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2003–04 USHL season

sports season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ16957575 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2003–04 USHL season is the 25th season of the United States Hockey League as an all-junior league. The regular season began on September 26, 2003, and concluded on March 28, 2004, with the regular season champion winning the Anderson Cup. The 2003–04 season was the first for the Danville Wings after transferring from the North American Hockey League and the only season for the St. Louis Heartland Eagles after moving from Topeka, Kansas. At the conclusion of the season, St. Louis voluntarily suspended operations and officially folded a year later.

The Clark Cup playoffs features the top four teams from each division competing for the league title.

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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—2003, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where USHL, season and sports can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as sports season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “2003–04 USHL 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.