Washington State Hockey Apparel
Four defunct Washington teams, two from Seattle and two from Spokane, on shirts, hoodies, jerseys, and drinkware.
Washington was winning hockey championships long before it had an NHL team. Seattle won the Stanley Cup in 1917, the first American city to do it, and Spokane later produced the first American team to win the Allan Cup. In between, both cities ran through a long line of Ironmen, Americans, Comets and Flyers. We make apparel for those teams, in many cases the only apparel that exists for them anywhere.
We're a family-run small business bringing back the designs and the histories of long-lost hockey teams from Washington and across the US and Canada.
Washington Teams
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Hockey Teams in Washington
The Seattle Kraken arrived in 2021, which makes the NHL the newcomer here. Hockey in Washington goes back more than a century, and for most of that time it belonged to two cities on opposite sides of the Cascades, each with its own leagues, its own rivals, and its own run of team names.
Seattle: Ironmen, Americans, and what came between
Seattle's hockey history starts at the top. The Seattle Metropolitans of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association beat the Montreal Canadiens in 1917 and became the first American team to win the Stanley Cup. The Metropolitans folded in 1924, and the city spent the next half century in the minor leagues.
The Seattle Ironmen played in the Pacific Coast Hockey League from 1944 to 1952. When that league became the Western Hockey League, Seattle's team went through two more names in six years: the Bombers, and then, from 1955 to 1958, the Seattle Americans.
The Americans had Guyle Fielder at center, who went on to become the leading scorer in the history of minor professional hockey. In 1958 the club was renamed once more, as the Totems, and that name finally stuck. It lasted until 1975.
Spokane: the first Flyers
Spokane's story is mostly a senior hockey story, and it is a good one. The original Spokane Flyers won the Western International Hockey League title in 1948–49 and again in 1949–50, and won a United States senior championship along the way.
What they could not do in those years was play for the Allan Cup, Canada's senior championship, because they were an American team. When that changed, the Flyers went all the way to the 1957 final, where they lost to the Whitby Dunlops.
The Comets go pro
Spokane turned professional in 1958 with a Western Hockey League team called the Spokes, which was renamed the Spokane Comets a year later. The Comets played four seasons in the WHL, in the same league as Seattle.
In June 1963 a group led by the Toronto Maple Leafs bought the franchise and moved it to Denver. The Comets were gone, and professional hockey in Spokane went with them.
The Allan Cup comes to Spokane
Senior hockey filled the gap straight away. The Spokane Jets started in the WIHL that fall, and in 1970 they became the first American team to win the Allan Cup, beating the Orillia Terriers in a final played in Spokane. They won it again in 1972.
In 1974 the Jets took the old Flyers name, and the second Spokane Flyers kept winning: two more Allan Cups, in 1976 and 1980. A junior team also called the Flyers joined the Western Hockey League in 1980 and folded partway through its second season.
Washington has the Kraken now, and junior hockey on both sides of the state. The four teams on this page are gone, and that's the part worth wearing.
Four Washington teams that don't skate anymore.
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