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56-568: In 1974, the NHL ended its first significant expansion period , that had started in 1967, by adding teams in Kansas City, Missouri , and Washington, D.C. Kansas City Hockey Associates, led by managing general partner Edwin G. Thompson, originally consisted of 22 investors. It was awarded a franchise on June 8, 1972. Kansas City Hockey Associates was one of four groups that applied for the franchise. Missouri Lt. Governor William Morris (former owner of

112-705: A normal development. The 1991–92 season saw the addition of the San Jose Sharks , paying an expansion fee of $ 45 million ($ 100.7 million today). The Sharks were placed in the Smythe Division with the other West Coast teams. Two new teams joined the league the following season , the Ottawa Senators and the Tampa Bay Lightning , paying an expansion fee of $ 45 million each ($ 97.7 million today). The Senators were placed in

168-523: A record of 15–54–11 in their inaugural season, though this would be the better result of their two-season history. The team's second season started out with some promise. Near the midway point of the season, the team was competing for a playoff spot, with a 3–1 win over the California Golden Seals on December 28 placing them just one point behind the St. Louis Blues and a playoff position in

224-816: A return to the NHL, speaking with the Nashville Predators, New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins about possible relocation. Presently Kansas City has the Mavericks of the ECHL , who play in Independence , 15 miles east of downtown. To this day, the Devils make almost no mention of their past as the Scouts or Rockies; the Devils' media guide and the history sections of the Devils' website do not acknowledge any captains, coaches or general managers prior to

280-489: A viable venture and opted to sell. While the Capitals were far worse on the ice, their owner, Abe Pollin , had the financing and the patience to absorb the typical struggles of a 1970s expansion team. The Scouts were put up for sale with a Denver -based group led by oilman Jack A. Vickers looking to buy the club. A local group, according to author Troy Treasure, led by Scouts' limited partners Gene Novorr and George Shore,

336-489: Is an indoor arena located at Yoyogi Park in Shibuya , Tokyo , Japan, which is famous for its suspension roof design. It was designed by Kenzo Tange and built between 1961 and 1964 to be the aquatics center during the 1964 Summer Olympics , with the annex used for basketball events. It was also the venue for the handball competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics . The design inspired Frei Otto 's arena designs for

392-468: Is located in Penn Valley Park and overlooks downtown . The iconic statue was featured on the team's logo . The hockey club's logo was designed by lettering artist Gary Sartain of Kansas City-based Hallmark Cards in 1973 on a free-lance basis. Sartain's daughter, Sheila Snyder, told author Troy Treasure in 2018 her mother indicated Sartain was paid $ 2,000. On October 9, 1974, the Scouts took

448-604: The 1934–35 season , the Ottawa Senators relocated, becoming the St. Louis Eagles . The Eagles folded after one season, and the NHL was once again an eight-team league for three seasons. The Montreal Maroons withdrew from the league for the 1938–39 season , further reducing the number of teams in the NHL to seven, shrinking to the size the league was in 1925–26. Play continued for four seasons with seven teams, with one single league table instead of any conference or divisions. The New York Americans changed their name to

504-566: The 1979–80 NHL season . Four teams came over from the WHA, paying an expansion fee of $ 7.5 million each ($ 31.5 million today). These new NHL teams were the Edmonton Oilers , Hartford Whalers , Quebec Nordiques , and the original Winnipeg Jets . This also doubled the number of Canadian teams in the league. Standing at 21 teams for twelve seasons, this was one of the longer periods of league stability, though surpassed by twenty-five seasons of

560-869: The 1980–81 season , Atlanta relocated to become the Calgary Flames . For the 1981–82 season , the teams were realigned to reduce travel. Also, the Norris Division moved to the Campbell Conference and the Patrick Division moved to the Wales Conference. For the 1982–83 season , the Colorado Rockies relocated to become the New Jersey Devils . The team was moved to the Patrick Division, while

616-551: The Brooklyn Americans for the 1941–42 season , their last. The 1942–43 season saw the folding of the Brooklyn Americans and ushered in an unprecedented era of franchise stability in the NHL, which lasted without any organizational changes for twenty-five seasons. Eventually, the six teams that competed in the league during this period would come to be known as the Original Six . The 1967 expansion doubled

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672-776: The Cleveland Barons , and the Kansas City Scouts moved to become the Colorado Rockies . For the first time since the 1942–43 season , the NHL contracted, merging the Cleveland Barons into the Minnesota North Stars . The North Stars then took the Barons' place in the Adams Division. Following seven seasons of revenue draining competition, the NHL–WHA merger was completed for the start of

728-605: The Dallas Stars . The league changed the conference names from Wales and Campbell to Eastern and Western , respectively, and changed the division names from Adams , Patrick , Norris , and Smythe to Northeast , Atlantic , Central , and Pacific , respectively. Finally, the league realigned several teams. With the expansion Mighty Ducks joining the Pacific Division in the Western Conference,

784-614: The Metropolitan Division , and the two seven-team divisions in the Western Conference would be the Central Division and the Pacific Division . The Phoenix Coyotes changed their name to Arizona Coyotes for the 2014–15 season . Yoyogi National Gymnasium Yoyogi National Gymnasium , officially Yoyogi National Stadium ( Japanese : 国立代々木競技場 , Hepburn : Kokuritsu Yoyogi Kyōgi-jō )

840-642: The National Basketball Association . The arrival of the Scouts and Washington Capitals resulted in the NHL creating four divisions and renaming the conferences, and the Scouts were placed in the Smythe Division of the Campbell Conference with Missouri's other NHL franchise, the St. Louis Blues . The owners of the new Kansas City franchise originally wanted to call their team the "Kansas City Mohawks", since

896-455: The New Jersey Devils in the fall of 1982 . The last Scouts player on the Rockies' active roster was goaltender Bill McKenzie , who last played for the franchise on April 4th, 1980. The last active Scouts player in the NHL was the Scouts' first ever drafted player, Wilf Paiement , who retired in 1988. The Scouts and the California Golden Seals , who moved to become the Cleveland Barons

952-713: The Original Six , when no additions, moves, nor name changes occurred. The Nordiques were placed in the Adams Division, the Whalers in the Norris, and the Oilers and the Jets in the Smythe. The Washington Capitals moved from the Norris to the Patrick Division. The divisions were effectively meaningless as all teams played a balanced schedule and each round of the playoffs was re-seeded by league point standings rather than divisional. For

1008-690: The Philadelphia Quakers , and Detroit was renamed the Detroit Falcons . After fourteen seasons of steady expansion, the NHL contracted to eight teams, dropping the Philadelphia Quakers and the original Ottawa Senators for the 1931–32 season . For the 1932–33 season , after missing one season, the original Ottawa Senators rejoined the NHL, and the Detroit Falcons were renamed the Detroit Red Wings . For

1064-508: The Winnipeg Jets took their place in the Smythe Division. The Chicago Black Hawks changed their name to Chicago Blackhawks for the 1986–87 season . In 1990, the owners developed a plan to expand the NHL to 28 teams within a decade. The plan was enacted, creating ten years of rapid expansion and relocation in the NHL. While the pace of expansion and relocation slowed after the 1999–2000 season , growth and change continued to be

1120-622: The Winnipeg Jets , beginning in the 2011–12 season . The team remained in the Southeast Division. The 2011 relocation of the former Atlanta Thrashers franchise to the Winnipeg Jets prompted the league to discuss realignment. However, disagreement between the NHL Board of Governors and the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) caused it to be pushed to 2013. On December 5, 2011,

1176-816: The following 1926–27 season , adding the Chicago Black Hawks , the Detroit Cougars , and the New York Rangers , growing to ten teams, thus more than doubling its size in its first decade of existence. The league realigned into two divisions: the American Division and the Canadian Division . Despite its name, the Canadian Division contained at least one team based in the U.S. throughout its existence. At

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1232-704: The Adams Division, and the Lightning in the Norris, so all four divisions would have six teams each. The next season , another two teams were added, the Florida Panthers and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim , paying an expansion fee of $ 50 million each ($ 105.5 million today), with Anaheim paying an additional $ 25 million ($ 52.7 million today) to the Los Angeles Kings for infringing on their region. The Minnesota North Stars relocated, becoming

1288-759: The Central Division. The Toronto Maple Leafs were the only team to switch conferences, moving from the Western to the Eastern and the Northeast Division, rejoining classic East Division and Adams Division rivals for the first time since the respective 1973–74 and 1980–81 seasons. The 1999–2000 season saw another team start play, the Atlanta Thrashers , paying the same expansion fee of $ 80 million ($ 146.3 million today) as

1344-686: The Central Hockey League's Kansas City Blues), Stan Glazer and Arthur Rhoades headed up the other three potential ownership groups. Kemper Arena was constructed to host the team's home games. Kansas City had been the home of several minor league ice hockey teams through the years. The Scouts shared Kemper Arena with the Kansas City Kings (the Kings were officially the Kansas City-Omaha Kings from 1972-75) of

1400-712: The East and the Winnipeg Jets moving to the West. The NHLPA officially gave its consent to the NHL's proposed plan on March 7, and then the NHL's Board of Governors approved the realignment on March 14, to be implemented prior to the 2013–14 season. The league then announced the names of the divisions on July 19: the two eight-team divisions in the Eastern Conference would be the Atlantic Division and

1456-579: The Islanders paying an additional $ 5 million ($ 36.4 million today) to the New York Rangers for infringing on their territory. The Islanders were placed in the East and the Flames were placed in the West. Two more teams joined for the 1974–75 NHL season , the Washington Capitals and the Kansas City Scouts , but the ongoing competition from the WHA meant that the overall revenue stream of

1512-529: The Kansas City metropolitan area includes portions of Missouri and Kansas . The name would have combined Missouri's postal abbreviation (MO) and the Kansas nickname of " Jayhawkers ". However, the Chicago Black Hawks objected because of the similarity of "Mohawks" to their own name. The team then held a contest for people to name the new team. The name "Scouts" was chosen, named after The Scout which

1568-456: The Midwest, poor performances on the ice and weak attendance. The Scouts averaged just 8,218 per game during their two years in the 17,000-seat Kemper Arena (at a time when the league average was approximately 13,000). The team's group of 37 owners, buried in debt, mounted a season-ticket drive to raise more revenue. When only 2,000 more season tickets sold, they concluded that the Scouts were not

1624-564: The NHL Board of Governors originally approved a conference realignment plan to move from a six-division setup to a four-conference structure. However, on January 6, 2012, the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) rejected that proposed realignment. A new joint NHL-NHLPA plan was proposed in February 2013 as a modification of the previous plan with both the Columbus Blue Jackets and Detroit Red Wings moving to

1680-485: The NHL had not improved, so the league kept the expansion fee for new owners at the $ 6 million ($ 37.1 million today) of two years and four years earlier. The earnings situation for the new franchises was so poor that (at least) the Capitals were able to negotiate a reduction to a total fee of $ 2.85 million ($ 17.6 million today). With 18 teams, the league realigned into four divisions and two conferences. The teams were mixed up regardless of North American geography, and thus

1736-859: The NHL in its eighth season , the Boston Bruins , the first expansion team in the United States, and the Montreal Maroons . The next season , the NHL added two new teams, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the New York Americans . The Americans were stocked by purchasing the contracts of the Hamilton Tigers players, and the Tigers franchise was subsequently revoked by the league. The NHL continued to expand

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1792-602: The Northeast Division in the East to the Pacific Division in the West. For the 1996–97 season , the original Winnipeg Jets relocated to become the Phoenix Coyotes . The team remained in the Central Division. For the 1997–98 season , the Hartford Whalers relocated to become the Carolina Hurricanes . The team remained in the Northeast Division. The Nashville Predators joined

1848-458: The Oakland Seals. The Oakland Seals were renamed the Bay Area Seals for two games before changing their name again to the California Golden Seals for their fourth season in 1970–71 . The same season the NHL added two new teams, the Buffalo Sabres and the Vancouver Canucks , paying an expansion fee of $ 6 million each ($ 47.1 million today). The Sabres and the Canucks were placed in the East (partially as an effort to provide greater balance between

1904-453: The Predators a year earlier. The Thrashers were placed in the Southeast Division. For its 2000–01 season , the NHL added the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Minnesota Wild , each paying the same expansion fee of $ 80 million ($ 141.5 million today) as Nashville and Atlanta in the previous two years. The Blue Jackets were placed in the Central Division and the Wild in the Northwest so that all six divisions would each have five teams. For

1960-436: The Scouts defeated Washington 4–2. Thus, Kansas City won its final game but it did not count in the NHL standings. In their two seasons, the Scouts went through three coaches– Bep Guidolin , Sid Abel (three-game interim stint), and Eddie Bush . Guidolin resigned during the 1975–76 season following a dispute with management over player personnel. The team had two captains, Simon Nolet and Guy Charron . Steve Durbano led

2016-439: The Scouts ever played took place in Japan. Following the conclusion of the 1975–76 regular season, Kansas City and Washington participated in an exhibition series with the first two games played in Sapporo (site of the 1972 Winter Olympics), the third and fourth in Tokyo at Yoyogi National Gymnasium , site of the swimming and diving competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics. The Capitals won the first three contests. On April 18, 1976,

2072-431: The Wanderers withdrew from the league due to their arena burning down, and the NHL continued that season and the next with only three teams. In its third season, 1919–20 , the NHL underwent its first expansion, adding the Quebec Bulldogs . Toronto changed its name to Toronto St. Patricks . For the 1920–21 season , Quebec relocated to Hamilton and changed their name, becoming the Hamilton Tigers. Two new teams joined

2128-447: The divisions, and also so they would have rivalries with the other two Canadian teams), while the Chicago Black Hawks moved to the West. Two more teams joined for the 1972–73 NHL season , the New York Islanders and the Atlanta Flames . With the competing World Hockey Association (WHA) starting that same season, the NHL was not able to raise its expansion fee from the price of two years earlier, $ 6 million ($ 43.7 million today), with

2184-435: The first NHL goal at Kemper Arena three minutes into the game. Rookie first-round draft selection Wilf Paiement scored the first Scouts goal. The following day the team's first victory came against the Washington Capitals by a score of 5–4 at Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland. Peter McDuffe was the winning goaltender for Kansas City. Like many other expansion teams, the Scouts performed poorly garnering only 41 points with

2240-429: The ice for the first time, at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto , and lost 6–2 to the Maple Leafs . Team captain Simon Nolet scored the first-ever goal in club history. To allow construction to be completed on Kemper Arena, the Scouts played their first eight games on the road, where they lost seven and tied one. The Scouts made their home debut on November 2, losing to the Black Hawks 4–3. Chicago's Ivan Boldirev scored

2296-415: The league for the 1998–99 season , paying an expansion fee of $ 80 million ($ 149.5 million today). The league also realigned to a strictly geographic six-division structure, with three per conference. The Eastern Conference had the Atlantic , Northeast , and Southeast divisions, while the Western Conference had the Central , Northwest , and Pacific divisions. The expansion Predators were placed in

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2352-408: The league in penalty minutes during the 1975–76 season. The franchise failed to make the playoffs in either season in Kansas City and won only 27 of 160 games, including a 7–66–7 mark away from home. With the 1972 startup of the rival World Hockey Association (WHA) resulting in a combined 32 teams between the NHL and the WHA, the talent available to stock the new teams in Kansas City and Washington

2408-439: The move to New Jersey. However, inside of the Prudential Center , the Devils home rink, there is a mural on the second floor that shows the former arenas of the Rockies and Scouts, along with Devils' original (1982–2007) New Jersey home, the Brendan Byrne Arena . For the 2022–23 New Jersey Devils season , the Devils unveiled a new Scouts' themed Reverse Retro jersey . The white sweater has red, yellow and blue piping, similar to

2464-410: The new conferences and divisions were not named after geographical references. The East Division became the Prince of Wales Conference and consisted of the Adams Division and Norris Division . The West Division became the Clarence Campbell Conference and consisted of the Patrick Division and Smythe Division . Going into the 1976–77 NHL season , the California Golden Seals relocated to become

2520-410: The next 17 seasons, the NHL maintained 30 teams, the second longest period of membership stability in its history, the first being the Original Six . The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim changed their name to the Anaheim Ducks in the 2006–07 season . The newly renamed Ducks would win the Stanley Cup that season. The Atlanta Thrashers relocated to Winnipeg, Manitoba , becoming the second version of

2576-399: The number of teams in the league, with an upfront expansion fee of $ 2 million each ($ 18.3 million today). For the 1967–68 season , six new teams were added to the NHL: the California Seals , the Los Angeles Kings , the Minnesota North Stars , the Philadelphia Flyers , the Pittsburgh Penguins , and the St. Louis Blues . Within a month into their first season, the California Seals became

2632-460: The original Winnipeg Jets left the Pacific for the Central, the Tampa Bay Lightning left the Central Division and Western Conference for the Atlantic and the Eastern, respectively, and the Pittsburgh Penguins left the Atlantic Division for the Northeast to make room for the expansion Florida Panthers. For the 1995–96 season , the Quebec Nordiques relocated to become the Colorado Avalanche . The team also switched conferences, moving from

2688-458: The predecessor league, and eventually grew to thirty-two in its current state. The NHL has expanded and contracted numerous times throughout its history , including in 1979 when four teams came over from the World Hockey Association (WHA). The four teams that began the inaugural NHL season were the Montreal Canadiens , the Montreal Wanderers , the original Ottawa Senators , and the Toronto Arenas . However, after completing four games,

2744-417: The same time, the Stanley Cup was contested between two NHL teams for the first time instead of at least one from an outside league. Midway through the 1926–27 season, the Toronto St. Patricks were sold and renamed the Toronto Maple Leafs , however the league ruled the team must use the St. Patricks name until season's end. For the 1930–31 season , the Pirates moved from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, becoming

2800-452: The same year, were the first NHL teams to relocate since the 1934–35 season. Following the departure of the Scouts, Kansas City became a minor league hockey town again, most notably with the Kansas City Blades operating from 1990 to 2001 in the International Hockey League . Within a few years of the Blades' departure, plans started for what is now the T-Mobile Center in downtown Kansas City, which has led city officials to actively pursue

2856-470: The uniforms worn in Kansas City, albeit the Scouts logo is replaced with the Devils logo. Additionally, that same season, the Devils celebrated their 40th anniversary. Unlike with prior anniversaries (10th, 20th, 30th), the Devils treated it as "40 years in Jersey", acknowledging the franchise existed prior to 1982. Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties minutes Dick Carlson

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2912-452: The weak Smythe Division. However, the Scouts went into free fall for their remaining 44 games. After going winless from December 30 to February 4 (0–14–2), they finally won a game, against the Capitals on February 7, before going 0–21–6 for the rest of the season. The Scouts' second-half crash left them with a season result of 12–56–12 and 36 points, still the worst record in the Scouts/ Rockies / Devils franchise's history. The last four games

2968-424: Was also interested but when the NHL informed the Scouts' owners that they would be on the hook of over a million dollars in expansion and territorial fees (owed the St. Louis Blues ) if they didn't sell to Vickers, they reluctantly did so on July 26, 1976. After just two seasons in Kansas City, the club became the Colorado Rockies . They played six NHL seasons in Denver, then relocated to the East Coast and became

3024-452: Was an independent station distributed in the Midwest via cable television, including the cities of Des Moines, Iowa and Wichita, Kansas. History of organizational changes in the NHL#Original Six and expansion years The following is a complete history of organizational changes in the National Hockey League (NHL). The NHL was founded in 1917 as a successor to the National Hockey Association (NHA), starting out with four teams from

3080-464: Was stretched thin. In their first season, the Capitals set an NHL record for futility, losing 67 of 80 games, and winning only one on the road. The Scouts fared only marginally better (losing 56 games), and the 1974 NHL expansion was widely seen as having been a mistake. Attendance tailed off so much that the NHLPA wondered if the Scouts would make payroll. The Scouts suffered from inflated player costs, undercapitalized ownership, an economic downturn in

3136-415: Was the radio play-by-play announcer in 1974–75 on WDAF (AM) with simulcasts on KBMA-TV (now KSHB-TV ) beginning in 1975–76 . Following the Scouts departure, Carlson called Major League Baseball games for the Kansas City Royals and Cincinnati Reds. He died in 2004, age 60. In 1974–75, Gene Osborn was the sole television play-by-play announcer, also on KBMA, with analysis provided by Bill Grigsby. KBMA

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