High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1976–77 Colorado Rockies season was the Rockies` first season. The former Kansas City Scouts relocated in the off-season to Denver. With the World Hockey Association`s Denver Spurs leaving Denver in a midnight move to Ottawa, Ontario just about 10 months earlier, Denver would get a franchise and the team would be anointed the Colorado Rockies. The team moved from Kansas City, which was a two-year NHL franchise that struggled from the beginning.