It was projected that the league would begin operation with teams from Dallas, Detroit, Halifax, Hamilton, Miami, Toronto, Vancouver and Quebec City.

By August, however, things began to unravel: the WHA pulled the Quebec franchise[2] and Toronto, unable to find an arena, dropped out soon afterwards.

[4] In the spring of 2005, the league announced the "Bobby Hull Invitational Tournament," for which 50 NHL players had purportedly showed interest.

[6] When that and other plans failed to materialize, the rights to the WHA's name and logo were sold to Richard Smith, a British Columbia investor.

Further plans to operate either a similar Tier II junior league or a professional loop in the Pennsylvania-Midwest area in 2007–2008 were dropped without comment by the organization, in addition to financial problems that led to the company's stockbroker calling for a legal investigation and subsequently filing a lawsuit against the WHA.