Ottawa Nationals hockey logo, Ontario, 1972โ€“1973

Ottawa Nationals

Ottawa, Ontario1972โ€“1973

Shop retro Ottawa Nationals tees, long sleeves, hoodies, crewnecks, hats and more. In their only WHA season of 1972-73, the Nationals won 35 games at the Ottawa Civic Centre and made the playoffs, then played their home playoff games in Toronto while facing the New England Whalers. Celebrate Ottawa's one-year WHA club by browsing all of our Nationals gear, then read the team history below. As an American small business, we're proud to keep the names, logos and stories of hockey's lost teams in circulation.

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Ottawa Nationals History

The Ottawa Nationals were an expansion franchise of the WHA playing only one season, 1972-73. They played at the Ottawa Civic Center and had aย decent year notching 35 wins and making the playoffs where they would square off against the New England Whalers. But by the time the playoffs rolled around the Nationals were in financial trouble due to poor attendance and owed money to the City of Ottawa. Rather than pay Ottawa, they moved all of their home playoff games to Toronto. They lost the series to the eventual champion Whalers, and would subsequently be sold and relocated to Toronto as the Toros.

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