Once a formidable name in the professional hockey world, the Western Professional Hockey League once boasted the title of being one of the toughest and most exciting minor professional hockey leagues in America. The league started with 6 teams in the inaugural season and reached up to 19 different franchises at one point of its existence. Over the years, the WPHL attendance rates averaged anywhere from 2,000 up to 6,100 fans per game. The league spanned 5 seasons with the El Paso Buzzards championing the first 2 seasons and the Shreveport Mudbugs winning the league championship for the remainder 3 seasons. From long hard-fought fights on the ice to wildly eccentric fans all the way to flashy highlight reel plays that dazzled spectators right before their very eyes, every game had the energy to blow the roof off the place and that is exactly what characterized the Western Professional Hockey League.
But then it was gone...
Until now! The revamped Western Professional Hockey League expands west from badlands of America west all the way to the Pacific coast to bring the western states the latest launch of Single A minor professional hockey action.
The fresh revamp of the old Western Professional Hockey League into the new Western Professional Hockey League offers a stroll down nostalgia lane as the league aims to return the glory of professional hockey to those cities that once had and then lost their beloved hockey teams. With some of those former towns once more proudly standing behind hockey in their city plus the addition of a couple new original franchises, the Western Professional Hockey League arises once more to captivate the focus and attention of western hockey fans both new and old.
With promotional exhibition games being scheduled, hockey fans can anticipate catching the action of these neutral site contests in the 2024/2025 season. Dates are yet to be released for those games but the venues have been secured as schedules become finalized.
Stay tuned in for more details on the way as the Western Professional Hockey League works towards those announcements.
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