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Kansas City has had teams in all five of the major professional sports leagues; three major league teams remain today. The Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball became the first American League expansion team to reach the playoffs (), to reach the World Series (), and to win the World Series (1985; against the state-rival St. Louis Cardinals in the "Show-Me Series").
The Kansas City Outlaws of the United Hockey League played in the Kemper Arena for the 2004-2005 season before they folded. Since 2009, The Kansas City Mavericks of the ECHL play in nearby Independence, Missouri. Several NHL exhibition games have also been held in Kansas City since the demise of the Blades.
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With a low overall population (36th in the US), low engagement (just 0.059% of the population is registered as members of USA Hockey) [10] and little historical impact from the sport, Kansas has produced very few native players. Just one person born in Kansas has achieved any notability in the sport, however, Si Griffis was raised in Western ...
Kemper Arena, 2014, prior to its renovation. The exterior of the facility has remained unchanged, even after its renovation. Kemper Arena was built in 18 months in 1973–74 on the site of the former Kansas City Stockyards just west of downtown in the West Bottoms to replace the 8,000-seat Municipal Auditorium to play host to the city's professional basketball and hockey teams.
High school hockey in Missouri consists of two leagues centered around the two largest cities in the state, St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri.The majority of the schools are located in the St. Louis metro area, which teams are members of the Mid-States Club Hockey Association (MSCHA), the larger of the two leagues in Missouri.
Craig Patrick (born May 20, 1946) is an American former hockey player, coach and general manager, the son of Lynn Patrick and the grandson of Lester Patrick.During the 1980 Winter Olympics, Patrick was the Assistant General Manager and Assistant Coach under Herb Brooks for the United States men's national ice hockey team, which won the gold medal and defeated the Soviet Union in the "Miracle ...
The 1991–92 IHL season was the 47th season of the International Hockey League, a North American minor professional league. 10 teams participated in the regular season, and the Kansas City Blades won the Turner Cup.