The agreement officially took effect on June 22; it ended the seven-year existence of the WHA and re-established the NHL as the sole major league in North ...
In spite of this, merger talks began almost immediately. NHL owners voted down a 1977 plan to merge six WHA teams (the Edmonton Oilers, New England Whalers, ...
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... WHA merger was completed for the start of the 1979–80 NHL season. Four teams came over from the WHA, paying an expansion fee of $7.5 million each ($31.5 ...
The 1979 merger of the NHL and WHA was the culmination of several years of negotiations between the National Hockey League (NHL) and the World Hockey ...
... NHL in the NHL–WHA merger of 1979 and were renamed the "Hartford Whalers". After a quarter century in New England, the franchise relocated to North ...
The 1979 merger of the NHL and WHA was the culmination of several years of negotiations between the National Hockey League (NHL) and the World Hockey ...
These four teams had joined the NHL after a merger agreement was reached with the World Hockey Association (WHA). 1979 NHL expansion draft. General ...
On June 22, 2016, the NHL approved expansion to Las Vegas starting in the 2017–18 season with the Golden Knights, but deferred Quebec City's bid for a team.
Three of the four teams from the NHL–WHA merger relocated to other cities: the Quebec Nordiques, the original Winnipeg Jets, and the Hartford Whalers. The ...