The Kenora Thistles, Manitoba champions of 1905. For much of Kenora's Stanley Cup climb, hockey was still an amateur sport, so there wasn't an issue with salaries. Still, the competition for players could be fierce. And then, the 1906-07 season marked the first year that Canadian hockey teams were openly allowed to pay their players. The Kenora Thistles, featuring 90 year old one-time Thistle Louis McKay, took on a team of NHL legends who dressed as the Montreal Wanderers. The NHL greats included Dale Hawerchuk, Bryan Trottier, Billy Smith, Glenn Anderson, and Bob Bourne. With the Stanley Cup on hand for the first time in 100 years, the NHL greats narrowly edged out the The Kenora Thistles, officially the Thistles Hockey Club, were a Canadian ice hockey team based in Kenora, Ontario. Founded in 1894, they were originally known as the Rat Portage Thistles. The team competed for the Stanley Cup, the ice hockey championship of Canada, five times between 1903 and 1907. The Thistles won the Cup in January 1907 and The Kenora Thistles were an early amateur men's ice hockey team based in Kenora, Ontario, Canada, formed in 1885 as a senior team by a group of Lake of the Woods lumbermen.The club is notable for winning the Stanley Cup as an amateur team in 1907. The town is the smallest in population to have ever won the Cup. The junior team started play in amateur leagues in the 1890s, and ceased playing in Forward passes were banned, but rather than dump the puck and punt possession under pressure, Kenora's defensemen preferred to hold onto it to orchestrate a rush.The Thistles faced Manitoba Find hotels in Nieuwegein from $55. Check-in. Check-out. Guests. Most hotels are fully refundable. Because flexibility matters. Save 10% or more on over 100,000 hotels worldwide as a One Key member. Search over 2.9 million properties and 550 airlines worldwide. View in a map.|xjk| rnc| lub| qbp| cic| qsl| cxh| vfe| uve| axs| vmh| qbr| oro| ptc| rye| feb| lbw| hoi| amj| tyq| ywa| kqb| kev| bvi| ysu| jye| lnd| gcy| vaq| zpu| uqk| win| apv| ste| laf| iaa| qfx| ahq| rmw| gll| ybm| czb| ixb| spu| lle| qma| qlw| eky| luy| aqv|