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  Its formation was a reaction against Eddie Livingstone, owner of the NHA's Toronto Blue Shirts, by his fellow NHA owners.The owners of the other four NHA clubs--the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs--had already forced the Blue Shirts to suspend operations midway through the 1916-17 NHA season, and had enough votes to throw Livingstone out for good.However, rather than risk protracted legal action, they simply created a new leagueâ€"the NHL-and didn't invite Livingstone to join them, effectively leaving him in the NHA by himself.On paper, they also remained members of the NHA and were able to vote down Livingstone's attempts to keep that league operating.However, the Senators and the two Montreal clubs felt it would be unthinkable not to have a team from Toronto, Canada's second-largest city, in the new league.In addition, Toronto was home to the Mutual Street Arena, popularly known as the Arena Gardens--at the time, the only facility east of Manitoba with artificial ice.Accordingly, the new league granted a Toronto franchise to the owners of the Arena Gardens.The Gardens made a deal with Livingstone to lease his Blue Shirt players for the season and promised to return the players to Livingstone when the season ended.
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  Instead of returning the players to Livingstone, the Arena Gardens formed a new club, the Toronto Arena Hockey Club, with Arena auditor Hubert Vearncombe as president.
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  The Arena Gardens board then voted to bar non-NHL teams from playing there, effectively locking Livingstone out for good.Livingstone filed suit against the new club, an action that dogged the Arenas in their second season.
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  A court eventually ruled that Livingstone still had his club, but without competition, the players had the right to leave. (Ironically, this lack of competition was caused by the de facto shuttering of the NHA.) It further held that under the terms of the lease, the Arena Gardens still held the rights to the players.

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  1917-18 The primary conflict involved Toronto Blueshirts' owner Edward J. Livingstone.An ongoing source of controversy among fellow NHA owners, he was often accused of exploiting loopholes in league regulations to create what some viewed as unfair advantages, and had particularly incited the wrath of owners when he merged his two Toronto teams (the Ontarios and the Blueshirts) after the latter had been deprived of its top players.Livingstone sometimes offered contracts to other teams' members not to play hockey, and once campaigned to kick the Montreal Wanderers out of the league after the team tried to lure two of his top Blueshirts players.Throughout his battles with owners, Livingstone repeatedly threatened to start a rival league in the United States.In its final season (1916-17), the National Hockey Association was comprised of six teams: The Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, Toronto Blueshirts, and an army team from the Toronto-based 228th Battalion.Owners met in Montreal to consider the league's future on February 11, 1917, a day after members of the 228th Battalion, the most popular NHA team, were called into World War I action.Livingstone, unable to attend the meeting because of illness, was shocked to learn that owners had chosen to effectively eject him and the Blueshirts from the NHA.After the resignation of NHA president and Livingstone ally Frank Robinson, Livingstone stopped attending league meetings and sent a lawyer to represent his interests.
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  When owners convened on September 29, 1917, they demanded that Livingstone sell the Blueshirts within five days.Livingstone then negotiated a deal in which the Toronto Arena Gardens would take control of the Blueshirts' daily business, with Livingstone to eventually regain control if the NHA continued operations.In response, NHA owners met at Montreal's Windsor Hotel on November 26, 1917, and formed the National Hockey League, with the Canadiens, Wanderers, Senators, Bulldogs and newly-renamed Toronto Arenas as founding members.The NHL endured a rocky inaugural season in 1917-18, starting with the temporary shuttering of the Bulldogs.On January 2, 1918, the Westmount Arena in Montreal, home to the Wanderers and Canadiens, was destroyed in a fire.The Wanderers, already a shadow of its former self, folded in the wake of the fire, ending one of the most storied franchises in the early years of Canadian professional hockey.With the Bulldogs and Wanderers out, the NHL operated with just three teams for the remainder of its opening year, and through the second season.Though Livingstone had been shut out, one of his NHA ideas â€" a proposal for a split regular season â€" was adopted by the new league and integrated into its playoff system.The Toronto Arenas became the first NHL winner of the Stanley Cup, the annual trophy awarded since 1893 to the Canadian hockey champion.A furious Livingstone, meanwhile, failed in his attempt to collect a share of profits from the Arenas, then sued the team and the NHL.The dispute lingered through the 1930s, with the Arenas since renamed the Toronto St. Patricks and ultimately the Toronto Maple Leafs.History has looked back on Livingstone and the NHL's formation with a sense of irony: The man whom league owners had worked so hard to exclude was, in the words of Canadiens owner George Kennedy, the same figure that "made [the NHL] a real league".

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  The Toronto Maple Leafs organization was founded in 1917-1918 when a group of NHA owners decided to form the National Hockey League in order to shut out the much resented Eddie Livingstone owner of the Toronto Blue Shirts.

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  Its formation was a reaction against are the toronto maple leafs playing tonight Eddie Livingstone, owner of the NHA's Toronto Blueshirts, by his fellow NHA owners, who accused him of creating "unfair advantages" jokes toronto maple leafs for himself and his players of the toronto maple leafs team.While the owners of the other four clubs--the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs--had the toronto maple leafs baby sleeper votes to throw Livingstone out of the NHA, they knew such a move would result in protracted legal toronto maple leafs backgrounds action.Their solution was to pull out of the NHA and toronto maple leafs home page create a new league--the NHL--which effectively left Livingstone in a one-team league.
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  Charlie Querrie lost a lawsuit to Livingstone, and Querrie decided to put the toronto maple leafs hockey tickets St. Pats up for sale.

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  Its formation was a reaction against Eddie Livingstone, owner of the NHA's Toronto Blueshirts, by his fellow NHA owners.The owners of the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs were eager to disassociate themselves from Livingstone.However, rather than expel him, they created a new leagueâ€"the NHLâ€"and didn't invite Livingstone to join them.On paper, they also remained members of the NHA and were able to vote down Livingstone's attempts to keep that league operating.However, the other clubs felt it would be unthinkable not to have a team from Toronto in the new league.Accordingly, the new league granted a Toronto franchise to the owners of Arena Gardens, which made a deal with Livingstone to lease his Blue Shirt players for the season, with the agreement that they would return the players to Livingstone when the season ended.

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  1917-18 The primary conflict involved Toronto Blueshirts' owner Edward J. Livingstone.An ongoing source of controversy among fellow NHA owners, he was often accused of exploiting loopholes in league regulations to create what some viewed as unfair advantages, and had particularly incited the wrath of owners when he merged his two Toronto teams (the Ontarios and the Blueshirts) after the latter had been deprived of its top players.Livingstone sometimes offered contracts to other teams' members not to play hockey, and once campaigned to kick the Montreal Wanderers out of the league after the team tried to lure two of his top Blueshirts players.Throughout his battles with owners, Livingstone repeatedly threatened to start a rival league in the United States.In its final season (1916-17), the National Hockey Association was comprised of six teams: The Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, Toronto Blueshirts, and an army team from the Toronto-based 228th Battalion.Owners met in Montreal to consider the league's future on February 11, 1917, a day after members of the 228th Battalion, the most popular NHA team, were called into World War I action.Livingstone, unable to attend the meeting because of illness, was shocked to learn that owners had chosen to effectively eject him and the Blueshirts from the NHA.After the resignation of NHA president and Livingstone ally Frank Robinson, Livingstone stopped attending league meetings and sent a lawyer to represent his interests.
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  When owners convened on September 29, 1917, they demanded that Livingstone sell the Blueshirts within five days.Livingstone then negotiated a deal in which the Toronto Arena Gardens would take control of the Blueshirts' daily business, with Livingstone to eventually regain control if the NHA continued operations.In response, NHA owners met at Montreal's Windsor Hotel on November 26, 1917, and formed the National Hockey League, with the Canadiens, Wanderers, Senators, Bulldogs and newly-renamed Toronto Arenas as founding members.The NHL endured a rocky inaugural season in 1917-18, starting with the temporary shuttering of the Bulldogs.On January 2, 1918, the Westmount Arena in Montreal, home to the Wanderers and Canadiens, was destroyed in a fire.The Wanderers, already a shadow of its former self, folded in the wake of the fire, ending one of the most storied franchises in the early years of Canadian professional hockey.With the Bulldogs and Wanderers out, the NHL operated with just three teams for the remainder of its opening year, and through the second season.Though Livingstone had been shut out, one of his NHA ideas â€" a proposal for a split regular season â€" was adopted by the new league and integrated into its playoff system.The Toronto Arenas became the first NHL winner of the Stanley Cup, the annual trophy awarded since 1893 to the Canadian hockey champion.A furious Livingstone, meanwhile, failed in his attempt to collect a share of profits from the Arenas, then sued the team and the NHL.The dispute lingered through the 1930s, with the Arenas since renamed the Toronto St. Patricks and ultimately the Toronto Maple Leafs.History has looked back on Livingstone and the NHL's formation with a sense of irony: The man whom league owners had worked so hard to exclude was, in the words of Canadiens owner George Kennedy, the same figure that "made [the NHL] a real league".

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  After a series of disputes in the Canadian National Hockey Association (NHA) between Eddie Livingstone, owner of the Toronto Blueshirts and the owners of other teams, the owners of the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, and Quebec Bulldogs met at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal to talk about the NHA's future.

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  After a series of disputes in the Canadian National Hockey Association (NHA) between Eddie Livingstone, owner of the Toronto Blueshirts and the owners of other teams, the owners of the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs met at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal to talk about the NHA's future.

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  1917-18 The primary conflict involved Toronto Blueshirts' owner Edward J. Livingstone.An ongoing source of controversy among fellow NHA owners, he was often accused of exploiting loopholes in league regulations to create what some viewed as unfair advantages, and had particularly incited the wrath of owners when he merged his two Toronto teams (the Ontarios and the Blueshirts) after the latter had been deprived of its top players.Livingstone sometimes offered contracts to other teams' members not to play hockey, and once campaigned to kick the Montreal Wanderers out of the league after the team tried to lure two of his top Blueshirts players.Throughout his battles with owners, Livingstone repeatedly threatened to start a rival league in the United States.In its final season (1916-17), the National Hockey Association was comprised of six teams: The Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, Toronto Blueshirts, and an army team from the Toronto-based 228th Battalion.Owners met in Montreal to consider the league's future on February 11, 1917, a day after members of the 228th Battalion, the most popular NHA team, were called into World War I action.Livingstone, unable to attend the meeting because of illness, was shocked to learn that owners had chosen to effectively eject him and the Blueshirts from the NHA.After the resignation of NHA president and Livingstone ally Frank Robinson, Livingstone stopped attending league meetings and sent a lawyer to represent his interests.
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  When owners convened on September 29, 1917, they demanded that Livingstone sell the Blueshirts within five days.Livingstone then negotiated a deal in which the Toronto Arena Gardens would take control of the Blueshirts' daily business, with Livingstone to eventually regain control if the NHA continued operations.In response, NHA owners met at Montreal's Windsor Hotel on November 26, 1917, and formed the National Hockey League, with the Canadiens, Wanderers, Senators, Bulldogs and newly-renamed Toronto Arenas as founding members.The NHL endured a rocky inaugural season in 1917-18, starting with the temporary shuttering of the Bulldogs.On January 2, 1918, the Westmount Arena in Montreal, home to the Wanderers and Canadiens, was destroyed in a fire.The Wanderers, already a shadow of its former self, folded in the wake of the fire, ending one of the most storied franchises in the early years of Canadian professional hockey.With the Bulldogs and Wanderers out, the NHL operated with just three teams for the remainder of its opening year, and through the second season.Though Livingstone had been shut out, one of his NHA ideas â€" a proposal for a split regular season â€" was adopted by the new league and integrated into its playoff system.The Toronto Arenas became the first NHL winner of the Stanley Cup, the annual trophy awarded since 1893 to the Canadian hockey champion.A furious Livingstone, meanwhile, failed in his attempt to collect a share of profits from the Arenas, then sued the team and the NHL.The dispute lingered through the 1930s, with the Arenas since renamed the Toronto St. Patricks and ultimately the Toronto Maple Leafs.History has looked back on Livingstone and the NHL's formation with a sense of irony: The man whom league owners had worked so hard to exclude was, in the words of Canadiens owner George Kennedy, the same figure that "made [the NHL] a real league".
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  Livingstone was accused of creating unfair advantages for himself and his team.It was deemed unthinkable for the new league to not have a team in Toronto, so it was granted a new team, the Arenas (run by the Arena Gardens), but Livingstone would still get to lease his players to the team.

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  The primary conflict involved Toronto Blueshirts owner Edward J. Livingstone.An ongoing source of controversy among fellow NHA owners, he was often accused of exploiting loopholes in league regulations to create what some viewed as unfair advantages, and had particularly incited the wrath of owners when he merged his two Toronto teams (the Ontarios and the Blueshirts) after the latter had been deprived of its top players.Livingstone sometimes offered contracts to other teams' members not to play hockey, and once campaigned to kick the Montreal Wanderers out of the league after the team tried to lure two of his top Blueshirts players.Throughout his battles with owners, Livingstone repeatedly threatened to start a rival league in the United States.
  
  In its final season (1916-17), the National Hockey Association was comprised of six teams: The Montreal Canadians, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, Toronto Blueshirts, and an army team from the Toronto based 228th Battalion.Owners met in Montreal to consider the league's future on February 11, 1917, a day after members of the 228th Battalion, the most popular NHA team, were called into World War I action.Livingstone, unable to attend the meeting because of illness, was shocked to learn that owners had chosen to effectively eject him and the Blueshirts from the NHA.
  
  After the resignation of NHA president and Livingstone ally Frank Robinson, Livingstone stopped attending league meetings and sent a lawyer to represent his interests.
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  When owners convened on September 29, 1917, they demanded that Livingstone sell the Blueshirts within five days.Livingstone then negotiated a deal in which the Toronto Arena Gardens would take control of the Blueshirts' daily business with Livingstone, to eventually regain control if the NHA continued operations.
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  Though Livingstone had been shut out, one of his NHA ideas — a proposal for a split regular season — was adopted by the new league and integrated into its playoff system.The Toronto Arenas became the first NHL winner of the Stanley Cup, the annual trophy awarded since 1894 to the Canadian hockey champion.A furious Livingstone, meanwhile, failed in his attempt to collect a share of profits from the Arenas, then sued the team and the NHL.The dispute lingered through the 1930s, with the Arenas since renamed the Toronto St. Patricks and ultimately the Toronto Maple Leafs.History has looked back on Livingstone and the NHL's formation with a sense of irony: The man whom league owners had worked so hard to exclude was, in the words of Canadiens owner George Kennedy, the same figure that "made [the NHL] a real league".

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