The Canadiens were founded by J. Ambrose O'Brien on December 4, 1909, as a charter member of the National Hockey Association, the forerunner to the National Hockey League. It was to be the team of the francophone community in Montreal, composed of francophone players, and under francophone ownership as soon as possible.In 1917, with four other NHA teams, the Canadiens formed the NHL, and they won their first NHL Stanley Cup during the 1923–24 season, led by Howie Morenz. The team moved from the Mount Royal Arena to the Montreal Forum for the 1926–27 season.
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Toronto's inclusion in the NHL's inaugural season was formally announced on November 26, 1917; The League granted temporary franchise rights to the Arena Company, owners of the Arena Gardens.The NHL granted the Arena responsibility of the Toronto franchise for only the inaugural season.The franchise did not have an official name, but was informally called "the Blueshirts" or "the Torontos" by the fans and press.Although the inaugural roster was made up of players leased from the NHA's Toronto Blueshirts, including Harry Cameron and Reg Noble, the Maple Leafs do not claim the Blueshirts' history as their own.Under manager Charlie Querrie, and head coach Dick Carroll, the team won the Stanley Cup in the inaugural 1917–18 season.
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In 1924, at the convincing of Boston grocery magnate Charles Adams, the National Hockey League decided to expand to the United States. Adams' first act was to hire Art Ross, a former star player and innovator, as general manager. Ross was the face of the franchise for the next thirty years, including four separate stints as coach. Adams directed Ross to come up with a nickname that would portray an untamed animal displaying speed, agility, and cunning. Ross came up with "Bruins", an Old English word used for brown bears. The team's bearlike nickname also went along with the team's original uniform colors of brown and yellow, which came from Adams' grocery chain. The Bruins played at Boston Arena.
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On May 1, 1926, the NHL awarded an expansion franchise for Chicago to a syndicate headed by former football star Huntington Hardwick of Boston. At the same meeting, Hardwick arranged the purchase of the players of the Portland Rosebuds of the Western Hockey League for $100,000 from WHL president Frank Patrick in a deal brokered by Boston Bruins' owner Charles AdamsHowever, only one month later, Hardwick's group sold out to Chicago coffee tycoon Frederic McLaughlin. McLaughlin had been a commander with the 333rd Machine Gun Battalion of the 86th Infantry Division during World War I.This division was nicknamed the "Blackhawk Division" after a Native American of the Sauk nation, Black Hawk, who was a prominent figure in the history of Illinois. McLaughlin named the new hockey team in honor of the military unit. The blackhawks originally played in the Chicago Coliseum.
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In 1932, the NHL let grain merchant James E. Norris, who had made two previous unsuccessful bids to buy an NHL team, purchase the Falcons. Norris' first act was to choose a new name for the team—the Red Wings. Earlier in the century, Norris had been a member of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (MAAA), a multi-sport club whose winged-wheel emblem derived from its cycling roots, and whose hockey team won the first Stanley Cup in 1893. Norris decided that a red version of the MAAA "Winged Wheelers" logo was perfect for a team playing in the "Motor City" and on October 5, 1932, the club was renamed the Red Wings. The Red Wings played at the Detroit Olympia.
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George Lewis "Tex" Rickard, president of Madison Square Garden, was awarded an NHL franchise for the 1926–27 season to compete with the now-defunct New York Americans, who had begun play at the Garden the previous season. The Americans (also known as the "Amerks") proved to be an even greater success than expected during their inaugural season, leading Rickard to pursue a second team for the Garden despite promising the Amerks that they were going to be the only hockey team to play there. The new team was quickly nicknamed "Tex's Rangers"
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In 1966, the NHL announced that six expansion teams would be added as a new division for the 1967–68 season, officially because of a general desire to expand the league to new markets, but also to squelch the Western Hockey League's threat to turn into a major league. The San Francisco Seals were one such team from the WHL. The NHL awarded an expansion team to Barry Van Gerbig for the San Francisco Bay area. Van Gerbig decided to purchase the WHL club with the intent of bringing them into the NHL as an expansion team the following season.
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When the NHL decided to expand for the 1967–68 season amid rumblings that the Western Hockey League (WHL) was proposing to turn itself into a major league and compete for the Stanley Cup, Canadian entrepreneur Jack Kent Cooke paid the NHL $2 million to place one of the six expansion teams in Los Angeles. Following a fan contest to name the team, Cooke chose the name Kings because he wanted his club to take on "an air of royalty," and picked the original team colors of purple (or "Forum Blue", as it was later officially called) and gold because they were colors traditionally associated with royalty. The Kings played at the newly built Forum in Los Angeles.
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On March 11, 1965, NHL President Clarence Campbell announced that the league would expand to twelve teams from six through the creation of a new six-team division for the 1967–68 season. In response to Campbell's announcement, a partnership of nine men, led by Walter Bush, Jr., Robert Ridder, and John Driscoll, was formed to seek a franchise for the Twin Cities area of Minnesota.Their efforts were successful, as the NHL awarded one of its six expansion franchises to Minnesota on February 9, 1966.The "North Stars" name was announced on May 25, 1966, following a public contest.The name is derived from the state's motto "L'Étoile du Nord", which is a French phrase meaning "The Star of the North". The home of the North Stars was Metropolitan Sports Center.
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The Flyers were established when the NHL expanded from the so-called “Original Six” in 1967. The team saw some minor success initially, earning three postseason berths in its first five years in the NHL. In the 1972–73 season the Flyers began a streak of 18 consecutive play-off appearances. The Flyers teams of the early ’70s earned the nickname “The Broad Street Bullies,” a reference to the location of the team’s home arena on Philadelphia’s Broad Street and to their penchant for fighting and amassing record amounts of penalty minutes. The Flyers played home games at The Spectrum in Philadelphia.
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In the spring of 1965, Jack McGregor, a state senator from Kittanning, began lobbying campaign contributors and community leaders to bring an NHL franchise back to Pittsburgh. The effort was successful, and on February 8, 1966, the National Hockey League awarded an expansion team to Pittsburgh for the 1967–68 season. The Penguins played at The Civic Arena.
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The Blues were one of the six teams added to the NHL in the 1967 expansion. St. Louis was the last of the six expansion teams to gain entry into the League; the market was chosen over Baltimore at the insistence of the Chicago Black Hawks. The Black Hawks' owners, James D. Norris and Arthur Wirtz, also owned the decrepit St. Louis Arena. They sought to unload the arena, which had not been well-maintained since the 1940s, and thus pressed the NHL to give the franchise to St. Louis, which had not submitted a formal expansion bid. NHL president Clarence Campbell said during the 1967 expansion meetings, "We want a team in St. Louis because of the city's geographical location and the fact that it has an adequate building."
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he Sabres were part of a small NHL expansion in 1970, coming into the league with the Vancouver Canucks.
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The Vancouver Canucks (not to be confused by the Canucks of the Pacific Coast Hockey League and the Western Hockey League) joined the NHL in 1970 as an expansion team along with the Buffalo Sabres.
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The Edmonton Oilers were established in 1972 as one of the founding franchises of the World Hockey Associaton (WHA), playing their first season as the 'Alberta Oilers.' The club then joined the NHL in 1979 with the NHL/WHA merger along with the Quebec Nordiques, Winnipeg Jets and Hartford Whalers.
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The Whalers franchise started as the 'New England Whalers,' playing in Boston as one of the WHA's original teams in 1972. The team held the WHA's best record through the first season of play, eventually going on a run to win the inaugural Avco World Trophy (the WHA championship).
The club played many of its first season's home games at the Boston Garden and the Whalers found themselves fourth in priority for dates behind the NHL's Bruins, Boston Celtics and even the American Hockey League's Boston Braves. Fed up with the situation, the owners decided to move the team elsewhere: Hartford, Connecticut where a brand new arena was already being built. On January 11, 1975 the team played its first game at the Hartford Civic Center in front of a sellout crowd.
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The Islanders were founded in 1972 as part of the NHL's maneuvers to keep a team from the rival World Hockey Association out of the newly built Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in suburban Uniondale, New York.
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The Nordiques were a founding member of the World Hockey Associaton (WHA) in 1972. The club then joined the NHL in 1979 with the NHL/WHA merger along with the Winnipeg Jets, Edmonton Oilers and Hartford Whalers.
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The original Winnipeg Jets were established and began play in the World Hockey Associaton (WHA) in 1972. The club then joined the NHL in 1979 with the NHL/WHA merger along with the Quebec Nordiques, Edmonton Oilers and Hartford Whalers.
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The Capitals were founded in 1974 as an expansion franchise.
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Starting play in Atlanta in 1972, the Flames moved and begin play in their current home of Calgary in 1980. Along with the New York Islanders, the Flames franchise was created to battle the upstart World Hockey Association for fans and market expansion.
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Inspired by both the Devils wordmark logo from its inaugural season in 1982 and classic Jersey sandwich shop signage, our New Jersey Founding Year tee features an original graphic paying homage to the year trucking tycoon Arthur Imperatore brought NHL hockey to the Garden State.
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The San Jose Sharks were founded in 1991 as the first NHL franchise based in the San Francisco Bay area since the California Golden Seals relocated to Cleveland in 1976.
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Founded by Ottawa real estate developer Bruce Firestone, the current Ottawa team is the second NHL franchise to use the Senators name. The original team was founded in 1883, playing in the NHL from 1917 until 1934 while winning 11 Stanley Cups. After a two-year public campaign by Firestone, the NHL awarded a new franchise to Ottawa, which began play in the 1992-93 season.
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In the late 1980s when the NHL announced it would expand, a group led by Hockey Hall-of-Famers Phil and Tony Esposito won the bid to bring a team to Tampa Bay. They named the team the Lightning, after Tampa Bay's status as the "Lightning Capital of North America," and would begin play in the 1992-93 season.
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The 'mighty' scheme to bring another NHL team to southern California started with Disney CEO Michael Eisner's obsession with hockey, a movie script written by Steven Brill, and a plan to piggy-back the start of a franchise on a kid's movie about hockey. Amazingly, it all came to fruition and the Anaheim Mighty Ducks started play in the 1993-94 season, right after The Mighty Duckshit theaters in 1992 to surprising box office success.
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Following a handful of tumultuous years in Minnesota, owner Norman Green decided to move the Stars to Dallas for the 1993 season. In an ironic twist, his original desired location for the team was Anaheim, but it was taken by Disney's Ducks which launched following the success of the The Mighty Ducks movie which featured Green's Minnesota Stars team.
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Blockbuster Video magnate Wayne Huizenga was awarded an NHL franchise for Miami on the same day in December, 1992 that Walt Disney earned the rights to start a team in Anaheim. The new franchise joined the NHL to begin play in the 1993–94 season, along with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.
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After years of financial struggle, the Quebec Nordiques were sold to the same ownership group that owned the Denver Nuggets and moved to Denver, Colorado becoming the Colorado Avalanche which began play in 1995.
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Beginning play as the Winnipeg Jets in the WHA, and one of the four teams admitted to the NHL in a merger, the franchise was moved to Phoenix after experiencing financial trouble in the 1990s. The team was purchased by a group led by Jerry Colangelo, who owned the Phoenix Suns, and renamed the Coyotes to start play in 1996-97 season.
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Beginning play as the New England Whalers in the WHA, and one of the four teams admitted to the NHL in a merger, the franchise was moved to Carolina for the 1997-98 season after a multitude of struggles in Hartford primarily due to its small market and location on the traditional dividing line between the home territories for New York City and Boston teams.
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In 1996, Nashville had a brand new arena but no team to fill it. After a failed attempt to lure the New Jersey Devils franchise to town and then another failed attempt to get an NBA franchise, Nashville was granted an expansion franchise by the NHL in the summer of 1997 along with Columbus, Atlanta and Minnesota. Because the city already had a completed arena, the Preds were able to begin play that next season in 1998.
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After Columbus-based Nationwide Insurance announced they would fund a new arena if the city was awarded a franchise, the NHL granted Columbus a team that would begin play for the 2000-01 season.
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After the State of Hockey lost their team in the early 90s, the NHL was to return to Minnesota when they were granted an expansion franchise by the NHL in the summer of 1997 along with Columbus, Atlanta and Nashville to begin play in the 2000-01 season.
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Beginning play in the 2017-18 season, the Vegas Golden Knights became the first major professional sports franchise to be based in Las Vegas. One of the few expansion franchises to experience immediate success, Vegas reached the Stanley Cup finals in their first season.
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Starting play in the 2021 season, the Kraken are the first professional hockey team to play in Seattle since the Seattle Totems of the Western Hockey Leagueplayed their last game in 1975.
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