1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,960 Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey guys, the show is currently on break 3 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: until the new year, but we've got plenty of classic 4 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: episodes to tide you over. Enjoy this trip through the 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: show's own history, and I'll see you back here on 6 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: January second with a batch of brand new episodes. See 7 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: you then. Welcome to This Day in History Class from 8 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,759 Speaker 1: how Stuff Works dot com and from the desk of 9 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 1: Stuff you Missed in History Class. It's the show where 10 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: we explore the past one day at a time with 11 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 1: a quick look at what happened today in history. Hello 12 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson and 13 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: It's Deceper nineteenth. A Christmas Carol was published by Chapman 14 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 1: and Hall on this day in eighteen forty three. It's 15 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 1: really likely that you have heard this story. Ebenez Are Scrooge, 16 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: a cruel and sting gy man, is mean to his 17 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: employees and everyone else around him, and on Christmas Eve 18 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: he's visited by the ghost of his former partner, Jacob Marley, 19 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: followed by the spear. It's a Christmas Past, Present, and future. 20 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 1: It was written, of course by Charles Dickens and it's 21 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:11,320 Speaker 1: become a Christmas classic, and right from the beginning when 22 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: it was published, it was an instant blockbuster. Dickens got 23 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: the idea for this in the spring of that year 24 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: after he read a report on child labor. At this point, 25 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 1: child labor was extremely common. Increased urbanization and industrialization in 26 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: the nineteenth century had led to children working in factories, 27 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: often working incredibly long hours and dangerous and inhumane conditions, 28 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:39,680 Speaker 1: often with things like rules that seemed draconian and just truel. 29 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: There were assembly lines hauling cole dipping matches. A lot 30 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: of these working children were even housed above the factory 31 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: and dormitories, so their work was basically their whole lives. 32 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: And for people who were poor and could not find work, 33 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: there were workhouses, and they had appalling conditions. Going to 34 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: a workhouse was actually required by law, under the Poor 35 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: Law of eighteen thirty four. If you were poor and 36 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 1: had no work and couldn't support yourself, you had to 37 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: go to the poorhouse. But intentionally the poorhouses were so 38 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 1: awful no one wanted to go there. At first. Dickens 39 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: had planned to write a pamphlet that was going to 40 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: be called an Appeal to the people of England on 41 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: behalf of the poor Man's Child, and, like its name suggests, 42 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 1: this is going to be a pamphlet about the horrors 43 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: of poverty and child labor. But soon he decided that 44 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 1: a work of fiction might be more effective, and he 45 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: wrote that work of fiction over just a couple of 46 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: months in the fall of eighteen forty three. The big 47 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: moral of this story was that it was up to 48 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: employers to treat and pay their employees will on a 49 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: more practical level than this benevolent goal of encouraging people 50 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 1: to be more generous towards the poor. Dickens also needed 51 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 1: to pay his own bills, particularly after spending a lot 52 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: of money on a tour were of the United States 53 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: the year before, so he wrote a story that he 54 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: thought would sell, and it did. The first print run 55 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: of a Christmas Carol was six thousand copies and it 56 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,119 Speaker 1: was sold out in a week. By the next year, 57 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: there were fifteen thousand copies in print. Although Dickens didn't 58 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: actually earn as much money off of it as he 59 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: wanted to, a lot of this was really of his 60 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: own making. It was at his request that they had 61 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 1: used very fancy gilded bindings, with the book itself full 62 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: of etchings and woodcuts, which were very expensive. He wanted 63 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: this book to be beautiful, and it was, but it 64 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: was also expensive, and he even ordered last minute changes 65 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: to the title page and the end pages because the 66 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: first ones didn't measure up to what he wanted. He 67 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 1: had hoped to make a thousand pounds half of this book, 68 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 1: and instead his first payment was for a hundred and 69 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: thirty seven pounds. Even though he didn't make nearly as 70 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: much money as he wanted, though, he was really really 71 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: happy with how well this book sold and with how 72 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: much of an impact it seemed to make in people's 73 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 1: humanitarian perspective on the issue of poverty and child labor. Today, 74 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: there are so many adaptations of this work, and that 75 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: started pretty much immediately. People were writing plays that were 76 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: based on a Christmas carol right from the very beginning. Today, 77 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: their plays and movies and TV shows and the musical Scrooge. 78 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:29,840 Speaker 1: It goes on and on and on. It's hard to 79 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 1: get through a Christmas season without being reminded of it somewhere. 80 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: Thanks very much to Christopher Hasciotis for his research work 81 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 1: on Today's show. Thanks to Casey Pegraham and Chandler Mays 82 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: for their audio work on this show, and to Casey 83 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: for being so gracious that he never corrected me when 84 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,559 Speaker 1: I pronounced his name the way my high school health 85 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: teacher did instead of the way he does. You can 86 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 1: subscribe to the Stay in History Class on Apple Podcasts, 87 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 1: Google podcast, I Heart Radio app, and wherever you get 88 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 1: your podcasts, and tune in tomorrow for the first in 89 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: a series of exits. Hi everyone, I'm Eves and welcome 90 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: to This Day in History Class, a podcast where we 91 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: dust off a little piece of history and placed it 92 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:26,279 Speaker 1: ever so gently on your brainshelf every day. The day 93 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 1: was December nineteenth, nineteen. The First Indochina War began. By 94 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:37,039 Speaker 1: the late eighteenth century, France controlled Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. 95 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: The grouping was collectively known as French Indochina. French imperialism 96 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 1: at the time spanned Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. 97 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:50,919 Speaker 1: As with other French colonial territories, French Indochina involved the 98 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 1: heavy exploitation of people and resources to France's benefit. In Vietnam, 99 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 1: the French administration imposed all sorts of social and political 100 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: changes on people, trade, in products like opium, salt, rice, wine, 101 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:09,279 Speaker 1: and t were lucrative, but economic progress only benefited the 102 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: French and a small group of wealthy elites. The French 103 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: also instituted a new, extensive taxation system, and while there 104 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 1: were some improvements in education in Vietnamese cities, the children 105 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: of peasant farmers did not see that benefit, and much 106 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: of the population remained alliterate. Plus, the French often pushed 107 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,799 Speaker 1: propaganda about its culture in schools. Traditional buildings were destroyed, 108 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: landownership was concentrated in the hands of a small class 109 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: of landlords, while a landowning middle class of indigenous Vietnamese 110 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: people was not existent, and the Vietnamese bureaucracy lacked real 111 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: power while French authorities exercised extensive power. Those are just 112 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: some of the ways French rule disadvantage and harmed locals, 113 00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: But the Vietnamese did resist France's tyrannical rule. Anti colonial 114 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: and nationalist resistance movements popped up in Vietnam. Leaders and 115 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: supporters of these movements called for Vietnamese independence. Ideas of 116 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: resistance morphed over time, with sentiment geared toward the old 117 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: imperial order at first, and later toward new ideas that 118 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: embraced Western values. After World War One, resistance kicked into 119 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: high gear, but revolutionary efforts to out the French were unsuccessful. 120 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: Then came World War Two. In nineteen forty, the Japanese 121 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: invaded French Indochina and collaborated with officials who were loyal 122 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: to France's Vichy regime, but resistance leader and communist Ho 123 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 1: Chi Men and the Indo Chinese Communist Party had succeeded 124 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: in uniting Vietnamese folks in the fight against French authority 125 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: before Ho Chi Men and the Communist Party organized the 126 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: Vietnam a nationalist alliance that called for an end to 127 00:07:55,040 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: Japanese occupation and for Vietnam's independence from France. After the 128 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:04,119 Speaker 1: Japanese formally surrendered to the Allies in September of nineteen forty, 129 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: the vietmin proclaimed Vietnam's independence as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 130 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: and Ho Chi Minh assumed power. The French and Ho 131 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:17,119 Speaker 1: Chi Men reached in agreement in March of nineteen forty six, 132 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: but negotiations weren't practical and fighting escalated as Chinese and 133 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 1: British troops supported the re establishment of French colonial rule. 134 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 1: French forces took southern Vietnam, and in November, French naval 135 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: vessels bombarded the northern court city of Hifang and killed 136 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: thousands of people. The vietmin responded by attacking the French 137 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: in Hi Fong and Hanoi. The Vietmain's attack against the 138 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: French at Hannoi marked the start of the First Into 139 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: China War. For the next eight years, the Vietmain remained 140 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:55,319 Speaker 1: engaged in guerrilla war against the French. Finally, in May 141 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: of nineteen fifty four, the war ended when the French 142 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: suffered a major defeat at Da Being Food. At the 143 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty four Geneva Conference, Vietnam was split into the 144 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: Vietnam controlled North Vietnam and France's South Vietnam. Though that 145 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: conflict had come to an end, political struggles in Vietnam 146 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: continued as the Vietnam War ensued. I'm Eve Jeff Coo 147 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 1: and hopefully you know a little more about history today 148 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: than you did yesterday. If there's something I missed in 149 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,079 Speaker 1: the show today, you can let us know at T 150 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:35,079 Speaker 1: D I h C Podcast on Twitter, Facebook, for Instagram. 151 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: You can also shoot us an email at this day 152 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: at I heart media dot Com. Thank you for listening 153 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 1: to today's episode. We'll see you again tomorrow with another one. 154 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to This Day in History Class, a 155 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 1: show that skates through historic moments one day at a time. 156 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 1: I'm Gabe Lousier and in this episode, we're looking back 157 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: at the inaugural season of the National Hockey League, including 158 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:28,680 Speaker 1: all the drama that went with it. The day was 159 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:35,560 Speaker 1: December seventeen. The first four teams of the newly formed 160 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: National Hockey League took to the ice for the first time. 161 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: The season's opening night included the first two games in 162 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: a twenty two game schedule. In its earliest days, the 163 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: National League represented just three cities. Montreal had two teams, 164 00:10:55,320 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 1: the Canadians and the Wanderers, while Ottawa and Toronto had 165 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:05,559 Speaker 1: one team each, the Ottawa Senators and the Toronto Arenas. 166 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 1: The Toronto team eventually became the Maple Leafs, but at 167 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: the time they were unofficially known as the Arenas, after 168 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:20,679 Speaker 1: the team's original operator, the Toronto Arena Company. The NHL 169 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: had announced its formation just a month earlier, on November. 170 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:31,559 Speaker 1: Prior to that, the National Hockey Association, or nh A, 171 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: had been the sports leading professional league. The decision to 172 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 1: dissolve the nh A and establish the NHL was largely 173 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 1: motivated by a mutual dislike of one man, Eddie Livingstone, 174 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: the owner of a team called the Toronto Shamrocks. Living 175 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: Stone was known for being confrontational and had fought with 176 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: his colleagues for years. The final straw came in nineteen 177 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: of teen when he purchased a second team in Toronto 178 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:08,199 Speaker 1: without the league's permission. The other owners wanted to kick 179 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 1: him out of the nh A, but according to league 180 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: rules they couldn't. To get around the problem, they took 181 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:19,959 Speaker 1: an even more drastic measure. All of the owners except 182 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 1: for Livingstone, met at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal and 183 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:29,079 Speaker 1: voted to form a new league, no living Stones allowed. 184 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 1: Three weeks later, the first game in NHL history was 185 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: played between the Montreal Wanderers and the Toronto Arenas. It's 186 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:43,199 Speaker 1: worth noting that ice hockey was played a bit differently 187 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:48,439 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventeen than it is today. For example, forward 188 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 1: passing wasn't allowed, and concepts like icing and line changes 189 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: hadn't been introduced yet. Teams were also smaller, consisting of 190 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: just four players. Including only one goalie. For reference, the 191 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: NHL now requires a minimum of twenty players eighteen skaters 192 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: and two goalies. In nine seventeen's less complicated form of 193 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: the game, teams often scored ten or more goals in 194 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 1: a single match, whereas teams today typically average around three 195 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:29,880 Speaker 1: goals per game. And speaking of goals, the first one 196 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:35,199 Speaker 1: in NHL history was scored by Wanderers defenceman Dave Ritchie. 197 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 1: A little later that night, his teammate, reserve player Art Ross, 198 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 1: was awarded the dubious honor of the NHL's first penalty. 199 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,439 Speaker 1: It was a close match, but in the end, the 200 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 1: Wanderers came out on top, beating Toronto ten to nine. 201 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 1: Only about seven hundred fans were there to witness Montreal's win, 202 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 1: even though free tickets had an offer to military personnel 203 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: and their families. The crowd size was especially disappointing as 204 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: the game proved to be the wanderers one and only win. 205 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 1: They lost their next three games, and then a couple 206 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 1: of weeks later, on January second, eighteen, the team's Westmont 207 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 1: Arena burned to the ground. With nowhere to practice or 208 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: host a game, the Wanderers wound up forfeiting their next match. 209 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: As a result, the team's charter was revoked for being 210 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: unable to play, and to add insult to injury, they 211 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: were also fined five hundred dollars. The second game of 212 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 1: December nine had issues of its own, including an overcrowded 213 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: arena and a contract dispute. The match saw the Montreal 214 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 1: Canadians facing off against the Ottawa Senators in front of 215 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 1: a packed house in Ottawa's Day Arena. The venue seating 216 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: capacity was hundred, but on opening night, an estimated six 217 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: thousand fans had piled inside. All that extra body heat 218 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: reportedly made the ice sticky and kind of mushy, which 219 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: slowed down the players. Despite the impediment, future Hockey Hall 220 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: of Famer Joe Malone scored five of the canadians seven goals. 221 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: It was a strong start to what would be an 222 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 1: impressive season for Malone, with him going on to score 223 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: forty four goals in twenty games. While Malone was cleaning 224 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 1: up on the ice in the first period, two players 225 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: for the Senators were refusing to play at all until 226 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: their contracts were reworked. Right wingman Jack darr and defenceman 227 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: Handy Shore had only agreed to a twenty game season 228 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: with the nh A, but the NHL had added a 229 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: few extra games to the schedule. The league quickly adjusted 230 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: the players contracts to account for the longer season, and 231 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: both men joined the game during the second period, but 232 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: by that point the damage had already been done. The 233 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: Canadians beat the Senators seven to four, leading the Toronto 234 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: Son to suggest that quote, had the Ottawas started out 235 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: with their regular team, they might have landed the match. 236 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: Despite these growing pains, the NHL managed to finish its 237 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: first season, even though the Wanderer's departure had left them 238 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: with just three teams. The dwindling roster led the Toronto 239 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 1: Globe to declare that quote, pro hockey is on its 240 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: last legs. That prediction didn't pan out, as over a 241 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: century later, the NHL is still going strong, with more 242 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: than thirty teams now spread across North America. The rules 243 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: may have changed since nineteen seventeen, but the sport remains 244 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: just as captive, vaiting for both those on the ice 245 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: and off, and of course, the goal of the game 246 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 1: remains the same score a hole in one. Just get it. 247 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 1: I'm Gabe Lucier and hopefully you now know a little 248 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:20,679 Speaker 1: more about history today than you did yesterday. 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