New York Americans

This Day in Hockey History – March 27, 1938 – The Game that Kept New York Awake

Decades before Frank Sinatra started crooning about heading for the Big Apple to be the king of the hill in the city...

This Day in Hockey History – September 26, 1925 and 1926 – Bigger, Broken, Bought, and Blue

On September 26, in back-to-back years, the NHL seemed to be saying, “We want more!” In 1925, the league expanded by...

This Day in Hockey History – March 15, 1941 – Two For the Price of None

Coach Dick Irvin decided to try something interesting on March 15, 1941. It was the final game of his first season coaching the...

This Day in Hockey History – January 11, 1941 – When NY Visits Toronto Everyone Behaves

Back-to-back penalty-free games in Toronto when New York teams were visiting. Was everyone on their best behavior or were the officials lax? The news...

This Day in Hockey History – December 15, 1925, 1929, 1979 – We Three Rinks

New York, Chicago, and Detroit set December 15 as opening or closing night when moving into new rinks. In 1925, the New York...

This Day in Hockey History – December 5, 1939 – Bruins’ Shore Nevermore

A little over ten years after Eddie Shore set the record for most fights in one game, on December 5, 1939, the...

This Day in Hockey History – December 2, 1925 – Pirates Come Home but Americans’ First

(Photo: The Pittsburgh Post Gazette) A year and a day after the Boston Bruins and Montreal Maroons played their first game, on...

This Day in Hockey History – November 7, 1896, 1936, and 1975 – New York State of Mind

(Photo: Spalding's official hockey guide 1913 archive.org, via Wikimedia Commons) New York played a big part in three events November 7th, approximately...