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1995–96 NAHL season

sports season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ135100231 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1995–96 NAHL season was the 12th season of the North American Hockey League. The Springfield Jr. Blues won the regular season championship and the Robertson Cup.

Member changes

The Lakeland Jets relocated and became the Soo Indians.

The Saginaw Gears relocated and became the Gaylord Grizzlies in December.

The Indianapolis Junior Ice folded.

Editorial summary

“1995–96 NAHL season” enters the record as sports season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what NAHL, season and sports can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around NAHL, season and sports.
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Why this record matters

“1995–96 NAHL season” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, NAHL, season and sports provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q135100231. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “1995–96 NAHL season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.