Western Professional Hockey League (2021)



The Western Professional Hockey League is a planned Single A level professional hockey league to be based in the Western United States. The league is based out of the southern California/Las Vegas area. The WPHL name was previously used by a low level minor league based mostly in Texas that played from 1996 to 2001 until it was merged into the Central Hockey League.

The league was organized sometime over the 2021 off-season. Based on post on the league's Facebook page the league is hoping to play with the 2021-22 season.

Teams
On August 17, 2021 the league announced the addition of the Las Vegas Millionaires which are planed to play out of the Pepsi Ice Arena in Las Vegas.

Oursportscentral indicated on its' weekly franchise report for November 22, 2021 that the ownership of the Billings Outlaws of Champions Indoor Football would be operating a team in Billings, Montana. A later report on the same website on January 3rd indicated that the team would be named the Billings Blizzard.

Possible Teams
The owners of three teams in the Champions Indoor Football League have expressed interest in the league. The group would like to place one WPHL team in Billings and another in Gillette, but other Montana cities of Bozeman, Butte and Helena along with the Wyoming cities of Casper and Cheyenne could also be considered. The WPHL is organizing in the western half of the United States as a developmental league.