Curse of Muldoon

[1] The Hawks' first season, 1926–27, was a moderate success, with the forward line of Mickey MacKay, Babe Dye, and Dick Irvin each finishing near the top of the league's scoring race.

Following this series, team owner Frederic McLaughlin fired head coach Pete Muldoon.

Jim Coleman, a sportswriter for The Globe and Mail wrote in 1943 that the reason for Muldoon's firing boiled down to a heated end-of-season argument with McLaughlin.

As the story goes, McLaughlin felt that the Black Hawks were good enough to finish first in the American Division.

In 1967, the last season of the six-team NHL, the Hawks finished first, breaking the supposed Curse of Muldoon, 23 years after the death of McLaughlin.