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In the 1911 off-season, O'Brien exited the hockey business and Renfrew exited the league. The Ottawa Hockey Club became the second club to incorporate. [11] The NHA itself incorporated, forming a Canadian federal corporation capitalized at CA$50,000 (equivalent to $1,424,607 in 2023) divided into five hundred shares of $100 each. The purpose of ...
The Toronto Hockey Club, also known as the Torontos and the Toronto Blueshirts, were a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They were a member of the National Hockey Association (NHA). The club was founded in 1911 and began operations in 1912. The club won its sole Stanley Cup championship in 1914.
The history of the National Hockey League begins with the end of its predecessor league, the National Hockey Association (NHA), in 1917. After unsuccessfully attempting to resolve disputes with Eddie Livingstone, owner of the Toronto Blueshirts, executives of the three other NHA franchises suspended the NHA, and formed the National Hockey League (NHL), replacing the Livingstone team with a ...
The Ottawa Senators, pictured in 1914–15, became a charter member of the National Hockey League. In the 1916–17 season, the NHA was facing numerous problems.The Quebec Bulldogs were in financial difficulty, [10] while the league's most popular team, the Toronto 228th Battalion, was called away to fight in World War I. [11] Several of the league's team owners were growing frustrated with ...
The following is a complete history of organizational changes in the National Hockey League (NHL). The NHL was founded in 1917 as a successor to the National Hockey Association (NHA), starting out with four teams from the predecessor league, and eventually grew to thirty-two in its current state.
The CHA owners decided to proceed with an amalgamation with the NHA, entitling the league the "Canadian-National Hockey League". [3] A meeting with the NHA on January 15, 1910, was planned to consider amalgamation with the CHA, but amalgamation was not discussed. Instead the NHA admitted Ottawa, Quebec, and the Shamrocks.
The Stanley Cup. The Stanley Cup is a trophy awarded annually to the playoff champion club of the National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey league. It was donated by the Governor General of Canada Lord Stanley of Preston in 1892, and is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America. [1]
[7] [8] The Brookline Country Club was founded in 1882 and is esteemed to be the nation’s first by the Encyclopaedia of American Urban History. [1] By 1907, country clubs were claimed to be “the very essence of American upper-class.” [ 5 ] The number of country clubs increased greatly with industrialization, the rise in incomes, and ...