1926–27 American ice hockey season
This was the 1926-27 American ice hockey season:
Leagues
- American Hockey Association
- American Amateur Hockey Association
- Canadian-American Hockey League
- California Hockey League
- Metropolitan Amateur Hockey League
- National Hockey League (Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Cougars, New York Americans, New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Pirates)
- New England Hockey League
New York
Some notable independent teams in New York this winter included the Albany Hockey club, Rochester Hockey Club, and the Nichols Hockey Club.
- 1926-27 Game Results
- 1/9: Rochester Hockey Club - New York State Railway 8:1
- 1/22: Rochester Hockey Club - Nichols Hockey Club @ Buffalo
- 2/22: Albany Hockey Club - Brooklyn Crescents 4:2 @ Albany
- 3/22: Albany Hockey Club - Brooklyn Crescents 1:0 @ Madison Square Garden
Portland, Oregon
- 1926-27 Game Results
- 12/8: Port Arthur (ON) - Portland Rosebuds 7:2 @ Portland
- 1/1: Portland Rosebuds - Victoria All-Stars (BC) 5:3 @ Victoria
- 1/9: Portland Union Pacific - Vancouver Monarchs (BC) 6:2 @ Portland
- 1/16: Portland Waterfront - Vancouver Nationals 4:4 @ Portland
- 2/6: Portland Rosebuds - Victoria All-Stars 9:3 @ Portland
- 2/13: Portland Rosebuds - Vancouver All-Stars (BC) 9:2 @ Portland
- 2/25: Vancouver Ex-King George (BC) - Portland Rosebuds 6:4 @ Vancouver
- 2/27: Portland Rosebuds - Kimberley Elks (BC) 8:5 @ Portland
Spokane, Washington
The Spokane Arctic Club planned to organize a hockey club to face teams from Couer d'Alene and other locales. A game between the Spokane All-Stars and the Couer d'Alene Eskimos was set to take place on January 30, 1927, as part of an ice carnival in Spokane. However, due to a misunderstanding, Couer d'Alene thought the ice was too soft for play, and did not come to Spokane, so a game between two local picked teams was played instead.
The Spokane Hockey Club was organized on February 1, and scheduled a game against Couer d'Alene for the 6th. The teams were set to play a return game on February 13, but no result was reported.
- 1926-27 Game Results
- 2/6: Couer d'Alene Eskimos (ID) - Spokane Hockey Club 3:2 @ Spokane - Eskimos won the L.M. Davenport Cup for the Championship of the Inland Empire
- 2/13: Couer d'Alene Eskimos (ID) - Spokane Hockey Club @ Couer d'Alene
St. Louis, Missouri
On January 2, 1927, the first ice hockey game to be played in St. Louis since 1921 took place outdoors on the Grand Basin in Forest Park, as part of the Silver Skates Ice Carnival. A picked team of St. Louis players faced the Chicago Athletic Association of the Windy City Senior Amateur Hockey League. Chicago AA claimed the game as a win when it was stopped after the second period due to the poor condition of the ice. Three weeks later, the St. Louis team traveled to Springfield, Illinois, where they faced a local team in a hockey game played as part of the Springfield Winter Carnival.
- 1926-27 Game Results
- 1/2: Chicago Athletic Association (IL) - St. Louis Picked Team 3:1 @ Forest Park Grand Basin - stopped after second period due to bad ice
- 1/22: St. Louis Picked Team - Springfield Picked Team (IL) 1:0 @ Springfield
Texas
On December 16, 1926, officials of the ice rinks at San Antonio, Houston, El Paso, and Dallas got together in Houston with the goal of establishing a Texas Hockey League. San Antonio had two hockey teams at the time. In January 1927, there were talks of another circuit including Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, and Shreveport, Louisiana.
At the Polar Wave Ice Palace in Houston, the Polar Wave Bears faced the Second Division army team from San Antonio on December 11. The Bears and the Crystal Palace team from San Antonio later played in a four-game series. The Gardner Ice Palace opened in Dallas in 1927, and the local team was known as the Dallas Ice Kings.
The first game in El Paso took place at the Arctic Ice Palace on February 23, 1927. The Southern Pacific Trainmen and Fort Bliss Machine Gun Canadians played a three-game series which proved to be very popular among the locals, and the Border Ice Hockey League was soon formed, beginning play in mid-March.
- 1926-27 Game Results
- 12/11: Polar Wave Bears - San Antonio Second Division 16:2 @ Houston
- 12/16: Polar Wave Bears - San Antonio Crystal Palace 10:4 @ Houston
- 12/17: Polar Wave Bears - San Antonio Crystal Palace 10:5 @ Houston
- 12/19: Polar Wave Bears - San Antonio Crystal Palace 14:8 @ San Antonio
- 12/20: Polar Wave Bears - San Antonio Crystal Palace 6:4 @ San Antonio
- 1/10: Dallas Ice Kings - Polar Wave Bears 7:5 @ Dallas
- 1/24: Polar Wave Bears - Dallas Ice Kings 7:3 @ Houston
- 2/3: St. Paul Millionaires (MN) - Polar Wave Bears 9:5 @ Houston
- 2/4: St. Paul Millionaires (MN) - Polar Wave Bears 5:3 @ Houston
- 2/23: Southern Pacific Trainmen - Fort Bliss Machine Gun Canadians 4:1 @ El Paso
- 2/27: Fort Bliss Machine Gun Canadians - Southern Pacific Trainmen 4:2 @ El Paso
- 3/3: Southern Pacific Trainmen - Fort Bliss Machine Gun Canadians 8:6 @ El Paso
- 3/30: Arctic Ice Palace - El Paso All-Stars 8:7 @ El Paso
- Border Ice Hockey League Results
- 3/12: Arctic Ice Palace - Eighth Cavalry 11:10
- 3/15: Southern Pacific Trainmen - Seventh Cavalry 13:5
- 3/17: Eighth Cavalry - Machine Gun Canadians 5:4
- 3/19: Arctic Ice Palace - Seventh Cavalry 10:6
- 3/22: Southern Pacific Trainmen - Machine Gun Canadians 7:6
- 3/24: Seventh Cavalry - Eighth Cavalry
- 3/26: Arctic Ice Palace - Southern Pacific Trainmen 12:2
College ice hockey
See: 1926–27 American college hockey season
Sources
- Austin-American Statesman
- El Paso Times
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- The Spokesman-Review
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