League History

The Roblox Premium Hockey League (RPHL) was a virtual online ice hockey organized competitive league on the ROBLOX platform. The league was founded by Zombiex955 in 2018, but the earliest roots of the league date back to late 2017. The RPHL has completed eight successful full seasons, mostly of which consisted of 20 games played for each team. All of RPHL's seasons had 6 teams, besides Season 1, which had just 4 teams. The RPHL was considered to be the premier big puck ro-hockey league when it was running at the time. The Premium Cup was awarded at the conclusion of the RPHL Premium Cup Playoffs every season, to the league's champion team.

The Roblox Premium Hockey League was organized on Janurary 3rd, 2018, after the suspension of operations of its predecessor organization, the Roblox Official Hockey League (ROHL), which had been founded on December 9th, 2017. The RPHL took place of the ROHL because of a controversy with a similar league's name. This prompted league founder Zombiex955 to come up with and use a brand new league title, which is when he then thought of the RPHL.

Through its beginnings, the RPHL had four teams, all in America. This changed in Season 2, when the Alberta Outlaws joined the league, representing Alberta, Canada. Season 2 also saw the expansion of the league, as the RPHL established two conferences that were to be used throughout the league's history: the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference. Each conference would hold three teams for a total of six teams competing in the RPHL. The RPHL would try a few times to become an 8 team league, but this idea failed after each attempt.

The RPHL Minors (RPHLM) league was created on June 26th, 2019, with the league's first Commissioner being PokexCheck. The RPHLM completed two successful seasons before it closed operations.

Both the RPHL and the RPHLM officially suspended operations on November 19th, 2020. The official announcement was made by then-current RPHL Commissioner DreadfulSleep on the same day. The then-current Commissioner of the RPHLM was YellowBuffaloPowder. The decision was made between all of the RPHL and the RPHLM staff, but was ultimately up to Zombiex955. The league stated that the reasons it was shutting its doors was because of league-wide inactivity, incompetent staff, and a lack of motivation from staff from both the Majors and the Minors. At the time of its closing, the RPHL was in its 9th season of operation, and the RPHLM was in its 3rd season of operation. The Tampa Bay Rhinos were automatically awarded the S9 Premium Cup, but this decision was retracted a short time later.

Founding Era (ROHL-S1)
The earliest roots of RPHL's existence can be traced back to the "Roblox Official Hockey League", or the "ROHL". This was the predecessor league to the RPHL, founded on December 9, 2017, by Zombie. Zombie was inspired to make the league by a robux scammer. Yes, a robux scammer. Back in the day, Zombie tried selling off groups in the Group Recruiting Plaza, a common place to sell, buy, etc. There, he met a user named funnystormcrazy1011 who was interested in purchasing a group from Zombie known as the “Roblox NFL Group”. The two discussed and met at only a price of 100 robux. Zombie was very new to roblox at the time, and was scammed when the user and him decided to have a countdown and transfer ownership of the group and buy Zombie’s 100 robux tshirt at the same time.Zombie was livid with rage, considering a few people wanted to buy that group. After realizing he had been scammed, he tried confronting the scammer who blocked him… that was the last time Zombie ever heard from the scammer again. This may seem strange, but the scammer actually inspired Zombie to make his own league. It’s hard to explain… it just sorta happened. Owning a league seemed like a good way to make a community on roblox with others having fun at the same time. So it happened, and the ROHL was created. Zombie worked very hard but the league never really started off its feet. Zombie was just a random dude at the time with no experience at ro-hockey. However, determination and a stride to do better eventually prevailed. Zombie met other users who were interested in helping with the group as well. They were then selected as the original team owners of the ROHL. stanleycupp2014 officially claimed ownership of the ROHL Carolina Hurricanes on December 31, 2017. Bowserbuddy64 owned the Chicago Blackhawks but switched to the Boston Bruins, both ownership changes made on January 1, 2018. Also on January 1, VVorstfriend was appointed owner of the Detroit Red Wings and Project_Snipez of the New Jersey Devils.

Eras:

Founding (ROHL-S1)

Custom Team Expansion Era (S2-S3)

Competition Boom Era (S4-S6)

Modern Era (S7-S9)