1913–14 NHA season
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The 1913–14 NHA season was the fifth season of the National Hockey Association
National Hockey Association
The National Hockey Association was a professional ice hockey organization with teams in Ontario and Quebec, Canada. It is the direct predecessor organization to today's National Hockey League...

 (NHA). At the end of the regular season, a tie for first place necessitated a playoff to determine the championship. The Toronto Hockey Club
Toronto Blueshirts
The Toronto Hockey Club, known as the Torontos and the Toronto Blue Shirts were a professional National Hockey Association team that played in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...

 defeated the Montreal Canadiens
Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is officially known as ...

 6–2 in a two-game, total-goals playoff. The Torontos then played the Victoria Aristocrats of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association
Pacific Coast Hockey Association
The Pacific Coast Hockey Association was a professional men's ice hockey league in western Canada and the western United States, which operated from 1911 to 1924 when it then merged with the Western Canada Hockey League...

 (PCHA) in the first Stanley Cup
Stanley Cup
The Stanley Cup is an ice hockey club trophy, awarded annually to the National Hockey League playoffs champion after the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals. It has been referred to as The Cup, Lord Stanley's Cup, The Holy Grail, or facetiously as Lord Stanley's Mug...

 'World's Series' between the leagues.

Board of directors

  • T. Emmett Quinn
    Emmett Quinn
    Thomas Emmett Quinn ) was a Canadian ice hockey executive, coach and referee. Quinn served as president of the National Hockey Association , the predecessor of today's National Hockey League . His brother Percy Quinn was also an ice hockey executive...

     ( president)
  • Percy J. Quinn
    Percy Quinn
    John Purcell Quinn was a Canadian athlete, businessman, sports promoter and politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was the owner and president of the Toronto Blueshirts, winners of the Stanley Cup in 1914. He was a member of the world champion Montreal Shamrocks lacrosse team in 1896...

    , Toronto
  • C. Irving, Ottawa
  • Sam E. Lichtenhein
    Sam Lichtenhein
    Samuel "Sam" Edward Lichtenhein was a businessman and sports executive. He was the owner and president of the Montreal Wanderers ice hockey team of the National Hockey Association , later National Hockey League and the owner of the Montreal Royals baseball team.-Personal life:Lichtenhein was born...

    , Wanderers

Rule Changes

The referees now would drop the puck, instead of placing it on the ice.

A goalkeeper lying down to stop a puck would receive a minor penalty and $2 fine.

Penalties were set at $2 fine for minor fouls. Major fouls would cost more per incident,
starting at $3 and 5 minutes off, increasing to $5 and 10 minutes, and to $10 and a match penalty.

Deliberate injury was a $15 fine and banishment until the injured player returned to play.

Goalkeeper sticks now had a limit on their width of 3½ inches.

Assists were now to be recorded.

A dark line between the goal posts was now mandatory.

Referees for the season were named:
  • Leo Dandurand
    Leo Dandurand
    Joseph Viateur "Léo" Dandurand , was a sportsman and businessman. He was the owner and coach of the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team in the National Hockey League...

    ,
  • Russell Bowie
    Russell Bowie
    Russell G. "Russ, Dubbie" Bowie was a Canadian ice hockey player generally regarded as one of the best players of the pre-NHL era of the sport...

    ,
  • Harvey Pulford
    Harvey Pulford
    Ernest Harvey Pulford was a Canadian all-around athlete at the turn of the 20th century, winning national championships in ice hockey, lacrosse, football, boxing, paddling and rowing. He won four Stanley Cups with the Ottawa Hockey Club and championships or tournaments in every sport in which he...

    ,
  • Bob Melville,
  • Tom Melville,
  • Reg Percival.


Source: Coleman(1966), pp. 248–249.

Peace with the PCHA

In the fall of 1913, the Pacific Coast Hockey Association
Pacific Coast Hockey Association
The Pacific Coast Hockey Association was a professional men's ice hockey league in western Canada and the western United States, which operated from 1911 to 1924 when it then merged with the Western Canada Hockey League...

 (PCHA) and the NHA agreed to support a draft arrangement, whereby the PCHA could draft NHA players annually for four years. The PCHA would draft three players on a rotating basis among the NHA teams. Amateur players from west of Port Arthur, Ontario
Port Arthur, Ontario
Port Arthur was a city in Northern Ontario which amalgamated with Fort William and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Port Arthur was the district seat of Thunder Bay District.- History :...

 would be considered to belong to the PCHA, and players east of Port Arthur to be considered NHA property. The first draft, in 1914, would have the PCHA select one player from Ottawa, one from Quebec, and one from the Wanderers.

The two leagues also agreed on arrangements to play off annually for the Stanley Cup. At the end of the 1913–14 season, the NHA champions would host the PCHA champions. The NHA would be responsible for arranging the series with the Stanley Cup trustees, something that they would neglect to do, leading to confusion over the first official series between the two leagues.

Highlights

On January 21, Tommy Smith would score nine goals for Quebec against the Wanderers. He would score 4 against the Canadiens on January 4. Newsy Lalonde
Newsy Lalonde
Édouard Cyrille "Newsy" Lalonde was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward in the National Hockey League and a professional lacrosse player, regarded as one of hockey's and lacrosse's greatest players of the first half of the 20th century and one of sport's most colourful characters...

 would score six against Wanderers on January 10, and haunt the Wanderers with another five on February 11. Harry Hyland
Harry Hyland
Harold Macarius Hyland was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Montreal Wanderers and Ottawa Senators...

 would score five in a game for the Wanderers against Toronto on March 4. Allan Davidson
Allan Davidson
Allan McLean "Scotty" Davidson was a Canadian ice hockey player and soldier. He was a standout offensive player in the formative years of hockey history, leading his Kingston junior team to two Ontario Hockey Association championships in 1910 and 1911...

 would score five against the Ontarios on January 21. Sprague Cleghorn
Sprague Cleghorn
Henry William Sprague "Peg" Cleghorn, , was a Canadian professional hockey player from Westmount who played for the Boston Bruins, Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Renfrew Creamery Kings and Toronto St. Patricks in the National Hockey Association and National Hockey League...

 would score five against Ontarios on December 27.

In the game of February 28 between Canadiens and Wanderers, the referee Leo Dandurand
Leo Dandurand
Joseph Viateur "Léo" Dandurand , was a sportsman and businessman. He was the owner and coach of the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team in the National Hockey League...

 was assaulted by Canadiens manager George Kennedy.

The new arena at Quebec opened on December 30 with a game between Canadiens and Quebec, marred by a match penalty to Newsy Lalonde for hitting Joe Hall in the head, opening a cut requiring eight stitches. On the return match at Montreal on January 14, Mr. Hall would charge Lalonde into the boards for a ten stitch wound.

The longest team winning streak was seven by Ottawa.

In the latter half of the season, the league banned checking into the boards. The rule was adopted permanently at a league meeting after the season.

Playoffs

Tied at the top of the standings, the Blue shirts and Canadiens faced off in a two game, total goals series to determine a league champion. The Blue shirts won the series 6–2.

Toronto vs. Montreal

Date Winning Team Score Losing Team Location
March 7, 1914 Montreal Canadiens 2–0 Toronto HC Montreal Arena
Montreal Arena
The Montreal Arena, also known as Westmount Arena, was an indoor arena located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on the corner of St. Catherine Street and Wood Avenue. It was likely one of the first arenas designed expressly for hockey, opening in 1898...

March 11, 1914 Toronto HC 6–0 Montreal Canadiens Arena Gardens
Toronto wins total goals series 6 goals to 2. Toronto HC wins the O'Brien Cup and the Stanley Cup
Stanley Cup
The Stanley Cup is an ice hockey club trophy, awarded annually to the National Hockey League playoffs champion after the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals. It has been referred to as The Cup, Lord Stanley's Cup, The Holy Grail, or facetiously as Lord Stanley's Mug...

.

Victoria vs. Toronto

Nearing the end of the season, the NHA made arrangements for the NHA champion to receive a challenge from the Sydney Millionaires, Maritime champions, ordered by the Stanley Cup trustees. As arranged by the NHA, the series would have taken place on March 9 through 11. After that, the winner would face off in a series with the PCHA champions in Toronto. The tie in the NHA standings meant that the March 9–11 dates were spent on the Toronto - Montreal series, while the Toronto-Victoria series went ahead as scheduled, and the challenge of Sydney was not played.

After dispatching the Canadiens, the Blue Shirts faced off against the Victoria Aristocrats of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association
Pacific Coast Hockey Association
The Pacific Coast Hockey Association was a professional men's ice hockey league in western Canada and the western United States, which operated from 1911 to 1924 when it then merged with the Western Canada Hockey League...

. A controversy erupted when a letter arrived from the Stanley Cup trustees on March 17, stating that the trustees would not let the Stanley Cup travel west, as they did not consider Victoria a proper challenger because they had not formally notified the trustees. However, on March 18, Trustee William Foran stated that it was a misunderstanding. PCHA president Frank Patrick had not filed a challenge, because he had expected Emmett Quinn of the NHA to make all of the arrangements in his role as hockey commissioner, whereas the trustees thought they were being deliberately ignored. In any case, all arrangements had been ironed out and the series was accepted.

Several days later, trustee William Foran wrote to NHA president Emmett Quinn that the trustees are "perfectly satisfied to allow the representatives of the three pro leagues (NHA, PCHA and Maritime) to make all arrangements each season as to the series of matches to be played for the Cup."

Total attendance for the series was 14,260, out of 22,500 capacity at the Arena. At the time, professional hockey was less of a draw than Ontario Hockey Association
Ontario Hockey Association
The Ontario Hockey Association is the governing body for the majority of Junior and Senior level ice hockey teams in the Province of Ontario. The OHA is sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Federation along with the Northern Ontario Hockey Association. Other Ontario sanctioning bodies along with the...

 (OHA) senior hockey. Two games between local OHA senior teams had drawn over 14,000. The Torontos players and staff received $297 each as their share of the gate receipts.
Date Winning Team Score Losing Team Rules Notes
March 14, 1914 Toronto 5–2 Victoria Aristocrats NHA
March 17, 1914 Toronto 6–5 Victoria Aristocrats PCHA 15:00, OT
March 19, 1914 Toronto 2–1 Victoria Aristocrats NHA
Toronto wins best-of-five series 3 games to 0


All games played at Arena Gardens.

Post-season exhibitions

The Vancouver Millionaires
Vancouver Millionaires
The Vancouver Millionaires were a professional ice hockey team that competed in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the Western Canada Hockey League between 1911 and 1926...

 travelled east and played exhibition games in Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

, Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 and Quebec
Quebec City
Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

. Following this, the St. Nicholas Rink
St. Nicholas Rink
The St. Nicholas Rink, also called the St. Nicholas Arena, was an indoor ice rink, and later a boxing arena in New York, New York, from 1896 until 1962. The rink was the second ice rink utilizing mechanically frozen ice for its surface in North America, , enabling a longer season for skating sports...

 of New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 sponsored a three-team tournament between the Montreal Wanderers
Montreal Wanderers
The Montreal Wanderers were a Canadian amateur, and later becoming a professional men's ice hockey team. The team played in the Federal Amateur Hockey League , the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association , the National Hockey Association and briefly the National Hockey League . The Wanderers are...

, Quebec Bulldogs
Quebec Bulldogs
The Quebec Bulldogs were a men's senior-level ice hockey team officially known as the Quebec Hockey Club, later as the Quebec Athletic Club. Their recorded play goes back as far as the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada in 1889, although the Quebec Hockey Club is known to have played since 1880...

 and the Millionaires. After a round-robin round eliminated the Millionaires, the Wanderers defeated Quebec in a two-game total-goals final 15–12 (9–4, 6–8). The Wanderers then played the Millionaires in a two-game series in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

.

Schedule and results

Month Day Visitor Score Home Score
Dec. 27 Quebec 3 Ottawa 2
27 Ontarios 3 Wanderers 10
27 Canadiens 0 Toronto 3
30 Ottawa 2 Ontarios 3
30 Canadiens 4 Quebec 3
30 Toronto 3 Wanderers 7
Jan. 3 Wanderers 3 Ottawa 8
3 Quebec 3 Toronto 6
3 Ontarios 3 Canadiens 4
7 Canadiens 0 Ottawa 6
7 Quebec 4 Wanderers 3 (18' overtime)
7 Toronto 9 Ontarios 3
10 Ottawa 3 Toronto 2 (20' overtime)
10 Ontarios 1 Quebec 6
10 Wanderers 2 Canadiens 8
14 Ontarios 5 Ottawa 6
14 Quebec 3 Canadiens 4
14 Wanderers 2 Toronto 10
17 Ottawa 7 Wanderers 1
17 Canadiens 9 Ontarios 3
17 Toronto 9 Quebec 4
21 Ottawa 3 Canadiens 2
21 Wanderers 6 Quebec 12
21 Ontarios 2 Toronto 9
24 Toronto 1 Ottawa 4
24 Quebec 1 Ontarios 4
24 Canadiens 9 Wanderers 1
28 Ottawa 1 Quebec 7
28 Toronto 3 Canadiens 4
28 Wanderers 8 Ontarios 9
31 Quebec 3 Ottawa 4
31 Canadiens 4 Ontarios 6
31 Toronto 5 Wanderers 3
Feb. 4 Ottawa 1 Toronto 2
4 Canadiens 1 Quebec 6
4 Ontarios 1 Wanderers 3
7 Wanderers 4 Ottawa 2
7 Toronto 3 Canadiens 9
7 Quebec 6 Ontarios 4
11 Quebec 3 Toronto 4
11 Ontarios 1 Ottawa 3
11 Canadiens 6 Wanderers 2
14 Ontarios 1 Toronto 3
14 Ottawa 0 Canadiens 1 (6'40" overtime)
14 Wanderers 6 Quebec 7 (7'15" overtime)
18 Toronto 4 Ottawa 1
18 Quebec 1 Canadiens 2
18 Wanderers 11 Ontarios 3
21 Ottawa 3 Wanderers 12
21 Canadiens 2 Toronto 3
21 Ontarios 3 Quebec 10
25 Quebec 14 Wanderers 6
25 Canadiens 5 Ottawa 6 (30' overtime)
25 Toronto 6 Ontarios 1
28 Ottawa 3 Ontarios 2
28 Toronto 3 Quebec 5
28 Wanderers 5 Canadiens 6 (2'20" overtime)
Mar. 4 Ottawa 0 Quebec 10
4 Wanderers 7 Toronto 5
4 Ontarios 3 Canadiens 5


Source: Coleman 1966

Goalkeeper averages

Name Club GP GA SO Avg.
Holmes, Harry
Hap Holmes
Harry George "Hap" Holmes was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. As a professional, Holmes won the Stanley Cup four times, with four different teams. He tied the record of his 1914 Stanley Cup winning Toronto Blueshirts teammate Jack Marshall, who also has won Cups with four different...

Toronto 20 65 1 3.3
Vezina, Georges
Georges Vézina
Joseph-Georges-Gonzague Vézina was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played seven seasons in the National Hockey Association and nine in the National Hockey League , all with the Montreal Canadiens...

Canadiens 20 65 1 3.3
Benedict, Clint
Clint Benedict
Clinton Stevenson "Praying Bennie" Benedict was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Ottawa Senators and the Montreal Maroons. He played on four Stanley Cup-winning squads. He was the first goaltender in the National Hockey League to wear a face mask...

Ottawa 7 23 3.3
Moran, Paddy Quebec 20 73 1 3.7
LeSueur, Percy
Percy LeSueur
Sergeant Percy St. Helier LeSueur was a Canadian senior and professional ice hockey goaltender. He was a member of the Smiths Falls Seniors for three years, with whom his performance in a 1906 Stanley Cup challenge series attracted the attention of his opponents, the Ottawa Silver Seven...

Ottawa 13 48 1 3.7
Rankin, Reg Ontarios 1 4 4.0
Nicholson, Billy
Billy Nicholson (ice hockey)
Billy C. Nicholson was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and executive. He played goaltender and was a Stanley Cup champion with the Montreal Hockey Club in 1902 as an amateur...

Wanderers 10 52 5.2
Hebert, Sammy
Sammy Hebert
Samuel James Hebert was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He played professionally from 1913 until 1924 in the National Hockey Association , National Hockey League and Western Canada Hockey League .-Playing career:Hebert played for several amateur teams in Ottawa before turning...

Ontarios 19 108 5.7
Cross, Jack Ontarios 1 6 6.0
Leblanc, Alex Wanderers 4 26 6.5
Warwick, George Wanderers 3 23 7.6
Boyce, Art
Art Boyce
Arthur "Art" Boyce was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. Boyce played for the Montreal Wanderers of the National Hockey Association from 1911 to 1915. His name is sometimes spelled as 'Art Boyes'.-Playing career:...

Wanderers 3 24 8.0

Scoring leaders

Name Club GP G
Smith, Tommy Quebec 20 39
Hyland, Harry
Harry Hyland
Harold Macarius Hyland was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Montreal Wanderers and Ottawa Senators...

Wanderers 18 31
Roberts, Gordon Wanderers 20 30
McDonald, Jack Ontarios 20 26
Malone, Joe Quebec 17 24
Darragh, Jack
Jack Darragh
John Proctor "Jack" Darragh was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League and its predecessor the National Hockey Association.-Playing career:Darragh played his entire professional career with the Ottawa Senators...

Ottawa 20 23
Davidson, Allan
Allan Davidson
Allan McLean "Scotty" Davidson was a Canadian ice hockey player and soldier. He was a standout offensive player in the formative years of hockey history, leading his Kingston junior team to two Ontario Hockey Association championships in 1910 and 1911...

Toronto 20 23
Lalonde, Newsy
Newsy Lalonde
Édouard Cyrille "Newsy" Lalonde was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward in the National Hockey League and a professional lacrosse player, regarded as one of hockey's and lacrosse's greatest players of the first half of the 20th century and one of sport's most colourful characters...

Canadiens 14 22
Walker, Jack Toronto 20 20
Smith, Donald Canadiens 20 18

Source: Coleman 1966

Toronto Hockey Club 1914 Stanley Cup Champions

See also

  • National Hockey Association
    National Hockey Association
    The National Hockey Association was a professional ice hockey organization with teams in Ontario and Quebec, Canada. It is the direct predecessor organization to today's National Hockey League...

  • List of pre-NHL seasons
  • List of Stanley Cup champions
  • 1913–14 PCHA season
    1913–14 PCHA season
    The 1913–14 PCHA season was the third season of the professional men's ice hockey Pacific Coast Hockey Association league. Season play ran from December 5, 1913 until February 24, 1914. Like the previous two seasons, teams were to play a 16 game schedule, but one game was cancelled. The Victoria...

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