Kansas City Scouts

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Home Ice Kemper Arena: 1974-1976

Franchise Established: 1974 as Kansas City Scouts 1976 as Colorado Rockies 1982 as New Jersey Devils

Contents 1 Team History 2 Head Coaches 3 Captains 4 Record Per Season 5 NHL Award Winners 6 Hall of Fame Members 7 Retired Numbers 8 Video Gallery 9 Picture Gallery 10 See Also 10.1 Recent Kansas City Scouts ArmchairGM Stories 10.2 Team References

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In 1974, the NHL ended its first expansion period by adding teams in Kansas City, Missouri and Washington, D.C.The Kansas City franchise was to be called the Mohawks, since the Kansas City metropolitan area includes portions of Missouri and Kansas. However, the Chicago Blackhawks objected to the similarity. The team was renamed the Scouts after a statue in the city.

On October 9, 1974, the Scouts took the ice for the first time at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto and lost 6-2 to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Due to a rodeo being held in Kansas City's brand-new Kemper Arena, the Scouts were forced to wait nine games before making their home debut. Although they lost that game to the Black Hawks 4–3, the next night they beat their expansion brethren, the Washington Capitals, 5-4. Like most expansion teams, the Scouts were terrible, garnering only 41 points in their inaugural season. The next season, they won only 12 games—still the worst in franchise history. The Scouts failed to make the playoffs in either season in Kansas City and won only 27 of 160 games.

Although they were better than the Capitals (who won only eight games in their inaugural season), the Scouts began to suffer from an economic downturn in the Midwest. For their second season, the Scouts sold just 2,000 of 8,000 season tickets and were almost $1 million in debt. Due to their various on- and off-ice disappointments, the franchise moved to Denver and was renamed the Colorado Rockies.

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