Renfrew Creamery Kings
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| founding | 1909 |
| resolution | 1911 |
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Renfrew Creamery Kings 1909-1911 |
| Location | Renfrew , Ontario |
| league | National Hockey Association |
The Renfrew Creamery Kings were a Canadian ice hockey team from Renfrew , Ontario . The team played in the National Hockey Association from 1909 to 1911 .
history
After the local ice hockey team of the city of Renfrew failed several times in their efforts to challenge the reigning Stanley Cup winner Ottawa Senators from the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association , the businessman John Ambrose O'Brien , whose hometown was Renfrew , took over the team. Due to disagreements over the Stanley Cup challenges, O'Brien founded the National Hockey Association in 1909 , of which Renfrew was one of five founding members, while the ECAHA was dissolved and replaced by the Canadian Hockey Association , which made up the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Shamrocks after a poor average attendance and the associated dissolution of the league, also moved to the NHA during the 1910 season.
In their premiere season, the Renfrew Creamery Kings, who were mostly only called millionaires due to their expensive signings by players like Frank and Lester Patrick , only finished third and thus failed to meet the high expectations. In the following season , the Creamery Kings finished third in a league reduced to five teams and were ten points behind the first-placed Ottawa. Eventually, team owner O'Brien realized that Renfrew with 4,000 inhabitants was not big enough for high-class professional sports and sold the franchise rights in 1911, whereupon Renfrew stopped playing.
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 .