The league also had a rule that gave each team exclusive rights to negotiate contracts with promising local players within 50 miles of its home ice. (Montreal never missed the playoffs between 19 and Detroit and Toronto only missed three times each, leaving the other three teams to compete for the one remaining berth).
The Original Six era has been criticized for having a playoff system that was too easy (the top four teams in the regular season advanced to the playoffs) and for featuring too many dominant teams. The Americans suspended operations in the fall of 1942, leaving the NHL with just six teams.ĭespite various outside efforts to initiate expansion after the war (including attempted revivals of the Maroons and Americans franchises), the league's membership would remain at six teams for the next twenty-five seasons. The New York/Brooklyn Americans (which was one of the league's original expansion franchises along with the Bruins and Maroons) lasted longer, but World War II provided its own economic strains and also severely depleted the league's Canadian player base, since Canada entered the war in September 1939 and many players left for military service. Louis Eagles and the Montreal Maroons in succession to financial pressures. The NHL consisted of ten teams during the 1920s, but the league experienced a period of retrenchment during the Great Depression, losing the Pittsburgh Pirates\ Philadelphia Quakers, Ottawa Senators\ St.
While only Montreal and Toronto were charter members of the NHL in 1917, all six existing teams going into the 1967–68 expansion to twelve teams date to the league's first decade, and were commonly considered as a traditional set. The term, not contemporaneous to the era, originated no earlier than 1967. Of the Original Six, only the Toronto Maple Leafs have not advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals since the expansion.Īll of the other original six teams have appeared in at least three Finals since 1967 and have each won the cup at least once during the most recent 25 seasons (Toronto last won the Stanley Cup during the 1966–67 season when a team only had to win two rounds to claim the cup). These six teams are the Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs, all of which are still active franchises in the league.
The Original Six is a term for the group of six teams that made up the National Hockey League (NHL) for the 25 seasons between the 1942–43 season and the 1967 NHL Expansion.
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