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The 1914–15 NHA season was the 6th season of the National Hockey Association and played from December 26, 1914 until March 3, 1915. Each team played 20 games.

The Ottawa Senators won the NHA championship in a two game, total goal playoff against the Montreal Wanderers, however fell to the Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association in the Stanley Cup championship. It was the first year of an agreement between the NHA and the PCHA to have each league's champion play for the cup.

Contents 1 League Business 1.1 Directors 1.2 Rule Changes 1.3 Players' Salaries 2 Regular season 2.1 Highlights 2.2 Final standings 2.3 Results 2.4 Scoring leaders 2.5 Goalkeeper Averages 3 Playoffs 3.1 League championship 3.2 Exhibition series 3.3 Stanley Cup Final 4 See also 5 References

[edit] League Business

[edit] Directors

• Emmett Quinn, president
• Frank Calder, secretary-treasurer

[edit] Rule Changes

• no player to come within five feet of players facing off,
• puck played after rebounding from goalkeeper no longer is offside,
• charging a player into the boards is a major foul,
• match foul penalized by 10 minutes off and $15 fine.

[edit] Players' Salaries

Prior to the season Art Ross was suspended for trying to organize a rival league, with higher players's salaries. The organizing attempt was not successful, and by January 7, Mr. Ross was reinstated. He signed with Ottawa.

[edit] Regular season

The Ontarios changed their team name to Shamrocks from the February 3 game forward.

Ottawa traded Percy LeSueur to the Ontarios for Fred Lake.

[edit] Highlights

A record long overtime game was played in Quebec on January 13 between Quebec and the Canadiens. Quebec defeated Montreal 3–2 after 50 minutes and 28 seconds of overtime, on a goal by Jack McDonald. Coach Jack Laviolette had to take over for Georges Vezina after Vezina was penalized.^[1]

The Ontarios had to forfeit their February 3 game with the Wanderers after the McNamara brothers took a personal leave to attend their fathers' funeral. Owner Eddie Livingstone of the Ontarios asked for a postponement but the Wanderers refused.^[1]

A game on February 17 between Toronto and Ottawa turned into a brawl before Toronto police arrested Art Ross and Roy McGiffen to calm the proceedings.^[1]

[edit] Final standings

National Hockey Association

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
Ottawa Senators	20	14	6	28	74	65
Montreal Wanderers	20	14	6	28	127	82
Quebec Bulldogs	20	11	9	22	85	85
Toronto Blueshirts	20	8	12	16	66	84
Toronto Ontarios-Shamrocks	20	7	13	14	76	96
Montreal Canadiens	20	6	14	12	65	81

^[2]

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

[edit] Results

Month	Day	Visitor	Score	Home	Score
Dec.	26	Ottawa	4	Quebec	1
	26	Wanderers	11	Ontarios	6
	26	Toronto	4	Canadiens	3
	30	Ontarios	1	Ottawa	4
	30	Wanderers	5	Toronto	2
	30	Quebec	8	Canadiens	7
Jan.	2	Ottawa	6	Wanderers	15
	2	Canadiens	1	Ontarios	4
	2	Toronto	2	Quebec	6
	6	Ottawa	4	Canadiens	2
	6	Ontarios	3	Toronto	4
	6	Wanderers	5	Quebec	6
	9	Toronto	1	Ottawa	2 (18' OT)
	9	Quebec	2	Ontarios	3 (5' OT)
	9	Canadiens	4	Wanderers	5 (6'45" OT)
	13	Ottawa	3	Ontarios	5
	13	Toronto	3	Wanderers	11
	13	Canadiens	2	Quebec	3 (50'20" OT)
	16	Wanderers	3	Ottawa	4
	16	Quebec	1	Toronto	3
	16	Ontarios	7	Canadiens	1
	20	Canadiens	1	Ottawa	3
	20	Toronto	4	Ontarios	3
	20	Quebec	2	Wanderers	5
	23	Canadiens	7	Wanderers	2
	23	Ontarios	1	Quebec	4
	23	Ottawa	2	Toronto	4
	27	Quebec	2	Ottawa	7
	27	Canadiens	1	Toronto	2
	27	Ontarios	4	Wanderers	14
	30	Ottawa	3	Quebec	1
	30	Wanderers	2	Toronto	8
30	Ontarios	3	Canadiens	4
Feb.	3	Toronto	2	Ottawa	7
	3	Wanderers		Ontarios	†
	3	Quebec	2	Canadiens	5
	6	Ottawa	1	Wanderers	8
	6	Ontarios	5	Quebec	9
	6	Canadiens	4	Toronto	3
	10	Ottawa	6	Ontarios	2
	10	Toronto	5	Quebec	7
	10	Canadiens	3	Wanderers	6
	13	Canadiens	3	Ottawa	5
	13	Quebec	6	Wanderers	4
	13	Ontarios	6	Toronto	3
	17	Ottawa	3	Toronto	1
	17	Ontarios	7	Wanderers	10
	17	Canadiens	2	Quebec	6
	20	Wanderers	5	Ottawa	1
	20	Toronto	2	Canadiens	7
	20	Quebec	6	Ontarios	10
	24	Ottawa	2	Canadiens	3
	24	Wanderers	4	Quebec	5 (2' OT)
	24	Toronto	5	Ontarios	1
	27	Ontarios	2	Ottawa	3
	27	Quebec	5	Toronto	4
	27	Wanderers	7	Canadiens	3
Mar.	3	Quebec	3	Ottawa	4 (25" OT)
	3	Toronto	4	Wanderers	5
	3	Canadiens	2	Ontarios	3

† Defaulted to Wanderers.

Source: Coleman, pp. 272–273.

[edit] Scoring leaders

Player	Team	GP	G
Tommy Smith	Quebec & Ontarios	19	39
Didier Pitre	Canadiens	20	30
Gordon Roberts	Wanderers	18	29
Harry Broadbent	Ottawa	24	26
Harry Hyland	Wanderers	24	26
Sprague Cleghorn	Wanderers	19	21
Cully Wilson	Blueshirts	20	21
Odie Cleghorn	Wanderers	15	21
Skene Ronan	Ontarios-Shamrocks	18	20
Rusty Crawford	Quebec	20	19

[edit] Goalkeeper Averages

Name	Club	GP	GA	SO	Avg.
Benedict, Clint	Ottawa	20	65		3.3
Vezina, Georges	Canadiens	20	81		4.1
Holmes, Harry	Toronto	20	84		4.2
Moran, Paddy	Quebec	20	85		4.3
McCarthy, Charlie	Wanderers	19	82		4.3
LeSueur, Percy	Ontarios-Shamrocks	19	96		5.1
Boyce, Art	Wanderers	2	6		7.20

[edit] Playoffs

[edit] League championship

Montreal and Ottawa played a two-game total-goals series to determine the league championship and the O'Brien Cup.

Game-by-Game		Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Location
1	March 10	Ottawa Senators	4–0	Montreal Wanderers	Ottawa
2	March 13	Montreal Wanderers	1–0	Ottawa Senators	Montreal
Senators win series 4–1

[edit] Exhibition series

The Wanderers, Canadiens and Bulldogs played an exhibition series in New York and Boston. The Ontarios and Torontos played an exhibitions series in Cleveland, Ohio.^[3]

[edit] Stanley Cup Final

The 1914–15 season was the first year of an agreement by the Cup's trustees, the NHA and the PCHA where the champion of each league would compete for the Stanley Cup. It marked the end of the challenge era, and began a twelve year period where the NHA/NHL champion would have to compete against a Western league for the Cup.

All three games in this series were played in Vancouver, British Columbia, with the Millionaires sweeping the best of five series in three games.

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 games to 0

[edit] See also

• 1914–15 PCHA season
• National Hockey Association
• List of pre-NHL seasons
• List of Stanley Cup champions

[edit] References

• Coleman, Charles (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc.. NHL. 

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