United States
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Date: December 11, 1976
Width: 240 mm
Height: 105 mm
Location: Ice Hockey Volume XCIII
Stamp ID = 6810

In the 1977 movie "Slap Shot" the Charlestown Chiefs play a minor-league hockey in the Federal League that is based on the real-life hockey team of the Johnstown Jets, who played in the North American Hockey League from 1973 until 1977. In 1975 the Johnstown Jets won the Lockhart Cup.


From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.

United States of America (1847-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 248,709,873 (1990). Republic occupying the central portion of North America, along with Alaska, Hawaii and a large number of island possessions in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.