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1914–15 PCHA season

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1914–15 PCHA season
LeaguePacific Coast Hockey Association
SportIce hockey
DurationDecember 8, 1914–March 9, 1915
Number of teams3
Results
ChampionVancouver Millionaires
Top scorerCyclone Taylor (Vancouver)
PCHA seasons

The 1914–15 PCHA season was the fourth season of the professional men's ice hockey Pacific Coast Hockey Association league. Season play ran from December 8, 1914, until March 9, 1915. The schedule was made for each team to play 18 games, but like the previous three seasons, one game was cancelled. The Vancouver Millionaires club were the PCHA champions. After the season the club faced off against the Ottawa Senators, NHA champions for the Stanley Cup, winning the series and becoming the first west-coast team to win the Cup.

League business

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The franchise of the New Westminster Royals was transferred to Portland, Oregon, and renamed the "Rosebuds." The league established a "farm system" called the Boundary Hockey League in the British Columbia towns of Grand Forks, Greenwood and Phoenix.[1]

Rule changes

The league banned body checking within 10 feet (3.0 m) of the boards.[1]

Teams

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1914–15 Pacific Coast Hockey Association
Team City Arena Capacity
Portland Rosebuds Portland, Oregon Portland Ice Arena 2,000
Vancouver Millionaires Vancouver, British Columbia Denman Arena 10,500
Victoria Aristocrats Victoria, British Columbia Patrick Arena 4,000

Map of teams

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PCHA Teams

Regular season

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Rookie Mickey MacKay led the league with 33 goals, while Cyclone Taylor won the scoring title. The two led the Vancouver Millionaires to the league title, winning 13 of 17 games.[1]

Final standings

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

Pacific Coast Hockey Association GP W L T GF GA
Vancouver Millionaires 17 13 4 0 115 71
Portland Rosebuds 18 9 9 0 91 83
Victoria Aristocrats 17 4 13 0 64 116

Results

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Month Day Visitor Score Home Score
Dec. 8 Vancouver 6 Portland 3
11 Victoria 3 Vancouver 5
15 Portland 8 Victoria 4
18 Portland 3 Vancouver 6
26 Victoria 1 Portland 8
29 Vancouver 4 Victoria 3 (12:06 OT)
Jan. 5 Vancouver 4 Portland 3 (11:00 OT)
8 Victoria 2 Vancouver 9
12 Portland 3 Victoria 4 (3:35 OT)
15 Portland 3 Vancouver 2
19 Victoria 5 Portland 10
22 Vancouver 1 Victoria 4
26 Vancouver 4 Portland 10
29 Victoria 5 Vancouver 12
Feb. 2 Portland 5 Victoria 6 (18:20 OT)
5 Portland 8 Vancouver 3
9 Victoria 2 Portland 3
12 Vancouver 6 Victoria 4
16 Vancouver 5 Portland 0
19 Victoria 3 Vancouver 10
23 Portland 3 Victoria 4
26 Portland 3 Vancouver 13
27 Portland 3 Vancouver 11
Mar. 2 Vancouver 14 Victoria 11
4 Victoria 1 Portland 9
6 Victoria 2 Portland 6
9a Victoria Vancouver
  • a Cancelled

A game between Vancouver and Victoria was cancelled at the end of the season.

Source: Coleman, p. 271

All-Star games

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On March 15 and 17 two All-Star games were played in Portland between the league champions Vancouver Millionaires and a PCHA All-Star aggregation made out of players from the Portland Rosebuds and the Victoria Aristocrats. Vancouver won the first game at the Portland Ice Hippodrome 9 goals to 8, with Cyclone Taylor scoring four times for the winning side, and with Lester Patrick having an impressive five goals and three assists for the losing side, figuring in all of the All-Stars goals.[2]

Vancouver managed to win also the second game by a one-goal margin, defeating the All-Stars 4 goals to 3. Frank Nighbor made a good showing for the winning side with two goals, and for the All-Stars Ran McDonald scored twice.[3]

Playoffs

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The champion Vancouver Millionaires hosted the finals against the Ottawa Senators, NHA champions. Vancouver won the series and became the first west-coast team to win the Cup.

Game-by-Game Winning Team Score Losing Team Rules Used Location
1 March 22 Vancouver Millionaires 6–2 Ottawa Senators PCHA Denman Arena, Vancouver
2 March 24 Vancouver Millionaires 8–3 Ottawa Senators NHA
3 March 26 Vancouver Millionaires 12–3 Ottawa Senators PCHA
Millionaires win best-of-five series 3 – 0

Player statistics

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Frank Nighbor, tied third in points.

Goaltending averages

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Name Club GP GA SO Avg.
Hugh Lehman Vancouver 17 71 1 4.2
Mike Mitchell Portland 18 83 4.6
Bert Lindsay Victoria 17 116 6.8

Scoring leaders

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Player Team GP G A Pts PIM
Cyclone Taylor Vancouver Millionaires 16 23 22 45 9
Mickey MacKay Vancouver Millionaires 17 33 11 44 9
Frank Nighbor Vancouver Millionaires 17 23 7 30 12
Eddie Oatman Portland Rosebuds 18 22 8 30 23
Ran McDonald Portland Rosebuds 18 22 7 29 24
Tommy Dunderdale Victoria Aristocrats 16 17 10 27 22
Art Throop Portland Rosebuds 18 16 8 24 43
Dubbie Kerr Victoria Aristocrats 17 14 4 18 15
Smokey Harris Portland Rosebuds 18 14 3 17 39
Lester Patrick Victoria Aristocrats 17 12 5 17 15

Vancouver Millionaires 1915 Stanley Cup champions

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1915 Vancouver Millionaires

Players

  Centres
  Defencemen

Coaching and administrative staff

  • None - Defenseman Frank Patrick was owner/president/manager/coach. He ran the whole team.

‡ Played Rover, a position between both Defences and behind the Centre

Stanley Cup engraving

The Senators had the words "Ottawa/NHA Champions/1914–15" engraved on the base of the trophy's original bowl even though they did not win the Cup finals. This was similar to the practice prior to the NHA-PCHA agreement when the trophy was officially passed on to the winner of the league championship of the previous Cup champion's league. The previous Cup winner was the 1913–14 NHA champion Toronto Blueshirts.

After the finals, "Vancouver B.C./1914–15/Defeated Ottawa/3 Straight Games" was added to the Cup. Eight players' names and the manager's name were also engraved inside the bowl along the fluted sides.

Two players were left off the Stanley Cup, even though there was room. Kenny Mallen played 14 of 16 regular season games, and two of three games in the finals. Mallen's name was left off by mistake. Jean Matz was left off, because he only played one game.

See also

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References

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c Boileau & Wolf 2000, p. 52.
  2. ^ "Millionaires take fast hockey game with the All-Stars" Oregon Daily Journal. March 16, 1915 (pg. 11). Retrieved 2021-05-15.
  3. ^ "Vancouver Champions Win Over the All-Stars Again" The Sun (Vancouver). March 18, 1915 (pg. 6). Retrieved 2021-05-15.

Bibliography

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  • Boileau, Ron; Wolf, Philip (2000), "The Pacific Coast Hockey Association", in Diamond, Dan (ed.), Total Hockey, pp. 51–54, ISBN 1-892129-85-X
  • Coleman, Charles (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1936 inc.