1913–14 PCHA season

The 1913–14 PCHA season was the third season of the professional men's ice hockey Pacific Coast Hockey Association league. Season play ran from December 5, 1913, until February 24, 1914. Like the previous two seasons, teams were to play a 16-game schedule, but one game was cancelled. The Victoria Aristocrats club would be the PCHA champions. After the season, Victoria travelled to Toronto to play the Toronto Hockey Club, National Hockey Association (NHA) champions, in a challenge series for the 1914 Stanley Cup. Toronto won the series.

League business

Frank Patrick became league president, succeeding C. E. Doherty.[1] The Victoria Senators changed their name to the Victoria Aristocrats. In the fall of 1913, the PCHA and the NHA agreed to support a draft arrangement, whereby the PCHA could draft NHA players annually for four years. The PCHA would draft three players on a rotating basis among the NHA teams. The first draft, in 1914, would have the PCHA select one player from Ottawa, one from Quebec, and one from the Wanderers.[2] An agreement was made with the NHA to send the PCHA champion east to play the NHA champion for the "world's championship" at the end of the season.[3]

Rule changes

This season marked the introduction of the blue lines used in today's official ice hockey rinks. The league sub-divided the rink into three zones of 67 feet (20 m), allowing forward passing in the centre zone. This change was at the instigation of the Patrick brothers.[4] The league also started awarding assists for players helping to set up a goal, allowing substitution at any time, banning players from within 5 feet (1.5 m) of a faceoff, having separate dressing rooms for the officials, allowing the kicking of the puck except to score and added a goal line between the posts of the goal net.[1]

Regular season

Cyclone Taylor won the scoring championship with 39 points. Taylor and Tommy Dunderdale won the goal-scoring championship with 24 goals. The top single-game scoring feat was accomplished by Eddie Oatman, who scored six goals in his final game of the season against Vancouver on February 24, 1914, to finish with 22 goals.

Victoria was in last place on January 23, but then won six games in a row to claim the league championship and the Paterson Cup.

Final standings

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

Pacific Coast Hockey Association GP W L T GF GA
Victoria Aristocrats1510508067
New Westminster Royals167907581
Vancouver Millionaires156907683

Stanley Cup playoffs

After the season, Victoria travelled to Toronto to play the Toronto Blueshirts, the NHA and Stanley Cup champion. A controversy occurred when it was revealed that the Victoria club had not filed a formal challenge. A letter arrived from the Stanley Cup trustees on March 17, that the trustees would not let the Stanley Cup travel west, as they did not consider Victoria a proper challenger because they had not formally notified the trustees.[5] However, on March 18, Trustee William Foran stated that it was a misunderstanding. PCHA president Frank Patrick had not filed a challenge, because he had expected Emmett Quinn of the NHA to make all of the arrangements in his role as hockey commissioner, whereas the trustees thought they were being deliberately ignored. In any case, all arrangements had been ironed out and the Victoria challenge was accepted.[6][7]

Date Score Score Rules Notes
March 14Victoria2Toronto5NHA
March 17Victoria5Toronto6PCHA15:00 OT
March 19Victoria1Toronto2NHA

Exhibition series

Vancouver travelled to New York, and played in a tournament with the Quebec Bulldogs and Montreal Wanderers of the NHA.[8]

Schedule and results

Month Day Visitor Score Home Score
Dec. 5New Westminster7Vancouver5
9Victoria5New Westminster6
12New Westminster2Vancouver6
16Victoria3Vancouver11
19New Westminster4Victoria6
26Vancouver4Victoria9
30New Westminster3Vancouver7
Jan. 2New Westminster5Victoria4
6Victoria6Vancouver5
9Vancouver3New Westminster2
13New Westminster3Victoria5
16New Westminster5Vancouver8
20Vancouver7Victoria6 (14:45 OT)
23Victoria4New Westminster6
27Victoria5Vancouver3
30New Westminster5Victoria7
Feb. 3Vancouver2New Westminster8
6New Westminster3Vancouver1
10Vancouver2Victoria5
13Victoria2New Westminster1 (36:46 OT)
17Victoria5Vancouver4 (7:40 OT)
20New Westminster1Victoria8
24New Westminster6Vancouver9
24aVictoriaVancouver
  • a Cancelled

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

Player statistics

Goaltenders

Name Club GP GA SO Avg.
Bert Lindsay Victoria15674.5
Hugh Lehman New Westminster16815.0
Allan Parr Vancouver15835.5

Scoring leaders

Player Team GP G A Pts PIM
Cyclone TaylorVancouver Millionaires1624153918
Dubbie KerrVictoria Aristocrats1620113115
Tommy DunderdaleVictoria Aristocrats162442834
Eddie OatmanNew Westminster Royals162252718
Ken MallenNew Westminster Royals162062646
Ran McDonaldNew Westminster Royals161552034
Sibby NicholsVancouver Millionaires121462021
Frank PatrickVancouver Millionaires16119203
Smokey HarrisVancouver Millionaires151431733
Didier PitreVancouver Millionaires151421612

All-Stars

Source: Coleman 1966[9]

See also

References

  • 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.

Notes

  1. Boileau & Wolf 2000, p. 52.
  2. "As To Drafting of Hockey Players". Toronto World. March 4, 1914. p. 8.
  3. "Hockey Season At Coast Opens With Exhibition Game Tomorrow". Ottawa Citizen. November 27, 1913. p. 8.
  4. Coleman, p. 258
  5. "Stanley Cup Contest May Not Be for the Mug, After All is Said". Saskatoon Phoenix. March 18, 1914. p. 8.
  6. "A Tempest In a Teapot". Montreal Daily Mail. March 19, 1914. p. 9.
  7. "Stanley Cup Muddle Cleared Up". Toronto Globe and Mail. March 19, 1914.
  8. "Quebec Will Meet Wanderers in Final". Montreal Daily Mail. March 19, 1914. p. 9.
  9. Coleman 1966, p. 259.
Preceded by
1912–13 PCHA season
PCHA seasons
1913–14
Succeeded by
1914–15 PCHA season
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