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Hollywood Wolves

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City
  
Hollywood, California

Home arena
  
Pan-Pacific Ice Arena

Operated
  
1942-47

Colors
  
Blue, red, white

League
  
SCHL (1942-44) PCHL (1944-47)

1942–44
  
Hollywood Wolves (SCHL)

Hollywood Wolves were a Los Angeles minor hockey team that played in the Southern California Hockey League (1941-1944) and the Pacific Coast Hockey League (1944-1950). The team defeated the Boston Olympics in 1944 for the championship of the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States, the first team to hold a national championship in hockey.

The Wolves were the Toronto Maple Leafs' minor league affiliate from 1944 until 1947, and shared an arena with the PCHL's Los Angeles Monarchs.

Notable players

  • "Cowboy" Tom Anderson, Scottish-born defenceman won the NHL's Hart Trophy as the league's MVP in 1941-42 and later finished his career with the Wolves
  • Bill Barilko, scored game-winning overtime goal in 1951 Stanley Cup Final for the Toronto Maple Leafs
  • Bob Gracie, played 378 games in the National Hockey League from 1930 to 1939
  • Ivan "Ching" Johnson, played over 400 games over twelve seasons with the New York Rangers
  • John "Red" Keating, played 11 games over two seasons with the Detroit Red Wings
  • Eric "Doc" Prentice, played five games with the Toronto Maple Leafs

    • References

    Hollywood Wolves Wikipedia
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