Talk:Canadian Professional Hockey League

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Old vs modern.[edit]

The article certainly didn't deserve deletion because of the league that actually did exist, but the list of leagues would be awfully damned crowded if Wikipedia put up listings for every pipe dream whipped up by bored promoters. RGTraynor 18:37, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

crowded wikipedia?[edit]

Seriously, why is this a concern? Wiki is not paper. -- Geo Swan 23:53, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

pipe dream of a bored promoter?[edit]

This effort was serious enough for the CBC National news to broadcast regular progress reports. Hockey fans were in withdrawal. Some saw this league as a serious hope to provide a Stanley Cup playoff. This wasn't the most important Sports story of 2004. Did it make the top dozen? No. Top couple of dozen? Maybe not. Top one hundred? I don't know. But, to be encyclopedic, shouldn't the wikipedia include information across the range importance, provided it is verifiable? -- Geo Swan 23:53, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pull up the history and ask yourself, in a bloated article, where the information about this "effort" actually was? Where are the names of the organizers? Did any players sign up with them, and if so, whom? Were any franchises ever actually given out? Any owners identified? The website is long gone, but you can pull it up out of the Wayback Machine, and it has no information at all on it. Google it and the overwhelming number of the 416 hits are from the 1920s version, mirrors of the Wiki article or people speculating on various bulletin boards about how nice it would be for there to be a Canadian-only professional hockey league. I've found two hits dealing with an equally obscure IIHF calling the CPHL a "faceless, nameless organization" they were unable to contact. If they actually conned some bored and hockey-starved CBC reporter to give them some ink, more power to them, but it doesn't make them notable.

Nor does the article as it was written contain a single verifiable, pertinent fact. It rambles on speculatively about the hopes and dreams of the unspecified organizers, suggests a few cities in which they had hoped to place teams, talks about how popular hockey is in Canada, and touches on the genuine controversy over the failure of the Stanley Cup trustees to put the Cup up for grabs during the lockout year. All well and good for an op ed piece in a newspaper, but an encylopedia article it isn't.

Finally, read the earliest versions of the site, all from an unregistered IP address with no other contributions to Wikipedia. It's blatantly self-promotive. RGTraynor 03:57, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Was there a 1929-1930 season?[edit]

According to this source there was a 1929-1930 season for the CPHL. But according to this source, there was not. Any ideas? Flibirigit 14:05, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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