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The 1917–18 NHL season was the first season of the National Hockey League (NHL) professional ice hockey league. The league was formed after the suspension of the National Hockey Association (NHA). Play was held in two halves, December 19 to February 4, and February 6 to March 6. The Canadiens won the first half, and Toronto the second half. The Montreal Wanderers withdrew early in January 1918 after their rink, the Westmount Arena, burned down. Toronto won the NHL playoff and then won the Stanley Cup by defeating the PCHA's Vancouver Millionaires three games to two in a best-of-five series. ==League business== (詳細はArena Gardens to manage the Torontos and lease the players. There then followed a period of speculation in the newspapers as to whether Quebec would play in the new season and what would be the league organization. One name for the new league was speculated: the "National Professional Hockey League". If Quebec could play then the Toronto players would be dispersed; if Quebec could not play then the Toronto players would be loaned to a temporary Toronto franchise. Representatives of Ottawa, Quebec and the Montreal teams met on November 22, 1917, but adjourned without a decision. On November 26, 1917, representatives of the Ottawa, Quebec and Montreal NHA clubs met at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal. The decision to start a new league is finalized and announced. The decision was made to start a new league, the ''National Hockey League'', with the following provisions: * Constitution and rules the same as the NHA * Frank Calder elected president and secretary * M. J. Quinn of Quebec was named honorary president * Franchises were granted to Ottawa, Canadiens, Wanderers, * Quebec players to be disbursed among the other teams A Toronto franchise was to be operated 'temporarily' by the Arena Gardens while the Toronto ownership situation was resolved. The franchise uses the players of the Blueshirts, including those who had been transferred to other NHA teams for the second half of the 1916–17 NHA season. While Livingstone agreed to a lease of the team, the NHL owners do not intend to share any revenues from the players. Livingstone would sue for the team's revenues in 1918. George Kennedy, owner of the Canadiens, would later say: "The Toronto players belong as a body to the National Hockey League, for they were only loaned to the Toronto Arena Company, though Livingstone tried to make the Arena Company believe that he controlled those players"〔from as quoted in ''Holzman2002'', page 371.〕 The team played without a nickname for the season. According to Holzman, the NHL itself was intended to operate temporarily until the Toronto NHA franchise was resolved. The NHA had a pending lawsuit against the 228th Battalion, and could or would not fold until after that was heard. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1917–18 NHL season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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