I haven't attempted to revise history. History's on my side for this. You, on the other hand, don't really have time on your side with regards to your claimed group of Canadians, who would be pretty much all dead and, therefore, unable to tell you their opinion on U.S. teams in the NHL, unless you're hitting up graveyards and holding seances. By the way, the first professional hockey league was the International Hockey League, and had U.S. and Canadian teams. Also, the Stanley cup was won by a U.S. team in 1917, with the Seattle Metropolitans beating the Montreal Canadiens.
Again, I said essentially from the beginning. Now, you can go talk to those ghosts some more.