Pre-NHL Hockey: What League Came Before?
Alessia Greenholt
2025-04-03 18:20:21
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Trace the history of the modern day NHL through the early semi-professional leagues. Over the years there have been many professional hockey leagues. This was especially true in the early 1900's until the NHL become solidified in the late 1920's. Leagues covered in this section include The Pacific Coast Hockey Association, the National Hockey Association and many of the first professional leagues.
Hector Hintz
2025-04-03 18:14:59
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The Amateur Hockey Association of Canada and the Ontario Hockey Association were among the first organized hockey leagues in Canada. Finally, in 1910, there were two major leagues operating in competition with each other. The Canadian Hockey Association listed Ottawa, Quebec, and three Montreal teams—the Shamrocks, the Nationals and the All-Montreal. The National Hockey Association had teams in Cobalt, Haileybury, and Renfrew and two in Montreal—the Wanderers and the Canadiens. Aware that the war would ruin them, the two leagues came to an understanding and merged into the single National Hockey Association, a seven-team league composed of Renfrew, Cobalt, Hailerbury, Ottawa, and three Montreal teams—the Shamrocks, the Wanderers and the Canadiens.
Hobart Torphy
2025-04-03 17:18:55
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The National Hockey League (NHL) was founded on November 26, 1917 in Montreal, Quebec. This followed a series of internal disputes within the National Hockey Association (NHA), which had controlled Canadian field hockey since 1909.
Ashley Jacobson
2025-04-03 16:18:47
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Prior to the first season of the National Hockey League (NHL), which began on December 19, 1917, there had been numerous seasons of ice hockey played by various amateur and professional leagues, often concurrently, dating back to the 1880s. These early leagues laid the foundation for the NHL. Below is a list of pre-NHL seasons by ice hockey leagues that are precursors of the National Hockey League.
The Amateur Hockey Association of Canada (AHAC) existed from 1886 to 1898. The National Hockey Association (NHA) existed from 1910 to 1917. The Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) existed from 1911 to 1924.
Alyce Goyette
2025-04-03 16:14:43
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National Hockey Association (1909-1917)*
(*League had team play for the Stanley Cup.)
Lionel Howell
2025-04-03 15:55:10
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NHA suspended operations in order to oust unwanted owner . Remaining league owners then started today's NHL. Founded to replace the NHA.
Ernest Hahn
2025-04-03 14:50:21
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Prior to the first season of the National Hockey League (NHL), which began on December 19, 1917, there had been numerous seasons of ice hockey played by various amateur and professional leagues, often concurrently, dating back to the 1880s. These early leagues laid the foundation for the NHL. Below is a list of pre-NHL seasons by ice hockey leagues that are precursors of the National Hockey League. The National Hockey Association (NHA) existed from 1910 to 1917. The Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) existed from 1911 to 1924.
Korbin Heaney
2025-04-03 14:31:39
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The history of the various professional leagues, especially in the early 1900's, shows how what we today call the NHL spread from many roots. The first recognized professional hockey league was the International Pro Hockey League (1905-1907). Then there was the Canadian Hockey Association (1909-1910), which was formed by the all-pro teams of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association. However, it folded after just two weeks of play. Another league, the National Hockey Association (1909-1917), was formed around Wanderers in opposition to the Canadian Hockey Association and was reorganized in 1917 as the National Hockey League.
Kristina Labadie
2025-04-03 14:04:18
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The National Hockey Association (NHA) existed from 1910 to 1917. The Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) existed from 1911 to 1924. The Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) existed from 1921 to 1926.
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