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He also founded the Canadian Major Junior Hockey League ( now known as the Western Hockey League ( WHL )).
Hunter's efforts to bring major professional hockey to Edmonton via an expansion NHL franchise had been rebuffed by the NHL.
This was a name that had previously been used as a nickname for the Edmonton Oil Kings in the 1950s and 1960s.
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