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NHL History Lesson
by Paul on 09/09/07 at 06:40 AM ET
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from the Ottawa Citizen,
Since the “original six” teams in the NHL were Toronto, Montreal, Boston, New York, Chicago and Detroit, why was the league called the National Hockey League? It was clearly an international league to begin with, so why wasn’t it called the International Hockey League? Except for teams in Montreal and Toronto, there’s nothing original about the Original Six.
The National Hockey League began life in 1917 as a truly national league, with five Canadian teams, although only four actually played in the inaugural season.
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Points taken. The only one I take exception to is the AHL comment. Canada is in fact in America. Most people in the Western hemisphere are actually American, whether it be North, Central or South American. So, even with the Canadian teams in the AHL, it is still accurate to call it the American Hockey League.
I can’t fault a Canadian on this though, as I’d conservatively guess that 95% of U.S. citizens (a term that admittedly doesn’t roll off the tongue) don’t know that U.S. citizens are not exclusively Americans, that technically speaking, saying one is an American is not enough to uniquely identify oneself as a citizen of the United States. I suppose this term is going the way of many other words in that it has been appropriated for common use with a meaning other than its original definition.
I don’t know why, but that has always bugged me…
Posted by Andrew on 09/09/07 at 10:07 AM ET