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VINTAGE SIGNED HOCKEY STICK
1997 - 1998
TULSA (OKLAHOMA) OILERS
"BEST WISHES TO KEN MOORE"
THE STICK WAS ASSIGNED TO MIKE BAJURNY
IT WAS SIGNED BY
#11 Craig Coxe
#22 Rhett Dudley
#9 Chris Smith
#33 Troy MacCormick
#7 Johann Westermark
#46 Chris Gallardi
#10 Troy Caley
#13 Mike Bajurny
#18 Paul McInnis
#7 Chris Simms
#4 Joe Eagan
#7 Mike Sippel
#21 Chris Dashney
#17 Luc Beausoleil
#2 Daniel Villeneuve
#39 Dave Wiletjo
#9 Doug Lawrence (Criminal Charges filed)
TITAN MAPLE 8000
MADE IN CANADA
ANATOMIC SYSTEM DESIGN
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The Tulsa Oilers are a professional ice hockey team in the Central Hockey League. They also serve as an minor league affiliate to National Hockey League team, the Colorado Avalanche. The Oilers played their home games at the Maxwell Center (also known as Tulsa Convention Center) until 2008, when they moved into the new BOK Center. For many years, the Tulsa Oilers name was shared with Tulsa's former minor-league baseball team that pre-dated the Tulsa Drillers. To reduce confusion in local news reporting, the hockey team was often called the "Ice Oilers", a moniker that continues to this day among many Tulsans.
The Oilers are one of only three teams that have played each season in the CHL since its rebirth in 1992 (the other two being the Memphis RiverKings and the Wichita Thunder). The Oilers established a winning tradition, making the playoffs in nine of their first 13 seasons. However, their performance in recent years has been less successful: they have not made the playoffs since 2005 nor won a playoff series since 1994.
Present owner Jeff Lund played an integral part of assembling the 1992–93 team, a scrappy bunch led by veteran minor league coach and former NHL ironman Garry Unger. The team, anchored by high-scoring forward Sylvain Naud and veteran goalie Tony Martino, finished the regular season in second place, right behind intrastate rival Oklahoma City. However, in the revived league's first championship series the Oilers handily defeated the Blazers, clinching the title on OKC's home ice. Lund assumed ownership of the franchise in February 1999 after being the team's General Manager. Under Lund's direction, over two million fans have attended an Oilers game at the Tulsa Convention Center. Lund currently sits on the CHL Executive Committee.
HistoryTulsa has had several other hockey teams in its history, all nicknamed the "Oilers."
Tulsa Oilers: 1926 – 1942 (AHA)
Tulsa Oilers (1968)The original Oilers joined the five team American Hockey Association as an expansion team in 1928. Their first home game was January 1, 1929, against the Duluth Hornets as part of the grand opening of the Tulsa Coliseum. The team won the AHA championship that season, and again in the 1930–31 season. For the 1932–33 season, the Oilers moved to St. Paul, Minnesota and became the St. Paul Greyhounds, but half way through the season they moved back to Tulsa once again becoming the Tulsa Oilers. At the end of the 1941–42 season the AHA disbanded due to World War II.
Hockey Hall of Famers Duke Keats and Bill Cowley played for short periods on the Tulsa Oilers during this period.
Tulsa Oilers: 1945 – 1951 (USHL)
Tulsa Oilers (1972-1982)The AHA was reorganized as the United States Hockey League for the 1945–46 season as a seven team league, once again including the Oilers. That league folded after the 1950–51 season. The team played at Avey's Coliseum during this time.
Hockey Hall of Famer Clint Smith played the 47–48 season with the Tulsa Oilers after a stellar 11 year career in the NHL with the New York Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks and won the USHL Most Valuable Player award.
Tulsa Oilers: 1964 – 1984 (CHL)The original Central Hockey League was founded in the 1963–64 season, and the Tulsa Oilers joined that league for the 1964–65 season. The team suspended its operations on February 16, 1984, when its owners went bankrupt and the Tulsa Oilers went into receivership. Other teams in the league paid to keep the Oilers in operation so as not to unbalance the schedule, but the Oilers played only road games for final six weeks of 1983–84 season. Despite this difficulty, the team (under coach Tom Webster) went on to win the league championship before the CHL disbanded following the end of the season.
Ice hockey commentator Don Cherry best known for his work at Hockey Night in Canada played one season with the Oilers in 65–66.
Hockey Hall of Famer Marcel Pronovost followed his 20 year NHL career with two seasons of play on the Tulsa Oilers in the 69–70 and 70–71 seasons.
Five players from the 1980 Miracle on Ice team played for the Tulsa Oilers in the late 70s and early 80s. These include Dave Silk, Bill Baker, Steve Janaszak, Rob McClanahan, and Bob Suter.
Tulsa Oilers: 1992 – present (CHL)A new Central Hockey League was created in 1992 as a centrally owned league, owned by Ray Miron and Bill Levins. The league was operated by Ray and Monte Miron and funded by Chicago businessman and minor league sports entrepreneur Horn Chen. With the creation of the new CHL the Tulsa Oilers were a team once again. Ray Miron once coached the Tulsa Oilers in the old CHL and his son Monte had played for the Tulsa Oilers in 1973–74. Tulsa claimed the CHL championship in the CHL's inaugural season under the guide of Jeff Lund as General Manager and Garry Unger as Head coach.
The Oilers established a winning tradition, making the playoffs in nine of their first 13 seasons. However, with a decline in their performance over recent years and in not qualifying for the playoffs since 2005 nor winning a playoff series since 1994, owner Jeff Lund hired former player Taylor Hall as Oilers General Manager on May 3, 2008. After finishing third to last in the CHL with 18 wins from 64 games in the 2008–09 season, Hall hired Head Coach Bruce Ramsay, fresh of a trip to the IHL's Turner Cup finals with the Muskegon Fury on May 21, 2009.
In Ramsay's first season as coach in 2009–10 season, the Oilers rebounded with 28 wins from 64 games to post the second highest point total increase in the CHL from the previous season. On September 2, 2010, the Oilers announced their first National Hockey League affiliation since their reformation in 1992 as an affiliate to the Colorado Avalanche, joining fellow minor league affiliate, the Lake Erie Monsters of the AHL.
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The Central Hockey League was a minor professional ice hockey league that operated in the United States from 1963 to 1984. Initially named the Central Professional Hockey League, it was owned and operated by the National Hockey League and served as a successor to the Eastern Professional Hockey League, which had folded after the 1962–63 season. Four of the CHL's initial franchises were, in fact, relocations of the previous year's EPHL teams, while the fifth came from the International Hockey League. Its founding president was Jack Adams, who served in the role until his death in 1968. The CHL's championship trophy was called the Adams Cup in his honor.
History
In the league's first season, all five teams were affiliated with an NHL club. The CHL initially consisted of the Indianapolis Capitals (Detroit Red Wings), Minneapolis Bruins (Boston Bruins), Omaha Knights (Montreal Canadiens), St. Louis Braves (Chicago Black Hawks) and the St. Paul Rangers (New York Rangers). The only NHL team without a CHL affiliate that year, the Toronto Maple Leafs, joined the league through its affiliation with the Tulsa Oilers in the CHL's second season.
After Adams's death, Emory Jones served as interim president until the appointment of lawyer Joe Kane in August 1968. Kane served one year as president, retiring in June 1969. Kane was succeeded by Jones, who held the job until retiring in 1974. Max McNab served as league president from 1974 until becoming general manager of the Washington Capitals during his second season. Ray Miron was hired as president in August 1976, but resigned less than three weeks later to accept the job as general manager of the Colorado Rockies. Before the end of the month, Bud Poile became league president and would hold the job until the CHL folded in 1984.
For the 1974–75 season, the CHL absorbed three teams, the Denver Spurs, Salt Lake Golden Eagles, and Seattle Totems, from the folding Western Hockey League. Salt Lake would stay in the league until the end and would continue in the International Hockey League for the 1984–85 season, after the CHL ceased operations. Denver and Seattle were admitted to the CHL as a stepping stone for their eventual admission to the NHL in 1976; however, the league never followed through on the expansion, and both teams folded after 1975. For 1979–80, the CHL added the Cincinnati Stingers and Birmingham Bulls, the two teams from the World Hockey Association that were not admitted to the NHL that year.
Also during the 1979–80 season, the United States Olympic hockey team played games against each team in the CHL that counted in the standings. The team went on to win the gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics. In the 1983–84 season, both the U.S. and Canadian Olympic hockey teams played games in the CHL.
The CHL's final champions, the Tulsa Oilers, were left without a home during their championship 1983–84 season when the team owners went into receivership. The league stepped in to keep the team operating, and the Oilers played all their games on the road from mid-February through the end of the playoffs. Their Cup-winning game on April 27, 1984 was the last game played in the CHL. The league folded the following month.
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