The Northern Pacific Hockey League (NPHL) was an American Tier III junior ice hockey league sanctioned by USA Hockey . Its championship trophy was the Cascade Cup.
7-752: Established in 2000 as the NorPac Junior Hockey League, the league was sanctioned as Junior B by USA Hockey. Six teams from Alaska, Oregon, Washington and the Yukon Territory competed in the inaugural season of 2000–01. In 2007, the NorPac was promoted to Tier III Junior A by USA Hockey. In 2011, USA Hockey dropped the letter designation in Tier III and had all Tier III compete in the same national tournament. In 2013, NorPac changed its abbreviated moniker to NPHL. The league announced three new members to start
14-507: A larger junior league for more stability. Also in the press release, it was announced that the Bellingham Blazers had left the league. While it was not clarified in the official NPHL press release, the most recent league champions, Wenatchee Wolves, had also removed references to the NPHL from their website and appeared to focus their efforts on their youth programs instead. On May 20, 2016, it
21-828: The United States Premier Hockey League . The Blazers are based in Bellingham, Washington and play home games at the Bellingham Sportsplex . The team also has the local youth hockey association named after them, going by the Jr. Blazers. From 2012 to 2016, the Blazers played in the Northern Pacific Hockey League (NorPac/NPHL). In their first two seasons, the Blazers captured the Cascade Cup, awarded to
28-513: The 2014–15 season: Cheney Ice Hawks, Tacoma Knights and Wenatchee Wolves. Organizational problems resulted in the Tacoma Knights being unable to field a team for 2014–15. May 25, 2015, the league announced that the Seattle Ravens would be a 2015–16 expansion franchise. On April 25, 2016, the NPHL announced that at the annual governor's meeting the league had decided to look into merging with
35-571: The Tier III Junior Hockey National Championships in 2013 and 2014 by winning their league playoff championship. The Blazers have never past the round-robin stage of the tournament. Round-robin play in pool with top four overall teams advancing to the semifinal. This American ice hockey team-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a sports team in Washington state
42-650: The league playoff champions, and earned a spot in the USA National Tier III Championships. In 2013, coach Mark Collins was also awarded Coach of the Year when the Blazers won their first Cascade Cup. Collins was fired from team before the 2019 playoffs. In 2016, the team left the NPHL and USA Hockey -sanctioning with the intentions of joining the Amateur Athletic Union -sanctioned Western States Hockey League . The Bellingham Blazers qualified for
49-513: Was announced that the four remaining teams would join the United States Premier Hockey League 's USP3 platform as a new Pacific Division. Three of the four teams folded after one season in the USPHL and the Eugene Generals went independent after two seasons. Bellingham Blazers (NORPAC) The Bellingham Blazers are an Amateur Athletic Union -sanctioned Tier II junior ice hockey team in
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