title: Spokane Spokes
text: # Spokane Spokes
  
  The Spokane Spokes were a minor league professional ice hockey team that operated from 1958-1959 in the Western Hockey League.
  
  After the 1958-1959 season the team was renamed Spokane Comets.
  
  ## Roster
  
  * C Gene "Max" Mekilok Canada
  * LW/C Earl "Ching" Johnson Canada
  * RW Al Johnson Canada
  * C Del Topoll Canada
  * RW Nelson "Blinky" Boyce Canada
  * C Bev Bell Canada
  * C Walter Bradley Canada
  * D Joe Lund Finland
  * D Tom Hodges Canada
  * C Lloyd Maxfield Canada
  * RW Ron Attwell Canada
  * D Benny Woit Canada
  * RW Buddy Bodman Canada
  * D Jack Lancien Canada
  * W Art Hart Canada
  * C Frank Kubasek Canada
  * D Tom Williams Canada
  * D Harry Smith Canada
  * D Lionel Repka Canada
  * D Connie Madigan Canada
  * D George Ferguson Canada
  * F Lorne Nadeau Canada
  * D Bob Duncan Canada
  * G Emile Francis Canada
  
  ## Spokes Alumni
  
  * Emile Francis - New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues coach, later GM and member of Hockey Hall of Fame
  