The Chicago Blackhawks were founded on September 25, 1927, when the NHL awarded a franchise to major Frederic McLaughlin, He was a local Harvard educated tycoon that came up with the $12,000 entry fee required to join the league. In effort to try to secure the players for the upcoming season, McLaughlin bought the Portland Rosebuds of the Western Hockey League for $200,000. He moved the whole team. ( Players consisted of Rabbit McVeigh, George Hay, Percy Traub, Dick Irvin, and the goalie Hugh Lehman) to Chicago. After gathering enough players to have a good team, the major, never a big fan of the ‘’Rose Buds’’, he started to come up with a new name for the hockey club. During World War one, there was a group that called themselves the …show more content…
The team had 5 hall-of-famers Dick Irvin, whose 36 points were second in the league that year, goalie Hugh Lehman, Babe Dye, George Hay, and Mickey McKay. The major unhappy about the team's first round elimination, He fired their head coach Pete Muldoon. Pete responded to this by putting a curse on the team for the next 13 years, The major ended up hiring and firing 14 coaches. One, Bill Tobin, came back for a second try. Despite the circle of coaching, the hawks enjoyed some early on success they moved into chicago stadium they won their first game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in front of 14,212 fans. The hawks had the best goaltenders in the era including Charlie Gardiner, who joined the club in 1927. Gardiner didn't only like stopping pucks, but he also liked talking about his job. He won the Vezina Trophy (The trophy given to the goalie on the team with the lowest goals against) in 1932 and he was named an All-Star, but McLaughlin with a $500 pay cut the following season. When the story broke out to the paper the major tryed to go back and give him his actual