- London Lions
The London Lions based out of
London ,England was an independent professionalice hockey team that played 72 games during the 1973-74 season against the topEurope an hockey teams. It was started byDetroit Red Wings ownerBruce Norris with a vision of building a league to be affiliated with theNational Hockey League . Norris' Vice-Chairman of the team wasJohn Ziegler who went on to become President of theNational Hockey League in 1977.The Lions played their home games at
Wembley Arena and had a record of 52 wins, 13 losses and 7 ties. They touredEurope to promote the proposed European professional hockey league originally scheduled to start for the 1974-75 season. The original plans for this new league was to have the top teams participate in theStanley Cup playoffs against the traditionalNorth America n NHL teams. The league did not gain support and never started play..
References
#Note|Note1 [http://www.iihf.com/news/iihfpr4905.htm International Ice Hockey Federation mention of London Lions]
# [http://www.angelfire.com/space/u_line/london.htm London Lions page by Mikael Uhlin]
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