 The NHA's championship trophy, the O'Brien Cup, which the Canadiens had won in 1917, would remain in the care of Kennedy until his death in 1921.Just before the 1918–19 season Kendall and the other NHL owners, met without Livingstone and voted to suspend the NHA permanently.That same season, Kendall's Canadiens won the championship of the NHL and travelled to Seattle, Washington to play off for the 1919 Stanley Cup Finals.