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The 1910–11 NHA season was the second season of the now defunct National Hockey Association. Five teams played 16 games each, starting on December 31, 1910 and ending on March 10, 1911. The Ottawa Hockey Club won the league championship and took over the Stanley Cup from the Montreal Wanderers.

Contents 1 League Business 1.1 Salary Cap 1.2 Rule Changes 2 Regular season 2.1 Final standings 2.2 Results 2.3 Goalkeeper Averages 2.4 Leading scorers 3 Stanley Cup Challenges 3.1 Galt vs. Ottawa 3.2 Port Arthur vs. Ottawa 4 Post-season Exhibition series 5 Ottawa Hockey Club 1911 Stanley Cup Champions 5.1 Roster 5.2 Stanley Cup engraving 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

[edit] League Business

The annual meeting was held November 12, 1910 electing the following executive:

• Emmett Quinn (president and secretary)

Directors:

• Eddie McCafferty, Wanderers
• John Ambrose O'Brien, Renfrew
• W. P. Humphrey, Shamrocks
• George Kennedy, Canadiens
• Joe Power, Quebec

The Shamrocks resigned from the league and were not replaced. The Club Athletique-Canadien and the Quebec Hockey Club were granted franchises. Haileybury and Cobalt left the league. Club-Athletique-Canadien had made a claim on the Canadiens name and threatened a lawsuit if they were not granted a franchise. There are three written descriptions of this transaction. Coleman(1966) writes that George Kennedy, president of the CAC bought the Haileybury franchise. In Andy O'Brien's book, Ambrose O'Brien is quoted as saying that he sold the Canadiens to Kennedy. In Holzman's book, the franchise was given to Kennedy, but Kennedy had to pay O'Brien for the rights to Newsy Lalonde. In The Globe of March 7, 1911, it is claimed that Lalonde's sale was the first ever sale of a player.^[1]

The NHA decided to impose a $5,000 per team salary cap.^[2]

A second meeting, on November 26, 1910 updated the Board of Directors to:

• D'Arcy McGee, Ottawa
• James A. Barnett, Renfrew
• Adolphe Lecours, Canadiens
• Joe Power, Quebec
• Eddie McCafferty, Wanderers

The salary cap, while opposed by the players was upheld at the meeting.

Source: Coleman, p. 201–203.

[edit] Salary Cap

The salary cap of $5000 per club caused a situation where Bruce Stuart of Ottawa threatened a mass defection to a new league.^[3] However, the players found that the Arena Company, owners of the Montreal Arena would not rent to the players.^[4] There was no other suitable arena in Montreal available for a new league and the players had no choice but to abandon the effort.^[5] Some players took a large cut in salary: Marty Walsh, Fred Lake and Dubby Kerr were paid $600 each where they had been paid $1200 each in 1910. The dispute caused the cancellation of a pre-season exhibition series in New York for the Ottawas and Wanderers.^[6]

[edit] Rule Changes

Games were changed from two periods of 30 minutes, to three periods of twenty minutes, with ten minute rest periods. The Spalding hockey puck was adopted as the standard puck.^[7]

[edit] Regular season

[edit] Final standings

National Hockey Association

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
Ottawa Hockey Club	16	13	3	0	122	69
Montreal Canadiens	16	8	8	0	66	62
Renfrew Creamery Kings	16	8	8	0	91	101
Montreal Wanderers	16	7	9	0	73	88
Quebec Bulldogs	16	4	12	0	65	97

^[8]

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

[edit] Results

Month	Day	Visitor	Score	Home	Score
Dec.	31	Ottawa	5	Canadiens	3
Jan.	2	Renfrew	2	Quebec	3
	5†	Wanderers	4	Renfrew	2
	7	Canadiens	4	Quebec	1
	7	Wanderers	5	Ottawa	10
	10	Quebec	4	Wanderers	5 (overtime)
	10	Ottawa	5	Renfrew	4
	14	Renfrew	1	Canadiens	4
	14	Quebec	5	Ottawa	13
	16	Quebec	5	Renfrew	10
	18	Canadiens	4	Wanderers	5
	21	Canadiens	4	Ottawa	5 (overtime)
	21	Wanderers	5	Quebec	3
	24	Renfrew	5	Ottawa	19
	24	Quebec	5	Canadiens	9
	27	Canadiens	6	Renfrew	5
	28	Ottawa	8	Wanderers	2
Feb.	1	Renfrew	8	Quebec	7
	1	Wanderers	6	Canadiens	3
	3	Wanderers	5	Renfrew	8
	4	Ottawa	6	Quebec	4
	7	Canadiens	9	Wanderers	2
	11	Quebec	2	Canadiens	3
	11	Wanderers	4	Ottawa	9
	15‡	Wanderers	4	Renfrew	5 (at Ottawa)
	15	Canadiens	4	Quebec	7
	18	Renfrew	4	Wanderers	6
	18	Ottawa	7	Quebec	2
	21	Renfrew	2	Canadiens	4
	22	Wanderers	3	Quebec	1
	24	Ottawa	7	Renfrew	8
	25	Quebec	3	Wanderers	2
	27	Quebec	11	Renfrew	10
	28	Wanderers	2	Canadiens	3
	28	Quebec	2	Ottawa	6
Mar.	2	Ottawa	7	Wanderers	11
	2	Canadiens	3	Renfrew	5
	4	Renfrew	7	Ottawa	6
	7	Wanderers	6	Renfrew	7
	8	Ottawa	4	Canadiens	3
	10	Canadiens	0	Ottawa	5

† Protested by Renfrew.

‡ Replay of protested game.

[edit] Goalkeeper Averages

Name	Club	GP	GA	SO	Avg.
Vezina, Georges	Canadiens	16	62		3.9
LeSueur, Percy	Ottawa	16	69	1	4.3
Hern, Riley	Wanderers	16	88		5.5
Moran, Paddy	Quebec	16	97		6.1
Lindsay, Bert	Renfrew	16	101		6.3

[edit] Leading scorers

Name	Club	GP	G
Walsh, Marty	Ottawa	16	37
Kerr, Dubby	Ottawa	16	32
Smith, Don	Renfrew	16	28
Ridpath, Bruce	Ottawa	16	22
Cleghorn, Odie	Renfrew	16	20
Lalonde, Newsy	Canadiens	16	19
Pitre, Didier	Canadiens	16	19
Russell, Ernie	Wanderers	10	18
Darragh, Jack	Ottawa	16	18
Glass, Pud	Wanderers	16	17

[edit] Stanley Cup Challenges

Ottawa played two challenges after the season at The Arena in Ottawa.

[edit] Galt vs. Ottawa

March 13, 1911

Galt	4	at	Ottawa	7
Billy Hague		G	Percy LeSueur
Billy Baird		P	Fred Lake	1
Mike Murphy		CP	Hamby Shore
Tommy Smith	1	F	Jack Darragh
Ken Mallen		F	Marty Walsh	3
Louis Berlinguette	2	F	Bruce Ridpath	2
Fred Doherty	1	F	Albert Kerr	1

[edit] Port Arthur vs. Ottawa

Marty Walsh was a "one-man wrecking crew", scoring ten goals against Port Arthur.

March 16, 1911

Port Arthur	4	at	Ottawa	13
H. Zeigler		G	Percy LeSueur
McDonough		P	Fred Lake
Eddie Carpenter	1	CP	Hamby Shore
Jack Walker	1	F	Jack Darragh
O'Leary		F	Marty Walsh	10
W. McGregor	1	F	Bruce Ridpath	2
Wellington	1	F	Albert Kerr	1

[edit] Post-season Exhibition series

After the season a series was arranged between Renfrew and Montreal Wanderers and Ottawa to play in New York. Renfrew and Montreal played first, with the winner to play-off against Ottawa. After the Wanderers defeated Renfrew 18–5 (13–4, 4–1), Ottawa won a $2,500 prize for the two-game series winning 12–7 ( 7–2, 5–8 ).^[9]

Date	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Location
March 17, 1911	Montreal Wanderers	14–4	Renfrew	St. Nicholas Rink, New York
March 18, 1911	Montreal Wanderers	4–1	Renfrew
March 20, 1911	Ottawa	7–2	Montreal Wanderers
March 21, 1911	Montreal Wanderers	8–5	Ottawa

Sources

• "WANDERERS AGAIN DOWN THE RENFREWS; Montreal Skaters Capture the Second Game of Canadian Hockey at Rink.". New York Times: p. S2. March 19, 1911. 
• "OTTAWA HOCKEY CLUB DOWNS WANDERERS; Stanley Cup Winners Show High Class Team Work and Skating at Local Rink.". New York Times: p. 12. March 21, 1911. 
• "OTTAWA TEAM WINS $2,500 HOCKEY PURSE; Wanderers of Montreal Beaten in Final Game of Four Nights' Carnival.". New York Times: p. 12. March 22, 1911. 

[edit] Ottawa Hockey Club 1911 Stanley Cup Champions

Roster

Stanley Cup engraving

Ottawa put their names on the cup in 1909 and 1910 but did not in 1911. It was not until the trophy was redesigned in 1948 that the words "1911 Ottawa Senators" was put onto its then-new collar.

[edit] See also

• National Hockey Association
• List of pre-NHL seasons
• List of Stanley Cup champions
• 1910 in sports
• 1911 in sports

[edit] References

• Coleman, Charles (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc.. NHL. 
• Holzman, Morey; Nieforth, Joseph (2002). Deceptions and Doublecross: How the NHL conquered Hockey. Dundurn Press. 
• O'Brien, Andy (1971), Les Canadiens, Montreal, Quebec, Canada: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, ISBN 0070929509 
• Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books, 12, 50. ISBN 1-55168-261-3.

[edit] External links

• Oilers Heritage: The NHA

Preceded by Montreal Wanderers March 1910

Ottawa Hockey Club Stanley Cup Champions 1911

Succeeded by Quebec Bulldogs 1912

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