1904–05 FAHL season
Ice hockey season
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The 1904â05 Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL) season lasted from December 31, 1904, until March 3. Teams played an eight-game schedule.
League business
The Ottawa Hockey Club, who officially joined the FAHL prior to the end of the last season, played its first full season in the league. Montreal Le National left the league and joined the rival Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL). Ottawa had negotiated with the CAHL to return, along with the Wanderers joining, but this was turned down. The Ottawa Capitals also left the FAHL.
Pre-season
The Wanderers played an exhibition series in New York City in December 1904. One game, versus the New York Athletic Club, was noted for its rough play by the Wanderers.[1]
Regular season
The newly transferred Ottawa Hockey Club won the league championship â and retained the Stanley Cup â with a record of seven wins and one loss.
Highlights
Ottawa's Frank McGee scored five goals against the Montagnards on February 4.
Final standing
Note GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against
| Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ottawa Hockey Club | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 19 |
| Montreal Wanderers | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 44 | 27 |
| Brockville | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 34 | 30 |
| Cornwall HC | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 18 | 37 |
| Montreal Montagnards | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 19 | 62 |
Results
| Month | Day | Visitor | Score | Home | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. | 31 | Cornwall | 4 | Wanderers | 6 |
| Jan. | 2 | Montagnards | 3 | Brockville | 10 |
| 7 | Wanderers | 3 | Ottawa | 9 | |
| 11 | Cornwall | 2 | Brockville | 3 | |
| 13 | Wanderers | 6 | Montagnards | 1 | |
| 21 | Montagnards | 2 | Cornwall | 4 | |
| 23 | Ottawa | 3 | Brockville | 5 | |
| 27 | Cornwall | 3 | Montagnards | 2 | |
| 28 | Wanderers | 3 | Brockville | 2 | |
| Feb. | 1 | Brockville | 4 | Wanderers | 8 |
| 1 | Ottawa | 7 | Cornwall | 2 | |
| 4 | Montagnards | 4 | Ottawa | 14 | |
| 8 | Brockville | 0 | Ottawa | 7 | |
| 11 | Ottawa | 4 | Wanderers | 2 | |
| 13 | Brockville | 1 | Cornwall | 2 | |
| 17 | Brockville | 9 | Montagnards | 2 | |
| 18 | Wanderers | 7 | Cornwall | 1 | |
| 24 | Cornwall | 0 | Ottawa | 9 | |
| 25 | Montagnards | 2 | Wanderers | 9 | |
| Mar. | 3 (â ) | Ottawa | 7 | Montagnards | 3 |
â Ottawa HC lock down League Championship, retain Stanley Cup.
Player Statistics
Scoring leaders
Note: GP = Games played, G = Goals scored
| Name | Club | GP | G |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank McGee | Ottawa | 6 | 17 |
| Jack Marshall | Wanderers | 8 | 17 |
| Harry Westwick | Ottawa | 8 | 15 |
| Alf Smith | Ottawa | 8 | 13 |
| Cecil Blachford | Wanderers | 7 | 10 |
| Frank Glass | Wanderers | 6 | 9 |
| Bill Lannon | Brockville | 8 | 7 |
| Hamby Shore | Ottawa | 3 | 6 |
| Jack Marks | Brockville | 8 | 6 |
| Bob Mallette | Cornwall | 8 | 5 |
Goaltender averages
Note: GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average
| Name | Club | GP | GA | SO | GAA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave Finnie | Ottawa | 8 | 19 | 2 | 2.4 |
| Bill Baker | Wanderers | 7 | 23 | 0 | 3.3 |
| Bill Kerr | Brockville | 8 | 30 | 0 | 3.8 |
| Napoleon Lavigne | Montagnards | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4.0 |
| George Broughton | Wanderers | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4.0 |
| Jack Hunter | Cornwall | 8 | 37 | 0 | 4.6 |
| Henri Menard | Montagnards | 7 | 58 | 0 | 8.3 |
Stanley Cup challenges
Ottawa vs. Dawson City
The Klondike Hockey Club, in a letter dated August 24, 1904, from team president Weldy Young, a former Ottawa player, issued a challenge to the Ottawa Hockey Club. The Dawson City team had won no championships and was not a member of any recognized senior league, yet Stanley Cup trustees P.D. Ross and John Sweetland approved the challenge. Author Paul Kitchen has speculated that the series was approved because Young knew both Ross and federal government minister Clifford Sifton.[2]
In January 1905, the Dawson City Nuggets travelled 4,000 miles (6,400 km) from the Yukon to Ottawa for a best-of-three Cup challenge series. The Nuggets actually left Dawson City on December 19, 1904, and travelled on a month-long journey by dog sled (Dawson to Whitehorse), ship (Skagway to Vancouver), and train (Whitehorse to Skagway, and Vancouver to Ottawa). The team was no match for the Silver Seven. Ottawa defeated them in the first game, 9â2. Numerous Stanley Cup records were then set in game two, including Frank McGee's 14 goals, which included eight consecutive goals scored in less than nine minutes,[3] and a 23â2 rout, the largest margin of victory for any challenge game or Stanley Cup Finals game to date.
Several players playing for Dawson were from the Ottawa area. Jim Johnstone was from Ottawa. Norman Watt was from Aylmer, Quebec. Randy McLennan had played in a Stanley Cup challenge for Queen's University of Kingston, Ontario. Another player has Stanley Cup challenge experience: Lorne Hanna, "formerly of the Yukon", had played for Brandon Wheat City in their 1904 challenge of Ottawa.[4]
| Date | Winning Team | Score | Losing Team | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 13, 1905 | Ottawa HC | 9â2 | Dawson City Nuggets | Dey's Arena |
| January 16, 1905 | Ottawa HC | 23â2 | Dawson City Nuggets | |
| Ottawa wins best-of-three series 2 games to 0 | ||||
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A. ^ Coleman lists spelling as Lorne Hanna, other spellings include Hannay (Reddick's spelling) and Hanney (in The Globe article) Source: Coleman[5]
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Sources:
| Ottawa HC | 23 | Dawson | 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave Finnie | G | Albert Forrest | ||
| Harvey Pulford | P | Jim Johnstone | ||
| Arthur Moore | CP | Lorne Hanna | ||
| Harry Westwick | 5 | RO | Dave Fairburn | |
| Frank McGee | 14 | C | Hector Smith | 2 |
| Alf Smith | 3 | RW | George Kennedy | |
| Fred White | 1 | LW | Norman Watt | |
| Referee â E. Butterworth, Ottawa | ||||
Source: Coleman, pg. 112
After the second game, The Globe reported:
The visiting team was outclassed to-night quite as decisively as the score indicates. In fact had it not been for the fact of Forrest's presence in the Dawson goal the score against them might have been a great deal larger. Ottawa simply skated away from them at the whistle and continued to pile up the goals with a merciless monotonous regularity which was farcical in the extreme.[8]
Sources:
After the series, Ottawa held a banquet for Dawson City at the Ottawa Amateur Athletic Association (OAAA) clubhouse. There is a Stanley Cup legend that after the banquet, the Stanley Cup was drop kicked into the frozen Rideau Canal nearby and retrieved the next day. However, Bill Westwick, Ottawa Journal sports editor and the son of Silver Seven player Rat Westwick, and NHL commissioner Frank Calder both deny it ever happened.[9]
Ottawa vs. Rat Portage Thistles
In March 1905, the Rat Portage Thistles issued another challenge to the Ottawas. McGee did not play in the first game and the Thistles crushed Ottawa, 9â3. However, he returned to lead Ottawa to 4â2 and 5â4 victories in games two and three, respectively. McGee returned in game two, with his good forearm wrapped in a cast, and only a light bandage on his broken wrist, to decoy the Thistles. Alf Smith scored three goals in game two on slow ice, which the Thistles claimed was salted to slow down the Thistles. There was hard ice in game three, and the lead exchanged hands several times. The Thistles led 2â1 at halftime and 3â2 midway through the second half. Ottawa took a 4â3 lead, before Tommy Phillips scored his third of the game to tie the score. However, McGee came through with the winning score late in the game to win it for Ottawa.[10]
| Date | Winning Team | Score | Losing Team | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 7, 1905 | Rat Portage Thistles | 9â3 | Ottawa | Dey's Arena |
| March 9, 1905 | Ottawa | 4â2 | Rat Portage Thistles | |
| March 11, 1905 | Ottawa | 5â4 | Rat Portage Thistles | |
| Ottawa wins best-of-three series two games to one. | ||||
| Rat Portage | 9 | Ottawa HC | 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eddie Geroux | G | Dave Finnie | ||
| Matt Brown | P | Harvey Pulford, Capt. | ||
| Theophile Bellefuille | 1 | CP | Arthur Moore | |
| Si Griffis | 2 | R | Harry Westwick | 1 |
| Billy McGimsie | C | Horace Gaul | ||
| Tom Hopper | 1 | RW | Alf Smith | |
| Tommy Phillips, Capt. | 5 | LW | Hamby Shore | 2 |
| Referee - Hartland McDougall | ||||
- Spare - Rat Portage - Roxy Beaudro -LW/D
- Spare - Ottawa - Arthur "Bones" Allen -D, Billy Bawlf -F Bill Gilmore -LW, Fred White -F
| Rat Portage | 2 | Ottawa HC | 4 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eddie Geroux | G | Dave Finnie | ||
| Matt Brown | P | Harvey Pulford, Capt. | ||
| Theophile Bellefuille | CP | Arthur Moore | ||
| Si Griffis | 1 | R | Harry Westwick | |
| Billy McGimsie | C | Frank McGee | ||
| Tom Hopper | 1 | RW | Alf Smith | 3 |
| Tommy Phillips, Capt. | LW | Billy Gilmour | 1 | |
| Referee - Mike Grant | ||||
- Spare - Rat Portage - Roxy Beaudro - LW/D
- Spare - Ottawa - Arthur "Bones" Allen -D, Billy Bawlf -F, Hamby Shore -RW, Fred White -F
| Rat Portage | 4 | Ottawa HC | 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eddie Geroux | G | Dave Finnie | ||
| Matt Brown | P | Harvey Pulford, Capt. | ||
| Theophile Bellefuille | CP | Arthur Moore | ||
| Si Griffis | R | Harry Westwick | 1 | |
| Billy McGimsie | C | Frank McGee | 3 | |
| Tom Hopper | 1 | RW | Alf Smith | 1 |
| Tommy Phillips, Capt. | 3 | LW | Billy Gilmour | |
| Referee - Mike Grant | ||||
- Spare - Rat Portage - Roxy Beaudro - LW/D
- Spare - Ottawa - Arthur "Bones" Allen - D, Billy Bawft - F, Hamby Shore - RW, Fred White - F
Stanley Cup engravings
| Players |
|---|
| Forwards |
| Frank McGee (Center) |
| Harry Westwick (Rover) |
| Hamilton "Billy" Gilmour (left-right wing) |
| Horace Gaul (center) |
| Hamilton Hamby Shore (left wing) |
| Alf Smith (right wing-playing-coach) |
| Fred White |
| Billy Bawlf |
| Defencemen |
| Harvey Pulford (Point-Captain) |
| "Bones" Allen (point) |
| Arthur Moore (cover point) |
| Goaltender |
| Dave Finnie |
non-players=
- George P. Murphy (President), Robert T. "Bob" Shillington (manager)
- Patrick Baskerville (treasurer), Thomas D'Arcy McGee (secretary)
- Halder Kirby (club doctor), David Barred (team dentist)
- Llewellyn Bates, John Proctor "J.P." Dickson, Martin Rosenthal, Charles Sparks (directors)
- Pete Green (trainer), Mac MacGilton (ass't trainer)
engraving-notes=
- For many years a player named McDonald was credited with scoring a goal for the Ottawa Silver Sevens. No player named McDonald played for Ottawa in 1905. February 24, 1905, after a shot by Hamby Shore was stopped by Cornwall goalie Jack Hunter, Garnet McDonald of Cornwall in a zealous effort to clear the puck, accidentally put in his own neat. The goal is was recorded for Ottawa.
- Patrick "Paddy" Moran name was dotted P. MORAN under the Ottawa vs Dawson engraving on the bowl of the Stanley Cup. The engraving was most likely added during one of the Quebec Bulldogs' Stanley Cup wins in 1912 or 1913.[11]
- Tommy Smith name was scratched T SMITH next to 1905 Ottawa vs Kenora. Tommy Smith won the Stanley Cup in 1906 with Ottawa, 1913 with Quebec. The name was likely added in 1913
- Weldy Young, a former member of the Ottawa team in the 1890s, and the captain of the Dawson City team, engraved his name on the Cup with a penknife. He had missed playing for Dawson as he was working in the federal election, although he did arrive in Ottawa during the series.[12]