1972 newspaper THE WASHINGTON CAPITALS awarded new NHL ICE HOCKEY FRANCHISE for Sale

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1972 newspaper THE WASHINGTON CAPITALS awarded new NHL ICE HOCKEY FRANCHISE For Sale

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1972 newspaper THE WASHINGTON CAPITALS awarded new NHL ICE HOCKEY FRANCHISE:
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1972 newspaper The WASHINGTON CAPITALS begin as the newest NHL NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE ice hockey franchise -inv # 3I-304

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SEE PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPER,theYork Dispatch (PA) dated June 9, 1972.This newspaper contains an inside page headline an long report that the NHL has awarded Washington, DC and Kansas City, MOthe new National Hockey League franchises.

This marks the beginning of the NHL WASHINGTON CAPITALS and the KANSAS CITY SCOUTS.

Along with the Kansas City Scouts, the Capitals joined the NHL as an expansion team for the 1974–75 season (although the city of Washington was awarded a franchise on July 8, 1972).

Great item for a present-day Washington Capitals ice hockeyfan.

The team was owned by Abe Pollin (also owner of the National Basketball Association's Washington Bullets/Wizards). Pollin had built the Capital Centre in suburban Landover, Maryland to house both the Bullets (who formerly played in Baltimore) and the Capitals. His first act as owner was to hire Hall of Famer Milt Schmidt as general manager.

The Washington Capitals (colloquially known as the Caps) are a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C. They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Capitals are owned by Monumental Sports & Entertainment, headed by Ted Leonsis. From 1974 to 1997 the Capitals played their home games at the Capital Centre, in Landover, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, D.C.). In 1997 the team moved to the arena now called Capital One Arena, their present home arena in Washington, D.C.

The Washngton Capitals were founded in 1974 as an expansion franchise, alongside the Kansas City Scouts. Since purchasing the team in 1999, Leonsis revitalized the franchise by drafting star players such as Alexander Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom, Mike Green and Braden Holtby. The 2009–10 Capitals won the franchise's first Presidents' Trophy for being the team with the most points at the end of the regular season. They won it a second time in 2015–16, and did so for a third time the following season in 2016–17. In addition to eleven division titles and three Presidents' Trophies, the Capitals have reached the Stanley Cup Finals in 1998 and 2018, winning in the latter.

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