Birthed with a bootlegger's dough, the Brooklyn Americans predated the NY Rangers and opened Madison Square Garden. Wearing Star-spangled uniforms, the Amerks were the NHL's loveable losers while ...

The story of the Americans is so bizarre that even Steve Cohen, the mind behind the exhibit, found it difficult to believe. Cohen was born in Brooklyn but began to play hockey in Illinois ...

The hockey season hereabouts has been a big ... the New York (renamed Brooklyn) Americans. At the end of the 1941-42 season, the roster-riddled Americans requested that the NHL give them a ...