Toronto Blueshirts

Toronto Hockey Club
List of Toronto Hockey Club seasons
Founded1911
HistoryToronto H.C.
19121917
Home arenaArena Gardens
CityToronto, Ontario
Team coloursBlue
 
Owner(s)Percy Quinn 1911–1913
Frank Robinson 1911–1915
Eddie Livingstone 1915–1918
Stanley Cups1 (1913–14)

The Toronto Hockey Club, known as the Torontos and the Toronto Blueshirts, were a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto. They were a member of the National Hockey Association (NHA). The club was founded in 1911 and began operations in 1912. The club won its sole Stanley Cup championship in 1914.

The club became the centre of a controversy among NHA owners leading to the NHA suspending operations and the owners forming the National Hockey League (NHL). The Blueshirts were replaced in the NHL by a new Toronto Hockey Club under the ownership of the Toronto Arena Company, the Blueshirts' former landlord. The Torontos' players were leased to the Arena ownership temporarily and competed in the NHL in 1917–18, winning the Stanley Cup. The Arena Company was then granted a permanent franchise for the 1918–19 season that evolved into today's Toronto Maple Leafs.


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