Chicago Cougars
January 10, 2025
The Chicago Cougars were charter members of the WHA in 1972. The team played three seasons in the Windy City before folding in 1975.
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Atlanta Flames
July 31, 2019
This was a good 1970’s NHL expansion team! No, really. The Atlanta Flames had a winning record in five of their eight seasons as the NHL’s only Deep South outpost. They made the playoffs six out of those eight years. They had a core of outstanding young players and a future Hall-of-Fame executive in the GM chair. But the collective memory of the Atlanta Flames is that they weren’t very good because they were God-awful in the playoffs (objectively true) and Southerners hate ice hockey (possibly true, definitely a well-worn trope).
Cleveland Barons (1976-1978)
December 14, 2017
National Hockey League (1976-1978) Born: July 14, 1976 – The California Golden Seals relocate to Cleveland, OH. Died: June 14, 1978 – Merger with Minnesota
Colorado Rockies (1976-1982)
January 24, 2015
The Colorado Rockies hockey team was a star-crossed organization that spent most of six winters in Denver seeking to move elsewhere. The Rockies began life in 1974 as the Kansas City Scouts, a poorly organized NHL expansion effort and wound-up in the swamplands of New Jersey six years later.