World Roller Hockey League (WRHL) was a professional

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 inline hockey

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 league. It lasted only one season.

The WRHL was the creation of promoter David McLane

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. WRHL games were played with a ball instead of a puck on an outdoor rink with a SportCourt surface on the beach at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida http://thisdayindisneyhistory.homestead.com/May07.html. Former NHLers such as Ron Duguay

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 and Pierre Larouche

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 played in the league. The season lasted slightly less than two months in the early summer of 1993. Games were taped during the short season and aired on ESPN

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. They were later aired in Canada on TSN

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Teams

• Aztecs
• Blast
• Express
• Fury
• Titans
• Turbos
• Typhoon
• Wave

The Express captured the only WRHL in a best-of-three final.