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Originally Posted by Buff
No. Never was relegation in the NHL. Captain must have been on something when he posted that. He knows better. He may even say he knows best! But relegation has not been an NHL thing.
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I don't know, it happened once, though it wasn't as much relegation as a screw job.
Prior to the NHL it was called the NHA (I think I'm going off of memory. One of the teams the Montreal Wanderers had an owner that nobody liked, so when the Owners set up a meeting to set up the NHL, the told the Wanderer's owner that the meeting was at another site, and he ended up with a one team league in the first case of a team being "Relegated" to another league.
I know it was a stretch, but I thought it would be fun to call it a relegation.