The Vancouver Millionaires were a Institution of Ice Hockey Permanance.                                            The Stanley Cup, first awarded in 1893 would see many changes to the game ... KEEP READING »

Wayback Machine: How the Mets missed a dynasty Mother Nature and the military foiled Seattle’s chances for greatness. The Seattle Metropolitans won the Stanley Cup in 1917 and just missed winning two other times, in 1919 and 1920. Coach Pete Muldoon is standing far left; goalie Hap Holmes is standing, upper right; stars Frank Foyston and Bernie Morris are seated... KEEP READING »

Some Stanley Cup records will never be broken, and One Eyed Frank McGee will forever be a part of Stanley Cup Folklore. One Eyed McGee was born in Ottawa, Canada on November 4,1882. One of 9 children born to John Joseph McGee and Elizabeth Crotty. John Joseph McGee was Clerk of Privy Council and his brother Thomas D'Arcy McGee had been a Father of Confereration in Canada. A prominent Ottawa fam... KEEP READING »

  The First International Ice Hockey Game 1886   He was not a hockey player nor did he have any connection whatsoever with the sport, but when George Longley boarded the Montreal-bound train in Chicago in late February, 1885 he triggered a chain of events that would result in hockey history being made in Burlingto... KEEP READING »