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Apr 16, 2024 · The Salt Lake Golden Eagles’ first season was in the Salt Palace in 1969. At that time, they were in the Western Hockey League and were the farm club for the Boston Bruins and the Montreal Canadiens.
- Background
- Mysterious Death of Daniel Meyer
- New Owners, New League
- Murder of Thayne & Lorraine Acord
- Into The International Hockey League
- Move to Detroit
- Trivia
- Salt Lake Golden Eagles Shop
- In Memoriam
- Downloads
The Salt Lake Golden Eagles hockey team was a popular mainstay on the Utah pro sports scene for a quarter century. That Eagles endured despite the shocking and untimely deaths of two team owners, the collapse of two hockey leagues of which they were members, and several 11th hour rescues from financial calamity. The Eagles originated as an expansio...
Team founder Daniel Meyer never got to see his club win. WHL owners assembled for meetings at the National Hockey LeagueAll-Star Game, hosted by the Minnesota North Stars, in late January 1972. On the evening of the game, Meyer returned to his room on the 19th floor of the Bloomington Radisson Hotel. A short time later he crashed through window and...
The same reprieve was not offered to the Western Hockey League. The circuit shut down in the summer of 1974, looted of both West Coast markets and talent by the NHL-World Hockey Association expansion wars. Under the new ownership of Teece and Acord, the Golden Eagles joined the Central Hockey Leaguein the fall of 1974. The Golden Eagles won the CHL...
Tragedy struck again in February 1980. A pair of teenage burglars ambushed co-owner O. Thayne Acord and his wife in their Utah home. After forcing Acord out of the house to withdraw $800 from a local bank, 18-year old John Calhoun brought him back to the home where he executed Acord and his wife by gunshot in their basement. Calhoun and his 15-year...
The Central Hockey League folded in the spring of 1984. It was the second time in 10 years that the Golden Eagles lost their league. On July 10, 1984, the Eagles were granted admission to the International Hockey League, but under onerous terms. The IHL, formed in 1945, was historically a bus league based in the upper midwest. Expanding to Utah req...
Miller kept the team in Salt Lake for another five seasons. He sold the team to fellow NBA owner William Davidsonin April 1994. Davidson moved the team to Detroit where it became known as the Detroit Vipers. The Vipers folded along with the rest of the IHL in the spring of 2001.
The Golden Eagles retired the numbers of two players during their 24 seasons of play: #11 Lyle Bradley (1969-1978) and #24 Doug Palazzari(1977-1982). NHL 50-goal scorers Charlie Simmer, Joey Mullen and Theo Fleuryall began their pro careers with the Golden Eagles. Simmer played parts of three seasons in Salt Lake from 1974 to 1977. Mullen skated pa...
Contains Affiliate Links Ice Warriors: The Pacific/West Coast Hockey League 1948-1974 by Jon C. Stott
Golden Eagles founder/owner Daniel Meyer fell to his death from the window of his hotel room at the 1972 NHL All-Star Game weekend in Bloomington, Minnesota. He was 45 years old. The circumstances of his death remain in dispute. Co-Owner O. Thayne Acord (Golden Eagles ’74-’80) was murdered in a home invasion along with his wife Lorraine Acord by tw...
11-6-1969 Golden Eagles Fan Letter From Broadcaster Jim Fisher 10-5-1973 Golden Eagles vs. Albuquerque Six Guns Exhibition Program
The Golden Eagles were a serial championship-winning team in the minor leagues until 1994, when the team moved to Detroit, according to one article published by FOX13 Now in Utah.
It opened in 1969 and hosted the Golden Eagles, then the Utah Stars of the ABA and finally the Jazz when they moved to SLC in 1979. It was demolished in 1994 after the Delta Center opened in 1991.
Oct 10, 1989 · 1968 - The Salt Lake Golden Eagles are born with owner Dan Meyer, playground the Western Hockey League and coach Ray Kinasewich. Their first player signed is Dale Conrad of Edmonton. 1969 - The Golden Eagles open play in Western Hockey League on Oct. 10, beating San Diego 4-2 for coach Ray Kinasewich.
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Apr 18, 2024 · While some of that history continues in West Valley City with the Utah Grizzlies bringing excitement as part of the ECHL, it was the Salt Lake Golden Eagles that truly dropped the puck back in...
Apr 22, 2024 · Fights, fiascos and mayhem: How the Golden Eagles first made Salt Lake love hockey. The NBA and pro hockey will play under the same roof in Salt Lake City next season. The first time that...
