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Bill Hunter Trophy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ495176 ↗
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The Bill Hunter Trophy was presented to the World Hockey Association's scoring leader in the regular season.

It was named in honour of Bill Hunter, who founded the Alberta Oilers hockey club (which later became the Edmonton Oilers).

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 38-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972. The account is most persuasive where Bill, Hunter and Trophy can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bill Hunter Trophy” 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.