Build a lifetime archive of Hartford Whalers games you've attended. Ticket Timeline turns Whalers history for Hartford fans into a lasting personal hockey record centered on real seats at the Hartford Civic Center and Springfield Civic Center—not a live-score feed or ticket marketplace.
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Hartford swept the first-place Quebec Nordiques in three games in 1986, then pushed the eventual Stanley Cup champion Montreal Canadiens to a seventh game—losing 2–1 in overtime on April 29.
1
NHL playoff series win in Hartford
Tied through overtime, the game came down to one shooter at a time.
~7.9% of games
Are decided by shootout
A hat trick. A milestone goal. A night that becomes part of team lore. Whalers fans who log every game are the ones who can prove they saw it.
Rare
Not every fan gets one of these live
Ticket Timeline ranks this as the #5 Whalers game of the season. You were one of 14,660 people there.
#5
Game of the regular season
Three goals, one player, one night—a feat only a handful of players record each season.
~7.6% of games
Feature a hat trick
Buildings the Whalers called home in the attendance data Ticket Timeline uses—useful when an old ticket names a former arena from the Hartford or Springfield years.
Coverage in Ticket Timeline's game data starts in 1979, the year the Whalers joined the NHL in the WHA merger. Springfield Civic Center hosted the start of that first NHL season; the Hartford Civic Center hosted NHL games from February 1980 through 1997. WHA seasons, including Springfield nights after the January 1978 roof collapse, sit outside this window.
If your ticket says Springfield Civic Center, that is a different building in Massachusetts from the Hartford Civic Center—not a rename. Later names for the Hartford building came after the Whalers left; era tickets print Hartford Civic Center.
The franchise relocated to North Carolina in 1997 and became the Carolina Hurricanes. Whalers nights stay in this archive; Carolina nights belong on the Hurricanes page. Ron Francis was the face of the Hartford years; the 1986 playoffs were the club's only NHL series win.
The Hartford Whalers hosted NHL games at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, CT, USA, from 1980 to 1997, after opening the 1979–80 NHL season at the Springfield Civic Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. Dates for those nights are anchored in Eastern time. The building list above is what Ticket Timeline uses when an older ticket names a former arena.
Use that timeline when dating a night: Springfield Civic Center (1979–1980) was a temporary home—a different building in Massachusetts, used for the first 22 NHL home games while the Hartford Civic Center was rebuilt after the January 1978 roof collapse; Hartford Civic Center (1980–1997) was the final Whalers home. The last home game in Hartford was April 13, 1997, against Tampa Bay; the franchise then continued in Carolina. Rebuilding Whalers attendance is usually a scavenger hunt: paper tickets and PDF confirmations, camera-roll scoreboard dates, calendar invites, season-ticket statements, and memory anchors (companions, rivals, life events, arena names on stubs). Work season by season; a partial list of attended games is enough to start matching opponents and arenas. When confirmations live in Gmail, import games you've attended walks through a read-only preview before anything is committed. For a shoebox of stubs, see what to do with old ticket stubs.
Once you've logged Whalers games you attended, Ticket Timeline surfaces the attendance story—not a live scoreboard. Visited insights can include Springfield Civic Center (1979–1980) and Hartford Civic Center (1980–1997).
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Hartford has not hosted Whalers hockey since 1997. NHL nights from that era opened at Springfield Civic Center (1979–1980) and finished at the Hartford Civic Center (1980–1997) before the franchise continued in Carolina. Use the venue timeline above when an old ticket prints either name.
Add Whalers games from memory, import a spreadsheet, or scan ticket stubs. Ticket Timeline links each attended game to NHL context—teams, arenas, players, and notable moments—so nights at the Hartford Civic Center, Springfield Civic Center, and elsewhere become a browsable Hartford Whalers archive. Primary focus on this page: a lifetime attendance archive.
Ticket Timeline is for fans reconstructing eighteen NHL seasons of Whalers hockey. Keep Springfield Civic Center nights from the start of 1979–80 and Hartford Civic Center nights through April 1997 in an exportable personal archive—not a live-score feed or ticket marketplace.
If your stub says Springfield Civic Center, you were at the temporary NHL home from the start of 1979–80, used while the Hartford Civic Center was rebuilt after the January 1978 roof collapse. That collapse happened in the WHA years; Springfield hosted only part of the first NHL season. If it says Hartford Civic Center, that is the final Whalers home (1980–1997)—a different building, not a rename.
Related team relationships for fans rebuilding attendance history across shared metros and venues.
Ticket Timeline is built as a long-term archive of attended Hartford Whalers games: teams, arenas, players, milestones, and moments across seasons, including nights at Hartford Civic Center.
Add games as you remember them—or import a batch—then keep growing the archive. Ticket Timeline stores attended Whalers history with NHL context in an exportable personal record.
Yes. Ticket Timeline helps you see arena progress across the Whalers and NHL games you've attended, so you can revisit which arenas you've been to and keep building that record over seasons.
Yes. You can import a spreadsheet of attended Whalers games, and Ticket Timeline also supports finding games from Gmail ticket confirmations with a read-only, preview-before-commit flow. That makes it easier to reconstruct years of history without retyping every date.
No. Ticket Timeline does not sell tickets. It is an app for tracking NHL games you've already attended and exploring the story behind your fandom.
Yes. The franchise relocated in 1997 and became the Carolina Hurricanes. Carolina nights belong on the Hurricanes page. The Whalers' NHL archive here includes a temporary home at Springfield Civic Center for the start of 1979–80, after the Hartford Civic Center roof collapsed on January 18, 1978, while the club was still in the WHA.
Yes. Ticket Timeline helps you track Hartford Whalers games you attended at Hartford Civic Center, then connect those nights to teams, players, arenas, and hockey memories.
Yes. You can add regular-season and playoff Whalers games you attended so your hockey timeline reflects the nights that mattered most to you.
Build a searchable lifetime record of attended Hartford Whalers games.
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