1913–14 NHA season

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The 1913–14 NHA season was the 6th season of the National Hockey Association. The Toronto Blueshirts won the NHA championship over the Montreal Canadiens, then defeated the challenging Victoria Aristocrats of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association to capture the Stanley Cup.

Contents 1 League Business 1.1 Board of Directors 1.2 Rule Changes 2 Regular Season 2.1 Highlights 2.2 Final standings 2.3 Results 2.4 Goalkeeper Averages 2.5 Scoring Leaders 3 Playoffs 3.1 Toronto vs. Montreal 4 Stanley Cup Challenge 4.1 Victoria vs. Toronto 5 Toronto Blueshirts 1914 Stanley Cup Champions 5.1 Roster 6 See also 7 References

[edit] League Business

[edit] Board of Directors

• T. Emmett Quinn( president)
• Percy J. Quinn, Toronto
• C. Irvin, Ottawa
• Sam E. Lichtenhein, Wanderers

[edit] 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 a $3 and 5 minutes off, to $5 and 10 minutes, 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 3 1/2 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,
• Russell Bowie,
• Harvey Pulford,
• Bob Melville,
• Tom Melville, and
• Reg Percival.

[edit] Regular Season

[edit] 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 would score six against Wanderers on January 10, and haunt the Wanderers with another five on February 11.

Harry Hyland would score five in a game for the Wanderers against Toronto on March 4.

Allan Davidson would score five against the Ontarios on January 21.

Sprague Cleghorn would score five against Ontarios on December 27.

In the game of February 28 between Canadiens and Wanderers, the referee Leo Dandurand 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 stich wound.

The longest team winning streak was seven by Ottawa.

[edit] Final standings

Teams in bold made the playoffs.

League Standings	GP	W	L	Pts	GF	GA
Toronto Blueshirts	20	13	7	26	93	65
Montreal Canadiens	20	13	7	26	85	65
Quebec Bulldogs	20	12	8	24	111	73
Ottawa Senators	20	11	9	22	65	71
Montreal Wanderers	20	7	13	14	102	125
Toronto Ontarios	20	4	16	8	61	118

[edit] 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

[edit] Goalkeeper Averages

Name	Club	GP	GA	SO	Avg.
Holmes, Harry	Toronto	20	65	1	3.3
Vezina, Georges	Canadiens	20	65	1	3.3
Benedict, Clint	Ottawa	7	23		3.3
Moran, Paddy	Quebec	20	73	1	3.7
LeSueur, Percy	Ottawa	13	48	1	3.7
Rankin, Reg	Ontarios	1	4		4.0
Nicholson, Billy	Wanderers	10	52		5.2
Hebert, Sammy	Ontarios	19	108		5.7
Cross, Jack	Ontarios	1	6		6.0
Leblanc, Alex	Wanderers	4	26		6.5
Warwick,	Wanderers	3	23		7.6
Boyce, Art	Wanderers	3	24		8.0

[edit] Scoring Leaders

Name	Club	GP	G
Smith, Tommy	Quebec	20	39
Hyland, Harry	Wanderers	18	31
Roberts, Gordon	Wanderers	20	30
McDonald, Jack	Ontarios	20	26
Malone, Joe	Quebec	17	24
Darragh, Jack	Canadiens	20	23
Davidson, Allan	Toronto	20	23
Lalonde, Newsy	Canadiens	14	22
Walker, Jack	Toronto	20	20
Smith, Donald	Canadiens	20	18

[edit] Playoffs

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

[edit] Toronto vs. Montreal

Date	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Location
March 1914	Montreal Canadiens	2–0	Toronto Blueshirts	Montreal Arena
March 1914	Toronto Blueshirts	6–0	Montreal Canadiens	Arena Gardens
Toronto wins total goals series 6 goals to 2. Toronto win the O'Brien Trophy and the Stanley Cup.

[edit] Stanley Cup Challenge

The 1913–14 season marked the last year of the challenge era in Stanley Cup history. After dispatching the Canadiens, the Blueshirts faced off against the Victoria Aristocrats of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. The series would be controversial, as the Aristocrats never formally applied with the Cup trustees to challenge for the cup. As a result, the trustees would negotiate an agreement to have the champions of the NHA and the PCHA meet each year to determine a champion, beginning in 1915.

[edit] Victoria vs. Toronto

Date	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Location	Notes
March 14, 1914	Toronto Blueshirts	5–2	Victoria Aristocrats	Arena Gardens
March 17, 1914	Toronto Blueshirts	6–5	Victoria Aristocrats		15:00, OT
March 19, 1914	Toronto Blueshirts	2–1	Victoria Aristocrats
Toronto wins best-of-five series 3 games to 0

[edit] Toronto Blueshirts 1914 Stanley Cup Champions

Roster

† missing from team picture

[edit] See also

• National Hockey Association
• List of pre-NHL seasons
• List of Stanley Cup champions
• 1913 in sports
• 1914 in sports

[edit] References

• Coleman, Charles (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc.. NHL. 
• Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books, 12, 50. ISBN 1-55168-261-3.

Preceded by Quebec Bulldogs 1913	Toronto Blueshirts Stanley Cup Champions 1914	Succeeded by Vancouver Millionaires 1915
Preceded by 1912–13 NHA season	NHA seasons 1913–14	Succeeded by 1914–15 NHA season