Can you name the original, expansion, relocated, renamed and defunct teams of the National Hockey League?

created by MandaandKris

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Correctly named teams will show up below
Click any empty Year or Team to answer for that location
Source: NHL Uniforms
* Renamed and relocated answers are the new team name. * Teams listed alphabetically by location name within each year. * Teams moving into new building without changing name not included.
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Year	Team	Team Type (Province/State)
1917-18		Original (QC)
1917-18		Original - Final Season (QC)
1917-18		Original (ON)
1917-18		Original (ON)
1919-20		Original/Expansion (QC)
1919-20		Name Change (ON)
1920-21		Relocation (QC -> ON)
1924-25		Expansion (MA)
1924-25		Final Season (ON)
1924-25		Expansion (QC)
1925-26		Expansion (NY)
1925-26		Expansion (PA)
1926-27		Expansion (IL)
1926-27		Expansion (MI)
1926-27		Expansion (NY)
1926-27		Name Change (ON)
1930-31		Name Change (MI)
1930-31		Relocation - Final Season (PA -> PA)
1931-32		Hiatus (ON)
1932-33		Name Change (MI)
1932-33		Return from hiatus (ON)

Year	Team	Team Type (Province/State)
1934-35		Relocation - Final Season (ON -> MO)
1937-38		Final Season (QC)
1941-42		Name Change - Final Season (NY)
1967-68		Expansion - Name Change (CA)
1967-68		Expansion (CA)
1967-68		Expansion (MN)
1967-68		Expansion (PA)
1967-68		Expansion (PA)
1967-68		Expansion (MO)
1970-71		Expansion (NY)
1970-71		Name Change (CA)
1970-71		Expansion (BC)
1972-73		Expansion (GA)
1972-73		Expansion (NY)
1974-75		Expansion (MO)
1974-75		Expansion (DC)
1976-77		Relocation (CA -> OH)
1976-77		Relocation (MO -> CO)
1977-78		Final Season (OH)/Merge with (MN)
1979-80		Expansion (AB)
1979-80		Expansion (CT)

Year	Team	Team Type (Province/State)
1979-80		Expansion (QC)
1979-80		Expansion (MB)
1980-81		Relocation (GA -> AB)
1982-83		Relocation (CO -> NJ)
1986-87		Name Change (IL)
1991-92		Expansion (CA)/De-merge from (MN)
1992-93		Expansion (ON)
1992-93		Expansion (FL)
1993-94		Expansion (CA)
1993-94		Relocation (MN -> TX)
1993-94		Expansion (FL)
1995-96		Relocation (QC -> CO)
1996-97		Relocation (MB -> AZ)
1997-98		Relocation (CT -> NC)
1998-99		Expansion (TN)
1999-2000		Expansion (GA)
2000-01		Expansion (OH)
2000-01		Expansion (MN)
2006-07		Name Change (CA)
2011-12		Relocation (GA -> MB)

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NHL Team Timeline Quiz

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Created May 4, 2011 in Sports
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	BallpointBanana:	Oct 15th, 2012 at 15:51 GMT		4 points
	I was tripped up by Expansion (MD). I suspect I won't be the last.

	mselby:	Oct 15th, 2012 at 16:18 GMT		4 points
	Yeah, that's pretty misleading. I changed the hint to DC.

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	MrMN:	Oct 15th, 2012 at 16:56 GMT		13 points
	I support any opportunity to spread the knowledge that the label "original six" in the NHL is a fallacy.

	spicedrum:	Oct 15th, 2012 at 17:06 GMT		4 points
	Great quiz. A WHA version would be quite challenging.

	MandaandKris:	Oct 15th, 2012 at 17:29 GMT		3 points
	@spicedrum - Good idea. I'm working on it right now.

	ClintT13:	Oct 15th, 2012 at 18:01 GMT		5 points
	I wish I had lived in Kansas City in 1974-75. Almost no one remembers that KC was once a 4-sport city with the Chiefs, Royals, Kings and Scouts. Now the Scouts are the Devils and the Kings are in Sacramento, while we're stuck with two doormats.

	MandaandKris:	Oct 15th, 2012 at 18:18 GMT		3 points
	@spicedrum - Here's the WHA version: http://www.sporcle.com/games/MandaandKris/whateamtimeline

	cocky:	Oct 15th, 2012 at 22:01 GMT		3 points
	@Clint...The Kings are looking to move again, maybe you can get them back.

	stiggles37:	Oct 16th, 2012 at 02:09 GMT		5 points
	How I miss you NHL

	ScottEmerson:	Oct 16th, 2012 at 02:15 GMT		3 points
	What a great quiz! I thoroughly enjoyed it.

	amkirby10:	Oct 16th, 2012 at 02:23 GMT		2 points
	can't believe i got all 62. very good idea

	WeirFan:	Oct 16th, 2012 at 02:56 GMT		3 points
	Minor quibble - "expansion" for the four teams absorbed from the WHA?

	MandaandKris:	Oct 16th, 2012 at 03:10 GMT		2 points
	Yeah, I wasn't quite sure how to handle that. Ultimately I decided on "expansion", mostly to save space. Technically they were 4 teams that expanded the league so I think the label works. But it's out of my hands now anyway.

	WeirFan:	Oct 16th, 2012 at 15:25 GMT		3 points
	In any event, an excellent quiz.

	TXHSSportswriter:	Oct 16th, 2012 at 16:30 GMT		3 points
	More difficult than I thought, but still got all 62 before time expired. Not bad for a lifelong Texan. Great quiz. As for the WHA teams, expansion is technically correct. When they were admitted to the league, they could keep up to three skaters and a goalie, and all other players were put into a dispersal draft. (I'm not sure if the admitted WHA teams participated in that draft or not.) It was in stark contrast to the NBA absorbing the ABA franchises three years earlier, who were admitted as is.

	munga:	Oct 17th, 2012 at 17:06 GMT		2 points
	Go Sabres

	cocky:	Oct 17th, 2012 at 20:49 GMT		3 points
	The NHL does not recognize records from the WHA, nor does the NBA recognize ABA records, so it is proper to call it an expansion. The NFL does recognise AFL records, so it is offically a merger as they came together as equals.

	phantom4ptplay:	Oct 22nd, 2012 at 05:37 GMT		2 points
	What about the Montreal Lord Stanleys? I being a former Hoosier always propagate the fact that Gretzky started with the INDPLS Checkers who became the Oilers. How did the Barons merge with the North Stars and then "de-merge"?

	MandaandKris:	Oct 22nd, 2012 at 17:14 GMT		2 points
	In all my years I've never heard of the Montreal Lord Stanleys. A quick Google search turns up nothing as well. The team that Gretzky started his professional career with was the WHA's Indianapolis Racers, not Checkers. That team didn't become the Oilers (in fact Wayne Gretzky's first professional goal was against the Oilers). The Racers sold Gretzky to the Oilers in '78 and folded mid-season shortly thereafter. As far as the merging and de-merging goes it's a bit weird. The merge is basically self explanatory. The Minnesota North Stars and the Cleveland Barons were struggling so the NHL decided to merge them as the North Stars. Then in early 1990 the old owners of the Barons who were at the time majority owners of the North Stars wanted to move the Stars to the original home of the Barons in the Bay area. The NHL wouldn't let that happen and instead granted them an expansion franchise that became the Sharks. The Sharks drafted players from the North Stars and then both teams participated in an expansion draft to replenish their rosters, so essentially the merge was undone. Here's the article from Wikipedia on the 1991 Dispersal and Expansion drafts to clarify: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_NHL_Expansion_Draft (The article is not sourced but it is essentially correct)

	mattb1980:	Dec 27th, 2012 at 23:04 GMT		2 points
	You need like 2 more minutes on time there man. I knew everyone (minus the st louis eagles name I drew a blank on I still ran out of time hitting the Nashville Predators) Still a great quiz though.

	mitchconn:	Jan 28th, 2013 at 19:30 GMT		2 points
	Here's a WHA quiz, spice drum: http://www.sporcle.com/games/mitchconn/WHATeams

	mitchconn:	Jan 28th, 2013 at 19:35 GMT		2 points
	Gretzky played for the Indianapolis Racers in 78-79. Never heard of them referred to as the Checkers.