Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Canadian-American Hockey League, popularly known as the Can-Am League, was a professional ice hockey league that operated from 1926 to 1936. It was a direct ancestor of the American Hockey League.For its first ten years the Can-Am's membership varied between five and six teams. When Boston dropped out after the 1935–36 season thus reducing the league to just four active teams (Philadelphia, Providence, Springfield, and New Haven), however, the C-AHL joined with four teams from the International Hockey League (Syracuse, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland) and operated as a new but temporary "circuit of mutual convenience" styled as the "International-American Hockey League." In this form the two leagues played an interlocking schedule for the next two years with the Can-Am clubs serving as the I-AHL's Eastern Division and the IHL as its Western Division, although Buffalo was forced to drop out early in the 1936–37 season owing to the roof of its arena having collapsed in a snowstorm.At a meeting held in New York City on June 28, 1938, the two leagues formally merged into a unified eight-team circuit operating under the I-AHL name with the addition of the EAHL's then three-time defending champion Hershey Bears which was awarded an I-AHL franchise that day to replace the defunct Buffalo club. The league changed its name to the current AHL in 1940.Two current AHL franchises have roots in the old Can-Am. The Hartford Wolf Pack is descended from the old Providence Reds franchise, which moved to Binghamton, New York in 1977 before moving to Hartford in 1997. The Utica Comets are descended from the old Springfield Indians franchise, which moved to Worcester, Massachusetts in 1994 before relocating to Peoria in 2005, and to Utica in 2013.. }
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- Canadian-American_Hockey_League abstract "The Canadian-American Hockey League, popularly known as the Can-Am League, was a professional ice hockey league that operated from 1926 to 1936. It was a direct ancestor of the American Hockey League.For its first ten years the Can-Am's membership varied between five and six teams. When Boston dropped out after the 1935–36 season thus reducing the league to just four active teams (Philadelphia, Providence, Springfield, and New Haven), however, the C-AHL joined with four teams from the International Hockey League (Syracuse, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland) and operated as a new but temporary "circuit of mutual convenience" styled as the "International-American Hockey League." In this form the two leagues played an interlocking schedule for the next two years with the Can-Am clubs serving as the I-AHL's Eastern Division and the IHL as its Western Division, although Buffalo was forced to drop out early in the 1936–37 season owing to the roof of its arena having collapsed in a snowstorm.At a meeting held in New York City on June 28, 1938, the two leagues formally merged into a unified eight-team circuit operating under the I-AHL name with the addition of the EAHL's then three-time defending champion Hershey Bears which was awarded an I-AHL franchise that day to replace the defunct Buffalo club. The league changed its name to the current AHL in 1940.Two current AHL franchises have roots in the old Can-Am. The Hartford Wolf Pack is descended from the old Providence Reds franchise, which moved to Binghamton, New York in 1977 before moving to Hartford in 1997. The Utica Comets are descended from the old Springfield Indians franchise, which moved to Worcester, Massachusetts in 1994 before relocating to Peoria in 2005, and to Utica in 2013.".