OTTAWA (CP) – Ottawa Nationals of the World Hockey Association are considering looking to the United States for financing. Although the club already has five or six Canadian shareholders, owner Doug Michel Monday said the club has been required to tie so much money up in guarantees it is running out of working capital. And. …
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By The Canadian Press After sweeping the first-ever World Hockey Association playoffs in 1972-73, New England Whalers, are having problems making it past the first round. The Whalers roiled over Ottawa Nationals in the quarter-finals, Cleveland Crusaders in the semi-finals, and beat Winnipeg Jets in the final—all by 4-1 counts in. games—back in the league’s …
NHL, WHA wed for better or worse By Al Colletti Canadian Press staff writer 31 Mar 1979, Sat The Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) NEW YORK — Some call it expansion and others a mini-merger, but whatever terminology is used, the National Hockey League and the World Hockey Association are wedded for better or for …
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