Renfrew Creamery Kings
The Renfrew Creamery Kings were a Canadian ice hockey team from Renfrew, Ontario. The team played from 1909 to 1911 in the National Hockey Association.
History
After the local ice hockey team of the city Renfrew repeatedly failed in their efforts the reigning Stanley Cup champion Ottawa to challenge Senator from the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association, took the businessman John Ambrose O'Brien, whose hometown Renfrew was the team. Due to disagreements over the Stanley Cup challenges founded O'Brien 1909, the National Hockey Association, in the Renfrew is one of five founding members was, was during the ECAHA dissolved and replaced by the Canadian Hockey Association, from the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Shamrocks after bad average attendance and the associated resolution of the league during the season in 1910 also changed in the NHA.
In its premiere season, the Renfrew Creamery Kings, which were due to its expensive signings of players like Frank and Lester Patrick usually just called Millionaires occupied, only the third place and thus disappointed the high expectations. In the following season the Creamery Kings occupied in a reduced to five teams league again in third place and had the winners of ten points behind Ottawa. Finally turned team owner O'Brien noted that Renfrew was not big enough with 4,000 inhabitants for high-class professional sport and sold the franchise rights in 1911, whereupon Renfrew ceased the operation of gambling.
Members of the Hockey Hall of Fame
- Newsy Lalonde
- Frank Patrick
- Lester Patrick
- Didier Pitre
- Alf Smith
- Cyclone Taylor