Toronto Blueshirts

The Toronto Blue Shirts were a professional ice hockey team from Toronto, Ontario. The team that officially Toronto Hockey Club was founded, 1911. Often was on at the Blue Shirts spoken by the Toronto.

History

In 1911 the team of the Toronto Blue Shirts was founded and played in the NHA, together with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, the four teams who later shared the National Hockey League founded. With the Blueshirts and the Toronto Tecumseh came as a second team in Toronto in the league.

When it became clear that the Mutual Street Arena could not be completed in time for the upcoming season in Toronto, the two teams were taken for the 1911/12 season in the league. The Blushirts denied their first game on December 25, 1912 4,000 spectators.

The team had a few players like Hap Holmes and Frank Nighbor in its ranks. Already in the second season of the team, the team qualified by winning in the NHA Finals against the Montreal Canadiens for the final series for the Stanley Cup and this could also against the Victoria Aristocrats from the Pacific Coast Hockey Association ( PCHA ) win.

The owner of the Blue Shirts, Frank Robinson, an entrepreneur from Montreal, went into the army in 1915 and left the team back leaderless. Edward J. Livingstone, who already owned the Toronto Shamrocks in the NHA, now also bought the Blue Shirts. At the same time it was dismayed that the NHA tried Cyclone Taylor retrieve from Vancouver in the NHA. The PCHA was increased, and the new team in Seattle undertook numerous players the Blueshirts, including the two top scorers Wilson and Foyston and Hap Holmes, the goalkeeper of the team. The Blueshirts was only Harry Cameron. Livingstone stopped the team with players of shamrocks and shamrock then wanted to sell. After this failed, put the team in a season.

Livingstone was with many owners of other teams in the clinch and the conversations often ended in a contentious dispute. The minds Especially when another team was stationed in Toronto with the 228th Battalion cooked through. The 228th Battalion was launched during the season in the war and left the league back with an odd number of teams. The owners of the teams met without Livingstone and decided by suspending the Blueshirts to come back to teams on an even number.

Next year, the NHA was disbanded and re-founded the NHL. Again Livingstone was not invited. Were founded with the Toronto Arenas is a new team. Most of the players came from the Blue Shirts. Livingstone was forced out of the environment. The fans took this change was hardly and the new team was often referred to as the Blue Shirts. After the Arenas had been renamed St. Patrick's, the primary team color was green. To the previous blue one only returned as from the St. Patrick's, the Toronto Maple Leafs were.

Former Players

  • Harry Cameron
  • Frank Foyston
  • Hap Holmes
  • Frank Nighbor
  • Cully Wilson

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