New York Hockey Teams

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"The New York Rangers developed because of the success of their predecessors in Manhattan, the New York Americans, the team which introduced big-league ice hockey to New York. What was needed to make hockey a big-league game was a push, which was provided by Canadian-born hockey writer William "Bill" MacBeth. He was on good terms with George Lewis "Tex" Rickard, a fight promoter, and William "Big Bill" Dwyer, a bootlegger. In 1924, the New York Life Insurance Company announced it was foreclosing the mortgage on the old Madison Square Garden. Rickard decided he would promote a new Garden, and he brought together a syndicate of businessmen to organize the new Madison Square Garden Corporation. He needed a new attraction, deciding that boxing would not be sufficient. He investigated hockey as..."

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