1909 ECHA season
1909 ECHA season | |
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League | Eastern Canada Hockey Association |
Sport | ice hockey |
Duration | January 2, 1909 β March 6, 1909 |
Number of teams | 4 |
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Champion | Ottawa Senators |
Top scorer | Marty Walsh (38 goals) |
The 1909 ECHA season was the fourth and final season of the Eastern Canada Hockey Association (ECHA). Teams played a twelve-game schedule. The Ottawa Senators would win the league championship with a record of ten wins, two losses and take over the Stanley Cup.
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Executive
- Joe Power, Quebec (President)
- James Strachan, Wanderers (1st Vice-President)
- J. Eveleigh, Montreal (2nd Vice-President)
- Emmett Quinn, Quebec (Secretary-Treasurer)
The Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association league meeting was held November 4, 1908, and was a pivotal meeting in the evolution from amateur to professional ice hockey leagues. At the meeting the two last amateur, or at least partly amateur teams resigned over the signing of players from other teams. Montreal HC and Montreal Victorias left the league and later would continue as senior level men's teams playing for the Allan Cup. Unpaid players would no longer play with paid players.
The league would continue with four professional teams. The league name was changed to Eastern Canadian Hockey Association to reflect the change in status.
Regular season
The Wanderers', Cecil Blachford had retired and Bruce Stuart had moved to Ottawa. New additions included Joe Hall, Harry Smith, Jimmy Gardner and Steve Vair. The Wanderers would come close to their rivals, finishing second with nine wins and three losses.
Ottawa saw Harvey Pulford and Alf Smith retire, and Tom Phillips leave. Ottawa would replace these players with Edgar Dey, Billy Gilmour and Albert 'Dubby' Kerr from the Toronto Professionals. Alf Smith would organize the Ottawa Senators of the Federal Hockey League.
Shamrocks added Harry Hyland, and Quebec saw the start of the career of Joe Malone.
Ottawa played an exhibition game prior to the season with the Toronto professionals on January 2 in Toronto. Toronto defeated Ottawa 5β4.[1] Dubby Kerr played in the game for Toronto, and signed with Ottawa a week later.
On January 25, Wanderers played an exhibition game in Cobalt, Ontario, versus the Cobalt Silver Kings, betting $500 on themselves to win, but lost 6β4.[2][3] After the game Harry Smith would leave the Wanderers to join Haileybury of the Timiskaming League.[4]
Highlights
The rivalry between Ottawa and Wanderers continued, Wanderers winning the first on January 6 7β6 in overtime, with Harry Smith scoring four against his former team. Ottawa would win the next 5β4 in Ottawa, and defeat Montreal in Montreal 9β8 before 8000 fans. Ottawa would finish the series winning 8β3 in Ottawa to clinch the championship.
Marty Walsh of Ottawa would win the scoring championship with 38 goals. Ottawa would average nearly ten goals per game.
Final standing
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Stanley Cup challenges
Montreal vs. Edmonton
Prior to the season, Wanderers would play a challenge against the Edmonton Hockey Club, champions of the Alberta Amateur Hockey Association. Despite all players except for one being a 'ringer' for Edmonton, Montreal would defeat them December 28β30, 1908, in Montreal. In game one, Harry Smith scored 5 goals as he led the Wanderers to a 7β3 victory. The Edmontons won game two, 7β6, but Montreal took the two-game total goals series, 13β10.
Date | Winning Team | Score | Losing Team | Location |
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December 28, 1908 | Montreal Wanderers | 7β3 | Edmonton HC | Montreal Arena |
December 30, 1908 | Edmonton HC | 7β6 | Montreal Wanderers | |
Montreal wins total goals series 13 goals to 10 |
Edmonton Eskimoes | 3 | at | Montreal Wanderers | 7 |
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Bert Lindsay | G | William "Riley" Hern | ||
Lester Patrick | P | Art Ross | ||
Didier Pitre | CP | Walter Smaill | ||
Fred Whitcroft | 1 | R | Harry Smith | 5 |
Steve Vair | 1 | C | Frank "Pud' Glass Capt | 2 |
Howard McNamara | RW | Ernie "Moose" Johnson | ||
Tommy Phillips | 1 | LW | Jimmy Gardner | |
Referees β Frank Patrick & Russell Bowie |
- Spares Edmonton Eskimoes - Bert Boulton, Harold Deeton, Jack βHayβ Miller
- Spares Montreal Wandeers - Ernie Liffton, Ernie Russell.
Edmonton Eskimoes | 7 | at | Montreal Wanderers | 6 |
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Bert Lindsay | G | William "Riley" Hern | ||
Lester Patrick | 1 | P | Art Ross | |
Didier Pitre | CP | Walter Smaill | 1 | |
Fred Whitcroft | 1 | R | Harry Smith | 1 |
Harold Deeton | 3 | C | Frank "Pud' Glasss Capt | 3 |
Jack "Hay" Millar | 2 | RW | Ernie "Moose" Johnson | 1 |
Steve Vair | 1 | LW | Jimmy Gardner | |
Referees β Frank Patrick & Russell Bowie |
- Spares Edmonton Eskimoes - Hugh Boulton, Howard McNamara, Tommy Smith.
- Spares Montreal Wandeers - Ernie Liffton, Ernie Russell.
Source: Coleman[5]
After the challenge, Edmonton would play an exhibition game in Ottawa on January 2 before returning to Edmonton, defeating the Ottawa Senators (of the FHL) 4β2.[6] Ottawa played the Toronto Pros the same day in Toronto, losing 5β4.[7] Lindsay, Pitre and Vair, having played with Edmonton for the challenge, would sign after the exhibition game with Renfrew of the Federal League. The players would help Renfrew to the FHL championship.
After the season, Ottawa took over the Cup, but a series against the Winnipeg Shamrocks could not be arranged and no challenge was played. (The Shamrocks would fold before the next season and never played a challenge.) Challenges from Renfrew of the Federal Hockey League and Cobalt of the Timiskaming League were disallowed when the Stanley Cup trustees ruled that the players on Renfrew and Cobalt were ineligible, having joined their teams after January 2.
Post-season exhibition
Ottawa and the Montreal Wanderers played a two-game series at the St. Nicholas Rink in New York on March 12 and March 13. Ottawa won the first game 6β4, and the second game was tied 8β8.
Schedule and results
Month | Day | Visitor | Score | Home | Score |
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Jan. | 2 | Quebec | 8 | Shamrocks | 9 |
6 | Shamrocks | 4 | Quebec | 12 | |
6 | Ottawa | 6 | Wanderers | 7 (7:40 OT) | |
9 | Quebec | 5 | Ottawa | 13 | |
13 | Ottawa | 11 | Shamrocks | 3 | |
13 | Wanderers | 7 | Quebec | 3 | |
16 | Shamrocks | 7 | Ottawa | 9 | |
16 | Quebec | 6 | Wanderers | 7 | |
20 | Shamrocks | 5 | Wanderers | 7 | |
23 | Ottawa | 18 | Quebec | 4 | |
27 | Shamrocks | 1 | Wanderers | 5 | |
30 | Wanderers | 4 | Ottawa | 5 | |
30 | Quebec | 4 | Shamrocks | 8 | |
Feb. | 6 | Ottawa | 9 | Wanderers | 8 |
6 | Shamrocks | 6 | Quebec | 9 | |
10 | Shamrocks | 6 | Wanderers | 8 | |
13 | Quebec | 6 | Ottawa | 14 | |
17 | Wanderers | 12 | Shamrocks | 2 | |
20 | Ottawa | 7 | Shamrocks | 3 | |
20 | Wanderers | 7 | Quebec | 4 | |
27 | Shamrocks | 2 | Ottawa | 11 | |
27 | Quebec | 6 | Wanderers | 7 | |
Mar. | 4 | Wanderers | 3 | Ottawa | 8 |
7 | Ottawa | 6 | Quebec | 11 |
Player statistics
Goaltending averages
Name | Club | GP | GA | SO | Avg. |
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Riley Hern | Wanderers | 12 | 61 | 5.1 | |
Percy LeSueur | Ottawa | 12 | 63 | 5.3 | |
W. Baker | Shamrocks | 12 | 103 | 8.6 | |
Paddy Moran | Quebec | 12 | 106 | 8.8 |
Leading scorers
Name | Club | GP | G |
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Marty Walsh | Ottawa | 12 | 38 |
Herb Jordan | Quebec | 12 | 29 |
Bruce Stuart | Ottawa | 11 | 22 |
Charles Power | Quebec | 12 | 22 |
Albert Kerr | Ottawa | 9 | 20 |
Harry Hyland | Shamrocks | 11 | 18 |
Frank "Pud" Glass | Wanderers | 12 | 17 |
Steve Vair | Wanderers | 7 | 12 |
Billy Gilmour | Ottawa | 11 | 11 |
Jimmy Gardner | Wanderers | 12 | 11 |
Stanley Cup engraving
The 1909 Stanley Cup was presented by the trophy's trustee William Foran.
The following Ottawa Hockey Club players and staff were eligible to have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup
1909 Ottawa Hockey Club
Players
Stanley Cup engraving
Ottawa added a new ring to the bottom of the Stanley Cup and put their name on it.[8]
See also
References
- Coleman, Charles L. (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893β1926 inc. NHL.
- Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books, 12, 48. ISBN 1-55168-261-3.
Preceded by Montreal Wanderers 1908 |
Ottawa HC Stanley Cup Champions 1909 |
Succeeded by Ottawa HC January 1910 |
Preceded by 1908 ECAHA season |
ECAHA seasons 1909 |
Succeeded by Canadian Hockey Association (1909β1910) |
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