Tag: Yellowstone METRA

Montana Magic Central Hockey League

Montana Magic

March 27, 2019

The Montana Magic were a Billings-based minor league hockey venture that struggled through a single season at the Yellowstone Metra before collapsing along with the rest of the Central Hockey League (CHL) in May 1984. The Magic held a partial affiliation with the NHL’s St. Louis Blues and filled the rest of their roster with independent free agents. The free agents included former NHL stars Reggie Leach, who famously scored 80 goals for the Philadelphia Flyers in 1975-76, and former New York Rangers star Don Murdoch, whose career was derailed by substance abuse.

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1982-83 Billings Volcanos program from the Continental Basketball Association

Billings Volcanos

August 4, 2013

The Billings Volcanos were a minor league basketball outfit in the Continental Basketball Association for three seasons from 1980 to 1983.  The franchise started out in Honolulu in 1979 where the club first gained its misspelled name. The team moved across the country to Billings after only one season in Hawaii. In 1980 the Volcanos chose a youth basketball coach from New Hampshire over Phil Jackson to become the team’s first head coach in Billings.

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1980-1983 Wichita Wind

June 12, 2011

Former World Hockey Association executive and Edmonton Oilers General Manager Larry Gordon founded the Wichita Wind of the Central Hockey League in June of 1980.   Gordon was

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