Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Huh? Welcome to the Complete World Hockey Association site. You can look up every player to play in the WHA, all the coaches, search by teams and by seasons, and explore. Learn about the late, great WHA at your leisure on your device or desktop. Fun for the whole family. Impress your friends. Does your site use cookies? No. I don't keep track who visits. I noticed your site kinda looks like Retrosheet's baseball site, with clean layouts, no bells nor whistles. Is that deliberate? Yeah. I love drop-down menus. Any chance of using them here on this site? Not a chance. I went to load a page, then stepped out for a smoke, washed my car, walked the dog and took my sweetie to the movies. When I came back, the page was already loaded. How come it loaded so fast? Because I don't have ads and scripts and stuff like that cluttering up the place. I don't uderstand. You have a website yet you don't accept ads. How do you expect to monetize it and maximize its incipient synergistic value? Um, yes, today at 11. Suppose I walk in and propose an ad campaign for you where you can make some serious scratch with this site? I'll just tell you to keep walking. Can we make donations? Nah. If you want, buy a copy of one of my WHA books (link at bottom). Were you a fan of the WHA back in the day? I only remember the WHA at its tail end of existence and never really understood just what the deal was with the WHA. For 15 years, no books, no nothing, were created about the WHA. It was like it never happened. So I wrote a book on it in 1995, and to my surprise, I now have two books on the WHA, the "big book" which is now in its 11th edition, and the shorter "Fact Book" which is in its 2nd edition. Now I'm creating a web version and plan to populate it with all sorts of clever little things, but give me time. Who does the coding? I do. It's just basic HTML, deliberately without scripts or cascading style sheets. If none of that makes sense, you're in a safe place, my friend. It's web-retro, the kind of websites your folks viewed back in the 1990s when they were courting. I even kept that little underline on the links. Who had the best sideburns? Well, Bobby Sheehan had an impressive set of muttonchops early in the league's run, but some would say Andre Gill's were right up there in breadth, length and luxuriousness. Honorable mentions should go to guys like John Arbour, Jim Park, Rych Campeau and Mike Amodeo, among many others. Not sure what the ladies thought of them back then, but in the early 70s, men played hockey, took a cold shower afterwards, went for a 5 mile run, ate a steak dinner, then played a pick-up game on a frozen pond somewhere in northern Manitoba at 3 a.m. before flying back to rejoin their teams the next morning. It was just a different era back then. How can we contact you if we have some neat WHA information to share? You can email me at my first name dot last name at gmail dot com. What has been your greatest thrill in researching and writing about the WHA? I've had a few players and executives buy my book and tell me they appreciate their old league getting some recognition. Many old-time fans also like to relive their days following their team in the WHA. Their interest in their favorite team was just as real as anyone following an NHL team today. Me, I still follow the L. A. Kings after all these years, and would be heartbroken if they went defunct or moved. Yet that's what happened to the WHA and its fans. Speaking selfishly, I'd say my greatest thrill was having a chance to meet and talk with Gordie Howe at the 1999 Reunion in Windsor, Ontario. True story: I had a copy of my book with me and he immediately took it, flipped to his stats page for the 1974-75 season, and said that he should have 100 points, not 99, and can I fix that for him. I said I'd see what I could do ... but obviously, he was aware of my book to begin with. Man, that was cool. He was about as nice a fellow you could want to meet. I am grateful for the 10 minutes I had to speak with him. Recently, one of my students at ASU told me he saw my webpage on that visit and how cool it was I had met Gordie Howe. I replied that I am happy he knows who Gordie Howe was! What do you teach? Usually, multivariable calculus for engineers. Do engineers really need nultivariable calculus? Well, trains these days are highly complicated machines. Not just anyone can drive them. It's more than just steering and braking. For example, you have to perform many complex calculations to know how much coal to shovel into the burner compartment, and that sometimes requires a triple integral in spherical coordinates (don't forget the Jacobian). And what if there's a cow on the tracks ahead? You have to know when to start braking and that may require determining the null space of a row space, which is a generalization of a cross product. So yes, they need to know this stuff. Does anyone really need to know how many goals some guy scored for Cleveland in 1973-74? No, and that's the beauty of this. This is completely for fun and leisure. There is no pressure. Just absorb what you can, ignore the rest. There are no exams. If perusing this site gives you about ten minutes of mind-clearing relaxation and a certain amount of zen awareness, then that is your gift from me.

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