1977 Dallas Black Hawks program from the Central Hockey League

Dallas Black Hawks

Central Hockey League (1967-1982)

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Born: 1967 – The St. Louis Braves relocate to Dallas, TX
Folded: May 19, 19821ASSOCIATED PRESS. “Dallas out as Canuck farm team”. The Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX). May 20, 1982

First Game: October 14, 1967 (L 4-0 @ Fort Worth Wings)
Last Game: May 14, 1982 (L 5-1 @ Indianapolis Checkers)

Adams Cup Champions: 1969, 1972, 1974 and 1979

Arena

Fair Park Coliseum (7,928)21975-76 Central Hockey League Media Guide

Marketing

Team Colors: Red, White & Black31975-76 Central Hockey League Media Guide

Ownership & Affiliations

Owners:

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  • 1967-1978: Chicago Black Hawks
  • 1976-1978: Toronto Maple Leafs
  • 1978-1982: Vancouver Canucks
  • 1978-1979: Edmonton Oilers (WHA)
  • 1980-1981: Toronto Maple Leafs

 

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Background

The Dallas Black Hawks were a minor league hockey club that played 15 seasons in the Central Hockey League (1963-1984).  From 1967 to 1978, Dallas was a farm club of the NHL’s Chicago Black Hawks.

From 1976 to 1978, Chicago shared sponsorship of the Dallas club with the Toronto Maple Leafs. During the summer of 1978, Chicago and Toronto jointly decided to leave Dallas in favor of establishing a shared farm team in Moncton, New Brunswick to play in the American Hockey League.

Despite Chicago’s departure, the Dallas CHL franchise kept the ‘Black Hawks’ name and soldiered on for four more seasons. During their final years, the Black Hawks served as a farm clun of the Vancouver Canucks, supplemented by brief partial affiliations with the Edmonton Oilers and the Maple Leafs.

1977-78 Dallas Black Hawks Media Guide from the Central Hockey League

Adams Cup Mainstays

The Black Hawks were a powerhouse in the Central League, appearing in the Adams Cup championship series in ten of their fifteen seasons.  They won the championship four times: 1969, 1972, 1974 and 1979.   The Black Hawks first three Adams Cup victories came under the direction of Head Coach Bobby Kromm, who helmed the club for eight seasons from 1967 to 1975.  Kromm went on to the majors in 1975, coaching the Winnipeg Jets to a World Hockey Association championship in 1976.  He later coached the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL from 1977 to 1980.  Long-time minor league coach John Muckler was behind the bench when the Black Hawks won their fourth and final championship in 1979.  Muckler would later coach the Edmonton Oilers to the Stanley Cup in 1990.

Another notable coach for the ‘Hawks was Roger Neilson.  Neilson coached the team for one season only (1976-77) before moving on to the NHL, where he coached 1,000 games between 1977 and 2002.  He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2002.

The End

Throughout their history, the Black Hawks engaged in a heated rivalry with the Central League’s nearby Fort Worth franchise, which was known as the Wings from 1967-1974 and the Texans from 1974 to 1982. The Dallas and Fort Worth clubs both folded in the spring of 1982, ending the CHL’s greatest geographic rivalry and boding ill for the overall health of the league. The death knell for the Black Hawks was a May 1982 decision by its final NHL parent club, the Vancouver Canucks, not to renew their affiliation for the 1982-83 season.

The CHL itself folded two years later in May 1984.

 

Trivia

Black Hawks enforcer Randy Holt set the all-time CHL single season penaly minutes record (411) during the 1974-75 season. In 1979, as a member of the Los Angeles Kings, Holt established the NHL single-game penalty minutes record (67!), a feat that stands unsurpassed more than 40 years later.

 

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Dallas Black Hawks Video

1976 WFAA Central Hockey League playoff preview with Black Hawks head coach Gord Fashoway.

 

In Memoriam

Roger Neilson, coach of the Black Hawks for the 1976-77 campaign, died of cancer on June 21, 2003.  He was 69 years old. New York Times obituary.

Former Black Hawks center Jim Stanfield passed away passed away on November 19, 2009 at age 62.

Bobby Kromm, Black Hawks head coach from 1967-1975, died of cancer on

Gord Fashoway coached the Black Hawks during the 1975-76 season.  He passed on May 1, 2012, age 85.

 

Links

Central Hockey League Media Guides

Central Hockey League Programs

 

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Comments

9 Responses

  1. My Uncle Tim Williams played for the Dallas Black Hawks for a total of 9 games in the 76-77 season he got an assist while there, mostly his knee injury ravaged career was spent with the Flint Generals of the IHL. I’m trying desperately to find things with him listed from his shortened time with the Dallas Black Hawks.

    If anybody knows of where I could find some leave a message here! Thanks!

  2. Is there a way for you to send me a good scan of the picture of Milt Black in 1971-72 Dallas Black Hawks Yearbook?

  3. Looking for a Dallas Blackhawks red jacket with the famous Blackhawks crest. I have the St. Catharines Blackhawks and Chicago Blackhawks logos and would love to have the Dallas logo. Please send me a picture of the jacket u have. I can also send you a picture of the two I have.
    Thanks
    Brian

  4. My Dad took me to a few of these games because somehow I became a hockey fan born in Dallas. He was born in Pennsylvania but was a jazz drummer in the Navy band and was more into football. I remember everything about going to some of these games. He worked with a guy that worked the penalty box there and I got a puck. I still have it to this day.

  5. Want to relive those days when the Dallas Blackhawks year in and year out were one of the best minor league franchises in the Central Professional Hockey league and later the Central Hockey League? Many players from the teams, league officials and fans all meet and share their remembrances on the Dallas Blackhawks CHL 1967-1982 Facebook Group page. Lots of game action photos, newspaper clippings, player profiles, videos and memorbelia for you to browse. Join us at the web address below.

  6. My parents had season tickets and my sisters were “Usherettes”. Great memories from those years. I learned to skate before I learned to ride a bike

  7. WE moved here and started to go to the Dallas Blackhawks games in the late 60’s to the end.. Season tickets in Section Q, as a kid going to games greatest fun of my life, didn’t know it then.. retrieved numerous Blackhawk pucks, even got one going over the boards when they had Chicago pucks for one game, very cool, Len Frig remember him ? Defenseman I believe, he gave me his stick after a game in “72” still have the pucks and that stick over all these years and travel…My Dad is long gone but some of our greatest memories— oh my 10 cent beer night!

  8. I remember going to a Dallas Blackhawks game with my uncle Wayne, sometime mid to late 70’s. My uncle even managed to somehow get me a real hockey stick used during the game that I got to take home. I didn’t even know anything about hockey, as soccer, baseball, and of course football, were the sports I knew, as a kid growing up in Dallas, in those days. However, I liked what I saw and have been following the game ever since. Soon after I became an adult (35 + yrs ago), I joined the US Navy, moved away from Dallas, finally settling in the San Francisco Bay Area, but instantly became a Stars when the team moved to Dallas. Fresh out of the Navy, I found a job in San Francisco and as luck would have it I had a very kind and generous boss, Phillip A., who just so happened to be a huge hockey fan. I remember going to my first SJ Sharks vs Dallas Stars game with him, as he was one of the first people to get season tickets… had lots of fun that night regardless of the result, but the night was made even better, via Mike Modano’s brace that night. I try to go to at least one of the Stars game a year when they come to town… made harder since the Sharks and Stars are no longer reside in the same division. I’ve enjoyed watching the Stars through the good times, (99 NHL Champions!) and even the bad times, (non playoff years/Bankruptcy), but still look forward to the next season each year around this time, full of hope and anticipation. Really excited to see the new wave of talented group of forwards we should be seeing playing and succeeding at the NHL level, hopefully with the Stars…(DON’T trade away our young guns… Yes, I mean both you Nill, and Mr. G). Suffice to say, none of the joy I’ve experienced over several decades now would have been possible, if not for my uncle Wayne taking me as young boy to a that single Dallas Blackhawks game so many years gone ago.
    Thanks, Uncle Wayne
    Robert T

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