Sentences with phrase «wha team»

Ski runs beneath an odd - looking purple - and - gold set of silks, the colors of the Cleveland Crusaders, a now defunct WHA team that Cheevers played for before returning to the Bruins last season.

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Back from the WHA came erstwhile Boston Goalie Gerry Cheevers, a thoroughbred owner of growing repute — his colt Royal Ski looms large in any early reckoning of the 1977 Kentucky Derby (page 34)-- who teams with Gilles Gilbert to form the game's best goaltending combination.

For a franchise that was launched 34 years ago as theNew England Whalers, has been a member of two leagues (the WHA and NHL) and hasplayed its home games in five cities (Boston; Springfield, Mass.; Hartford; Greensboro, N.C.; and Raleigh), maybe the coolest trophy in the world can serveas an anchor for the team and for big league hockey in the South.