The Tulsa Adult Hockey League offers a fantastic opportunity for adults of all ages and skill levels to participate in organized ice hockey. Whether you've been playing for years or are just starting out, the league provides a fun and competitive environment for everyone.
League Overview
Tulsa Adult Hockey League includes more than 1,500 registered players from all around the greater Green Country area. The league is inclusive to players of all skill levels and works hard to have parity within each division while maintaining a fun and competitive environment. To best build competitive, evenly balanced games, we maintain skill level evaluations of all players. Play is regularly monitored and players and/or teams can move up or down in skill levels as needed to keep parity.
Game and League Format
- Game Duration: Games are scheduled for 75 minutes with 3x20-minute periods, run time.
- Game Format: Standard 5v5 games.
- League provides: 2 USA Hockey referees and 1 scorekeeper.
- Divisions: Tulsa Adult Hockey League offers several divisions for players to choose from.
Tournaments
Tulsa Ice Centers host several adult hockey leagues that accommodate adults of every age and skill level. Here is where you’ll find registration documents and links for adult hockey leagues and tournaments. You’ll also find rules, rosters, schedules, and rankings here.
Battle of the Breweries Tournament
The Battle of the Breweries is a draft style hockey tournament for players of the Tulsa Adult Hockey League. Bring your family and friends to cheer you on.
- There will be a total of six teams.
- Registration will be limited to the first 6 goalies and 90 skaters.
- Tulsa Adult Hockey League & Women’s Division players from all skill levels are welcome to play.
Draft Details
Each round of the draft will have 6 players to choose from who have been grouped together by skill level. For example, a round of only yellow ranked players or only green ranked players. The draft will be on ice and start with the six goalies. The goalies will compete in a quick skills challenge (60-90 second game). The results of that game will determine who picks first, second, third, and so on. Goalies will then choose which brewery they represent as well as players from the first round of six available players. Teams will have between 10 and 15 skaters and a goalie. Each team will play four games to decide which championship game they will play in. The draft will be held on the evening of Thursday February 22nd. Registration will be limited to the first 6 goalies and 90 skaters. The goal is to make the teams as even as possible.
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Game Rules
- Games will consist of 15-minute periods.
- No game will end in a tie.
- Except for the championship games, all ties at the end of regulation time will go to a shoot out.
- Teams will start with 3 shooters.
- If it is still a tie after 3 shooters then teams will shoot one player at a time.
- No player can be recycled in a shoot out until all players have shot.
- Players serving a penalty at the end of regulation time are not eligible to shoot.
- Any fight will result in an ejection from the tournament.
The tournament organizers and referees will have final say on how to handle any unforeseen circumstances. Safety is priority.
Tulsa Oilers: A Hockey Tradition
The Tulsa Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and play in the ECHL. For many years, the Tulsa Oilers name was shared with Tulsa's former minor-league baseball team that pre-dated the Tulsa Drillers. The Oilers played their home games at the Tulsa Convention Center until 2008 when they moved into the new BOK Center. Formerly a member of the Central Hockey League, the Oilers are one of only two teams which played every one of the CHL's 22 seasons (the other being the Wichita Thunder). The modern-day Oilers franchise was born in 1992 and won the CHL's Memorial Cup championship in its first season.
The Oilers established a winning tradition, making the playoffs in nine of their first 13 seasons. Original owner Jeff Lund played an integral part in assembling the 1992-93 team, led by veteran minor league coach and former NHL ironman Garry Unger. The team, anchored by high-scoring forward Sylvain Naud and veteran goalie Tony Martino, finished the regular season in second place, right behind intrastate rival Oklahoma City Blazers. However, in the revived league's first championship series the Oilers handily defeated the Blazers, clinching the title on OKC's home ice. On June 23, 2013, Lund sold the team to the owners of the Wichita Thunder, the Steven brothers.
The original Oilers joined the five team American Hockey Association as an expansion team in 1928. Their first home game was January 1, 1929, against the Duluth Hornets, as part of the grand opening of the Tulsa Coliseum. The team won the AHA championship that season, and again in the 1930-31 season. For the 1932-33 season, the Oilers moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, and became the St. Paul Greyhounds, but halfway through the season they moved back to Tulsa once again becoming the Tulsa Oilers. At the end of the 1941-42 season, the AHA and the Oilers disbanded due to World War II. The AHA was reorganized as the United States Hockey League for the 1945-46 season as a seven team league, once again including the Oilers. That league folded after the 1950-51 season. The team played at Avey's Coliseum during this time.
In 1964, a new Tulsa Oilers team joined the Central Professional Hockey League (later shortened to Central Hockey League) in its second season of operation. The Oilers won the Adams Cup as the CPHL/CHL champions in 1968, 1976, and 1984.
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A new Central Hockey League was created in 1992 as a centrally owned league, owned by Ray Miron and Bill Levins. The league was operated by Ray and Monte Miron and funded by Chicago businessman and minor league sports entrepreneur Horn Chen. With the creation of the new CHL the Tulsa Oilers were a team once again. Ray Miron once coached the Oilers in the old CHL and his son Monte had played for the Oilers in 1973-74.
On July 31, 2015, the Oilers announced a one-year affiliation with the NHL's Winnipeg Jets and the AHL's Manitoba Moose. After the conclusion of the agreement with the Jets/Moose, the Oilers announced a one-year affiliation with the St.
2018 is the 90th Anniversary of the first Tulsa Oilers team that competed in the American Hockey Association in 1928. Throughout the years since, the Oilers have competed in the United States Hockey League, Central Professional Hockey League and Central Hockey League before joining the ECHL in 2014. The 2018-19 season is the 67th season of Tulsa Oilers pro hockey.
Tulsa qualified for the playoffs in its first ECHL season in 2014-15, but is looking for its first Kelly Cup playoff berth since. The Oilers are coached by Rob Murray, who is in his second year in Tulsa after leading the Alaska Aces for six seasons.
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