The team was organized in 1930 by Lawrence F. Welch, owner of the Buffalo Amusement Company.
He put together a team of Canadian hockey players and arranged for an artificial ice rink to be built in the Broadway Auditorium.
The Majors marketed themselves largely as a rougher, tougher alternative to their ostensibly crosstown rivals, the International Hockey League's Buffalo Bisons, who played across the border at Peace Bridge Arena in Fort Erie, Ontario.
Financial backing for the artificial ice plant was withdrawn but Welch found other backers.
The team fell behind in payroll and its payments to the league, a likely byproduct of the extremely poor economy of the time.