Kansas City and Colorado

In 1974, the NHL ended its first expansion period by adding teams in Kansas City, Missouri and Washington, D.C.[6] 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 Black Hawks objected to the similarity. The team was renamed the Scouts after a statue in the city.
Logo of the Kansas CityNFL jersey Scouts (1974–1976).On October 9, 1974, the Scouts hit the ice for the first time at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto and lost 4–2 toNFL jerseys the Maple LeafsNFL apparel. Due to a rodeocheap nfl jerseys being held in Kansas City's brand-newnfl merchandise Kemper Arena, the Scouts were forced to wait nine games before making their home debut. Althoughnfl merchandise they lost that game tosteelers jerseys the Black Hawks 4–3, the next night they beat their expansion brethrensaints jersey, the Washington Capitalsfootball jersey, 5–4. Like most expansion teams, the Scouts were terrible, garnering only 41 points in their inaugural seasonfootball jerseys. The next season, they won only 12 games—still the worst in franchise history. The Scouts failed tonhl jersey 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.
Logo of the Colorado nhl jerseysRockies (1976–1982).The team made a freshnhl team jersey start in Colorado, winning its first gamehockey jersey 4–2 over Toronto. They picked up momentum and looked like a possible playoff contender, but things collapsed in February, and the Rockies finished the 1976–77 season with a record of 20–46–14; good for 54 points. The next season, despitenhl hockey jersey finishing with fewer winsjersey devils (they finished 21 games under .500), they managed to edge the Vancouver Canucks out of the penguins jerseylast playoff spot by two points, but were quickly eliminated by the Philadelphia Flyers in the first roundblackhawks jersey of the 1978 Stanley Cup playoffs.
A lack of stabilitymlb jersey continually dogged the team. In their first eight years, the Scouts/Rockies went through ten coaches (including eight in their first seven years), none lasting more than one full season. While in Denver, the team changed owners twice.
Prior to the 1978–79mlb jerseys season, owner Jack Vickers sold the team to Arthur Imperatore, who announced that he wished to move the team to the New Jersey Meadowlands. The NHL vetoed the move since the Brendan Byrne Arena was still being built, and there was no suitable temporary facility in the area. In 1979, the team hired Don Cherry as head coach and traded for Maple Leafs star Lanny McDonald. Despite these movesbaseball jersey, the Rockies stillbaseball jerseys posted the worst record in the NHLmlb baseball jersey. They played the next two seasons with the possibility of moving until May 27, 1982, when New Jersey shipping tycoon John McMullen purchased the team and announced that the long-expected movephillies jersey to New Jersey would finally come to pass.
The team would now be playing right in the middle cardinals jerseyof the New York–New Jersey–Connecticut tri-state area, home to the three-time defending Stanley Cup champion New York Islanders, as well as the very popular New York Rangers. The Devils had to compensate the Islanders, Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers for "invading" New Jersey.