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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 21-team era ended in 1990, when the league revealed ambitious plans to double league revenues from $400 million within a decade and bring the NHL to 28 franchises during that period. [126] The NHL quickly announced three new teams: The San Jose Sharks , who began play in the 1991–92 season , and the Ottawa Senators and Tampa Bay Lightning ...
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 NHL has expanded and contracted numerous times throughout its history , including in 1979 when four teams were added from the World Hockey ...
At its inception, the NHL had four teams, all in Canada, thus the adjective "National" in the league's name. The league expanded to the United States in 1924, when the Boston Bruins joined, and has since consisted of both American and Canadian teams. From 1942 to 1967, the NHL had only six teams, collectively nicknamed the "Original Six".
The following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1917–18 (listed with their first team, not including players who previously played in the NHA): Jack Adams, Toronto; Of the players who kicked off their NHL career this season, Reg Noble had the longest career, retiring after the 1932–33 season.
The 1917–18 Toronto Hockey Club season was the first season of the new Toronto franchise in the newly-organized National Hockey League (NHL). The team was intended as a 'temporary' franchise, operating without an official club nickname (the press would dub them the "Blue Shirts" or "Torontos", [1] and in 1948 the NHL would engrave "Toronto ...
The team, known as the 228th Battalion or Northern Fusiliers—formed in North Bay, Ontario [21] —played wearing khaki military uniforms and was the league's most popular and highest scoring club until the regiment was ordered overseas in February 1917 and the team was forced to withdraw. A scandal ensued when several stars were subsequently ...
The Boston Bruins are the oldest US-based franchise in the NHL, having played in the league since 1924. When the WHA and NHL merged, the NHL inherited teams in three Canadian cities, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Quebec City. However, of these three teams, only the Edmonton Oilers remain in their original city, or in Canada—the other two teams ...