 DATE: When the French captain and his crew are arrested, the Mountie  determines that the captain is lying about being from Montreal by  asking him who won the hockey game between Montreal and Toronto.  When the captain guesses "Montreal", the Mountie draws his gun and  says it was actually Detroit. This dialogue seems to be referring to  the National Hockey League, which was formed the same year of the  Halifax Explosion. Toronto and Montreal would have had NHL teams at  that time, but Detroit didnt enter the league until 1926. (Although  Detroit is known as an "Original Six" team, this actually refers to  the six teams that comprised the NHL for several decades; the NHL  was originally an all