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Livingstone and Quinn called a final meeting of the NHA owners on
December 11, 1918. The NHL owners, against the wishes of Frank Calder, attended the meeting. Calder considered that an NHA meeting could not proceed with shareholders not having paid legal fees owed the league books held in court for lawsuits. Livingstone's plan was to use the fact that the Canadiens had a minority shareholder, contrary to NHA voting rules, to disallow the Canadiens vote and cause the vote to swing their way and lead to the resumption of the NHA. At first, Lichtenhein refused to recognize Quinn's purchase of the Quebec NHL franchise, but agreed to if Quinn would pay the costs of the meeting itself, which he refused. The meeting ended when the NHL owners offered to pay legal fees owed to the NHA so as to proceed, according to Calder's terms, but Livingstone and Quinn refused. The NHL owners then left the meeting. Separately, the Montreal and Ottawa NHA owners met and paid the fees owing to the league and Calder fined the Torontos, Ontarios and Quebec a further $ 200. Calder now publicly promised to file a court order to "wind up" the NHA organization. When the NHL decided to continue with play, Livingstone and Quinn threatened injunctions to stop the NHL from operating. However, the threats were not followed through on and the NHL season began on schedule. The NHA organization itself was not formally dissolved for several years afterwards and
741:—played wearing khaki military uniforms and was the league's most popular and highest scoring club until the regiment was ordered overseas in February 1917 and the team was forced to withdraw. A scandal ensued when several stars were subsequently discharged and alleged they had been promised commissions solely to play hockey for the military team. The Battalion dropping out left the league at five teams again. Instead of continuing with five teams, the league suspended the Blueshirts also and dispersed its players to the other clubs and continued with four teams. Livingstone threatened to sue the league over the suspension, infuriating the other owners. The league next made a demand that Livingstone sell the Toronto franchise between April and June 1917. Instead of selling, Livingstone followed through with his threat to sue the NHA.
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players at first intended to form their own league, but the arenas were under the NHA control and surrendered for that season. The clubs' bottom lines improved, Ottawa estimated to make six to eight thousand in profits, while the
Canadiens made three to four thousand; the Wanderers two to three thousand; and Quebec at nine hundred. Only Renfrew lost money. The new constitution also affected the format of play. For the first time, the hour of play would be divided into three 20-minute periods, with five minutes of rest between the periods. Ottawa won the championship and held the Stanley Cup against Galt and Port Arthur.
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league permission for its players, and ended up with no players for the
Shamrocks team as the PCHA in retaliation raided the Blueshirts for players. The league ordered Livingstone to sell his Shamrocks franchise, but he was unable to do so as he had only enough players for one team. The 1915–16 season was played with only five teams, a situation whereby one team each week would not play, a situation limiting team owner revenues and infuriating the other owners. Instead of two games in Toronto to cover travel expenses from the other cities, there was only one per trip.
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Canadiens, Wanderers, Senators and Bulldogs wanted nothing more to do with Livingstone. However, they discovered the NHA constitution did not allow them to simply expel him from the league. Instead, on November 22, 1917, the other four owners voted to suspend the NHA's
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so that they could continue the business of pro hockey without
Livingstone. Every owner except Livingstone was granted a franchise in the NHL and the NHA contracts transferred. The NHL also continued to use the same rules and season format as the NHA, with the NHL champion now moving on to face the
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For the 1911-12 season, the league dropped the 'rover' position, changing the game to six-man hockey, although other leagues would hold on to seven-man play into the 1920s. Attempts would be made to reintroduce seven-man hockey in subsequent years but were unsuccessful. While the league delayed its
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The remaining NHA team owners started the NHL in parallel as a temporary measure, to continue play while negotiations went on with
Livingstone and other lawsuits were pending. A year later, after no progress was reached with Livingstone, the other NHA owners decided to permanently suspend the NHA.
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Canadiens, Maple Leafs and Senators have roots in the NHA. While the Canadiens acknowledge their NHA history and records, the Maple Leafs do not claim the Blueshirts' history as their own, which would include an additional Stanley Cup championship. The original Ottawa
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Bulldogs, however, announced they didn't have enough financing to ice a team for the NHL's first season. Wanting to balance the schedule, and feeling it unthinkable not to have a team from Canada's second-largest city, the NHL granted a temporary franchise to the Toronto Arena Company, which
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season, the
Stanley Cup was awarded exclusively to the winner of a playoff between the NHA and the PCHA regular season winners. The league championship was decided by a two-game total goal playoff between the Wanderers and the Senators. Ottawa won the championship, and the right to defend the Cup
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The 1913–14 season, the last before World War I, saw a tie between the
Torontos and the Canadiens for first place, and the league's first play-off was held. Toronto won the two-game series to win the championship and the first Stanley Cup win by any Toronto team. After the play-off, PCHA champion
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made two moves that infuriated the NHA and the PCHA. At that time Quebec was to be one of the designated NHA teams which the PCHA would draft players from. Livingstone arranged a trade with Quebec to hide some players from the draft, infuriating the PCHA. He bought the Toronto Blueshirts without
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in Montreal, O'Brien applied to join the CHA but the application was rejected. Sitting in the lobby of the hotel after the CHA meeting, O'Brien met Jimmy Gardner of the Wanderers, whose team had also been rejected by the CHA. Together, they decided to form their own league, the National Hockey
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PCHA champion in the Stanley Cup Finals. Wanderers owner Sam Lichtenhein was quoted as saying, "We didn't throw Livingstone out; he's still got his franchise in the old National Hockey Association. He has his team, and we wish him well. The only problem is he's playing in a one-team league."
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The start of World War I meant that players started enlisting for the military to fight overseas. By 1915, World War I and PCHA raiding left the NHA without enough quality players. At first, the NHA and PCHA made peace with an agreement limiting PCHA signings of NHA players to those on teams
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The NHA's officials met nearly a year later, on September 20, 1918, when a vote was taken to permanently suspend operations over Livingstone's objections. That fall, Livingstone, along with Percy Quinn, attempted to launch a rival "Canadian Hockey Association" (CHA) unsuccessfully. Blocked,
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baseball team. The new constitution even dropped 'of Canada' from the name of the corporation "to permit of taking into affiliation hockey bodies that may be formed in the United States as well as in Canada, with a view to making it eventually the central organization in the game." The new
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The NHA's organization did not dissolve immediately. The owners had launched a lawsuit against the Battalion to attempt to make the Canadian Army pay $ 3000 for leaving the league and this had yet to be heard in court. The NHL could operate in the meantime, without Livingstone.
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In November 1910, the league principals of Mike Quinn, Dickie Boon and Eddie McCafferty developed a new constitution differing from the ECHA constitution to put it on a more business-like basis. The league developed a standard player contract, a salary limit of
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Frank Robinson submitted his resignation letter during an NHA's meeting on October 20, 1917. However, his resignation was not considered and he was voted as NHA president for another term. In Robinson's absence, the secretary-treasurer of the league,
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and Quebec would join the league for the 1910–11 season. Lalonde was returned to the Canadiens. The two dormant O'Brien franchises were to be held for two Toronto teams to join the league in the future, to play in the new
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Victoria came east to play Toronto in a best-of-five series. The series was 'unofficial' as it was not approved by the Stanley Cup trustees, but any controversy was moot as Toronto won the series in three-straight games.
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schedule to try to accommodate the Toronto teams, who were waiting for the Arena Gardens' completion, in the end the league played with only four teams. In that same off-season, the Patrick brothers built two arenas in
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from the Canadiens to Renfrew, the first championship went to the Wanderers, taking over the Stanley Cup and successfully defending it against Edmonton. It would be the Wanderers' only championship in the NHA.
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Senators, the oldest of the three, continued in the NHL after the NHA's disbandment, but ceased operations in 1935. Ottawa returned to the league in 1992 having been granted a new franchise to operate as the
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designated by a 'draft'. However the peace did not last and disputes within the NHA and with the PCHA led to the end of the NHA. Two factions developed, Toronto and Quebec City, and the Montreal teams and
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but were not automatically accorded the Cup. Instead, they played the Montreal Canadiens for the trophy (and became the first American team to do so), which the Canadiens won in a five-game series.
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which meant visiting teams would earn less on their trips to play the Wanderers. On November 25, 1909, the other teams in the league disbanded the ECHA and formed the new
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in a three-game series in which Vancouver won in dominating fashion. The notion of a league champion being awarded the Cup to defend ceased with that season, as the
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ice hockey team –was seeking admission to the ECHA so as to be able to contest the Stanley Cup. The team had applied to the Stanley Cup trustees as champions of the
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959:Ottawa Senators (won playoff over Wanderers)
686:1915–1917: World War I and the end of the NHA
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1845:. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
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1395:"To Place Hockey On Better Basis"
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1293:List of Stanley Cup champions
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2107:First NHL player by country
2042:National Hockey Association
1879:Wong, John Chi-Kit (2005).
1837:Issacs, Neil David (1977).
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1799:Coleman, Charles (1966).
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2233:Goals, season (min. 50)
1288:List of pre-NHL seasons
1172:Toronto 228th Battalion
984:Toronto 228th Battalion
825:Season by season record
810:current Ottawa Senators
776:'s resignation in 1917.
280:Part of a series on the
2293:Longest losing streaks
2020:National Hockey League
1677:The Toronto Daily Star
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873:Renfrew Creamery Kings
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90:December 11, 1918
2283:Gordie Howe's records
2173:Referees and linesmen
1693:"What's in a Number?"
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429:Ice hockey portal
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229:Further information:
184:, was a professional
51:December 2, 1909
2329:Hockey Fights Cancer
2238:50 goals in 50 games
2112:Ice hockey in Canada
972:Montreal Canadiens†
877:Montreal Wanderers†
814:Canadian Tire Centre
656:Port Arthur, Ontario
649:Victoria Aristocrats
549:Montreal Le National
315:Montreal tournaments
2385:Advanced statistics
2324:World Cup of Hockey
2207:by country of birth
2203:Statistical leaders
1533:, pp. 262–264.
1468:, pp. 219–232.
1338:, pp. 180–181.
1326:, pp. 179–180.
1066:after 1910 season.
1021:Cobalt Silver Kings
849:Cobalt Silver Kings
756:Toronto Maple Leafs
34:
2072:All-time standings
1278:1918–19 NHL season
1138:Toronto Blueshirts
1085:Montreal Wanderers
1072:Montreal Shamrocks
1055:Montreal Canadiens
865:Montreal Wanderers
861:Montreal Shamrocks
857:Montreal Canadiens
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587:in November 1910.
545:Montreal Shamrocks
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496:Montreal Canadiens
465:At the same time,
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245:Montreal Wanderers
149:Montreal Canadiens
130:Montreal Canadiens
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927:Quebec Bulldogs†
923:Toronto Tecumsehs
907:Quebec Bulldogs†
894:Ottawa Senators†
853:Haileybury Comets
723:Eddie Livingstone
719:Toronto Shamrocks
707:Toronto Shamrocks
703:Eddie Livingstone
676:Portland Rosebuds
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467:Ambrose O'Brien
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1002:Team history
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2390:NHL uniform
2375:Video games
1928:NHA seasons
1210:Mike Doheny
1158:, 1913–1914
802:O'Brien Cup
721:team owner
518:O'Brien Cup
413:(1921–1926)
401:(1912–1924)
395:(1909–1917)
389:(1909–1910)
383:(1908–1911)
377:(1906–1911)
371:(1906–1909)
365:(1904–1907)
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