In-depth research meets great storytelling in the history of an organization that has been a talking point and newsmaker for 100 years.     The National Hockey League--born in a Montreal hotel room on November 26, 1917--has much to celebrate as it approaches its centenary. Millions of fans from Montreal to Miami and Edmonton to Anaheim attend NHL games each year, millions more watch on TV and the league pays its best players multi-million annual salaries.Over the course of it