Other similarities include the fact that some Accompong Maroons formation bear the passing resemblance to the Irish reel ; and the Jamaican Constabulary is patterned after the Royal Iris Constabulary, complete with the red stripe on the pants leg.

In 1933, the CNR's successor, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission ( CRBC ), commenced broadcasts of Montreal Canadiens and Montreal Maroons games on its Quebec stations.

Village Maroons all year round and since the turn of the millennium, and finally a new festival of growing popularity has been started – the Carriacou Maroon & String Band Music Festival held on the last week end of April of the year.

There is considerable controversy over whether the Maroons should have been awarded the 1925 NFL Championship instead of the Chicago Cardinals, whom they beat on the field.

A dispute arose over a game that the nearby Pottsville Maroons had played against the Notre Dame All-Stars in Philadelphia ; the Yellow Jackets asserted that their nearby rivals had infringed on their territorial rights by playing the game against a non-league opponent in Philadelphia.

The team lost on the road to the eventual 1922 NFL Champion Canton Bulldogs 38-0 and the Toledo Maroons 39-0.

On Thanksgiving Day 1924 a game between the new Maroons and the Racine Horlick-Legion was announced, as was another, just three days later, on November 30, 1924 with the NFL's Kansas City Cowboys.

Despite the setback, the Maroons kept playing on other fields.

The Maroons also participated in another moment of hockey history, when on November 26, 1926 they were the competition for the New York Rangers in the Rangers ' NHL debut game.

The Maroons got revenge on the Canadiens in the 1927 – 28 season by eliminating them in the first round of the playoffs.

The playoffs of the 1935-36 season are famous for the longest NHL playoff game of all time, when on March 24 – 25, the Maroons lost 1 – 0 to the Detroit Red Wings in 176: 30 of play ( 16: 30 of the sixth overtime period ).

Tommy Gorman had tried to convince Conacher to stay with the Maroons and take over as coach, allowing Gorman to focus on managing the club.

Their final game of the season, and last game for the Maroons franchise, was on March 17 against the Canadiens.

At the annual league meeting on June 22 the Maroons formally asked the league to suspend the franchise for a year ; this was refused, and the league asked the Maroons to confirm by August 1 if they were to participate in the upcoming season or not.

In the 1945 annual league meeting, held on September 7, it was noted that the backers of the Maroons franchise were in discussion to sell to a group from Philadelphia.

The Maroons would then go on to win the Stanley Cup.

However, they missed out on a playoff berth since the Montreal Maroons had two more wins ; wins are the NHL's first tiebreaker for playoff seeding.

To benefit his family, the Canadiens and Montreal Maroons organized a benefit, held on October 29, 1939 at the Montreal Forum.

That season with the Maroons he defeated New South Wales in a 3 nil whitewash in the State of Origin, but Bennett discontinued his representative coaching to focus on the Broncos.

While hosting the Canadiens and Maroons on Thursdays and Saturdays, the Forum also hosted the Quebec Senior Hockey League, featuring the Montreal Victorias, Montreal Royals and the Montreal Canadiens amateur team on Wednesdays and Sundays.

Only two visiting teams ever won the Stanley Cup on Forum ice: the New York Rangers did so in 1928, defeating the Maroons, while the Calgary Flames defeated the Canadiens in 1989.

Campbell even refereed a rough playoff game between the Montreal Maroons and the Boston Bruins in which Dit Clapper used his stick on a player.

The players on the Canadiens and Maroons wore black armbands for the game, and prior to the start, two minutes of silence were observed in his honour.

The are two senior clubs, the Traralgon Maroons ( which briefly competed in the Victorian Football League between 1996 – 1997 ) currently competing in the Gippsland Football League and Traralgon-Tyers United competing in the North Gippsland Football League.

In only their second season, the Rangers won the Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal Maroons three games to two.

An angry Patrick lined up between the pipes for two periods in game two of the Stanley Cup Finals, allowing one goal to Maroons center Nels Stewart.

The Maroons suffered two more losing seasons before relocating to Boston and becoming the Boston Bulldogs.

They were reinstated the following year, but after two successive losing seasons in 1927 and 1928, Streigel sold the Maroons to a group in Boston, where they played one season before folding.

However, in the second meeting of the two teams, the Maroons beat Frankford 49-0.

In 1925 the Chicago Cardinals were in need of two easy wins to help keep up with the Pottsville Maroons and stay in the hunt of the 1925 NFL Championship.

The Maroons were a highly competitive team, winning the Stanley Cup twice and finishing first in their division a further two times.

The Maroons then met the New York Rangers for the Stanley Cup, but lost the series three games to two.

The Maroons won their second Stanley Cup ; Gorman remains the only coach in history to win back-to-back Cups with two different teams.

The game saw two All-Star teams, the first being a team of stars from the Canadiens and the Montreal Maroons, the second being an All-Star team made of players from the other teams, with the latter team winning 6 – 5.

After 11 seasons as a strictly U. S .- based league, the IHL admitted two Canadian teams in 1963, with the Windsor Bulldogs and the return of the Chatham Maroons.

The Maroons were beaten 3-0 in a series whitewash that year, however Bennett was retained as Queensland's coach for two more years.

In 1922, the team changed its name to the Vancouver Maroons and, although league champion in the PCHA's final two seasons, Vancouver would not compete for the Stanley Cup.

Located at the northeast corner of Atwater and Ste-Catherine West ( Metro Atwater ), the building was historically significant as it was home to 24 Stanley Cup championships ( 22 of the Canadiens and two of the Montreal Maroons, for whom the arena was originally built ).

They defeated the Vancouver Maroons of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association ( PCHA ) in two games of a best-of-three series and then faced the Calgary Tigers of the Western Canada Hockey League ( WCHL ).

The Maroons had been controversially suspended by the league at the end of the 1925 NFL season for an unauthorized game against a non-NFL team, allowing the Cardinals to throw together two fairly easy matches ( one against a team consisting partly of high school players, also against league rules ) to pass Pottsville in the standings.

For the 1924 – 25 WCHL season, the PCHA folded and two of its teams, the Vancouver Maroons and Victoria Cougars joined the WCHL, giving the league six teams.

" In addition to the sum paid to the Maroons to grant the release, the Detroit team signed a contract to pay Dunlap $ 4, 500 a season for two seasons, with an advance of $ 1, 500 on the first day of November 1886 and 1887, respectively.

Dunlap, too, expressed delight at the move, noting that he had " tried for two seasons to get away from the Maroons.

After the league folded in 1963, the Marlboros scooped up all the former stars from the Toronto Neil McNeil Maroons who had won two consecutive Metro Junior A league titles, and also retained their coach, Jim Gregory.