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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
730:—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.
565: (equivalent to $ 136,412 in 2023) per team, the requirement to "waive" players past other clubs before they were released from the league, and a 'reserve clause' whereby teams could name ten players in a "draft" that could not join other clubs. The meetings of the association were private and only the president of the league could communicate about the meetings to the press. These rules would later be followed in the successor National Hockey League. These new principles were based on the rules of American baseball, likely due to the influence of McCafferty, who was the secretary of the
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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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624:(PCHA). The PCHA exploited the low pay of the NHA teams to raid the teams for players. Quebec won the league championship, winning its first Stanley Cup, defending it successfully against Moncton. Despite the raids by the PCHA, the NHA allowed a player-organized team of all-stars to play an exhibition series out west against the PCHA after the season. Some of the NHA players, notably Cyclone Taylor, would be enticed to join the PCHA in the following season.
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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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The NHA was innovative for its time. The league put forth several innovations, among them the division of each game into three periods, the abolition of the rover position, the institution of match penalties, and allowing line changes on the fly. On the business side, the NHA introduced the standard
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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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season saw the start of labour unrest in the league, as the league imposed its $ 5,000 salary cap. The season almost foundered because of widespread dissatisfaction amongst the players at the salaries on offer, and players' unions were rumoured to be on the verge of creation at several points. The
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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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and the league expanded to six teams. Although the PCHA had raided Quebec for three players of its championship squad, they were replaced by top players from the Ontario and Maritime leagues, and Quebec repeated as champions. This year, the Quebec team travelled west to play the PCHA champion
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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,
608: (equivalent to $ 1,424,607 in 2023) divided into five hundred shares of $ 100 each. The purpose of incorporation was "to encourage, develop and improve the National Canadian winter game of hockey and athletic sports and pastimes."
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In the 1911 off-season, O'Brien exited the hockey business and Renfrew exited the league. The Ottawa Hockey Club became the second club to incorporate. The NHA itself incorporated, forming a Canadian federal corporation capitalized at
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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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and the other teams of the CHA were not even considered for membership. Games played prior to January 15 were thrown out, and the season began again, now with seven teams.
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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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675:1915–1917: World War I and the end of the NHA
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1834:. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
1021:(TPHL), returned to TPHL in 1910.
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1384:"To Place Hockey On Better Basis"
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1646:"Meeting Ends in Burlesque".
1282:List of Stanley Cup champions
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2096:First NHL player by country
2031:National Hockey Association
1868:Wong, John Chi-Kit (2005).
1826:Issacs, Neil David (1977).
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1272:List of ice hockey leagues
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2267:Wayne Gretzky's records
2222:Goals, season (min. 50)
1277:List of pre-NHL seasons
1161:Toronto 228th Battalion
973:Toronto 228th Battalion
814:Season by season record
799:current Ottawa Senators
765:'s resignation in 1917.
269:Part of a series on the
2282:Longest losing streaks
2009:National Hockey League
1666:The Toronto Daily Star
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862:Renfrew Creamery Kings
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79:December 11, 1918
2272:Gordie Howe's records
2162:Referees and linesmen
1682:"What's in a Number?"
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418:Ice hockey portal
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218:Further information:
173:, was a professional
40:December 2, 1909
2318:Hockey Fights Cancer
2227:50 goals in 50 games
2101:Ice hockey in Canada
961:Montreal Canadiens†
866:Montreal Wanderers†
803:Canadian Tire Centre
645:Port Arthur, Ontario
638:Victoria Aristocrats
538:Montreal Le National
304:Montreal tournaments
2374:Advanced statistics
2313:World Cup of Hockey
2196:by country of birth
2192:Statistical leaders
1522:, pp. 262–264.
1457:, pp. 219–232.
1327:, pp. 180–181.
1315:, pp. 179–180.
1055:after 1910 season.
1010:Cobalt Silver Kings
838:Cobalt Silver Kings
745:Toronto Maple Leafs
23:
2061:All-time standings
1267:1918–19 NHL season
1127:Toronto Blueshirts
1074:Montreal Wanderers
1061:Montreal Shamrocks
1044:Montreal Canadiens
854:Montreal Wanderers
850:Montreal Shamrocks
846:Montreal Canadiens
767:
728:North Bay, Ontario
704:
700:Toronto Blueshirts
576:in November 1910.
534:Montreal Shamrocks
511:
485:Montreal Canadiens
454:At the same time,
264:
234:Montreal Wanderers
138:Montreal Canadiens
119:Montreal Canadiens
21:
2387:
2386:
2334:Attendance totals
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1974:
1792:. Montreal: NHL.
1558:, pp. 73–74.
1430:, pp. 44–45.
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1171:
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1027:Haileybury Comets
982:
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944:Toronto Shamrocks
916:Quebec Bulldogs†
912:Toronto Tecumsehs
896:Quebec Bulldogs†
883:Ottawa Senators†
842:Haileybury Comets
712:Eddie Livingstone
708:Toronto Shamrocks
696:Toronto Shamrocks
692:Eddie Livingstone
665:Portland Rosebuds
452:
451:
290:Early development
199:Eddie Livingstone
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567:Montreal Royals
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527:Ottawa Senators
489:Jack Laviolette
456:Ambrose O'Brien
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720:1916–17 season
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991:Team history
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2379:NHL uniform
2364:Video games
1917:NHA seasons
1199:Mike Doheny
1147:, 1913–1914
791:O'Brien Cup
710:team owner
507:O'Brien Cup
402:(1921–1926)
390:(1912–1924)
384:(1909–1917)
378:(1909–1910)
372:(1908–1911)
366:(1906–1911)
360:(1906–1909)
354:(1904–1907)
348:(1904–1909)
342:(1898–1905)
336:(1896–1909)
330:(1892–1909)
324:(1886–1898)
230:Stanley Cup
131:Most titles
115:champion(s)
2394:Categories
2182:individual
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633:Tecumsehs
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597:1910–1911
563:CA$ 5,000
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107:Canada
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2327:Other
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140:(2),
113:Last
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860:†,
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