Clubs of the NHL: the history of the overseas hockey league

National Hockey League is the mostA well-known organization, in which players from all over the world seek to enter. The NHL clubs have their own logos, traditions and history. Some of those who in the last century were part of this league, have already become legends, instead of them there are new applicants for joining this hockey league.

The beginning of history

The history of the emergence of the most prestigious league,Uniting hockey clubs from America and Canada, refers to 1917. After the National Hockey Association controversy and disagreement on a number of key issues, it was replaced by the NHL. Hockey clubs of the NHL, which took part in the first season of 1917/1918, represented only 4 cities. They were Montreal, Quebec, Toronto and Ottawa.

The owner of the team from Toronto, because of which andthere was a need for reorganization, until the last did not believe that the members of the organizing committee decided to exclude him and the team "Blueshirts" from the association. After lengthy negotiations, Edward Livingstone still agreed not to kick the team out of the hockey league, though he promised to sell the club for 5 days.

Further, the resignation of the president of the NHA CharlesRobinson, and the association ceased to exist. The owner of the first Stanley Cup was the same team from Toronto, though renamed and given to the care of the local stadium. Later, Livingstone did not lose hope of regaining the club and filed lawsuits against the hockey league, which could not be won.

The first difficult years

In the first decade of its existence, the leaguejust struggled for their survival in this business. Despite such a precarious position of the new organization, the teams that joined the national league won the Stanley Cup 7 times for 9 years. Later it was possible to raise salaries to players to a level that the Pacific Coast Hockey Association could not even dream of. The NHL clubs, starting from 1925, only increased, and by 1930 there were already 10 of them.

True, World War II brought its ownadjustments in the conduct of the Stanley Cup, then in the NHL there are only 6 teams. And the Great Depression forced some owners to simply disband their clubs.

Expansion of the overseas league

Since the mid-1960s, the Nationalhockey league began to join more and more teams from the lower divisions, which were able to compete with the clubs, which from the very beginning were part of the NHL. Arising in those years, another hockey association VXA could compete with the NHL, and therefore it was decided to expand the league further.

The NHL clubs were in a more advantageous financial position, and in the late 1970s, the WCA ceased to exist, losing most of its teams.

The final composition of the NHL was fully formed by 2001, it included 30 teams from Canada and the United States.

Newcomers to the NHL

Due to the fact that in recent years, popularityhockey dropped and the first places went to baseball and basketball, the leadership of the NHL decided to admit a few newcomers to their ranks. Of those teams that applied to the NHL, so far, only one club has been decided. In the 2017/2018 season, the National Hockey League will be joined by a team from Las Vegas. The bid from Quebec has so far been postponed, and the decision on this club will probably be made by the end of 2017.

The NHL clubs are becoming more desirable every year for hockey players from other countries, since the salaries that the NHL player receives are several times higher than in other leagues.

Clubs of the NHL: the list of the most titled

Among the NHL clubs representing Canadiancity, the most titled is the "Montreal Canadiens", on their account 24 Stanley Cups in the history of the club. Among the teams playing in the United States, the closest pursuer of the Montreal club lags almost by half. On account of the "Detroit Red Wings" 11 Stanley Cups.