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List Of Defunct NHL Teams

List of defunct NHL teams

This is a list of teams that once played in the National Hockey League but no longer exist. This includes franchises which have relocated to different cities. The years of operation only reflect the time in which that team was in the NHL; it does not take into account any time in which the franchise operated in another league (such as the World Hockey Association).
- Atlanta Flames (1972-1980; became Calgary Flames)
- Cleveland Barons (1976-1978; merged with Minnesota North Stars)
- Colorado Rockies (1976-1982; became New Jersey Devils)
- Hamilton Tigers (1920-1925)
- Hartford Whalers (1979-1997; became Carolina Hurricanes)
- Kansas City Scouts (1974-1976; became Colorado Rockies)
- Minnesota North Stars (1967-1993; became Dallas Stars)
- Montreal Maroons (1924-1938)
- Montreal Wanderers (1917-1918)
- New York Americans (1925-1942; renamed Brooklyn Americans in 1941)
- Oakland Seals (1967-1976; renamed California Golden Seals in 1970, became Cleveland Barons in 1976)
- Ottawa Senators (1917-1934; became St. Louis Eagles; a new team of the same name was formed in 1992)
- Philadelphia Quakers (1930-1931)
- Pittsburgh Pirates (1925-1930; became Philadelphia Quakers)
- Québec Bulldogs (1919-1920; became Hamilton Tigers)
- Québec Nordiques (1979-1995; became Colorado Avalanche)
- St. Louis Eagles (1934-1935)
- Winnipeg Jets (1979-1996; became Phoenix Coyotes) Category:Defunct National Hockey League teams NHL, defunct teams

National Hockey League

, the trophy awarded to its champion.]] The National Hockey League (NHL) is a professional sports organization composed of hockey teams in the United States and Canada, where it is also known by its French name, Ligue Nationale de Hockey (LNH). It is generally regarded as the premier professional ice hockey league in the world. The NHL is often listed as one of the major professional sports leagues of North America.

History

The beginnings to The Original Six

The National Hockey League was founded in 1917 after a series of disputes within the (Canadian) National Hockey Association (NHA). The first NHL season began in 1917-18 with five teams. 1917-18 The primary conflict involved Toronto Blueshirts' owner Edward J. Livingstone. An ongoing source of controversy among fellow NHA owners, he was often accused of exploiting loopholes in league regulations to create what some viewed as unfair advantages, and had particularly incited the wrath of owners when he merged his two Toronto teams (the Ontarios and the Blueshirts) after the latter had been deprived of its top players. Livingstone sometimes offered contracts to other teams' members not to play hockey, and once campaigned to kick the Montreal Wanderers out of the league after the team tried to lure two of his top Blueshirts players. Throughout his battles with owners, Livingstone repeatedly threatened to start a rival league in the United States. In its final season (1916-17), the National Hockey Association was comprised of six teams: The Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, Toronto Blueshirts, and an army team from the Toronto-based 228th Battalion. Owners met in Montreal to consider the league's future on February 11, 1917, a day after members of the 228th Battalion, the most popular NHA team, were called into World War I action. Livingstone, unable to attend the meeting because of illness, was shocked to learn that owners had chosen to effectively eject him and the Blueshirts from the NHA. After the resignation of NHA president and Livingstone ally Frank Robinson, Livingstone stopped attending league meetings and sent a lawyer to represent his interests. When owners convened on September 29, 1917, they demanded that Livingstone sell the Blueshirts within five days. Livingstone then negotiated a deal in which the Toronto Arena Gardens would take control of the Blueshirts' daily business, with Livingstone to eventually regain control if the NHA continued operations. In response, NHA owners met at Montreal's Windsor Hotel on November 26, 1917, and formed the National Hockey League, with the Canadiens, Wanderers, Senators, Bulldogs and newly-renamed Toronto Arenas as founding members. The NHL endured a rocky inaugural season in 1917-18, starting with the temporary shuttering of the Bulldogs. On January 2, 1918, the Westmount Arena in Montreal, home to the Wanderers and Canadiens, was destroyed in a fire. The Wanderers, already a shadow of its former self, folded in the wake of the fire, ending one of the most storied franchises in the early years of Canadian professional hockey. With the Bulldogs and Wanderers out, the NHL operated with just three teams for the remainder of its opening year, and through the second season. Though Livingstone had been shut out, one of his NHA ideas — a proposal for a split regular season — was adopted by the new league and integrated into its playoff system. The Toronto Arenas became the first NHL winner of the Stanley Cup, the annual trophy awarded since 1893 to the Canadian hockey champion. A furious Livingstone, meanwhile, failed in his attempt to collect a share of profits from the Arenas, then sued the team and the NHL. The dispute lingered through the 1930s, with the Arenas since renamed the Toronto St. Patricks and ultimately the Toronto Maple Leafs. History has looked back on Livingstone and the NHL's formation with a sense of irony: The man whom league owners had worked so hard to exclude was, in the words of Canadiens owner George Kennedy, the same figure that "made [the NHL] a real league". Though the league struggled to stay in business during its first decade, NHL teams were quite successful on the ice, winning the Stanley Cup seven out of its first nine years. (The 1918-19 competition was cancelled because of the Spanish Flu epidemic that had hit Seattle). By 1926, having increased player salaries to a level that couldn't be matched by other Canadian leagues, the NHL was alone in Stanley Cup competition. The league had also expanded into the United States, with the Boston Bruins in 1924, the New York Americans and the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1925 and the New York Rangers, Detroit Cougars (later to become the Red Wings), and Chicago Blackhawks in 1926. By the end of the 1930-31 season, the NHL featured a total of 10 teams. However, the Great Depression took a toll on the league; teams such as the Pirates and the Americans folded, and even the fabled Ottawa Senators were forced to fold after moving to St. Louis because of financial difficulties. With these developments and the onset of World War II, the NHL was reduced to six teams during its 25th anniversary year of (1942) – six teams still known today, if somewhat inaccurately, as the Original Six: The Canadiens, Maple Leafs, Red Wings, Bruins, Rangers, and Blackhawks. World War II had provided many players their first chance to play professional hockey, but after the war, many found themselves relegated to minor leagues.

Expansion: 1967 and beyond

Minor leagues, especially in the western United States, often fielded teams that arguably could have defeated Stanley Cup champions. The rise of the Western Hockey League, which many pundits thought planned to transform into a major league and challenge for the Stanley Cup, spurred the NHL in 1967 to undertake its first expansion since the 1920s. Six new teams were added to the NHL roster, and placed in their own newly-created division. They were the Philadelphia Flyers, St. Louis Blues, Minnesota North Stars, Los Angeles Kings, Oakland Seals, and Pittsburgh Penguins. Three years later, the NHL added the Vancouver Canucks and Buffalo Sabres as franchises. In 1972, the World Hockey Association (WHA) was formed. Though it never challenged for the Stanley Cup, its status as a viable NHL rival was unquestionable. In response to that, the NHL decided to rush its own expansion plans by adding the New York Islanders and Atlanta Flames that year, along with the Kansas City Scouts and Washington Capitals two years later. The dilution of the talent pool, however, caused the overall quality of play to suffer. The two leagues fought for the services of hockey players and fans until the WHA folded in 1979. Four of the remaining six WHA teams merged with the NHL: The Hartford Whalers, Québec Nordiques, Edmonton Oilers, and Winnipeg Jets. As of 2005, the Oilers are the last remaining original WHA franchise still playing in the city where they began in the NHL.

Labour Issues

There have been three work stoppages in NHL history, all happening between 1992 and 2005. The first was a strike by the National Hockey League Players Association in April 1992 which lasted for 10 days, but the strike was settled quickly and all affected games were rescheduled. A lockout at the start of the 1994-95 forced the league to reduce the schedule from 84 games to just 48, with the teams playing only intra-conference games during the reduced season. The resulting collective bargaining agreement was set for renegotiation in 1998 and extended to September 15, 2004. Negotiations to replace the contract that expired in 2004 turned into one of the most contentious collective bargaining sessions in the history of professional sports. The league vowed to install what it dubbed "cost certainty" for its teams, but the National Hockey League Players Association countered that the move was little more than a euphemism for a salary cap, which the union initially said it would not accept. With no new agreement in hand when the existing contract expired on September 15, 2004, league commissioner Gary Bettman announced a lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office, causing the NHL to lose an entire season. A new collective bargaining agreement was ratified in July 2005 with a term of six years with an option of extending the collective bargaining agreement for an additional year at the end of the term, allowing the NHL to resume as of the 2005-06 season.

Post Lockout

On October 5, 2005, the first post-lockout NHL season got under way with 15 games. Of those 15 games, 11 were in front of sell out crowds. The NHL, despite negative press generated during the lockout, has success attracting fans to the initial games of the season and extends fan bases into non-traditional markets in the US such as Nashville, Atlanta, and the Carolinas.

Trophies and awards

2005]] The National Hockey League also presents numerous trophies, in addition to the Stanley Cup for the overall playoff champion, as well as the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl for the Western Conference playoff champions and the Prince of Wales Trophy for the Eastern Conference playoff champions. They include:
- Art Ross Memorial Trophy (1948 - present) -- regular season league scoring champion
- Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy (1968 - present) -- perseverance and sportsmanship
- Calder Memorial Trophy (1933 - present) -- rookie of the year
- Conn Smythe Trophy (1965 - present) -- most valuable player during the playoffs
- Frank J. Selke Trophy (1978 - present) -- top defensive forward
- Hart Memorial Trophy (1924 - present) -- most valuable player during the regular season
- Jack Adams Award (1974 - present) -- coach of the year
- James Norris Memorial Trophy (1954 - present)-- most outstanding defenceman
- King Clancy Memorial Trophy (1988 - present) -- leadership and humanitarian contribution
- Lady Byng Memorial Trophy (1925 - present) -- player combining ability and sportsmanship
- Lester B. Pearson Award (1971 - present) -- most outstanding player as selected by peers
- Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy (1999 - present) -- to the goal-scoring leader during the regular season
- NHL Plus/Minus Award (1968 - present) -- highest plus/minus statistic
- Presidents' Trophy (1986 - present) - best regular season by a team
- Roger Crozier Saving Grace Award (2000 - present) -- best save percentage by a goalkeeper
- Vezina Trophy (1927 - present) -- voted to be the most outstanding goaltender
- William M. Jennings Trophy (1982 - present) -- goalkeeper(s) for the team with the fewest goals against The O'Brien Trophy was awarded in the NHL before it was retired following the 1949-50 NHL season. The Lester Patrick Trophy has been presented by the National Hockey League since 1966 to honour a recipient's contribution to hockey in the United States. Three years after retirement, players are eligible to be voted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. In the past, if a player was deemed significant enough, the pending period would be waived. However, only 10 individual have been honoured in this manner. In 1999 Wayne Gretzky became the last player to have the three years waived. After Gretzky's induction, the NHL declared that he would be the last one to have the waiting period omitted. The Pearson Award is the only award named after a politician.

Current organization

Eastern Conference

Western Conference

Structure

Each team in the NHL plays 82 regular season games, 41 games at home and 41 on the road. Teams used to play all other teams in the league at least once, but this will no longer be the case following implementation of post-lockout changes. Teams will now play 10 interconference (that is, not in their own conference) games throughout the entire season, 1 game against each team in two of the three divisions in the opposite conference. On an observational basis, it seems as if these interconference games are being block-scheduled in two different blocks (much like baseball does with interleague play. Teams will also play 40 games against non-divisional, conference opponents (4 games against each), and 32 games within their division (8 games against each). Two points are awarded for wins, one point for losing in overtime or a shootout, and zero points for a loss in regulation time. At the end of the regular season, the team that finishes with the most points in each division is crowned the division champion. Each Conference consists of three divisions, so these three division champions and five more teams fill out each Conference's playoff field. In total, 16 teams (3 division champions and 5 additional teams, for a total of 8 from each Conference) qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Stanley Cup Playoffs is an elimination tournament, where two teams battle to win a best-of-seven series in order to advance to the next round. If the score is tied at the end of the third period an overtime period is played. If the score is tied at the end of an overtime period, additional overtime periods are played until a winner is determined. Overtimes are also full periods of twenty minutes (of five-on-five hockey), rather than the five minutes (of four-on-four hockey, followed by a shootout) in the regular season. The overtime is played with golden goal rule (sudden death) so the game ends as soon as either team scores a goal. The higher-ranked team is said to be the team with the home-ice advantage. Four of the seven games are played at this team's home venue - the first and second, and, where necessary, the fifth and seventh, with the other games played at the lower-ranked team's home venue. The most recent playoff that was contested in the NHL used the following format: the division winners were seeded one through three, and then the next five teams with the best records in the conference were seeded four through eight. However, the league has yet to announce the playoff format for the 2005-06 season, and with the new scheduling format that emphasises division play, the league is reportedly exploring placing greater emphasis on division standings by taking the top 2 teams in each division, along with the teams with the next two best records for each Conference's playoff field. In the event of a tie in points in the standings, ties are broken first by amount of wins, then by record against the team that is tied (disregarding the first game played at the arena of the team that hosted more games than the other during the season series, if applicable). Next, the tied team with the better positive differential between goals scored for and against is given preference, and in the rare circumstance these tiebreakers are insufficient, the Commissioner has the authority to devise some other means of breaking the tie. The first round of the playoffs, or Conference Quarterfinals, consists of the first seed playing the eighth seed, the second playing the seventh, third playing the sixth, and the fourth playing the fifth. In the second round, or Conference Semifinals, the NHL re-seeds (unlike the NBA), with the top remaining Conference seed playing against the lowest remaining seed, and the other two remaining conference teams pairing off. In the third round, the Conference Finals, the two remaining teams in each conference play each other, with the Conference champions proceeding to the Stanley Cup Finals.

Presidents/Commissioners of the NHL

- Frank Calder (1917-1943) President
- Red Dutton (1943-1946) President
- Clarence Campbell (1946-1977) President
- John Ziegler (1977-1992) President
- Gil Stein (1992-1993) President
- Gary Bettman (1993-present) Commissioner

External links

- [http://www.nhl.com NHL's homepage]
- [http://www.nhlfa.com National Hockey League Fan's Association homepage]
- [http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/leagues/nhl1927.html Standings and Statistics, 1917-now]
- [http://www.gridmarks.com/nhl.html NHL Rankings]
- [http://www.NHLReplay.com NHL Discussion Boards] ja:NHL simple:National Hockey League

Atlanta Flames

The Atlanta Flames were a National Hockey League (NHL) team based in Atlanta, Georgia from 1972 to 1980. The team moved to Calgary, Alberta for the start of the 1980-81 NHL season and became the Calgary Flames. The team still resides in Calgary. :Founded: 1972 :Now Known As: Calgary Flames (1980 to present) :Arena: The Omni :Uniform colors: Home: white with red and yellow trim; Road: red with white and yellow trim :Logo design: Home: a red "A" containing stylized flames; Road: a white "A" containing stylized flames; "The Flaming A" :Stanley Cups won: none

Franchise history

The Flames history begins in 1968, businessman Tom Cousins and former Georgia governor Carl Sanders brought the third major professional sports franchise to the city, buying the NBA's St. Louis Hawks in 1968 and relocating it in Atlanta. The Hawks were in need of a venue suitable for professional sports. As a result one was built for them: the Omni Coliseum. This new world-class facility, owned by Cousins and the rest of the Omni Sports Group consortium, was the crux of the expansion bid made to the National Hockey League for a new hockey franchise. It was announced in November 1971, nine months to the day after the Omni's construction was complete, that hockey was headed to Dixie: the National Hockey League granted the city of Atlanta a franchise for the 1972-73 NHL season. When it was first announced that Atlanta would have an NHL franchise, many hockey observers thought that a team based in the southern United States was a ludicrous and foolish move, especially since the talent pool was ravaged by repeated expansion, and was soon to be raided by the upstart World Hockey Association. Nevertheless, the team quickly began front office operations, naming young Blues assistant general manager Cliff Fletcher as general manager. Soon after, Fletcher had found the team its first coach, former Canadiens star defenseman Bernie "Boom-Boom" Geoffrion. The team met with respectable success in their first season on the ice, behind new star goaltenders Dan Bouchard and Phil Myre, solid defensemen such as Randy Manery and Pat Quinn, and forwards Rey Comeau, (captain) Keith McCreary, Larry Romanchych and Bob Leiter. Despite their inexperience as a team, the Flames were quite successful in the beginning of their rookie season, posting a 20-19-8 record by January 19, 1973 off of the personal success of their young goaltending tandem. Unfortunately they lost 19 of their last 31 games, finishing out of the playoffs. However their 65 points were 35 better than their expansion cousin New York Islanders, who toiled at the bottom of the East Division, and a point better than the well-established Maple Leafs. On- and off-ice success continued into the Flames second season, drafting forwards Tom Lysiak and Eric Vail, who quickly became the team's top forwards. Lysiak led the Flames in scoring in his rookie season, upon which the team improved to fourth in the West Division and their first playoff berth. They were quickly dispatched in the first round, being swept in the best-of-seven series against the powerful Philadelphia Flyers. The Flames third season, 1974-75, was marked by disappointment as the team failed to qualify for the post-season. Unlike the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft in which Fletcher had picked immediate success from Lysiak, 1974's was notably unsuccessful (the only notable players being Guy Chouinard, the youngest draft pick ever taken, and prospect defenseman Pat Ribble). Injuries plagued the team's top veteran forwards, Leiter and Romanchych, and former first round pick Jacques Richard. Late in the season popular coach Geoffrion, runner-up in the previous year's coach-of-the-year voting, resigned, forcing Fletcher to replace him with the Flames Central Hockey League affiliate's head coach, Fred Creighton. The season was not without bright spots, as Lysiak continued to lead the team in scoring, and Eric Vail scoring a franchise record 39 goals in his rookie season. Vail won the Calder Trophy as top rookie. The on-ice play improved the follwing season under the demanding Creighton, as the Flames recorded their first winning season, and qualified for the playoffs once again. Lysiak continued to lead the team in scoring, while Cliff Fletcher added depth at all positions, acquiring tough veteran forward Bill Clement, WHA product Claude St. Sauveur, scoring forward Bill Flett and stalwart defenseman Larry Carriere. Eric Vail's sophomore season was unfortunately cut short by injury. Again, the team bowed out of the post-season quickly, losing to Los Angeles in their opening round best-of-three. However, the off-ice situation, while still relatively successful, began to waiver. Average attendance at The Omni had dropped by 1,000. 1976-77 was marked by the addition noteworthy prospects from the minor league affiliate in Tulsa. Talented forward Guy Chouinard had finally matured into an NHL-caliber player, and tough defenseman Ken Houston and forward Willi Plett began terrorizing opponents with their physical play. The team's older faces (Pat Quinn, Kerry Ketter, Randy Manery, Larry Romanchych, and Bob Leiter among others) had been moved, making way for the young core of Lysiak, Vail, Plett, and Chouinard. By 1977 outstanding young goaltender Dan Bouchard had publicly stated his desire to be the clear starting goaltender for the club, refusing to share duties with Myre. In 1978 Myre was traded to the Blues, Cliff Fletcher's former employer, along with high-scoring forward Curt Bennett and tough blueliner Barry Gibbs for scoring forward Bob MacMillan and defenseman Dick Redmond. They continued to play well, however attendance continued to fall, another 1,500 a night. Post-season success continued to elude the young Flames, as they were easily dispacthed once again in the preliminary round. 1978-79 began with an impressive 12-1-2 record, the product of a 10-game winning streak. While this pace did not continue throughout the rest of the season, the Flames finished 41-31-8, good for 90 points -- a new team record. While Tom Lysiak contributed greatly to the early streak he became injured for the first time in his career, slowing his point production. He was dealt to the Chicago Blackhawks as part of a seven-man trade which saw the Flames acquire talented Yugoslavian center Ivan Boldirev, quick forward Darcy Rota, and staunch defenseman Phil Russell. Chouinard finished the season with 50 goals, the first and only Atlanta Flame to reach the plateau, while MacMillan won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy. 1979-80 would prove to be the last season in Atlanta. The Flames lack of success in the playoffs led to the end of Fred Creighton's reign as head coach, replaced by Al MacNeil. Fletcher added more talent, including outstanding Swede Kent Nilsson from the WHA, rookie defenseman Paul Reinhart, Finnish defenseman Pekka Rautakallio, and veteran forward Don Lever. The team made the playoffs once again, and once again were dispatched quickly. Off-ice the Omni Sports Group felt they could not financially maintain the team, as ticket sales fell and operating costs rose. Cousins and the rest of his consortium quickly sold off the Flames to a group of Canadian businessmen, led by the eccentric Nelson Skalbania (who offered an NHL record $16 million for the team), who promptly moved the team to Calgary. The Flames would make the playoffs six of their first eight seasons, a mark bettered only by the Quebec Nordiques, Edmonton Oilers, and New York Rangers in the entire history of the NHL, and the team would not post a losing record after the 1974 season. Unfortunately they never won a playoff series. The Atlanta Flames' success carried over to the Calgary Flames, where the team continued to compete well, reaching the Stanley Cup finals in 1986 and 2004 and winning the Cup in 1989.

Season-by-season record

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes

Career leaders

- Games: Rey Comeau, Eric Vail, 469
- Goals: Vail, 174
- Assists: Tom Lysiak, 276
- Points: Lysiak, 431
- Penalty Minutes: Pat Quinn, 555
- Goaltender Games: Dan Bouchard, 384
- Goaltender Wins: Bouchard, 164
- Shutouts: Bouchard, 20

Notable players

Hall of Famers

none

Team captains

- Jean Pronovost 1979-80
- Tom Lysiak 1977-79
- Pat Quinn 1975-77
- Keith McCreary 1972-75

Not to be forgotten

- Willi Plett
- Curt Bennett

Retired numbers

none

References

- [http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nhl/atlflames/aflames.html] Category:Atlanta sports Category:defunct National Hockey League teams

Oakland Seals

The Oakland Seals were a team in the National Hockey League (NHL). They were also known as the California Seals, California Golden Seals and Cleveland Barons. :Founded: 1967 :Arenas: As the Seals Oakland Arena, As the Barons Richfield Coliseum :Uniform colors: :Logo design: :Stanley Cup Finals appearances: none :Stanley Cups won: none :Added in the NHL's 1967 expansion, along with the Minnesota North Stars, Los Angeles Kings, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and St. Louis Blues.

History

St. Louis Blues Six expansion teams were added to the NHL for the 1967, partly because of the need to expand the league, and partly to squelch the Western Hockey League's attempt to turn itself into a major league. The San Francisco Seals were one such team from the WHL, and after it was purchased by Barry van Gerbig and moved across the bay to Oakland, the Seals joined the NHL. Van Gerbig had planned to have the team play out of a new arena in San Francisco, but the arena never came into fruition, and the Seals played out of the Oakland Arena in Oakland instead. The franchise was named California Seals in order to draw in fans from San Francisco. The plan failed, and on November 8, 1967, only one month into the season, Van Gerbig changed the team's name to Oakland Seals. 1967 The Seals were never successful because of poor attendance (Van Gerbig had reportedly threated to move the team elsewhere on numerous occasions if fans did not show up; first-year coach and general manager Bert Olmstead had publicly advocated the franchise move to Vancouver) as well as their dismal on-ice performance. This led to a major reshuffling of both the Seals' front office as well as the on-ice product (only seven out of the 20 Seals players remained) after only one season. The new-look Seals were somewhat successful, making the playoffs for two years. Unfortunately, those were the only two years that the Seals franchise made the playoffs. Vancouver Before the 1970-71 NHL season, the Seals were bought by flamboyant Oakland Athletics owner Charlie O. Finley, who changed the team's name to the California Golden Seals, among other gimmicks intended to sell the team to the fans (among them the changing of the Seals' team colors to match that of the Athletics). However, this was all for naught, as the Seals finished with the worst record in the NHL that year, and a series of promotional disasters would lead to the NHL assuming control of the franchise in February of 1974. 1974 The attempt to resurrect the Seals and move the team back to San Francisco in a new arena largely failed, and the team moved to Cleveland in 1976, rechristened as the Cleveland Barons, and under the ownership of the Gund family. The Barons played in the suburban Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio, the arena with the largest seating capacity in the NHL at the time. The Barons would not benefit from playing there, as a combination of factors would eventually lead the Gund family to merge the team with the Minnesota North Stars. As part of the deal, the Gunds became owners of the North Stars. The Barons/Seals thus remain the last franchise in the four major American sports to fold, disband or otherwise completely cease to exist. In 1991, the Gunds wanted to move the North Stars to the Bay Area. The NHL vetoed the move, but agreed to allow the dissolution of the North Stars-Barons merger and take some of the North Stars roster to San Jose as the San Jose Sharks. Some have suggested that the Sharks are a revival of the old Seals franchise.

Season-by-season record

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes ¹ named California Seals from October 11 to November 8, 1967

Notable players

Hall of Famers

- Harry Howell

Team captains

- Bob Stewart (1975-76)
- Jim Neilson (1975-76)
- Joey Johnston (1972-1975)
- Bert Marshall (1971-1973)
- Carol Vadnais (1970-1972)
- Ted Hampson (1968-71)
- Bobby Baun (1967-68)

Not to be forgotten

Retired numbers

External links

- [http://www.sealshockey.com/ Welcome to the Seals Homepage]
- [http://www.eskimo.com/~pem/oakseal.htm LET'S RETURN NOW TO HOCKEY'S GOLDEN ERA -- WHEN SEALS PERFORMED IN THE N.H.L.]
- [http://www.directoryofsport.com/hock_ice/oakland.htm Oakland Seals Directory of Sport Ice NHL]
- [http://hockey.ballparks.com/NHL/CaliforniaSeals/index.htm Arenas BY MUNSEY & SUPPES] Category:Defunct National Hockey League teams Category:Oakland sports Category:Cleveland sports

Minnesota North Stars

The Minnesota North Stars were a team in the National Hockey League between 1967 and 1993. In the fall of 1993, the franchise was moved to Dallas, Texas, where it is now known as the Dallas Stars. The team's colors (for most of their history) were green, gold and white. :Founded: 1967 :Arena: Metropolitan Sports Center :Uniform colors: Green, gold, white :Logo design: :Stanley Cup Finals Appearances: 2 (1981 and 1991) :Stanley Cups won: none :Added in the NHL's 1967 expansion, along with the St. Louis Blues, Los Angeles Kings, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Oakland Seals. :Main Rivalry: Chicago Blackhawks

History

Chicago BlackhawksStarting with the 1967-1968 season, the NHL expanded from its long-time base of six teams (the so-called Original Six) to twelve teams. As a well-known hockey hotbed, Minnesota was the natural site for a franchise. With the new Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington for a home arena and behind a skilled management team, the North Stars had respectable success in the early years, prospering behind goaltending duo Lorne "Gump" Worsley and Cesare Maniago, defenseman and captain Ted Harris, high-scoring winger Bill Goldsworthy and other quality players such as Barry Gibbs, Jude Drouin, J.P. Parise, Danny Grant, and Dennis Hextall Early in its first season, the North Stars suffered an team tragedy when, on January 13, 1968, forward Bill Masterton suffered a catastrophic injury during a game against the Oakland Seals. After contact with a defending player, Masterton (who was not wearing a helmet) slipped backwards on the ice, falling hard on the back of his head. Masterton never regained consciousness and died two days later, on January 15, 1968 at the age of 30. To date, this remains the first and only death in NHL history resulting from an on-ice injury. The North Stars retired his jersey, and hockey writers later that year established the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, given annually to a player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverence, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey. By the mid-Seventies, however, with Worsley and Harris retired, the North Stars had fallen on hard times, finishing with perennially poor records and usually out of the playoffs. However, in 1978, the struggling team was bought by the owners of the NHL Cleveland Barons, who merged the two teams in an unprecedented move. A few skilled players -- notably goaltender Gilles Meloche and forwards Al MacAdam and Mike Fidler -- bolstered the lineup; furthermore, Minnesota had drafted the eventual Calder Trophy winner as rookie of the year, Bobby Smith. With the subsequent additions of fine new players such as Minnesota native and ex-1980 Olympian Neal Broten and sniper Dino Ciccarelli, the North Stars had five straight winning seasons starting in 1979-1980, even reaching the Stanley Cup finals in 1981. 1981Thereafter, though, success would elude the North Stars. After 1984, the franchise would only have one more winning season in Minnesota, although playing in the weak Norris Division meant that they made the playoffs more often than not. While the Nineties saw the franchise draft what would turn out to be their greatest player -- forward Mike Modano -- chronic attendance problems spurred the owners to threaten to move the club to San Jose, much against the league's wishes. A compromise was implemented for the 1990-1991 season where the North Stars would be split into two squads, the then-current owners receiving some players and an expansion franchise for the Bay Area (the San Jose Sharks) -- an irony considering the merger over a decade before with the NHL's previous Bay Area franchise. A new ownership team took over Minnesota, led by a man who would become notorious in the annals of Minnesota hockey, Norman Green. In that 1991 season, despite a losing record in the regular season, the Cinderella North Stars made it all the way to the Stanley Cup finals. The team fought hard against the eventual champion Pittsburgh Penguins before being obliterated 8-0 in the final game of the series; the most one-sided deciding game defeat in a Stanley Cup final since the Ottawa Silver Seven defeated the Dawson City Nuggets 23-2 in 1905. The shocking loss seemed to let the air out of the franchise for good. With mounting financial and legal problems, Green demanded concessions that the area and state were unwilling to give, and moved the team to Dallas in the fall of 1993. Subsequently, in the next wave of league expansion, the Twin Cities were granted a new franchise, the Minnesota Wild, which took the ice starting in 2000.

Notable players

Hall of Famers

- Leo Boivin
- Harry Howell
- John Mariucci
- Gump Worsley

Not to be forgotten

- Brian Bellows
- Dino Ciccarelli
- Gary Edwards
- Dave Gagner
- Danny Grant
- Brian Lawton
- Paul Shmyr
- Bobby Smith
- Mike Modano
- Neal Broten
- Cesare Maniago

Team captains

Note: This list does not include Dallas Stars and Oakland Seals captains
- Bob Woytowich 1967-68
- Elmer Vasko 1968-69
- Claude Larose 1969-70
- Ted Harris 1970-74
- Bill Goldsworthy 1974-76
- Bill Hogaboam 1976-77
- Nick Beverly 1977-78
- J.P. Parise 1978-79
- Paul Shmyr 1979-81
- Tim Young 1981-82
- Craig Hartsburg 1982-89
- Curt Giles 1989-91
- Mark Tinordi 1991-93

Retired Numbers (in Minnesota)

- 8 Bill Goldsworthy, RW, 1967-77
- 19 Bill Masterton, C, 1967-68 After the move, the Dallas Stars retired the number 7 of Minnesota native, University of Minnesota graduate and 1980 Olympic hero Neal Broten, C, 1981-93.

Colorado Rockies (NHL)

The Colorado Rockies were an NHL team that existed from 1976-1982. 1982 Arena: McNichols Arena Uniform colours: red, white, blue and gold Logo design: Colorado state logo inside a mountain range

Franchise history

The Kansas City Scouts moved to Colorado before the 1976-77 NHL season and played there for six years. They made the playoffs only once, in the 1977-78 NHL season, losing 0-2 to the Philadelphia Flyers in the first round. Equally bad was attendance. The only bright spot in the franchise's history was during the 1979-80 NHL season when they had Don Cherry as head coach. This didn't bring any more attention to the team which moved to New Jersey after the 1981-82 NHL season, whereupon the team name was changed to New Jersey Devils.

Team captains

- Simon Nolet 1976-77
- Wilf Paiement 1977-78
- Gary Croteau 1978-79
- Mike Christie & Rene Robert & Lanny McDonald 1979-80
- Lanny McDonald 1980-81
- Lanny McDonald & Rob Ramage 1981-82

Hamilton Tigers

:This article is on the ice hockey team. For the Canadian football team, see Hamilton Tiger-Cats. ---- The Hamilton Tigers were a National Hockey League (NHL) team that was originally based in Quebec City, Quebec and called the Quebec Bulldogs (1888-1920). :Founded: 1888 (as the Quebec Bulldogs) :Arena: Barton Street Arena :Uniform colours: Black, orange, and white :Logo design: An orange tiger head with black stipes (alternate logo design: A capital H with the word TIGERS across the middle of the H) :Stanley Cup wins: none :Stanley Cup finals appearances: none

Franchise history

The owners of the Quebec Bulldogs, unable to attract enough fans in Quebec City, moved the franchise to Hamilton, Ontario for the 1920-21 season and renamed the team the Hamilton Tigers. Their last season in Quebec (1919-20) was a dismal one as they finished last in the NHL with a horrible four wins and twenty losses in 24 games. The move to Hamilton did not rejuvenate the team. From the start, it was plain that the Tigers didn't have a team that could compete, so the NHL ordered the other three teams to supply players to the Tigers. Despite receiving quality players from the other teams and the signing of Joe Malone four games into the season, Hamilton still finished with the worst record at 6 wins, 18 losses, and 0 ties in 24 games. Even with Malone managing to score 30 goals in only 20 games, they couldn't climb out of the cellar. The next three seasons were just as dreadful as the first one as the Tigers finished last in each of those three seasons making a total of 5 straight (counting the one season as the Bulldogs) with last place finishes. During these dreadful years, the Tigers attempted a rebuilding phase to bring the team up to par. After the 1921-22 NHL season, they had hired Art Ross as their new coach and made many player changes, including trading superstar Malone to the Montreal Canadiens for Bert Corbeau and Edmond Bouchard. The fans were outraged at seeing Malone leave, but felt vindicated when Malone -- at the end of the line -- only scored one goal in twenty games in one season for Montreal. After four years of futility, things started to come together in the 1923-24 NHL season with another new coach (Percy LeSueur) and the signing of four players from the Sudbury Wolves of the NOHA: Brothers Red and Shorty Green, Alex McKinnon, and Charlie Langlois. This year saw the Tigers achieve a team high of nine wins in 24 games. It was the next season, though, that saw the results of the previous years' wheelings and dealings. With yet another new head coach (Jimmy Gardiner) the Hamilton Tigers roared off to an impressive 10-4-1 start in the 1924-25 NHL season. Only half way through the season, they had more wins than any other season in their NHL history. The team slumped somewhat in the second half of the season but still managed to finish first overall with a record of 19 wins, 10 losses, and 1 tie, just ahead of the Toronto St. Patricks. It looked like the Hamilton Tigers were going to have a chance at winning the Stanley Cup for the first time since they won it as the Quebec Bulldogs over a decade prior in 1913. But it was not to be. While the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto St. Patricks were playing their semi-finals series to see who had the right to play the Tigers for NHL Finals, the Tigers' players went to their general manager, Percy Thompson, and demanded $200 extra pay for the six extra games they played that season. The NHL had increased the number of games played that year from 24 to 30, but the players didn't get more money for more games. The players' contracts stated that they were to receive the same amount of money no matter how many games were played. Despite what their contracts said, the players demanded the $200 anyway and they said that if they didn't get more money, they wouldn't play in the NHL Finals. NHL President Frank Calder was not amused. He stated that if they refused to play, he would suspend them all. The players refused to play and true to his word, the finals were cancelled, the players were all fined $200, and the league title was awarded to the Montreal Canadiens (who had beat the Toronto St. Patricks in the semi-finals). The Montreal Canadiens went on to play the Victoria Cougars for the Stanley Cup but lost. That marked the only time that an NHL team had lost the Stanley Cup to a rival league. Meanwhile, in the league meeting of April 17, 1925, a New York bootlegger named "Big Bill" Dwyer was granted an expansion franchise for New York and named it the New York Americans. Dwyer bought the rights to the Tigers' players from Thompson for $75,000, all receiving raises in some cases as much as 200%. The Hamilton franchise was officially revoked at the September 22 league meeting in the same year, and the matter of the players' suspensions and fines dropped with little additional comment.

Season-by-season record

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes

Notable players

Hall of Famers

- Billy Burch
- Babe Dye
- Shorty Green
- Joe Malone

Team captains

References

- http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nhl/hamilton/hamtigers.html
- Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol I., Charles Coleman (Kendall/Hunt, 1966) Category:Defunct National Hockey League teams Category:Ontario sports

Carolina Hurricanes

The Carolina Hurricanes Hockey Club is a National Hockey League (NHL) team based in Raleigh, North Carolina. :Founded: 1972-1973 as a World Hockey Association (WHA) franchise (awarded November 1971) :Former League(s): WHA (1972-1979) :Formerly Known As: New England Whalers (1972-1973), Hartford Whalers (1979-1997) :Arena: RBC Center (capacity 18,731) ::Former Home Arena: Greensboro Coliseum (1997-1999) :Uniform colors: red, black, white, grey :Logo design: a hurricane symbol (Alternate logo is a red hurricane flag on a hockey stick as an impromptu flagpost) :Stanley Cup final appearances: 1 (2001-02 NHL season (lost to Detroit Red Wings, 4-1) :Affiliations: The Hurricanes are affiliated with the Lowell Lock Monsters of the American Hockey League and the Florida Everblades of the ECHL.

Franchise history

With fan support dwindling and revenue opportunities in the Hartford Civic Center limited, Hartford Whalers owner Peter Karmanos quickly focused on addressing both issues. In 1996 Karmanos stated that if the Whalers could not sell 11,000 season tickets, he would likely move the team. Thanks to aggressive marketing efforts and an effort to reach out to the entire state of Connecticut (and specifically Fairfield County) this goal was met for the 1996-97 season. With this goal met, Karmanos then focused his efforts on securing a new arena to be built by the state of Connecticut, which he saw as necessary in order for the Whalers to be viable in Hartford. Karmanos worked with Connecticut governor John Rowland and an agreement was reached in principle for the state to subsidize construction of a new Hartford arena, to be completed around 2000. However, Karmanos then demanded that the state also cover up to $45 million in potential losses during the three years that the arena was being built. Rowland refused, and Karmanos ended negotiations, announcing on March 26, 1997 that he would be moving the team out of Hartford, to a site to be determined. After reviewing a proposal from Columbus, Karmanos accepted an offer to move the team to Raleigh, North Carolina for the 1997-98 season. The team was renamed the Carolina Hurricanes and their team colors changed to red and black. As their new Raleigh arena was being built, the Hurricanes played in the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina their first two seasons in North Carolina. Due largely to the distance from the home city of Raleigh and the initially lackluster level of play, the Hurricanes pulled in fewer fans than they did in Hartford. Attendance numbers were inflated due to "2 for 1" deals where seats sold were counted, despite no fans in them. Sports Illustrated even ran a story named "Natural Disaster". Doubts were raised over whether North Carolina could support NHL hockey. On the ice, however, the 'Canes were out of the doldrums by 1999. Led by Keith Primeau's 30 goals and Gary Roberts's 178 penalty minutes, they won the new Southeast Division by eight points and made the playoffs for the first time since 1992. Tragedy struck when, at the end of their playoff series with the Boston Bruins, defenseman Steve Chiasson was killed in an auto accident driving home from a players' end-of-season party. The 'Canes played lackluster hockey in 1999-00 and 2000-01, but broke out in the 2002 playoffs. They survived a late charge from the Washington Capitals to win the division, but expectations were low entering the first round against the defending Eastern Conference Champion New Jersey Devils. Arturs Irbe and Kevin Weekes were solid in goal, and two games were won by the 'Canes in overtime as they put away the Devils in six games. The second round matchup was against the Canadiens, who were riding a wave of emotion after Saku Koivu's return from cancer treatment. In the third period of game 4 in Montreal, the Hurricanes were down 2-1 in games and 3-0 in score, before the Hurricanes rebounded to win 4-3 on Niklas Wallin's overtime winner. The Habs were dejected and Carolina easily won the next two games to win the series. The conference final was against the heavily-favored Toronto Maple Leafs. In game 6 in Toronto, the Leafs' Mats Sundin tied the game with 22 seconds remaining to send it to overtime. The 'Canes took over from there. Martin Gelinas scored in overtime to send them to their first Stanley Cup final, against the Detroit Red Wings, thought to be the prohibitive favorite all year. After the first game of the final, where Ron Francis scored in the first minute of overtime, Detroit stormed back to win the next four games in a row to win the Stanley Cup. Game 3 in Raleigh featured a triple-overtime thriller (won by the Red Wings 3-2 on a goal by Igor Larionov), which sportscasters called one of the best Stanley Cup Finals games in history. Despite the 4-1 finals loss, it was by far the most successful season in franchise history.

Season-by-season record

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes :¹ Season was cancelled due to the 2004-05 NHL lockout. :² As of 08:01, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Notable players

Current Squad

As of December 11, 2005 [http://tsn.ca/nhl/feature/?fid=8950&hubname=]

Hall of Famers

none

Team captains

Note: This list of team captains does not include captains from the Hartford Whalers (NHL) and New England Whalers (WHA).
- Kevin Dineen 1997-98
- Keith Primeau 1998-99
- Keith Primeau & Ron Francis 1999-00
- Ron Francis 2000-04
- no captain 2004-05
- Rod Brind'Amour 2005- present

Not to be forgotten

Note: includes Hartford Whalers players
- Dave Babych
- Sean Burke
- Adam Burt
- Andrew Cassels
- Ray Ferraro
- Sean Hill
- Arturs Irbe
- Sami Kapanen
- Mike Liut
- Jeff O'Neill
- Geoff Sanderson
- Ulf Samuelsson
- Blaine Stoughton
- Sylvain Turgeon

Retired Numbers

- 3 Steve Chiasson, D, 1996-99, including 1996-97 in Hartford (Not officially retired, but not issued anymore by the team. Chiasson was killed in an automobile accident the night the Hurricanes were eliminated from the 1999 playoffs)
- 9 Gordie Howe, RW, 1977-80 (retired by Whalers, which continues to be honored by the Hurricanes, but no banner hangs in the RBC Center)
- 10 Ron Francis, C, 1982-91 (Hartford) & 1998-2004 (Carolina; to be retired on January 28, 2006)
- 99 Wayne Gretzky (retired league-wide by the NHL) The Whalers also retired the number 2 of Rick Ley (D, 1972-81) and the number 19 of John McKenzie (RW, 1977-79), but these numbers have been restored to circulation by the Hurricanes.

External link

[http://carolinahurricanes.com/ Carolina Hurricanes official web site] Category:Carolina Hurricanes Category:Raleigh, North Carolina ja:カロライナ・ハリケーンズ

Colorado Rockies (NHL)

The Colorado Rockies were an NHL team that existed from 1976-1982. 1982 Arena: McNichols Arena Uniform colours: red, white, blue and gold Logo design: Colorado state logo inside a mountain range

Franchise history

Team captains

- Simon Nolet 1976-77
- Wilf Paiement 1977-78
- Gary Croteau 1978-79
- Mike Christie & Rene Robert & Lanny McDonald 1979-80
- Lanny McDonald 1980-81
- Lanny McDonald & Rob Ramage 1981-82

Dallas Stars

The Dallas Stars are a National Hockey League (NHL) team based in Dallas, Texas. :Founded: 1967 :Formerly Known As: Minnesota North Stars (1967-1993). In 1978 the Cleveland Barons merged with the North Stars. That team's history is: Oakland Seals (1967-1970), California Golden Seals (1970-1974), California Seals (1974-1976), Cleveland Barons (1976-1978). :Arena: American Airlines Center :Uniform colors: Green and gold :Logo design: A green star outlined in gold :Stanley Cup Appearances: 4 - 1981, 1991, 1999, 2000 :Stanley Cup Championships: 1 - 1999 :Presidents' Trophy: 2 - 1998, 1999 :Main Rivalry: Edmonton Oilers

Franchise history

The Minnesota North Stars were founded as an expansion team in 1967, playing their games at the newly-constructed Metropolitan Sports Center (the "Met Center") in Bloomington, adjacent to Metropolitan Stadium. By the early nineties, declining attendance and the inability to secure a new downtown, revenue-generating stadium led team owner Norm Green to move the team to Dallas's Reunion Arena. After moving to Dallas, the team was sold to Tom Hicks and a new arena, America Airlines Center, was finished. The Oakland Seals were also a 1967 expansion team. They had many attendance and financial difficulties throughout their history. They went through various name and ownership changes to try to stay afloat. The owner of the Oakland Athletics (of baseball) had at one point bought the team and tried to rejuvenate it with mass advertising campaigns and by changing the team uniform colors to match that of the baseball team. All of these efforts failed in the Bay area and the team was moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and renamed the Cleveland Barons. After two unsuccessful seasons in Cleveland, the Barons merged with the Minnesota North Stars for the 1978-79 NHL season. The Dallas Stars have had much greater success at the box office and on the ice than any of their predecessors. They have won two Presidents' Trophies as the team with the best overall NHL record and have won the Stanley Cup once.

Season-by-season record

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes :¹ Season was shortened due to the 1994-95 NHL lockout. :² Season was cancelled due to the 2004-05 NHL lockout.

Notable players

Current Squad

As of November 15, 2005 [http://tsn.ca/nhl/feature/?fid=8955&hubname=]

Hall of Famers

none

Team captains

Note: This list does not include former captains of the Minnesota North Stars and Oakland Seals
- Mark Tinordi 1993-94
- Mark Tinordi ,Neal Broten & Derian Hatcher 1994-95
- Derian Hatcher 1995-03
- Mike Modano 2003-present

Not to be forgotten

- Ed Belfour
- Guy Carbonneau
- Shane Churla
- Dave Gagner
- Derian Hatcher
- Kevin Hatcher
- Ken Hitchcock (former coach)
- Brett Hull
- Mike Keane
- Richard Matvichuk
- Joe Nieuwendyk

Retired Numbers

- 7 Neal Broten, C, 1981-95 & 1997 (Minnesota 1981-93, Dallas 1993-95 & 1997; Minnesota native)
- 8 Bill Goldsworthy, RW, 1967-77 (Minnesota)
- 19 Bill Masterton, C, 1967-68 (Minnesota)
- 99 Wayne Gretzky (retired league-wide by the NHL)

References

- [http://www.dallasstars.com/ Dallas Stars official web site] Category:Dallas Stars ja:ダラス・スターズ

Montreal Maroons

The Montreal Maroons were a professional ice hockey team from Montreal, Quebec. They played in the National Hockey League from 1924 to 1938, winning the Stanley Cup in 1926 and 1935. The Maroons joined the league in 1924 along with the Boston Bruins, the first American team. At that time, the Maroons were one of two Montreal teams in the league. While the Montreal Canadiens drew primarily francophone fans, the Maroons largely drew fans from the anglophone neighbourhoods of Montreal. The defunct Montreal Wanderers had been targeted as a team for anglophone fans before they folded just six games into their inaugural season. The Maroons participated in the longest NHL playoff game of all time, losing 1-0 to the Detroit Red Wings in 176:30 of play (16:30 of the sixth overtime period) on March 24-25, 1936. Well-known players included Nels Stewart, Hooley Smith, Babe Siebert, and Clint Benedict.

New York Americans

The New York Americans was a NHL hockey team, the third expansion team in league history and the second to play in the United States. :Founded: 1925 :Arena: Madison Square Garden :Uniform colors: Red, white, and blue :Logo design: A red interlocking NY on a blue background in back of Americans written in white, with 6 alternating red and blue stars arched above :Stanley Cup wins: none :Stanley Cup finals appearances: none

Franchise history

At the league meetings in April of 1925, Bill Dwyer, New York's most-celebrated prohibition bootlegger, was awarded an expansion franchise for New York City. Somewhat fortuitously, following the league's first ever labor action in March, the players of the league-leading Hamilton Tigers team were suspended. Dwyer duly bought the collective rights to the Tiger players for $75,000 and moved them to the newly built Madison Square Garden in New York City. New York City The New York Americans would become the second United States based NHL team along with the Pittsburgh Pirates after the Boston Bruins two years earlier. But success didn't come easily for the Americans. Even though their roster was substantively the same of that that led the NHL in Hamilton the previous year, in the Americans' first season, 1925-26, they finished 5th overall with a record of 12-22-4. However, they did prove a success at the box office; so much so that the following season Garden management, despite promising not to do so, went out and landed another expansion team to share the arena, the New York Rangers. The Rangers' first season, 1926-27, saw them capture the American division title while the New York Americans would continue to struggle finishing 4th in the Canadian division with a record of 17-25-2. The next season would see the Americans fall even further from grace by finishing last overall with a record of 11-27-6 and would see the Rangers capture their first Stanley Cup in only their second season. Stanley Cup The 1927-28 NHL season saw the New York Americans sign star goaltender Roy Worters from the Pittsburgh Pirates. He would lead the team to a 19-13-2 record, good enough for second overall. Worters had an incredible 1.21 goals against average, becoming the first goaltender to win the Hart Trophy as the most valuable player in the league. Standing on Worters' shoulders, the Americans would make the playoffs for the first time, but would be unable to beat the New York Rangers in a "total goals" series. The Rangers had extreme difficulty scoring against Worters, but the futile Americans were unable to score against the Rangers, too. The Rangers ended up winning the series in the second game one to nothing in overtime. The next season saw the Americans go from second best to worst overall. Worters had an atrocious 3.75 goals against and the team ended up with a 14-25-5 record. Worters would rebound for the next season, with a 1.68 goals against average. That was good enough to give the Americans a winning record, but they lost a tie breaker and didn't qualify for the playoffs. The following season (1931-32) saw some developments that would change the way the NHL played the game. In a game against the Boston Bruins, the Americans iced the puck 61 times. At that time, there was no rule against icing. The Bruins governor Charles Adams was so angry that he pressured, to no avail, for the NHL to make a rule against icing. So, next time the two teams met, the Bruins iced the puck 87 times in a scoreless game. It wasn't until a few years later that the NHL made a rule prohibiting icing, but those two games were the catalyst for change. Overall, the Americans were stuggling on the ice and off the ice. With the end of Prohibition, their owner was finding it difficult to make ends meet. After the 1933-34 NHL season, having missed the playoffs for the fifth straight year, the Americans attempted a merger with the also struggling Ottawa Senators. But the NHL Board of Governors turned down the idea. During the 1935-36 NHL season, Dwyer finally decided to sell the team. As fortunes would have it, the Americans made the playoffs for the first time in six years that season, but would bow out in the second round against the Toronto Maple Leafs. No buyers were found for the team and Dwyer abandoned it outright, causing the NHL to assume control for the 1936-37 NHL season. The league-controlled team would fair no better than before, finishing last with a record of 15-29-4. The only bright spot was Sweeny Schriner, who led the league in scoring that year. With Red Dutton now running the team for the 1937-38 season, the Americans signed veterans Ching Johnson and Hap Day and acquired goalie Earl Robertson. These new acquisitions greatly helped the team as they finished the season with a 19-18-11 record and would make the playoffs. In the playoffs, they would beat the Rangers in three games, but go onto lose against the Chicago Black Hawks in three. The next two seasons (1938-39 and 1939-40) saw the Americans make the playoffs for the second and third straight times. These times, though, they would not make it past the first round. The following season, 1940-41, they missed the playoffs with a horrible record of 8-29-11. Many of their Canadian players had to leave the team because of the Canadian involvement in World War II and concurrent wartime travel restrictions. To make ends meet, Red Dutton had to sell off his best players for cash. The end result was a horrible performance on the ice. World War II At wit's end, Dutton changed the team's name for the 1941-42 NHL season to the Brooklyn Americans. He had every intent on moving the team to Brooklyn, but due to a lack of a decent arena, the Brooklyn Americans continued to play their home games in Manhattan at Madison Square Garden while practising in Brooklyn. By the end of the season, with a record of 16-29-3, the Americans no longer had the funding nor the players to continue operations, so the team was disbanded. Red Dutton had every intent of reassembling the team after World War II, but when the war was over the NHL reneged on promises to reinstate both the Amerks and the long-dormant Montreal Maroons and revoked the franchises. The NHL would not expand beyond its remaining six teams until the 1967-68 season. Dutton, however, blamed the owners of Madison Square Garden (who also owned the Rangers) for not being allowed to reinstate the Americans. Dutton was so bitter that he purportedly swore the Rangers would never win a Stanley Cup again in his lifetime. This "curse" became reality as for more than fifty years, the Rangers went without a Cup. The Rangers wouldn't win another Cup until 1994, seven years after Dutton's death.

Season-by-season record

Notable players

Hall of Famers

- Billy Burch
- Charlie Conacher
- Lionel Conacher
- Red Dutton
- Chuck Rayner
- Sweeney Schriner
- Joe Simpson
- Hooley Smith
- Nels Stewart
- Roy Worters

Team captains

- Billy Burch (1925-26 to 1931-32)
- Red Dutton (1932-33 to 1935-36)
- Sweeny Schriner (1936-37 to 1938-39)
- Charlie Conacher (1939-40 to 1940-41)
- Tommy Anderson (1941-42)

Not to be forgotten

- Bill Brydge
- Lorne Carr
- Art Chapman
- Norman Himes
- Rabbit McVeigh
- Earl Robertson
- Eddie Wiseman

References

- http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nhl/nya/nyamericans.html
- Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol I., Charles Coleman (Kendall/Hunt, 1966) Category:Defunct National Hockey League teams Category:New York City sports history

Brooklyn Americans

Franchise history

Season-by-season record

Notable players

Hall of Famers

- Billy Burch
- Charlie Conacher
- Lionel Conacher
- Red Dutton
- Chuck Rayner
- Sweeney Schriner
- Joe Simpson
- Hooley Smith
- Nels Stewart
- Roy Worters

Team captains

- Billy Burch (1925-26 to 1931-32)
- Red Dutton (1932-33 to 1935-36)
- Sweeny Schriner (1936-37 to 1938-39)
- Charlie Conacher (1939-40 to 1940-41)
- Tommy Anderson (1941-42)

Not to be forgotten

- Bill Brydge
- Lorne Carr
- Art Chapman
- Norman Himes
- Rabbit McVeigh
- Earl Robertson
- Eddie Wiseman

References

Oakland Seals

History

Season-by-season record

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes ¹ named California Seals from October 11 to November 8, 1967

Notable players

Hall of Famers

- Harry Howell

Team captains

- Bob Stewart (1975-76)
- Jim Neilson (1975-76)
- Joey Johnston (1972-1975)
- Bert Marshall (1971-1973)
- Carol Vadnais (1970-1972)
- Ted Hampson (1968-71)
- Bobby Baun (1967-68)

Not to be forgotten

Retired numbers

External links

Ottawa Senators (Original)

:This article discusses the original Ottawa Senators franchise. For the modern-day (1992-current) franchise, see Ottawa Senators. The Ottawa Senators (a/k/a Ottawa Silver Seven) were a professional ice hockey team operating between 1893 and 1934, and competed in the National Hockey League from 1917 until the termination of the franchise.

Team History

Generally acknowledged by hockey historians as the greatest team of the early days of the sport, the original Ottawa Senators franchise were based in Ottawa from 1893 to 1934. They competed in the Amateur Hockey Association, the Canadian Amateur Hockey League, the National Hockey Association, and the National Hockey League, competed in the very first Stanley Cup game (which they lost 3-1 to the Montreal AAA in March of 1893) and won a total of nine Stanley Cups, starting back in the days where the Cup was still a challenge trophy. The team had several nicknames -- most famously, the Silver Seven of early hockey legend, referencing the seven-man hockey played at the time -- but was generally known throughout its history as the "Ottawas" or the Senators. Many of the team's players have been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame, and through to their final Stanley Cup in 1927, had won more Cups, more games, more league championships and had more Hall of Famers than any team to date in organised hockey. The Senators were a founding team of both the NHA and the NHL, and won four more Cups in their NHL days, three against western league teams. The last in 1927 against the Boston Bruins was after the NHL had secured sole ownership of the trophy. However, the term "small-market franchise" is by no means a new one, and as the NHL's smallest market by far, even as early as 1927, Ottawa sought financial relief from the league. The team slowly sold its stars to other clubs, and with the Great Depression striking, peddled superstar defenseman King Clancy for an unprecedented $35,000 in 1930. Even that was not enough, and the franchise suspended operations for the 1932 season. 1932 The Senators returned the season thereafter, but depleted of talent, finished with poor records its two remaining seasons in Ottawa. The once-proud franchise relocated to St. Louis and played its final season 1934-35 as the St. Louis Eagles. This franchise has no relation to the modern-day Senators franchise, except for a certificate that was issued by the NHL with the new Senators franchise, proclaiming re-instatement to the league.

Career Leaders

- Games: Frank Finnigan, 368
- Goals: Cy Denneny, 245
- Assists: Denneny, 67
- Points: Denneny, 312
- Penalty Minutes: George Boucher, 604
- Goaltending Games: Alec Connell, 293
- Goaltending Wins: Connell, 158
- Shutouts: Connell, 70

List of Stanley Cup final appearances

- 1903- Ottawa Silver Seven defeat the Montreal Victorias March 7 & 8 (1-1, 8-0) and they defeat the Rat Portage Thistles March 12 & 14).
- 1904- Ottawa Silver Seven defeat the Winnipeg Rowing Club December 30, 1903, January 1, & 4 (9-1, 2-6, 2-0) they defeat the Toronto Marlboros February 23 & 25 (6-3, 11-2) they defeat the Montreal Wanderers March 2 (5-5- Montreal loses by default) and they defeat the Brandon Wheat Kings March 9 & 11 (6-3, 9-3).
- 1905- Ottawa Silver Seven defeat Dawson City January 13 & 16 (9-2, 23-2) and the Rat Portage Thistles March 7, 9, & 11 (3-9, 4-2, 5-4)
- 1906- Ottawa Silver Seven defeat Queen's University February 27, & 28 (16-7, 12-7) and Smiths Falls March 6 & 8 (6-5, 8-2).
- 1906- Montreal Wanderers defeat the Ottawa Silver Seven March 14, & 17 (9-1, 9-3).
- 1909- Ottawa Senators go unchallenged
- 1910- Ottawa Senators defeat Galt January 5, & 7 (12-3, 3-1) and the Edmonton Eskimos January 18, & 20 (8-4, 13-7).
- 1911- Ottawa Senators defeat Galt March 13 7-4, and Port Arthur March 16 13-4.
- 1915- Vancouver Millionaires defeat the Ottawa Senators March 22, 24, & 26 (6-2, 8-3, 12-3).
- 1920- Ottawa Senators defeat the Seattle Metropolitans March 22, 24, 27, 30, & April 1 (3-2, 3-0, 1-3, 2-5, 6-1).
- 1921- Ottawa Senators defeat the Vancouver Millionaires March 21, 24, 28, 31, & April 4 (1-2, 4-3, 3-2, 2-3, 2-1).
- 1923- Ottawa Senators defeat the Vancouver Maroons March 16, 19, 23, & 26 (1-0, 1-4, 3-2, 5-1) and the Edmonton Eskimos March 29, & 31 (2-1, 1-0).
- 1927- Ottawa Senators defeat the Boston Bruins April 7, 9, 11, 13 (0-0, 3-1, 1-1, 3-1).

Season-by-season record (NHL only)

QF = Quarter Final, CD = Canadian Division

Modern Franchise

13 The NHL's planned 1992 expansion had several strong contenders, but businessman Bruce Firestone put together an energetic bid to bring the NHL back to Ottawa, using the last surviving original Senator, Frank Finnigan, as its public face. The new-look Senators won one of the two slots (along with the Tampa Bay Lightning) and began play in 1992. See Ottawa Senators.

Notable players

References

Category:Ottawa Senators (Original)

Pittsburgh Pirates (NHL)

The Pittsburgh Pirates were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL), based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1925-26 to 1929-30. The nickname comes from the baseball team also based in the city. For the 1930-31 season the team moved to Philadelphia and played one season as the Philadelphia Quakers. :Founded: 1925 :Arena: Duquesne Gardens :Uniform colors: Canary yellow with black horizontal stripes :Logo design: A large P :Stanley Cup wins: none :Stanley Cup finals appearances: none

Franchise History

The Pittsburgh Pirates' history traces back to the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets of the US Amateur Hockey Association. The Yellow Jackets' owner was a former referee named Roy Schooley. When Schooley encountered financial problems, his team was purchased by attorney James F. Callahan. Callahan renamed the team the Pittsburgh Pirates, after the name from the baseball team. The US Amateur Hockey Association folded and the Pittsburgh Pirates were granted a franchise by the National Hockey League (NHL) on November 7, 1925 and became the NHL's third US-based team. The other two teams were the Boston Bruins (1924 - present]] and the New York Americans (1925 - 1942). The Pirates first season was the 1925-26 NHL season. In 36 games, they had an impressive 19 wins, 16 losses, and 1 tie for third best in the league. With a 0.542 winning percentage, that first season would arguably be the team's best. They made the playoffs that year but lost in the first round of the quarter finals to the eventual Stanley Cup champions, the Montreal Maroons. After a good start to their franchise history, things went downhill from there. In six seasons of existance (including the one season as the Philadelphia Quakers), they were above .500 only twice and made the playoffs only twice. The Pirates' third season (1927-28) was that other season. In 44 games, they had 19 wins, 17 losses, and 8 ties. But again, would bow out of the playoffs in the first round to the eventual Cup champions, the New York Rangers. The Pittsburgh Pirates have left their mark in the NHL record books and NHL history with many firsts and other notable achievements. Odie Cleghorne, the Pirates' coach (and occasional player) for the first four seasons, was the first NHL coach to change his players on the fly. This was an ingenius idea. He was also the first coach to use three set forward lines, which was a huge change from the standard, which was to simply leave the best players out for as long as possible. The Pirates also set an NHL record in salaries by signing defenceman Lionel Conacher to a three-year deal worth $7,500 a year. While playing against the New York Americans on December 26, 1926 an NHL record for most shots in one game occurred. The two teams combined for 141 shots in a 3-1 New York win. Roy Worters made 70 saves for the Pirates and Jake Forbes made 67 saves for the Americans. That is a record that still stands today. Also, the legendary goaltender George Vezina of the Montreal Canadiens played his last game against the Pirates in a 1-0 loss. Vezina had started the game with severe chest pains and left the game during the first intermission with a high fever. He died four months later from tuberculosis. In 1928 finacial problems forced the original owner, Callahan, to sell the team to an ownership group which included a fight promoter and ex-lightweight boxing champion, Benny Leonard. Despite the sale of the team, things didn't improve on the ice. The 1929-30 season saw Pirates achieve their worst win-loss record to date with 5 wins, 36 losses, and 3 ties in 44 games. Things didn't improve financially either. With the stock market crash of 1929 followed by the Great Depression, the owners found themselves in finacial difficulties. Attendance was down and they tried selling off their star players to make ends meet. The team was $400,000 in debt and it was then decided to move the Pittsburgh Pirates to Philadelphia and rename them the Philadelphia Quakers (The name Quakers coming from the historical importance of the religious community in the founding of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania) in attepts to save the fanchise. The move was made on the premise that the team would only stay in Philadelphia until a new arena was built in Pittsburgh. The move to Philadelphia for the 1930-31 NHL season didn't help. The money problems continued as well as the on-ice problems. They only played one season in Philadelphia, did not make the playoffs, and had a franchise worst 4 wins, 36 losses, and 4 ties in 44 games. The Quakers were the definition of futility. It took the team three games to score its first goal and six games to get its first win. They had the worst offence (76 goals for) and worst defence (184 goals against) in the league. Their 0.136 winning percentage is the second lowest in NHL history. At the end of that season (1930-31), the Philadelphia Quakers, along with the Ottawa Senators, announced that they were suspending operations of the team for the 1931-32 NHL season. While the Senators came back briefly as the St. Louis Eagles, the Quakers franchise never iced a team again. The Quakers, though, were given permission to suspend operations for future seasons at the beginning of each season. So, at each of the next five preseason NHL governors meetings, they announced that they were suspending operations for that season. They finally gave up the ghost and officially cancelled the franchise when the new arena in Pittsburgh failed to materialise on the 7th of May, 1936.

Notable players

Hall of Famers

- Lionel Conacher
- Frank Fredrickson
- Mickey MacKay
- Roy Worters

Team captains

References

- http://letsgopens.com/pirates/index.html
- http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/teamseasons.php?tid=756 Category:Defunct National Hockey League teams Category:Pittsburgh sports Quakers Category:Pittsburgh Pirates (hockey) players

Québec Bulldogs

The Quebec Bulldogs were officially called Quebec Athletics. The team's roots go back as far as the Amateur Hockey Association in 1888 and as far forward as the Brooklyn Americans of the National Hockey League in 1942. The name Bulldog was a name given by the media and was so popular with the fans that a Bulldog mascot was created. The name, though, was never officially changed from the Athletics until the team moved to Hamilton, Ontario in 1920 and became the Hamilton Tigers. :Founded: 1888 :Arena: Colisee de Quebec :Uniform colours: Blue and white :Logo design: A blue Q with a white outline. :Stanley Cup wins: 2 (1912, 1913) :Stanley Cup finals appearances: 2 (1912, 1913)

Franchise history

The Quebec Bulldogs arrived on the hockey scene in 1888 as part of the Amateur Hockey Association (AHA). The Bulldogs also played in the CAHL and ECAHA before becoming a founding member of the Canadian Hockey Association (CHA) in 1909. The CHA, however, would only last one month before being absorbed into the much more powerful National Hockey Association (NHA). Unsure if they wanted to join the NHA, the Bulldogs sat out the NHA's inagural 1909-10 season. The following NHA season, 1910-11, the Bulldogs joined the NHA but had a rough initiation into the new league as they finished dead last with 4 wins and 12 losses in a 16 game season. On a positive note, and a sign of things to come, Jack McDonald scored 14 goals and Tommy Dunderdale scored 13. The following season, 1911-12, saw the Bulldogs go from worst to first with Joe Malone having a spectacular season. The 'Dogs record improved to 10 wins and 8 losses in 18 games while Malone scored 21 goals and Jack McDonald scored 18. In the Stanley Cup finals, they easily crushed the Moncton Victoria in 2 games by scores of 9-3 and 8-0. In their third season (1912-13) Quebec would again finish first overall with a record of 16 wins and 4 losses in 20 games. Joe Malone won the scoring race with an unprecedented 43 goals. His teammate, Tommy Smith, was a close second with 39. The Quebec Bulldogs went onto the Stanley Cup finals again and easily beat the Sydney Millionaires in two games by a combined score of 20 to 5 to give them their second straight Stanley Cup. But since, at that time, the Stanley Cup was a challenge cup, almost any team could challenge the champions for it. The Victoria Aristocrats of the PCHA did just that. The powerhouse Bulldogs expected to bowl over the Aristocrats, but were shocked after splitting the first two games and then losing 6-1 in the decisive third game. Fortunately for Quebec, and unfortunately for Victoria, the Stanley Cup Board of trustees did not recognise the challenge by the Aristocrats as being official and the Bulldogs were able to keep the Cup. The following seasons would see the Bulldogs drop from the top of the league. They would finish third overall in each of the next three seasons and in the last NHA season (1916-17) they would finish second overall. After their two Stanley Cup wins, they would never again reach the Cup finals. With the end of the National Hockey Association and the start of the National Hockey League, the Quebec Bulldogs were invited to become a founding member of the NHL. Unfortunately, Quebec was unable to garner the required funds and suspended operations for two seasons. While the team was suspended, their star player Joe Malone played for the Montreal Canadiens. When the Bulldogs resumed play for the 1919-20 season, Malone also resumed play for them. Malone would win the scoring championship that year with 39 goals. Despite the scoring prowess of Malone and the presence of players like Harry Mummery, the Bulldogs had a dismal season, finishing last overall with four wins and twenty losses in 24 games. After that disastrous season, it was decided to move the team to Hamilton, Ontario and rename it the Hamilton Tigers. The team played as the Hamilton Tigers in the NHL from 1920 to 1925. Due in large part to a players' strike in the 1925 Stanley Cup finals, the franchise was revoked in the summer of 1925 and the players bought out by the expansion New York Americans franchise. The Americans would play in the NHL from 1925 to 1942.

Notable players

Hall of Famers

- Rusty Crawford
- Thomas Dunderdale
- Joe Hall
- Joe Malone
- Paddy Moran
- Tommy Smith
- Bruce Stuart
- Hod Stuart

Team captains

- Joe Malone (1910-11 to 1916-17, 1919-20)

References

- http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nhl/quebecnha/bulldogs.html Category:Quebec sports

Québec Nordiques

The Québec Nordiques (translated into English as "Northmen" or "Northerners") were a professional ice hockey team based in Québec City, Québec, Canada. The Nordiques played in the World Hockey Association (1972-1979) and the National Hockey League (1979-1995). The franchise was relocated to Denver in 1995 and renamed the Colorado Avalanche. :Founded: 1972 :Arena: Colisée de Québec :Uniform colours: Blue, white, red. :Avco Cup wins: 1 - 1977 :Avco Cup runners-up: 1975 :Division Championships: 1975, 1977, 1986, 1995 :Rivals: Montreal Canadiens

Beginnings in the WHA

Montreal Canadiens The Québec Nordiques formed as one of the original World Hockey Association teams in 1972. The franchise was originally awarded to a group in San Francisco but hastily moved to Québec City after the deal with the California group fell thorough. The team was named the Nordiques because Québec City was the northernmost of the original WHA cities. The Nordiques' first head coach was the legendary Maurice "Rocket" Richard but he only lasted one game, a 3-2 loss to the Cleveland Crusaders. The "Rocket" decided coaching wasn't his forte and stepped down. The Nordiques' first star was two-way defenceman J.C. Tremblay, who led the WHA in assists in the league's first season and would be named a league All-Star for his first four years in Quebec. The next season Serge Bernier and Rejean Houle joined the Nordiques. In 1974-75, they finally made the playoffs with the help of the high-scoring Marc Tardif. They beat the Phoenix Roadrunners and the Minnesota Fighting Saints to reach the finals, where they were swept in four games by the Gordie Howe-led Houston Aeros. The next season saw playoff disappointment as the Nordiques lost to the Calgary Cowboys after losing Marc Tardif to injury after a controversial hit by the Cowboys' Rick Jodzio. The Nordiques finally captured the Avco World Trophy in 1976-77 as they took out the New England Whalers and the Indianapolis Racers in five games before beating the Winnipeg Jets in seven. By 1978 the WHA was on shaky ground. The Nordiques were unable to defend their title and fell in the playoffs to the New England Whalers. The 1978-79 season would be the final one for the WHA and for J.C. Tremblay, who retired at the end of the season and had his number 3 retired before the Nordiques merged into the National Hockey League together with three other WHA teams, the Winnipeg Jets, New England Whalers, and the Edmonton Oilers. In 1979, Real Cloutier became the first NHL player ever to score a hat trick in his debut NHL game.

The 1980s

NHLForced to let all but three players go in a dispersal draft, the Nordiques were now an expansion team and sunk to the bottom. They finished the 1979-80 NHL season in last place despite the play of a promising rookie left winger named Michel Goulet. In 1980 the Nordiques signed Peter Stastny, a member of the Czechoslovak national team who defected earlier that year. His brothers, Anton and Marian, would soon follow and also sign with Québec. The following season, led by Stastny's 109-point Calder Trophy-winning performance, the Nordiques made the NHL playoffs for the first time but fell in five games to the Philadelphia Flyers. Led by Goulet and Peter Stastny, the Nordiques remained contenders for several seasons. Québec again made the playoffs in 1981-82, disposed of the vaunted Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins, but were swept by the New York Islanders dynasty in the conference finals. A rivalry with the Montreal Canadiens intensified during the 1983-84 NHL season culminating in the infamous "Vendredi Saint" brawl during the 1984 playoffs, after which the Habs elminated the Nordiques from the postseason. The following season Montreal and Québec battled each other for the Adams Division championship. The Habs won by three points, but the Nordiques would exact revenge in the playoffs with a seven-game victory which was clinched by Peter Stastny's overtime goal. They won their first NHL division title in 1985-86 but were met with a defensive collapse in the playoffs, allowing the Hartford Whalers to advance. The next season saw more of the Nords-Habs rivalry as the playoff series went to a seven-game battle royale, with the Canadiens finally coming out on top. But this was the end of their relatively successful period as decline began the following season. The Nordiques finished last in their division and missed the playoffs for the first time in eight years. In 1988-89 they had the league's worst record. To make matters worse both Michel Goulet and Peter Stastny left the team in 1990, winding up with the Chicago Blackhawks and New Jersey Devils respectively. The arrival of hall of famer Guy Lafleur in 1989 came with much fanfare, but it soon became clear Lafleur's best years were well behind him. "The Flower" managed only 24 goals in 98 games with Québec. Despite the stellar play of a young forward named Joe Sakic, the Nordiques struggled throughout the late 80s and early 90s.

The 1990s

By the 1989 off-season the Nordiques had clearly sunk to the league's cellar. That year les Nords drafted Swede prospect Mats Sundin, making him the first European taken first overall in NHL draft history. The following year Québec chose first again, taking Owen Nolan. In 1991 the Nordiques once again had the first overall pick in the NHL Entry Draft. The best player in that year's draft, Eric Lindros, warned Québec not to draft him but the team chose him anyway. Perhaps because he was afraid of not being able to adjust to the language differences, Lindros refused to sign with the team and began a holdout that would last over a year. Meanwhile the Nordiques finished out of playoff contention again in 1991-92. Finally on June 30, 1992, after confusion over whether Québec traded Lindros to the Philadelphia Flyers or New York Rangers was settled, the Nordiques sent Lindros to the Flyers in exchange for forward Mike Ricci, goaltender Ron Hextall, defensemen Steve Duchesne and Kerry Huffman, "future considerations" which eventually became enforcer Chris Simon, two first-round picks and US$15 million. One of the draft picks was used by the Nordiques to select goaltender Jocelyn Thibault, the other was traded twice and ultimately used by the Washington Capitals to select Nolan Baumgartner. Also in the trade were the rights to a Swedish teenage prospect named Peter Forsberg. The deal - probably the single most significant NHL transaction of the entire decade - quickly transformed the Nordiques from a laughingstock to a legitimate Stanley Cup contender. During the 1992-93 NHL season these new players along with Sakic - now a bona fide NHL All-Star - and the rapidly improving Sundin and Nolan led Québec to the biggest single-season team improvement in NHL history. The Nordiques made the playoffs for the first time in six seasons, but fell to their old nemesis the Montreal Canadiens in the first round. They would miss the playoffs the next season as they struggled with injuries. The Lindros deal proved a strong contender for one of the most one-sided trades not merely in hockey history, but professional sports history. Despite Lindros' fine career, no one would now -- in retrospect -- trade him even up for Forsberg, the star of the franchise for a decade and a probably future Hall of Famer. Ricci would give three useful seasons to the franchise before being traded for the draft choice used to select current star Alex Tanguay, while after Hextall's single season as the backstop for Québec, he would be traded for longtime mainstay Adam Deadmarsh, who was in his own right traded for star defenseman Rob Blake. Thibault would, after the franchise shift to Denver, be traded for Montreal goalie Patrick Roy, one of the greats of all-time and the foundation for two future Stanley Cups.

The Move to Denver

Patrick RoyFor the 1994-95 season Marc Crawford was hired as the new head coach and Forsberg was deemed ready to finally join the team, but first there was the problem of a lockout. When the shortened season began, the Nordiques played well and finished on top of the Eastern Conference. Even so, the team faltered in the postseason and were eliminated in the first round by the defending Stanley Cup champion New York Rangers. The playoff loss proved to be Québec's swan song in the NHL as the team's financial troubles increasingly took center stage. Team owner Marcel Aubut asked for a bailout from Québec's provincial government. The bailout fell through and in May 1995, shortly after the Nordiques were eliminated from the playoffs, Aubut was forced to sell the team to a group of investors in Denver, Colorado, as that summer, the franchise moved to Colorado and renamed the Colorado Avalanche. Ironically, the team was planning to change their logo, colors and uniforms in the 1995-96 Season before the bailout fell through. Although some resented the move and wondered what might have been, many fans in Québec still felt the team was still theirs and cheered the Avalanche to Stanley Cup success in their first season in Denver.

Notable players

Team Captains

Includes WHA captains
- Jean-Guy Gendron 1972-74
- Michel Parizeau 1974-76
- Marc Tardif 1976-81
- Robbie Ftorek and Andre Dupont 1981-82
- Mario Marois 1982-85
- Mario Marois and Peter Stastny 1985-86
- Peter Stastny 1986-90
- Steven Finn and Joe Sakic 1990-91
- Mike Hough 1991-92
- Joe Sakic 1992-95

Hall of Famers

- Michel Goulet
- Peter Stastny

Not to be forgotten

- Serge Bernier
- Dan Bouchard
- Richard Brodeur
- Real Cloutier
- Alain Cote
- Peter Forsberg
- Dale Hunter
- Joe Sakic
- Anton Stastny
- Mats Sundin
- Randy Velischek

Retired Numbers

- 3 - J.C. Tremblay, D, 1972-79
- 8 - Marc Tardif, LW, 1974-83
- 16 - Michel Goulet, C, 1979-90
- 26 - Peter Stastny, C, 1980-90

External links

- [http://www.nordiquespreservation.com Quebec Nordiques Preservation Society]
- [http://www.retourdesnordiques.com RetourDesNordiques.com Group]

Colorado Avalanche

The Colorado Avalanche are a National Hockey League team based in Denver, Colorado. :Founded: 1972-1973 in the World Hockey Association (WHA); joined the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1979 :Formerly Known As: Québec Nordiques (1972-1995) :Arena: Pepsi Center ::Former Arena: McNichols Sports Arena (1995-1999) :Uniform colors: Crimson and blue :Logo design: A crimson letter "A", with a white swoosh extending from the left side ending in a hockey puck, simulating an avalanche. :Stanley Cups won: 1995-96, 2000-01

Franchise History

When the Québec Nordiques found themselves experiencing on-ice success but off-ice financial failure during the lockout shortened 1994-95 NHL season team owner Marcel Aubut asked for a bailout from Quebec's provincial government. The bailout fell through and Aubut was forced to sell the team to a group of investors in Denver. The franchise was packed up and shipped to Colorado and renamed the Colorado Avalanche. Colorado Avalanche Colorado entered their first season in Denver with a very strong lineup that included such excellent players as captain Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg, and defensive stalwart Adam Foote. The most important day for the franchise came in the trade of first round pick Eric Lindros. Lindros refused to play for the Nords citing the small town and the uncompetitive team. His trade and the eventual deals that stemmed from his trade brought such stars as Ray Bourque, Peter Forsberg, Alex Tanguay, Patrick Roy, and Rob Blake among other great payers. The original trade brought a first round pick, Steve Duchesne, Peter Forsberg, Mike Ricci, Jocelyn Thibault, Chris Simon, Kerry Huffman, Ron Hextall, and $15 Million to the Nords. Few could anticipate the midseason trade that would make them a true powerhouse. On the 2nd of December, 1995 Patrick Roy was in net for the Montreal Canadiens when they lost to the Detroit Red Wings in their worst defeat in franchise history, 11-1. Roy had, many times in the past made up for mediocre play by his team, but this night was too much for even "Saint Pat"; Montreal coach Mario Tremblay kept Roy in goal for the first 9 goals. After the game Roy told Montreal team president Ronald Corey that it was the last game he would ever play for the Canadiens. On December 6 Roy was traded to Colorado along with Mike Keane for Andrei Kovalenko, Martin Rucinsky, and Jocelyn Thibault. With an already strong team and the addition of a hall of fame caliber goaltender, there was little anyone could do to stop them as Colorado steamrolled its way to it first Stanley Cup victory, which they won in a 4 game sweep of the Florida Panthers. The Stanley Cup winning goal was scored by defenseman Uwe Krupp in triple overtime. The following season, the team had a good year, but was unable to repeat as Stanley Cup champions, falling to the eventual champion Detroit Red Wings in the Western Conference Finals 4-2. The team continued to have strong teams that went deep into the post season, but failed to reach the Stanley Cup Finals, until the 2000-01 NHL season. The proceeding season (1999-2000) they picked up Hall of Fame defenseman Ray Bourque who until that time had only ever played for the Boston Bruins and wanted one more shot at a Stanley Cup. Bourque had requested a trade and the Bruins facilitated a deal. On the 6th of March, 2000, Bourque was traded to Colorado with Dave Andreychuk for Brian Rolston, Martin Grenier, Samuel Pahlsson, and a first round pick. But the team was not done trading when they got Bourque. The following season, they further strengthened their blue line with the acquisition of star defenseman Rob Blake from the Los Angeles Kings for Adam Deadmarsh and Aaron Miller on the 21st of February, 2001. The 2000-01 Avalanche were again a dominant powerhouse. They easily won the President's Trophy with a staggering 118 points and were poised to win Ray Bourque his first Stanley Cup after twenty-two years on the ice. Star forward Peter Forsberg had emergency spleen surgery after their second round series against the Los Angeles Kings and missed the rest of the playoffs. The Stanley Cup Finals was a grueling, very physical series between the Avalanche and the New Jersey Devils. After seven hard fought games the Avalanche had their second Stanley Cup championship. It is a tradition for the team captain to take the Stanley Cup from the commissioner and raise it above his head first and skate a lap around the rink before handing it to his teammates. But Joe Sakic broke that tradition in 2001 when he refused to lift the cup and in a true show of class handed it to Ray Bourque and insisted he lift it instead. As defending Stanley Cup champions, the team held their training camp in Stockholm, Sweden the following season, participating in the NHL Challenge. Colorado has however been unable to recapture that moment of glory. They have consistently been an excellent team, in fact the 2003-04 NHL season was the first time since moving to Colorado that the team has not won its division, and it lost that by only one point to the Vancouver Canucks. Many people thought that 2003-04 might be the year that Colorado would win its third Cup because they had pulled an apparent coup by signing both Teemu Selänne and Paul Kariya who had been a powerful duo with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. But the tandem did not live up to many people's expectation and the hype surrounding the acquisition. Neither player was resigned after the end of the 2005 lockout.

Notable players

Current Squad

As of December 12, 2005 [http://www.coloradoavalanche.com/team/PlayersStats.asp]

Hall of Famers

- Ray Bourque

Team captains

- Joe Sakic 1995-present

Retired Numbers

- 33 Patrick Roy, G, 1995-2003
- 77 Ray Bourque, D, 2000-01
- 99 Wayne Gretzky (retired league-wide by the NHL) The Quebec Nordiques retired the number 3 of Jean-Claude (J.C.) Tremblay, the number 8 of Marc Tardif, the number 16 of Michel Goulet and the number 26 of Peter Stastny. After the move, the Avalanche restored those numbers to circulation.

References

- [http://www.coloradoavalanche.com/ Colorado Avalanche official web site] Category:Colorado Avalanche ja:コロラド・アバランチ

St. Louis Eagles

Team History

Career Leaders

List of Stanley Cup final appearances

Season-by-season record (NHL only)

QF = Quarter Final, CD = Canadian Division

Modern Franchise

Notable players

Hall of Famers

Team Captains

Not to be forgotten

- Hec Kilrea

References

Category:Ottawa Senators (Original)

Winnipeg Jets

The Winnipeg Jets were an ice hockey franchise that existed in both the World Hockey Association and the National Hockey League. In 1996, the franchise was moved to Arizona and became the Phoenix Coyotes due to financial troubles. :Founded: 1972 :Arena: Winnipeg Arena :Uniform colours: Blue, white, red. :Avco Cup wins: 3 - 1976, 1978, 1979 :Stanley Cup wins: none

Franchise history (WHA)

Stanley CupIn 1972 Winnipeg was granted one of the founding franchises in the World Hockey Association (WHA). The National Hockey League had recently expanded to 16 teams, adding franchises in many hockey-hungry cities (only one in Canada), but also in Atlanta, Oakland and Los Angeles. The WHA brought major professional hockey to Ottawa, Quebec City, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and later Calgary. The Jets' first major signing was Bobby Hull, also known as the Golden Jet. The move -- partially financed by the rest of the WHA's teams -- was widely seen as giving legitimacy to the WHA as a serious rival major league. The Jets were further noteworthy in hockey history for being the first North American club to seriously explore Europe as a source of hockey talent. Winnipeg's fortunes were bolstered by acquisitions such as Swedish forwards Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson, who starrred with Hull on the WHA's most famous and successful forward line, and defenceman Lars-Erik Sjoberg, who would serve as the team's captain and win accolades as the WHA's best defenceman. Behind these players and other European stars such as Willy Lindstrom, Kent Nilsson, Veli-Pekka Ketola, leavened by players such as Peter Sullivan, Norm Beaudin and goaltender Joe Daley, the Jets were the most successful team in the short-lived WHA, winning three Avco Cups, the league's championship trophy and making the finals five out of the WHA's seven seasons.

Career Leaders (WHA)

- Games: Bobby Hull, 411
- Goals: Hull, 303
- Assists: Ulf Nilsson, 344
- Points: Hull, 638
- Penalty Minutes: Kim Clackson, 413
- Goaltending Wins: Joe Daley, 167
- Shutouts: Daley, 12

The NHL Winnipeg Jets

Kim Clackson By 1979, the vast majority of the WHA's teams had folded, but the Jets were still going strong, and they were absorbed into the NHL. In doing so, they had to give up three of their top six scorers and were drafted 18th out of the NHL's 21 teams. The Jets experienced mixed success in the NHL, with predictably poor results in their first few seasons. In 1981, they drafted future hall of famer Dale Hawerchuk. They finished 4th in the league in 1984-85, their best showing. 1987 was the last time the Jets won a playoff series, a drought that has continued to plague the franchise's current incarnation in Phoenix. As the NHL expanded in the United States, operating costs and salaries grew rapidly, and the Jets were unable to retain their best players. Various schemes were attempted to save the team through a tremendous grassroots effort and government funds. In the end, their efforts were not enough. The Winnipeg Jets played their last game on April 28, 1996 - a home playoff loss to the Detroit Red Wings by a score of 4-1. The last goal ever scored by a Jet was netted by Norm Maciver. During their history, the Jets retired two numbers: #9, Bobby Hull, and #25, Thomas Steen. Both numbers hang in Glendale Arena with the new Phoenix Coyotes franchise. Bobby Hull's #9 jersey had been temporarily "un-retired" with the acquisition of his son Brett by the Phoenix franchise. Brett wore his father's famous jersey until his own retirement on October 15, 2005; the number will be re-retired.

Possible return to Winnipeg

The labour dispute of the 2004-05 between the NHL and NHLPA has resurrected the hopes of some Winnipeggers that the city may get another franchise if a team based in the southern United States or another non-traditional hockey region is unable to attract spectators following the labour dispute. There were reports in early 2004 that the Tampa Bay Lightning (2004 Stanley Cup Champions) were looking at the new MTS Centre and Winnipeg as a new home. With the labour dispute having been resolved and including a salary cap, there is a renewed sense of hope in Winnipeg.

Season-by-season record

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes :¹ Season was shortened due to the 1994-95 NHL lockout.

Notable players

1994-95 NHL lockout

Hall of Famers

- Bobby Hull
- Dale Hawerchuk

Not to be forgotten

- Teemu Selanne
- Nikolai Khabibulin
- Anders Hedberg
- Ulf Nilsson
- Lars-Erik Sjoberg
- Morris Lukowich
- Joe Daley
- Teppo Numminen
- Brian Mullen
- Willy Lindstrom
- Paul MacLean
- Alexei Zhamnov
- Keith Tkachuk
- Randy Carlyle
- Dave Babych

Team Captains

(NHL era)
- Lars-Erik Sjoberg 1979-80
- Morris Lukowich 1980-81
- Dave Christian 1981-82
- Dave Christian and Lucien DeBlois 1982-83
- No captain 1983-84
- Dale Hawerchuk 1984-89
- Dale Hawerchuk, Thomas Steen and Randy Carlyle 1989-90
- Thomas Steen and Randy Carlyle 1990-91
- Troy Murray 1991-92
- Troy Murray and Dean Kennedy 1992-93
- Dean Kennedy and Keith Tkachuk 1993-94
- Keith Tkachuk 1994-95
- Kris King 1995-96

Retired Numbers

- 9 - Bobby Hull
- 25 - Thomas Steen

External links

- [http://www.curtiswalker.com/jets/ Winnipeg Jets Memorial Page], Accessed on July 11, 2005.
- Campaign to bring an NHL franchise back to Winnipeg [http://beerforbreakfast.org/Jets/jetsindex.html (link)], Accessed on August 8, 2005.
- [http://www.smackyeah.com/jets/ April of 96] - Article archive of the Jets last month. Category:Winnipeg Jets

Category:Defunct National Hockey League teams

This category is about ice hockey teams in the National Hockey League that no longer exist, or may have moved since its inception and have gained notoriety at their former location. Category:Defunct ice hockey teams Category:NHL

Category:Lists of organizations

These are lists of organizations. See list of organizations for an overview. Category:Organizations Organizations

Dag Skogheim

Dag Skogheim (født 17. mai 1928 i Sømna) er en norsk forfatter. Som 15-åring ble han syk av lungetuberkulose, og tilbragte de neste 11 år på sykehus og sanatorier. Skogheim debuterte som forfatter med diktsamlinga -gagns menneske i 1970. Forfatterskapet hans konsentrerer seg om tre emner: arbeiderbevegelsens historie, krigshistorien i Nord-Norge og tuberkulosens historie. Hovedverket er hans såkalte «Sulis-Valby-kvartetten», som består av de fire bøkene Sulis (1980), Café Iris (1982), November -44 (1984) og Sølvhalsbåndet (1986).

Bibliografi

Skjønnlitteratur
- -gagns menneske – dikt (1970)
- Gå stille - tal sakte – noveller (1973)
- Vi vil tænde – diktantologi (1975)
- Viser og vers fra anlegg til gruve – diktantologi (1976)
- Hexhora – noveller (1978)
- Sulis – roman (1980)
- Café Iris – roman (1982)
- November -44 – roman (1984)
- Sølvhalsbåndet – roman (1986)
- Osten – roman (1992)
- Kaiser Wilhelm – barnebok (1994)
- Redd tyskeren! – ungdomsroman (1995)
- Erindringer om Thorvald – roman (2002) Faglitteratur - Et utvalg
- Klassekamp under Nordlysflammer. Nordnorske arbeidere i kamp 1889-1918 (1973)
- Kvinner i nord-norsk arbeiderbevegelse: Ellisif Wessel (1977)
- "Blind-Fredrik" (1977)
- Kvinner i nord-norsk arbeiderbevegelse: Gitta Jønsson (1978)
- Kvinner i nord-norsk arbeiderbevegelse: Kathrine Bugge (1978)
- Alarm : krigen i Nordland 1940 (1984)
- Tæring (1988)
- Tre dager i mai (1988)
- Portretter av en fiende (1989)
- Tæring (1990) (sammen med Jan Karlsen)
- Fiender og mennesker : krig over Sør-Helgeland (1990)
- Gå foran, vis vei! : Landsforeningen for hjerte- og lungesyke gjennom 50 år (1993)
- Krigsalbum (1995)
- Sanatorieliv (2001)
Priser

- Nordlys/LO's 1. pris for dokumentarberetning 1977
- Sarpsborgprisen 1982
- Glåmdalens kulturpris 1984
- Nordland fylkes kulturpris 1991
- Nordisk grafisk forbunds kulturpris 1993
- Havmannprisen 2001
- Sverre Steen-prisen 2002
- Sømna kommunes kulturpris 2003
- Brønnøy kommunes kulturpris 2003
- LOs kunstnerpris 2004 Skogheim, Dag Skogheim, Dag

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