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Roller Hockey International ('''RHI''') was an Inline Hockey league in North America between 1993-97 and 1999. Teams competed through a regular and playoff season in hopes of winning the Murphy Cup (like the NHL 's Stanley Cup ). The league appeared during the Rollerblading boom of the early 1990s, but lost steam as the fad died down. In its five combined years of activity, the league saw seven franchises move and eight franchises change names. After folding in 1998 , there was a movement to revamp and come back the following year as the Major League Hockey (MLH) that year, but it never came to fruition. The RHI was revived in 1999, but cancelled the 2000 season and the league finally folded operations in 2001 when their team sites were limited to arenas in California . Rules The rules in the RHI were similar to but not identical to those of the National Hockey League at the time, but seemed to try to appeal to the younger Extreme Sport generation; the RHI had four players and a goalie at a time on the playing surface opposed to the NHL's five and a goalie; the penalty times on average were about 1/4 less than the NHL's; there were no Blue Lines ; the Puck itself was smaller, a 3 1/2 oz. piece of red plastic; there were four 12 minute quarters opposed to the NHL's three 20 minute periods; a tie score at the end of regulation time would go straight to a Shootout instead of a five minute extra period before a shootout; and the average number of goals scored per game was 16.7 to the NHL's 7. TEAMS Note: RHI 1993-97, Major League Roller Hockey 1998, revived RHI 1999-2000 and '''California Roller Hockey League''' 2001, folded before 2002 season.
Note: The Palm Desert Silver-Cats (1995) and later in Ontario, California (1997) were a semi-pro team that played exhibition games with the Blades and Bullfrogs of the RHI league. MURPHY CUP CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS
HISTORY See Also: List of RHI seasons LICENSING The league inspired at least one video game, Super Nintendo 's '' RHI Roller Hockey '95 ,'' although the game was never released. NHL ALUMNI
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