The National Hockey League is the most popular organization that players from around the world are working hard to join. NHL clubs have their own logo, tradition and history. Some people in the last century who were part of this tournament became legendary, instead they had new candidates to join this hockey tournament.

The origin of NHL

The history of the most prestigious unified hockey clubs from the US and Canada dates back to 1917. After the National Hockey Association had disputes and disagreements on a number of key issues, it has been replaced by the NHL. The NHL hockey clubs participating in the first season of 1917/1918 had only 4 cities. They are Montreal, Quebec, Toronto and Ottawa.

The owner of the team from Toronto, due to a need to reorganize, until in the end did not believe that the members of the organizing committee decided to exclude him and the Blueshirts from the association. After prolonged negotiations, however, Edward Livingstone still agreed not to expel the team from the hockey tournament, however, he promised to sell the club within five days.

After that was the resignation of NHA President Charles Robinson and the association ceased to exist. The owner of the first Stanley Cup was the same team from Toronto. However, it was renamed and given care to the local stadium. Livingston did not lose hope to win back the club and filed a lawsuit against the hockey tournament, winning unsuccessfully.

The early years were difficult

In its first decade of existence, the tournament was simply fighting for its existence in this business. Despite this precarious position of the new organization, teams participating in the national tournament, have won the Stanley Cup seven times in nine years.

Then the players were able to raise their salaries to a level that the Pacific Coast Hockey Association could not even dream of. NHL clubs, since 1925, have only grown and by 1930 there were 10 of them.