the league's inaugural season of play so in today's video let's explore why the nhl's first season was wild before we begin this video is sponsored by my bookie my bookie is an online gaming platform complete with traditional sports betting and exclusive contests that give you the chance to put your sports knowledge to the test and make some dough while you're at it too whether it's hockey football basketball or the ufc by using the promo code odd oddman at my bookie new customers who make their first deposit with my code will receive double the money to play with all the way up to one thousand dollars for example deposit a hundred dollars get two hundred dollars to play with it's really that simple folks my bookie also accepts a variety of payment options to give you the freedom you deserve with your money and they even accept popular cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin litecoin and ethereum so you can bet and withdraw your winnings with crypto whenever you want head on over to my bookie now and use the promo code oddman to double your first deposit of up to one thousand dollars and put your sports knowledge to the test that's promo code oddman to double your first deposit of up to one thousand dollars only at my bookie my bookie bet anything anytime anywhere minimum deposit of NUMBER_TOKEN dollars please gamble responsibly but anyway back to the video now in order to explore just how crazy the nhl's debut season was it's only right that we begin with the scandalous story behind the creation of the league itself during the final few seasons of the national hockey association's existence many of the nha's owners had become increasingly frustrated with toronto shamrock's owner eddie livingstone known for his combative nature especially when dealing with his fellow colleagues livingstone had angered his contemporaries by acquiring the toronto blue shirts team just before the start of the NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN season a move that made livingstone the only member to own multiple franchises within the league since his fellow owners disliked the idea of one member owning multiple teams and holding more negotiating power than the rest of the group the owners asked livingstone to sell his shamrocks club to someone else something livingstone agreed to do however after several months had passed and the team hadn't been sold despite livingstone moving many of the shamrock's best players to the blue shirts roster and leaving the shamrocks as a shell of their former self on november NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN the nha's owners voted to seize the toronto shamrocks from livingstone and keep the team dormant for the following NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN season after spending the entire year on the sidelines the following NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN nha season saw the shamrocks replaced by a new toronto team comprised of soldiers from the NUMBER_TOKENth northern fusiliers battalion however midway through the year on february NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN the NUMBER_TOKENth got its orders to head overseas and fight in the first world war so the team was forced to withdraw from the nha as a result still bitter over livingstone's inability to sell the toronto shamrocks and having previously tried to remove him from the nha only to be stopped by the league's constitution just three days after the soldiers withdrawal on february NUMBER_TOKENth the nha's owners held
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN we begin this video is sponsored by my bookie my bookie is an online gaming platform complete with traditional sports betting and exclusive contests that give you the chance to put your sports knowledge to the test and make some dough while you're at it too whether it's hockey football basketball or the ufc by using the promo code odd oddman at my bookie new customers who make their first deposit with my code will receive double the money to play with all the way up to one thousand dollars for example deposit a hundred dollars get two hundred dollars to play with it's really that simple folks my bookie also accepts a variety of payment options to give you the freedom you deserve with your money and they even accept popular cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin litecoin and ethereum so you can bet and withdraw your winnings with crypto whenever you want head on over to my bookie now and use the promo code oddman to double your first deposit of up to one thousand dollars and put your sports knowledge to the test that's promo code oddman to double your first deposit of up to one thousand dollars only at my bookie my bookie bet anything anytime anywhere minimum deposit of NUMBER_TOKEN dollars please gamble responsibly but anyway back to the video now END_SPONSOR_TOKEN