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The New York Islanders didn’t find much early success against their New York City rivals after joining the NHL for the 1972-73 season. Faci...

It was just the second game of their existence. The Kansas City Scouts started play in the National Hockey League in 1974-75, along with the...

The Pittsburgh Penguins entered the National Hockey League as an expansion franchise in 1967-68. The New York Islanders were an expansio...

The 1981-82 National Hockey League season was the end of an evenly distributed regular season schedule. Teams now played more games agains...

The New York Islanders are a National Hockey League that began play in 1972-73 along with their expansion partners, the Atlanta Flames. ...

In 1993, four National Hockey League players entered the Hockey Hall of Fame. Three of the four starred on either the Montreal Canadiens...

Denis Potvin was to be the next Bobby Orr when picked by the New York Islanders in the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft. Although not quite achiev...

The Minnesota North Stars were one of the six expansion teams that doubled the size of the NHL for the 1967-68 season. The North Stars r...

Al Arbour played 626 games in the National Hockey League from 1953-54 to 1970-71. Yet it was his accomplishments as a head coach with th...

The 1979 NHL Entry Draft had one of the best first rounds ever. All 21 players selected in the first round went on to careers in the NHL...

The World Hockey Association existed for just seven years in the 1970’s. Most years, they ran an amateur draft alongside that of the Na...

The Bridgeport Sound Tigers joined the American Hockey League as an expansion franchise for the 2001-02 season. In their first year, t...

The 1970 NHL Amateur Draft was the first for the Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks and saw 14 teams select 115 players over 14 rounds. ...

In today’s National Hockey League, with advanced scouting and technology added to the fact that there are 30 teams and plenty of job open...