Charlotte Checkers Hockey Club programs

Collection — Box: SFC2 [F09.090.02.02], Folder: 143

Identifier: MS0143

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Primarily official programs (1970) for five home matches during the 1969-70 season of the original Charlotte Checkers minor league hockey team, which played in the Eastern Hockey League and Southern Hockey League. Also includes a page of players' autographs and a 1970-71 season ticket order form.

Dates

1970

Creator

Charlotte Checkers (Hockey team) (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Some material may be copyrighted or restricted. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other case restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the collections.

Historical Note

The Charlotte Checkers are a minor-league professional ice hockey team based in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. They are members of the South Division of the Western Conference of the American Hockey League (AHL), and are the AHL affiliate of the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Checkers play their home games at Bojangles' Coliseum on Independence Boulevard in Charlotte. The current organization is the third team by this name; it succeeded a Checkers franchise which played in the ECHL from 1993 until the end of the 2009–10 ECHL season. The original Checkers team played in the city from 1956 to 1977, originally in the Eastern Hockey League and then in the Southern Hockey League. The franchise is one of six teams which share a name with a predecessor from a lower-tier league; the other five are the Bakersfield Condors, Colorado Eagles, Ontario Reign, Rockford IceHogs, and San Diego Gulls.