Cobalt Silver Kings
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| founding | 1906 |
| resolution | 1911 |
| history |
Cobalt Silver Kings 1906-1911 |
| Location | Cobalt , Ontario |
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Timiskaming Professional Hockey League (1906–1909) National Hockey Association (1909–1910) Timiskaming Professional Hockey League (1910–1911) |
The Cobalt Silver Kings were a Canadian ice hockey team from Cobalt , Ontario . The team played among other things in the 1910 season in the National Hockey Association .
history
The Cobalt Silver Kings became a founding member of the Timiskaming Professional Hockey League in 1906 . In this they first played for three years, where they were financially supported by businessman Michael John O'Brien. After the team failed several times in their efforts to challenge the reigning Stanley Cup winner Ottawa Senators from the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association , its owner O'Brien founded the National Hockey Association in 1909 , of which Cobalt was one of five founding members, while the ECAHA was dissolved and replaced by the Canadian Hockey Association , from which the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Shamrocks also moved to the NHA in the course of the 1910 season after a poor attendance average and the associated dissolution of the league .
In their premiere season, the Cobalt Silver Kings, who had played the first game in NHA history on January 5, 1910 away with the Canadiens de Montréal , finished fourth. The team then lost financial support from O'Brien and returned to the Timiskaming Professional Hockey League for the 1910/11 season. When this was discontinued in 1911, the Cobalt Silver Kings were also dissolved.
Members of the Hockey Hall of Fame
literature
- Dan Diamond (Ed.): Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Hockey League . 1st edition. Total Sports, 1998, ISBN 0-8362-7114-9 .