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The Kansas City Scouts were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1974–76. In 1976, the franchise relocated to Denver, Colorado, and became the Colorado Rockies. In 1982, the Rockies relocated to New Jersey where they have since been known as the New Jersey Devils. ==Franchise history== In 1974, the NHL ended its significant expansion period by adding teams in Kansas City, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=National Hockey League (NHL) Expansion History )〕 Kansas City was awarded a franchise on June 8, 1972, and Kemper Arena was constructed to host the team's home games. Kansas City had been the home of several minor league ice hockey teams through the years.〔 The Scouts shared Kemper Arena with the Kansas City Kings basketball franchise from the National Basketball Association. The arrival of the Scouts and Washington Capitals resulted in the NHL creating four divisions, and the Scouts were placed in the Smythe Division.〔 The Kansas City franchise was to be called the ''Kansas City Mohawks'', since the Kansas City metropolitan area includes portions of Missouri and Kansas.〔 The name would have combined Missouri's postal abbreviation (MO) and the Kansas nickname of ''Jayhawkers''. However, the Chicago Black Hawks objected because ''Mohawks'' sounded too much like ''Black Hawks''.〔 The team then held a contest for people to name the new team. The name ''Scouts'' was chosen, named after ''The Scout'' which is located in Penn Valley Park and overlooks downtown. The iconic statue was featured on the team's logo.〔〔(Cole, Suzanne P. "'The Scout': Still looking out for KC," ''The Kansas City'' (MO) ''Star'', Saturday, December 25, 2010. )〕 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 Maple Leafs.〔 To allow construction to be completed on Kemper Arena, the Scouts played their first eight games on the road. In those eight games, the Scouts lost seven and tied one. The Scouts made their home debut on November 2, losing to the Black Hawks 4–3.〔 The following day the team's first victory came, against the Washington Capitals, by a score of 5–4, in Washington.〔 Like many other expansion teams, the Scouts performed poorly, garnering only 41 points with a record of 15-54-11 in their inaugural season,〔 though this would be the better result of their two-season history.〔〔 The team's second season started out with some promise. Near the midway point of the season, the team was competing for a playoff spot, with a 3–1 win over the California Golden Seals on December 28 placing them just one point behind the St. Louis Blues and a playoff position in the weak Smythe Division.〔 However, the Scouts went into free fall for their remaining 44 games. After going winless from December 30 to February 4 (0-14-2), they finally won a game, against the Capitals on February 7, before going 0-21-6 for the rest of the season. The Scouts' second half crash left them with a season result of 12–56–12 and 36 points—still the worst record in the Scouts/Rockies/Devils franchise's history.〔 In their two seasons, the Scouts went through three coaches–Bep Guidolin, Sid Abel (three-game interim stint), and Eddie Bush.〔 The team had two captains, Simon Nolet and Guy Charron. Steve Durbano led the league in penalty minutes during the 1975–76 season. The franchise failed to make the playoffs in either season in Kansas City and won only 27 of 160 games.〔 With the 1972 startup of the rival World Hockey Association (WHA) resulting in a combined 32 teams between the NHL and the WHA, the talent available to stock the new teams in Kansas City and Washington was stretched thin. In their first season, the Capitals would set an NHL record for futility, losing 67 of 80 games, and only winning one on the road. The Scouts fared only marginally better (losing 56 games), and the 1974 NHL expansion was widely seen as having been a mistake.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kansas City Scouts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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