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[edit] History of the NHL

Wouldn't that become a subtopic, too? Maxim(talk) 22:28, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Pretty much, as would the Stanley Cup articles I threw together. I just threw together articles that I thought were keys to the NHL's history: the NHL itself, history articles, and articles related to the Stanley Cup and it's history. It is entirely possible that Scorpion gets the Stanley Cup articles to a featured topic in it's own right, the four or so history articles form a separate FT, and the NHL article moved to FA as a stand alone. It's all good. Resolute 23:33, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Scope and article breakdown

The first thing I think we need to figure out is how to break down these articles. The more I look at it, the more I personally begin to favour a four article division, broken into 25 year periods, and 1992 to present. Thinking on it, I believe that History of the National Hockey League then becomes redundant to National Hockey League's history section, so once complete, that should probably be reduced to a simple index/disambig page pointing to the sub-articles created.

So, as far as scope goes, this is what I propose:

I am already writing the first history article in my sandbox, and will probably have it moved to article space before anyone sees this message so as to encourage others to work on it, if they wish, or grab a different era to work on.

Comments, ideas? Resolute 04:34, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

  • It seems that the date ranges were arbitrarily changed on the project page. You should one break point should be pre-expansion. Pre-war may be another good one. After that, I don't know others. However as a Buffalo Sabres fan I think the 1972 break point used on the project page is illogical.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:12, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
    • Actually, I just never updated the main page after coming up with this alternate. My original idea behind ending with 1972 was for the second article to end after the completion of the first expansion cycle (1967-72), but before the WHA, Summit Series, etc. I later decided on a straight 25 year block, as denoted above, as it makes the first two articles align with eras perfectly. 1942 is when the Original Six era began. The only change I might make later, is to end the third article at 1991 rather than 1992 so as to fit the start of the Sharks with the rest of the 90s expansion period. Resolute 04:25, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template

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Evolution of the NHL
Leagues
AHAC (1886–1898)
CAHL (1898–1905)
FAHL (1904–1909)
IPHL (1904–1907)
ECAHA (1906–1909)
OPHL (1908–1911)
CHA (1909–1910)
NHA (1909–1917)
PCHA (1911–1924)
NHL (1917–present)
WCHL (1921–1926)
WHA (1972–1979)
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{{Evolution of the NHL}}, shown right, really needs to be updated. Clearly it is not focused on the evolution of the NHL, but of ice hockey itself. As part of this project, we might want to look into redesigning that template to be more accurate. Resolute 02:49, 15 May 2008 (UTC)