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The Rebel League: The Short and Unruly Life of the World Hockey Association
by Ed Willes

The Rebel League: The Short and Unruly Life of the World Hockey Association
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Author: Ed Willes
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-10-04
ISBN: 077108949X
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

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Book Review: Proof that a monopoly results in a substandard product...
Summary: 5 Stars

All in all, a good read that summarizes the impact the WHA had. It was a league of extremes ie the BEST ie Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordiques, and the worst ie New Jersey Knights, Denver Spurs, etc. It is worth noting that in pre season exhibition games between the NHL and WHA, the WHA won more games. The Jets were world class, and the Nordiques, Whalers and Aeros were as good as any respectible NHL team.
The NHL experienced it's best era in the 1980's, simply because it absorbed so many former WHA players ie Gretzky, Messier, Gartner, Goulet, both Nilssons, Hedberg, the Howe brothers, Vaive, Ramage, Hartsburg, Langway, and on and on and on.
To this day, the NHL ignores the fact that the WHA improved hockey by allowing Europeans to play.
In retrospect, it is too bad the WHA never survived. Rather than a 30 team NHL, imagine two competing leagues with the same number of teams, the champion of each league competing for the Stanley Cup. At present, the NHL enjoys a monopoly because it has expanded into every conceivable market, so as to head off any new potential revival of new WHA entity coming into existence.

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