who were the original six teams in hockey?

Answer 1

Toronto Maple Leafs
Montreal Canadiens
Chicago Blackhawks
New York Rangers
Boston Bruins
Detroit Red Wings

Answer 2

The Original Six is the term used by fans of ice hockey in United States and Canada to refer to the six teams that made up the National Hockey League for the 25 seasons from the 1942-43 season to the league's expansion of 1967. They are:

* Montreal Canadiens (1909, charter member of NHL in 1917)
* Toronto Maple Leafs (charter member in 1917)
* Boston Bruins (1924)
* Detroit Red Wings (1926)
* Chicago Blackhawks (1926)
* New York Rangers (1926)

Answer 3

Montreal Canadiens
Toronto Maple Leafs
Boston Bruins
Detroit Red Wings
Chicago Blackhawks
New York Rangers

Answer 4

Montreal Canadiens
Toronto Maple Leafs
Detriot Red Wings
Chicago Blackhawks
New York Rangers
Boston Bruins
(& Ottawa Senators)

Answer 5

Montreal Canadians
New York Rangers
Toronto Maple Leafs
Chicago Blackhawks
Detroit Red Wings
Boston Bruins

Answer 6

Montreal Canadians
New York Rangers
Toronto Maple Leafs
Chicago Blackhawks
Detroit Red Wings
Boston Bruins

The term original six is a bit misleading though. There were many other teams before them, they were just the 6 in existence in the early 60's. The NY Americans existed before the Rangers, who played alongside them for a while (as a separate team) There were the Pittsburgh Pirates who later became the Philadelphia quakers (who lasted for all of a year) and several others.

Answer 7

Everyone's chiming in with names of the NHL's "Original Six (tm)," but the question is actually, "which are the original six hockey teams?" I will try to answer it as written, instead of assuming it's only a question about the NHL's brand-identity. The answer is that nobody knows, and it's an odd choice of a number.

"Original Six" is the advertising term used to describe the oldest surviving teams from what is currently the best league in ice hockey. This is how the NHL's six oldest teams in continuous operation have been advertised for over fifteen years, and the classification has helped create an aura of historical permanence around a league that has seen a lot of changes.

The National Hockey League started when three teams dropped out of an earlier four team league to spite the owner of the fourth club. Since then, it has had all sorts of teams, and the oldest ones that are currently around are billed as the "original six."

As a hockey fan, the distinction between these teams and the next few is fairly irrelevant. It's not like those are the only clubs anybody wants to watch or play for. Colorado, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New Jersey, Edmonton, Dallas and St. Louis are all attractive free agent destinations because they've performed well over the last thirty years. Boston, on the other hand, had to outbid Washington by a clean million per season (and offer a longer term) to sign Zdeno Chara last summer, even though Boston is an "original six" club and Washington doesn't even get snow every winter.

Which are the original six hockey teams, though? That's one for the ages, because hockey is older than the NHL. Even the Stanley Cup (first won by the Arenas, whom you have never heard of, in the first year of their brief existence) is older than the NHL, but hockey has been played, in various forms and on various continents, for centuries.

In fact, Canadian-style hockey is currently celebrating it's one hundredth anniversary of league-play in Russa, where the old style of hockey had involved larger goals, shorter sticks, an air-filled ball and no pads. Most historians place the origins of hockey as we know it either with the First Nations of present-day Canada, or as a mutual production between the First Nations and the first Europeans to venture into the West, but none of their team names have made it into the record-books.

Answer 8

Detroit Re Wings, Montreal Canadians, NY Rangers, Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Toronto Maple Leafs

Answer 9

Montreal Canadiens (1909, shape member of NHL in 1917) Toronto Maple Leafs (shape member in 1917) Boston Bruins (1924) Detroit pink Wings (1926) Chicago Blackhawks (1926) long island Rangers (1926)

Answer 10

Boston Bruins in Massaschusets
Chicago Blackhawks in Illinois
Detroit Red Wings in Michigan
Montreal Canadiens in Canada
New York Rangers in New York (NY)
Toronto Maple Leaf's in Canada
The year these six were the only ones was 1967-68