The 1917–18 PCHA season was the seventh season of the professional men's ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 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...

 league. Season play ran from December 28, 1917 until March 8, 1918. The season was reduced to 18 games per team. The Seattle Metropolitans

Seattle Metropolitans

The Seattle Metropolitans were a professional ice hockey team based in Seattle, Washington which played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1915 to 1924. They won the Stanley Cup in 1917, becoming the first American team to do so...

 club would be regular-season PCHA champions, but lost the play-off to 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...

. The Millionaires then played in 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...

 finals series against Toronto, the NHL

National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...

 champions. Toronto won the best-of-five series 3-2 to win the Cup.

League business

The Spokane franchise folded and the league operated with three teams again. The players were distributed to the other teams.

The league decided to split the schedule with each half's winners playing for the championship. This was revised so that the first and second teams played off for the championship. Previously, playoffs were only held when teams tied for first place. Devised by Frank Patrick as a "second-chance" to increase interest in the league, the idea eventually spread to all North American professional sports.

Final standings

Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals Against

Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold

Pacific Coast Hockey Association Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
Seattle Metropolitans Seattle Metropolitans The Seattle Metropolitans were a professional ice hockey team based in Seattle, Washington which played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1915 to 1924. They won the Stanley Cup in 1917, becoming the first American team to do so...	18	11	7	0	67	65
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...	18	9	9	0	70	60
Portland Rosebuds Portland Rosebuds Portland Rosebuds is the name of at least three professional teams based in Portland, Oregon during the first half of the 20th century. Two were professional men's ice hockey teams playing their home games at the Portland Ice Arena, one from 1914 to 1918 and another in 1925-6...	18	7	11	0	63	75

Source: Coleman(1966)

Playoffs

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...

 defeated the defending Stanley Cup champion Seattle Metropolitans

Seattle Metropolitans

The Seattle Metropolitans were a professional ice hockey team based in Seattle, Washington which played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1915 to 1924. They won the Stanley Cup in 1917, becoming the first American team to do so...

, taking a two-game total-goals series 3-2 on a 1-0 win over Seattle in the second game.

Seattle Metropolitans vs. Vancouver Millionaires

Date	Away	Score	Home	Score	Notes
March 11	Seattle	2	Vancouver	2
March 14	Vancouver	1	Seattle	0

Vancouver Millionaires win two-games total-goals series 3-2.

Stanley Cup Final

Vancouver travelled to Toronto for the Stanley Cup final. The playing rules alternated between the NHL's six-man and the PCHA's seven-man rules. All games were won by the team whose rules were being played. Vancouver won the PCHA games 6–4 and 8–1 but lost the NHL rule games 5–3, 6–3, and 2–1.

Game-by-Game		Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Rules Used	Location
1	March 20	Toronto	5–3	Vancouver	NHL	Arena Gardens
2	March 23	Vancouver	6–4	Toronto	PCHA
3	March 26	Toronto	6–3	Vancouver	NHL
4	March 28	Vancouver	8–1	Toronto	PCHA
5	March 30	Toronto	2–1	Vancouver	NHL
Torontos wins best-of-five series 3 games to 2

Schedule and results

Month	Day	Visitor	Score	Home	Score
Dec.	28	Spokane	5	Portland	4
Jan.	1	Portland	7	Seattle	4
	4	Vancouver	3	Portland	5
	8	Seattle	1	Spokane	5
	11	Spokane	1	Seattle	3
	14	Portland	4	Vancouver	5
	16	Vancouver	3	Seattle	12
	18	Portland	3	Spokane	5
	22	Vancouver	8	Spokane	5
	25	Spokane	5	Portland	4
	28	Seattle	2	Vancouver	3
	30	Spokane	2	Seattle	4
Feb.	4	Seattle	5	Vancouver	6 (10:45 OT)
	6	Portland	3	Seattle	9
	8	Vancouver	4	Portland	8
	11	Portland	3	Vancouver	6
	13	Vancouver	1	Seattle	3
	15	Seattle	2	Portland	4
	18	Seattle	1	Vancouver	8
	20	Portland	2	Seattle	6
	22	Vancouver	1	Portland	2 (20:20 OT)
	25	Portland	4	Vancouver	9
	27	Vancouver	1	Seattle	2 (22:20 OT)
March	1	Seattle	3	Portland	1
	4	Portland	4	Vancouver	8
	6	Vancouver	3	Seattle	4 (2:58 OT)
	8	Seattle	6	Portland	9

Source: Coleman 1966.

Goalkeeper Averages

Name	Club	GP	GA	SO	Avg.
Hugh Lehman	Vancouver	18	60	1	3.3
Norman Fowler	Seattle	18	65	1	3.6
Tom Murray	Portland	18	75		4.2

Source: Coleman(1966)

Leading scorers

GP = Games Played, G = Goals

Goal (ice hockey)

In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the team attacking the goal scored upon, regardless of which team the player who actually deflected the puck into the goal belongs to...

, A = Assists

Assist (ice hockey)

In ice hockey, an assist is attributed to up to two players of the scoring team who shot, passed or deflected the puck towards the scoring teammate, or touched it in any other way which enabled the goal, meaning that they were "assisting" in the goal. There can be a maximum of two assists per goal...

, Pts = Points

Point (ice hockey)

Point in ice hockey has three official meanings:* A point is awarded to a player for each goal scored or assist earned. The total number of goals plus assists equals total points. In some European leagues, a goal counts as two points, and an assist counts as one...

Player	Team	GP	G
Cyclone Taylor Cyclone Taylor Frederick Wellington "Cyclone" Taylor, OBE, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and civil servant. Taylor was one of the earliest professional players. He played professionally for the Portage Lakes Hockey Club, the Ottawa Hockey Club and the Vancouver Millionaires from 1905 to 1923...	Vancouver	18	32
Gordon Roberts	Seattle	18	22
Bernie Morris Bernie Morris Bernard Patrick Morris - was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Morris played for the Seattle Metropolitans of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. When the Metropolitans became the first U.S.-based team to win the Stanley Cup in 1917, Morris scored 14 of Seattle's goals...	Seattle	18	20
Tommy Dunderdale Tommy Dunderdale Thomas Dunderdale was a professional ice hockey forward. Born in Australia, he moved to Canada at the age of 17, in 1904. He played in Winnipeg for three seasons, from 1906 to 1910. In 1910, he joined the Montreal Shamrocks of the National Hockey Association , before moving on to the Quebec...	Portland	18	14
Charles Tobin Charles Tobin Charles Tobin was a professional ice hockey player who played 175 games in various professional and amateur leagues, including the Pacific Coast Hockey Association...	Portland	18	13
Alf Barbour Alf Barbour Alf Barbour, was a professional ice hockey player who played in various professional and amateur leagues, including the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. Amongst the teams he for played with were the Portland Rosebuds and Victoria Aristocrats.-External links:...	Portland	17	12
Eddie Oatman Eddie Oatman Edward Cole "Eddie" Oatman was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was among the elite goal scorers of his era. Among his 32 years playing professional ice hockey, Eddie was named an all-star for ten consecutive seasons by the Pacific Coast Hockey Association...	Portland	18	11
Barney Stanley Barney Stanley Russell "Barney" Stanley was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the Calgary Tigers, Regina Capitals and Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Canada Hockey League...	Vancouver	18	11
Mickey MacKay Mickey MacKay Duncan McMillan "Mickey" MacKay was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played for the Chicago Black Hawks, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League...	Vancouver	18	10
Frank Foyston Frank Foyston Frank Corbett "The Flash" Foyston was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward.Born in Minesing, Ontario, Foyston played for the Toronto Blueshirts of the NHA, the Seattle Metropolitans in the PCHA, the Victoria Cougars in the WCHL/WHL and Detroit Cougars in the NHL.He won the Stanley Cup with...	Seattle	13	9

Source: Coleman(1966)