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From China to Las Vegas, the NHL has a lot going on

The NHL will begin its second century with a franchise in Las Vegas, its marketing sights set on China, and its players unhappy that they can't compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

None of those concepts would have made sense to the men who gathered at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal on Nov. 26, 1917 and created the five-team National Hockey League as an alternative to the National Hockey Association. The representatives of the Montreal Wanderers, Montreal Canadiens, Ottawa Senators,

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