You Know... ...that the New Niagara Challenge Cup was the first indoor tournament to be played in Great Britain, and Europe as a whole, when it was contested in 1897? ...that there was an ethnic German Championship played in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s? ...that Roger Van der Straten-Ponthoz scored the first known goal by a European goaltender on February 27, 1910? ...that a game between DEHG Prag and Olmützer EV in 1934 was stopped by the police as it was "disturbing the nighttime peace"? ...that an ice hockey championship was played in Tajikistan in the 1950s? See additional cool facts, anecdotes, photographs, and more here.