Dallas Black Hawks

The Dallas Blackhawks were an American Hockey franchise from Dallas, Texas. The venue for the Blackhawks was the Fair Park Coliseum.

History

The Dallas Blackhawks were founded in 1967 as the successor of the team relocated St. Louis Braves and took the 1967/68 season the game operation in the Central Hockey League on. The first head coach of the franchise, the Canadian Bobby Kromm, led the Blackhawks with the following eight years.

The franchise functioned since its founding until 1978 as a farm team of the Chicago Blackhawks. This also various players like Jim wiste, Cliff Koroll, Jack Norris, Dave Dryden, Bobby Schmautz, Paul Shmyr, Mike O'Connell and Reg Kerr ran in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks on the ice. Later, the Blackhawks cooperated among others, with the Vancouver Canucks. In their first season the team with 30 wins, 29 defeats and 11 draws could earn a slightly positive balance sheet and finished third in the time spanning four teams Southern Division. The following season, the Blackhawks won in the regular season total of 84 points were placed on the second rank of the five teams comprehensive South Division. In the play-offs after beating the Houston Apollos, Omaha Knights and Oklahoma City Blazers succeeded the first time winning the championship, the Adams Cup. After 1969/70 the collection was missed in the final round, the team came a year later before to the finals and lost in six games against the Omaha Knights.

In the course of the following years the team was one of the most successful of the Central Hockey League and won in 1972 and 1974 the championship again. The fourth and last Adams Cup of Blackhawks was won in the 1978/79 season, so the franchise was formed together with the Omaha Knights, each with four championships, the most successful teams in the history of the league. In the season 1981/82 once again succeeded in moving into the finals, where the team lost in six games against the Indianapolis Checkers. After the franchise was dissolved.

Team Records

Career Records

Known player

• Claire Alexander
• John Anderson
• Don Ashby
• Bruce Boudreau
• Jerry Butler
• Randy Carlyle
• Marc Crawford
• Dave Gardner
• Dirk Graham

• Larry Huras
• Kelly Kisio
• Steve Latinovich
• Wayne Maki
• Bob Manno
• John Muckler
• Bob Murray
• Dale Tallon
• Ron Wilson