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The history of the National Hockey League began with the demise of its predecessor league, the National Hockey Association (NHA), in 1917. After unsuccessfully resolving 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 temporary team in Toronto, the Arenas. The NHL's first quarter-century saw the league compete against two rival major leagues—the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and Western Canada Hockey League—for players and the Stanley Cup. The NHL first expanded into the United States in 1924 with the founding of the Boston Bruins, and by 1926 consisted of ten teams in Ontario, Quebec, the Great Lakes region, and the Northeastern United States. At the same time, the NHL emerged as the only major league and the sole competitor for the Stanley Cup; in 1947, the NHL completed a deal with the Stanley Cup trustees to gain full control of the Cup. The NHL's footprint spread across Canada as Foster Hewitt's radio broadcasts were heard coast-to-coast starting in 1933. (more...)
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Brad Richards is a center currently playing for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Traded to New York Rangers in 2011, Richards played his first six seasons in the NHL for the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Did you know ...
- ... that Pete Muldoon (pictured), after he was fired after only one season in 1927 by the Chicago Blackhawks, supposedly placed an Irish curse that would prevent the Blackhawks from being first for the next 41 years?
- ...that the Los Angeles Kings have appeared three times in the Stanley Cup Finals during their 50-year existence, and won it in 2012 and 2014?
- ...that the Edmonton Oilers have appeared in the Stanley Cup Finals seven times since they joined the NHL in 1979, winning five times?
- ...that the Avco World Trophy, the championship trophy of the now-defunct World Hockey Association, was not completed when the New England Whalers won the WHA championship in 1973?
- ...that the Scotiabank Saddledome is the home of the Calgary Flames?
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