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History

The National Hockey Association was formed in 1909 and before its third season in 1911 announced that it would have a franchise in Toronto, managed by Ottawa forward Bruce Ridpath. The underlying franchise was the one previously based in Montreal and known as Les Canadiens,^[1] however the Toronto team was built from scratch and did not include any players from Les Canadiens. Toronto had not previously had a arena with artificial ice that would be large enough for an NHA team, but in 1911, work began on Arena Gardens, which was planned to be the largest indoor arena in Canada. Soon after, it was announced that the president of the Toronto team was Percy Quinn, who was also president of the Dominion Lacrosse Association, a Canadian professional lacrosse league that had patterened itself after the NHA. The Ottawa Senators (aka. ... Toronto Blueshirts was a National Hockey Association team which played in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...

The Tecumseh Club in Toronto also received a NHA franchise in 1911 and the schedule for the 1911-12 season was drawn up with two Toronto teams. No games were scheduled to be played in Toronto until the end of January, when the new arena was supposed to be ready. It soon became clear that construction of Arena Gardens would not be finished in time, and in mid-December it was announced that the two Toronto teams had been dropped from the schedule and the league would play with only four teams that season. The Toronto Tecumsehs (officially the Tecumseh Hockey Club) were a team in the National Hockey Association in 1912-13. ...

The Blue Shirts played their first game on December 25, 1912 before 4,000 fans at Arena Gardens. The Toronto Hockey Club was owned by Quinn, managed by Ridpath, and initially coached by Tom Humphrey who was soon replaced by player-coach Jack Marshall. The team Ridpath put on the ice included Cully Wilson and future hall-of-famers Hap Holmes, Harry Cameron, Frank Foyston, and Frank Nighbor. The Blue Shirts finished the year in a tie for third place. Ridpath resigned as manager in October 1913. December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining in the year. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Carol Cully Wilson - (Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba) was a Professional Hockey player. ... Hap Holmes (1889 in Aurora, Ontario - 1940 was a Canadian professional ice hockey goalie who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League. ... Harry Cameron (February 6, 1890 in Pembroke, Ontario - October 20, 1953) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League. ... Frank Foyston (February 2, 1891 in Minesing, Ontario - January 19, 1966) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League and the Seattle Metropolitans and Victoria Cougars in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. ... Frank Nighbor (January 26, 1893 in Pembroke, Ontario - April 13, 1966) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League, Toronto Blueshirts of the National Hockey Association, and Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. ...

In 1914, at the end of their second season, the Blue Shirts won the Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal Canadiens in the NHA finals and the Victoria Aristocrats of the Pacific Coast Hockey League in the Cup finals. The Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy of the National Hockey League (NHL), the major professional ice hockey league in Canada and the United States. ... The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... Victoria Cougars logo from 1990-1994 The Victoria Cougars were a Pacific Coast Hockey Association (and after its merger with the Western Canadian Hockey League, the Western Hockey League) hockey team based in Victoria, British Columbia. ... The Pacific Coast Hockey League was an amateur ice hockey league with teams in western United States and Canada that played from 1944 to 1952. ...

The next season, the team fell to fourth place in the six-team NHA with a record of 8 wins and 12 losses (down from 13 wins and 7 losses). Ownership had moved to Montreal's Frank Robinson, who joined the Canadian military in 1915, leaving the Blue Shirts effectively rudderless. Sensing an opportunity, Eddie Livingstone, owner of the Toronto Shamrocks, purchased the Blue Shirts from Robinson and owned two NHA teams. Edward J. Livingstone (September 12, 1884 - September 11, 1945) was the founder of the Toronto Blueshirts, a predecessor of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL. Livingstone was born in Toronto, Ontario as the youngest of three children. ... The Toronto Shamrocks was the name of the Toronto Ontarios hockey team for the latter part of the 1914-15 season. ...

At the same time, the Pacific Coast Hockey Association—upset over the NHA's efforts to bring Cyclone Taylor back east—broke all ties with the NHA and conducted a player raid. The PCHA created a new team in Seattle and stocked it with the Blue Shirts' two leading scorers in Wilson and Foyston, their goaltender, Hap Holmes, and two other key members of the Toronto team in Jack Walker and Eddie Carpenter. The only regular Blue Shirt player to remain in Toronto was Cameron. To make up for the players lost in the raid, Livingstone transferred Shamrocks players to the Blue Shirts and allowed the Shamrock franchise to go dormant. The Blue Shirts, comprised mostly of former Shamrock players, skated to a record of 9 wins, 14 losses and 1 tie in the 1915-16 NHA season, finishing in last place in the five-team league. The Pacific Coast Hockey Association was a professional ice hockey league in western Canada, operating from 1911 to 1924 when it merged with the Western Canada Hockey League. ... Cyclone Taylor (June 23, 1884 in Tara, Ontario - June 10, 1979) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Senators, Vancouver Millionaires and Vancouver Maroons. ... The Seattle Metropolitans were an ice hockey team based in Seattle, Washington which played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1915 to 1924. ... Eddie Carpenter (Born - June 15, 1890 in Hartford, Michigan, USA) was an American professional ice hockey Defenceman who played 2 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Quebec Bulldogs and Hamilton Tigers. ... The 1915-16 season was the 7th season of the National Hockey Association. ...

Livingstone was frequently at odds with his fellow owners, particularly Sam Lichtenhein of the Montreal Wanderers. Tempers boiled over when the NHA added a second Toronto team in 1916-17, representing the 228th Battalion of the Canadian army. The 228th was forced to withdraw its team in mid-season when the unit was called overseas. That left the NHA with an odd number of teams, and the team owners—at a meeting that did not include Livingstone—decided to even-up the number of teams by suspending operations of the Blue Shirts for the rest of the season. Montreal Wanderers The Montreal Wanderers were a professional hockey team that played in Montreal, Quebec and one of the founding franchises of the National Hockey League in the 1917-18 NHL season. ... The 1916-17 NHA season was the 8th and final season of the National Hockey Association. ...

Before the start of the next season, the NHA owners announced that the league would not operate in the 1917-18 season. About two weeks later, all of the owners except Livingstone announced that they were creating a new league, the National Hockey League. Livingstone was not invited to participate in the new league. Arena Gardens was given a Toronto franchise in the NHL and made an arrangement with Livingstone to lease his Blue Shirts players for the inaugural 1917-18 NHL season. To Toronto fans, it would have looked like little had changed. The newspapers still called the team the Blue Shirts or the Torontos, as they always had. The team—consisting mostly of former Blue Shirt players—won the Stanley Cup in 1918. The next season, the team was known as the Toronto Arenas, which later became the Toronto St. Patricks and finally the Toronto Maple Leafs. NHL redirects here. ... See also Toronto Maple Leafs Toronto St. ... The 1917-18 NHL season was the 1st regular season of the NHL. Each team played 22 games, except for the Montreal Wanderers whose season was cut short due to their arena burning down. ... The Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy of the National Hockey League (NHL), the major professional ice hockey league in Canada and the United States. ... See also Toronto Maple Leafs Toronto St. ... The Toronto Maple Leafs are a National Hockey League team based in Toronto, Ontario. ... The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...

• League: NHA
• Home ice: Mutual Street Arena
• Stanley Cup final appearances: 1914 (won)

Mutual Street Arena was the home ice in Toronto, Ontario, Canada of several hockey clubs. ... The Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy of the National Hockey League (NHL), the major professional ice hockey league in Canada and the United States. ...

See also

• Toronto Arenas (1918-19) - will be directed to Toronto Maple Leafs
• Toronto St. Patricks (1919-27) - will be directed to Toronto Maple Leafs
• Toronto Maple Leafs (1927-Present)

See also Toronto Maple Leafs Toronto St. ... The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... The Toronto Maple Leafs are a National Hockey League team based in Toronto, Ontario. ... The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...

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