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Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/League assessment

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This page is part of the WikiProject on Ice Hockey and provides a list of defunct ice hockey leagues considered by the WikiProject to meet various criteria of the WP:NHOCKEY guideline, as noted below.

=Criterion #1=

The following historical leagues are considered to satisfy Criterion #1:

  • {{flag|East Germany}} – DDR-Oberliga
  • {{flag|Canada}} / {{flag|USA}} – Canadian-American Hockey League
  • {{flag|Canada}} / {{flag|USA}} – International Hockey League (1929–36)There have been numerous hockey leagues using the name of "International Hockey League." The earliest was the world's first fully professional hockey league, and played in Pittsburgh and the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada from 1904 to 1907. This and a Russian league by this name, which played from 1992 to 1996 and was the successor to the Soviet Championship League and the predecessor to the Russian Superleague, were top-level leagues. The second was a predecessor league to the American Hockey League which played from 1929 to 1936, and is considered a top-level minor league which meets Criterion #1. The third, active from 1945 to 2001, was for most of its history a low-level loop operating in the Great Lakes region and is considered a lower-tier minor league considered to satisfy Criterion #2, but from the 1979 season on forward was a stronger league consisting of NHL top affiliates and well-financed independent teams with rosters of veteran minor league stars, and from that point to its end is considered to meet Criterion #1. The most recent iteration of the name was when the United Hockey League (originally founded to fill the low-level Great Lakes niche the 1945–2001 IHL abandoned in its period of national expansion in the 1990s) changed to the name in 2007 in an attempt to evoke the earlier league. This is considered a lower-tier minor league which meets Criterion #2.
  • {{flag|Canada}} / {{flag|USA}} – International Hockey League (1945–2001) (starting in the 1979–1980 season)
  • {{flag|USA}} – Western Hockey League (1952–74) (known before the 1953 season as the Pacific Coast Hockey League)There have been several leagues using the names of "Western Canada Hockey League" and "Western Hockey League". The first was a major professional league founded in 1921, which merged with the Pacific Coast Hockey Association in 1924, renamed the Western Hockey League in 1925, and folded in 1926. The name was revived for a minor professional league (the renamed Pacific Coast Hockey League) operating between 1952 and 1974; this was a top-level minor league considered to satisfy Criterion #1. It was revived again when the major junior Western Canada Hockey League (itself renamed from the Canadian Major Junior Hockey League in 1968) adopted the name Western Hockey League in 1978; this is an extant league considered to satisfy Criterion #2.
  • {{flag|West Germany}} – Eishockey-Bundesliga

=Criterion #2=

The following historical leagues are considered to satisfy Criterion #2.

Other – Alpenliga, Interliga (1999–2007)

=Criterion #3=

The following historical leagues are considered to satisfy Criterion #3.

Those leagues not otherwise listed are considered to confer no presumptive notability to players, coaches, officials or executives, and articles about the same must explicitly demonstrate notability under the provisions of WP:GNG, WP:BIO or other valid notability criteria.

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