1945-46 IHL season

The 1945-46 IHL season was the inaugural season of the International Hockey League.

First Games


The league was unofficially known as the Michigan-Ontario League (M-O League) because of the league of the same name that played before the war.

The first games were played on Friday, December 21, 1945 in a doubleheader at Windsor. The Detroit Auto Club beat Detroit Bright's Goodyears 12-9 while the two Windsor teams tied 4-4.

Jim Baudino of the Auto Club scored the first goal of the league.

Final standing
Note: Windsor Spitfires joined the Ontario Junior B Playoffs.

Semi Final
2 games total goals

Detroit Auto Club defeated Windsor Gotfredsons 9 goals to 8.

Final
Best of 3

Detroit Auto Club defeated Detroit Bright's Goodyears 2 wins to 1.

Top ten scorers
Name            Team         GP   G   A  PTS  PIM Lyle Dowell     Bright's     15  20  15   35    8 Bob McDonald    Gotfredsons  15  10  25   35   10 Al Chadwick     Bright's     15  17  16   33   22 Joe Levine      Auto Club    15  19  13   32    6 Jim Baudino     Auto Club    14  15  17   32   21 Keith Crossman  Gotfredsons  15  17  14   31    2 Len Loree       Gotfredsons  13  15  13   28    2 George Adams    WGT/DAC      14  13   8   21    2 Paul Sironen    Bright's     15   9  12   21    4 Herb Jones      Auto Club    14   9  11   20   20

Best goaltenders
Name           Team        GP  W  L  T  GA  SO  AVG. Bob Coulson    Bright's    14           62   0  4.42 Lloyd Storie   Auto Club   13           59   0  4.54 Ken Freebairn  Gotfredsons 15           72   0  4.80 Monty Reynolds Spitfires   14           80   0  5.71