01/05/1926 Ice hockey team Chicago Blackhawks is founded
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The NHL awarded an expansion franchise for Chicago to a syndicate headed by former football star Huntington Hardwick of Boston. Hardwick arranged the purchase of the players of the Portland Rosebuds of the Western Hockey League for $100,000 from WHL President Frank Patrick in a deal brokered by Boston Bruins' owner Charles Adams.