(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 1926 1938 1961 1986 2010 2013 2015 Chicago Black Hawks Team Formation On May 1, 1926, the NHL awarded an expansion franchise for Chicago to a syndicate headed by former football star Huntington Hardwick of Boston. At the same meeting, Hardwick arranged the purchase of the players of the Portland Rosebuds of the Western Hockey …