Los Angeles Ramblers

The Los Angeles Ramblers were a senior men's ice hockey team that played one season (1946–47) in the Western International Hockey League.

History[]

In 1946–47, a group of Los Angeles businessmen entered a team in the WIHL. Having to guarantee all expenses for teams from Kimberley, Nelson, Trail and Spokane, with each club making four trips and playing a doubleheader, proved too expensive to sustain, especially with Los Angeles having a team in the more popular Pacific Coast Hockey League.

To add color to the league, the Los Angeles Ramblers' executive came up with the George Montgomery-Dinah Shore Cup, a trophy donated by the film-famed pair from Hollywood. The trophy went to the league champions, with the Kimberley Dynamiters the first team to have their name carved on the cup.

Coach , a native of Lethbridge, Alberta (and a former Lethbridge Maple Leaf), was the playing-coach of the Ramblers. was their goalie, with doubling as spare netminder and general manager. , , and formed the Ramblers' defence. Up front they had , , , Kenny Stewart, Jack Miller, Hassie Young, and Jim Fleming. Eric Bishop announced the Ramblers games (on radio), both at home and away.

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