The NHL's First Season Was WILD

Рет қаралды 39,393

2 жыл бұрын

This video is sponsored by MyBookie
Head on over to MyBookie.ag and use promo code 'ODDMAN' to double your first deposit up to $1000!
For the last 105 years, the National Hockey League has not only been regarded as the premier level of competition that the sport has to offer, it has become the most successful and most profitable hockey league the world has ever seen!
Though the rulebook has been changed drastically and the overall level of play has seen vast improvement with each passing decade, the league has come a long way from it's early days. In fact, the 1917/18 NHL season saw a plethora of controversies both on and off the ice that would seem downright ridiculous in the year 2022! Whether it was a blazing fire that burned an arena to the ground, a team disbanding just 6 games into the season, a pair of players being arrested mid-way through the year or the circumstances that led to the creation of the league itself, the NHL's debut season was nothing short of scandalous!
So in today's video, let's explore exactly what happened during the league's inaugural season of play and discover exactly why the NHL's first season was northing short of WILD!
#NHL #Hockey #History #Sports #NationalHockeyLeague #Story #IceHockey #NHA #NationalHockeyAssociation
Become a Patron here: / oddmanrush
Twitter: / oddmanrushyt
Please feel free to like, subscribe share or watch some of my other videos and thank you very much for watching!

Пікірлер: 52

@OddManRush 2 жыл бұрын

*This video is sponsored by MyBookie* Head on over to MyBookie.ag and use promo code 'ODDMAN' to double your first deposit up to $1000!

@GoJamesBrownChannel 2 жыл бұрын

I'm curious to know where these players came from. I mean, nowadays most professional players begin training before they can walk, but back then were these guys just local guys working a job and playing some shinny for fun? How did we get from there to here? Thanks for another great video

@HauntedOne666 2 жыл бұрын

Thats a great question! You could find alot of answers by looking into certain players histories. Alot of players back then were working farm boys. who indeed played hockey for fun, but to be honest im not too sure on the particular paths these players took to get to where they are !

@MrZachtheKingsfan 2 жыл бұрын

Well judging how there was an official team composed of military players, I’m pretty sure there wasn’t much to making the team. Maybe they had like tryouts before every season started for any available slots on the team?

@drewskidrewski8945 2 жыл бұрын

I can tell you most players worked in the off season, as salaries were a joke.

@aaroncasillas861 2 жыл бұрын

Sadly the viewers changed everything. Not by vote but expectation

@GoJamesBrownChannel 2 жыл бұрын

@@aaroncasillas861 this feels like a line from a Tragically Hip song

@JohnMummery-wd2sg 10 күн бұрын

Thank you for making this. My grandfather played on the arenas. Harry Mummery. He won the cup with quebec bulldogs in 1912 1913 season and the in 1917 1918. He was paid 333.00 for the year and lived in Brandon Manitoba, where he was a locomotive engineer in the off season. To my knowledge he was the first american born player to play in the nhl. He was also the largest man in the league at 5' 11" 240 lbs. Seems small for this day and age. He was also a bit of a baby maker having 11 kids. Thanks again for making this it put a smile on my face.

@ll7868 2 жыл бұрын

That pic of Hull & Gretzky at the 1979 WHA All-Star game, I cut it out of the newspaper and framed it. They were and are my 2 favourite players of all time. I even used all Bauer gear as a kid & teen because The Golden Jet & my favourite NHL player Guy Lafleur used Bauer.

@milolabrett6549 2 жыл бұрын

The History of the Stanley cup is also very interesting, since at one time it was a Challenge cup and there has been a few different versions of the Stanley cup through out the years. I didn’t know this until I went to the Stanley cup vault at The Hockey Hall of fame in Toronto.

@edwardburek1717 2 жыл бұрын

A fire that burnt down the only suitable arena for big-time hockey in Montreal, a team that disbanded just because that team's owner didn't want anything to do with the French-speaking population, two players getting nicked by the Canadian rozzers, another player petulantly paying the rest of his fine in pennies, another team winning the championship but not able to pick up the league's championship trophy so the had to "make do" with the Stanley Cup, and the entire league being formed because one particular team owner was acting like a total dick. If the internet was available in 1917, this would have definitely been the first ever Weird NHL. What's even more weird? Not even so much as a mention of Gary Bettman.

@unaveragejoe7107 2 жыл бұрын

Very informative video, and quite interesting that the NHL started how it did. Almost foreshadowed how things would go throughout the history of the league.

@TheManFromDonair 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, you could also cover how the NHL appropriated the Stanley Cup, there's more sketchiness there too.

@MAPLECRASHtv 2 жыл бұрын

The NHL has gotta be one of the sketchiest leagues ever ngl, so much shadiness and awful decisions behind closed doors, even today.

@alexpace6799 2 жыл бұрын

I love videos about controversy in the nhl but they’re hard to find. I appreciate it when you make them

@ruithinks996 2 жыл бұрын

I once read that the NHL was only to be temporary thing until they finally had Livingstone out of their hair and to convert back to NHA. They likely decided why bother

@WayWillow 2 жыл бұрын

SEVERAL WORLD WARS 😱😱😱

@jhobaugh45 2 жыл бұрын

Video starts at 3:18

@alithesuperduperian3839 2 жыл бұрын

Really love these videos and how they dive deep into the rich history of the sport, keep it up bro!

@stevenbrodeur3023 2 жыл бұрын

Can you do a “whatever happed to: Petr Prucha” we were talking about that guy and he seemed so promising. What the hell happed to him!?

@coreyhill681 2 жыл бұрын

Could you do the history of every team, not all in one video, you could do them separately

@roybatty2680 2 жыл бұрын

Great research.

@goldenstardust7413 2 жыл бұрын

Not me thinking about nothing but how everything in this video would make for a banger Bardown quiz question

@ll7868 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine a GM today saying "My team sucks, other teams should give us their best players or we'll take our pucks and go home. Waaaah!"

@chichbab 2 жыл бұрын

Great video!

@JamesBeaucoup 2 жыл бұрын

What is the source for the Arena Hockey Team Champions of The World poster? I'm interested in finding out who designed it

@MrZachtheKingsfan 2 жыл бұрын

I find it funny that even when Toronto wins their playoff series, they still weren’t awarded that championship. Idk, that just seems so Toronto lol. Though, they did go on to win the Stanley Cup so it ended up working out.

@loganangus3138 2 жыл бұрын

I think this was your best video so far

@skacz1989 2 жыл бұрын

Strange how the Canadiens weren't able to capture the cup with Malone + Vezina on their side

@guylancaster2055 3 ай бұрын

What country is it the national league of?

@Enraged. 2 жыл бұрын

Back when Montreal wasn’t a dumpster fire :(

@exile220ify 2 жыл бұрын

300 American pennies? No wonder the league refused to accept them. I mean c'mon.... Canadian money only, folks! :)

@BrattyNerdGirl 2 жыл бұрын

Damn the NHL is a snoozefest now compared to this 🤣🤣. I also find it hilarious that George Vezina was the best goalie with a GAA of 3.93. And we named an award after this guy?

@islanders1779 2 жыл бұрын

Well look at the goalies now compared to then. Different style of play and not much equipment

@ll7868 2 жыл бұрын

Games had an average of 12 goals, most goalies had much higher averages and he was the first to record a shutout...a SO in a league that averages 12 goals per game, anything under .400 would be considered elite.

@BrattyNerdGirl 2 жыл бұрын

Oh I know it's just funny to think about how much the game has changed.

2 жыл бұрын

"Several World Wars"?

@tuucci5 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, but really annoying repeate of certain words, aint it folks?

@KidTonyGaming 2 жыл бұрын

What year did helmets become mandatory?

@gonuts4donuts 2 жыл бұрын

Any player who entered the league after June 1, 1979 had to wear a helmet, but any player who signed his first pro contract before then could opt out if they signed a waiver. Craig MacTavish was the last player to not wear a helmet during games. He retired at the end of the 1996-97 season. So essentially, from the time the NHL was formed, it wasn't until the 1997-98 season that every single player who stepped onto the ice would wear a helmet of some sort.

@KidTonyGaming 2 жыл бұрын

@@gonuts4donuts wow that's interesting seeing a rule not fully taking effect until 20 years later. Got love being grandfathered in. I missed out on seeing a helmetless NHL player by 2 years 😂😂

@gonuts4donuts 2 жыл бұрын

@@KidTonyGaming yeah, it was a sight to see lol. I was born in 1989, so I didn't get to see very many helmetless players as I remember starting to watch hockey around the 1993-94 season (thanks to my Canadian uncle). But I did get to see Craig MacTavish a couple times on TV playing against the Red Wings and then when St. Louis came to Detroit for the 1996 playoffs. It was strange seeing one guy with no helmet when I saw them during the playoffs. Unfortunately I wasn't at the famous Game 7 where Detroit won 1-0 in Double OT after Yzerman got a loose puck that Wayne Gretzky mishandled and buried a slapshot from the blue line. Back on the topic of helmets though, it wasn't even until 2006-07 when it was mandated that from that season onwards, all on-ice officials had to wear a helmet. No exceptions. There were still referees on ice with no helmets up until then believe it or not. One of the last to not wear one was the late Michael "Mick" McGeough. He wore one for two seasons until he retired in 2008.

@KidTonyGaming 2 жыл бұрын

@@gonuts4donuts now that you mention it, I do remember not seeing the zebras wear helmets in the mid 2000s. I remember when goalies we still able to wear Jason style mask then, they made wear catcher style mask and ruined the vibe

@HumanParaquat 2 жыл бұрын

2 minutes in to the first video I've seen of yours and I can tell that I'm gonna subscribe, but I'm also gonna get unreasonably annoyed many more times as you will undoubtedly add redundant "too"s to the many sentences. 2 in 2 min. And we're off!