A lot of people that find their way to this website are either young kids learning the game of hockey or people that want to become embedded in the chaos and carnage that is the NHL. When you have a team that is as storied as the New York Rangers, sometimes it is difficult to imagine what the league was like before them. While the Rangers remain one of the most storied teams in the NHL, they were not Madison Square Garden’s first team.
That honor belongs to the New York Americans. To explain how they came into existence, we need to go back to before the formation of the Americans and actually head north of the border to Hamilton, Ontario.