Eastern Canada Hockey Association (ECHA)
History: 1908-1909 (2 seasons)
Eastern Canada Hockey Association (ECHA)
History 1908-1909 (2 seasons)
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The Eastern Canada Hockey Association (ECHA) was founded in 1905 as a men's amateur ice hockey league in Canada. Under the leadership of Howard Wilson and William Northey, the league would shed its amateur status for the 1908 season, leading to the split between Canadian amateur ice hockey teams playing for the Allan Cup, and the professionals playing for the Stanley Cup. The league would itself dissolve in 1909 over a dispute between team owners over business issues. Three teams announced that they were leaving the ECHA, creating the Canadian Hockey Association (CHA). The remaining teams helped form a competing league, the National Hockey Association (NHA). The CHA played for less than two weeks, merging with the NHA in January 1910.
what a year. the competitiveness of the ABL really brought the NBA out of its duldrums.