1909 ECHA season

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1909 ECHA season
League Eastern Canada Hockey Association
Sport ice hockey
Duration January 2, 1909 – March 6, 1909
Number of teams 4
1909
Champion Ottawa Senators
Top scorer Marty Walsh (38 goals)
ECAHA seasons

The 1909 ECHA season was the fourth and final season of the Eastern Canada Hockey Association (ECHA). Teams played a twelve game schedule. The Ottawa Senators would win the league championship with a record of ten wins, two losses and take over the Stanley Cup.

League business

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Executive

  • Joe Power, Quebec (President)
  • James Strachan, Wanderers (1st Vice-President)
  • J. Eveleigh, Montreal (2nd Vice-President)
  • Emmett Quinn, Quebec (Secretary-Treasurer)

The Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association league meeting was held November 4, 1908 and was a pivotal meeting in the evolution from amateur to professional ice hockey leagues. At the meeting the two last amateur, or at least partly amateur teams resigned over the signing of players from other teams. Montreal HC and Montreal Victorias left the league and later would continue as senior level men's teams playing for the Allan Cup. Unpaid players would no longer play with paid players.

The league would continue with four professional teams. The league name was changed to Eastern Canadian Hockey Association to reflect the change in status.

Regular season

The Wanderers', Cecil Blatchford had retired and Bruce Stuart had moved to Ottawa. New additions included Joe Hall, Harry Smith, Jimmy Gardner and Steve Vair. The Wanderers would come close to their rivals, finishing second with nine wins and three losses.

Ottawa saw Harvey Pulford and Alf Smith retire, and Tom Phillips leave. Ottawa would replace these players with Edgar Dey, Billy Gilmour and Albert 'Dubby' Kerr from Toronto Professionals. Alf Smith would organize the Ottawa Senators of the Federal Hockey League.

Shamrocks added Harry Hyland, and Quebec saw the start of the career of Joe Malone.

Ottawa played an exhibition game prior to the season with the Toronto professionals on January 2 in Toronto. Toronto defeated Ottawa 5–4.[1] Dubby Kerr played in the game for Toronto, and signed with Ottawa a week later.

On January 25, Wanderers played an exhibition game in Cobalt, Ontario versus the Cobalt Silver Kings, betting $500 on themselves to win, but lost 6–4.[2][3] After the game Harry Smith would leave the Wanderers to join Haileybury of the Timiskaming League.[4]

Highlights

The rivalry between Ottawa and Wanderers continued, Wanderers winning the first on January 6 7–6 in overtime, with Harry Smith scoring four against his former team. Ottawa would win the next 5–4 in Ottawa, and defeat Montreal in Montreal 9–8 before 8000 fans. Ottawa would finish the series winning 8–3 in Ottawa to clinch the championship.

Marty Walsh of Ottawa would win the scoring championship with 38 goals. Ottawa would average nearly ten goals per game.

Final standing

Team Games Played Wins Losses Ties Goals For Goals Against
Ottawa HC
12
10
2
0
117
63
Montreal Wanderers
12
9
3
0
82
61
Quebec HC
12
3
9
0
78
106
Montreal Shamrocks
12
2
10
0
56
103

Stanley Cup challenges

Montreal vs. Edmonton

Prior to the season, Wanderers would play a challenge against the Edmonton Hockey Club, champions of the Alberta Amateur Hockey Association. Despite all players except for one being a 'ringer' for Edmonton, Montreal would defeat them December 28–30, 1908, in Montreal. In game one, Harry Smith scored 5 goals as he led the Wanderers to a 7–3 victory. The Edmontons won game two, 7–6, but Montreal took the two-game total goals series, 13–10.

Date Winning Team Score Losing Team Location
December 28, 1908 Montreal Wanderers 7–3 Edmonton HC Montreal Arena
December 30, 1908 Edmonton HC 7–6 Montreal Wanderers
Montreal wins total goals series 13 goals to 10

After the challenge, Edmonton would play an exhibition game in Ottawa on January 2 before returning to Edmonton, defeating the Ottawa Senators (of the FHL) 4–2.[5] Ottawa played the Toronto Pros the same day in Toronto, losing 5–4.[6] Lindsay, Pitre and Vair, having played with Edmonton for the challenge, would sign after the exhibition game with Renfrew of the Federal League. The players would help Renfrew to the FHL championship.

After the season, Ottawa took over the Cup, but a series against the Winnipeg Shamrocks could not be arranged and no challenge was played. (The Shamrocks would fold before the next season and never played a challenge.) Challenges from Renfrew of the Federal Hockey League and Cobalt of the Timiskaming League were disallowed when the Stanley Cup trustees ruled that the players on Renfrew and Cobalt were ineligible, having joined their teams after January 2.

Post-season exhibition

Ottawa and the Montreal Wanderers played a two-game series at the St. Nicholas Rink in New York on March 12 and March 13. Ottawa won the first game 6–4, and the second game was tied 8–8.

Schedule and results

Month Day Visitor Score Home Score
Jan. 2 Quebec 8 Shamrocks 9
6 Shamrocks 4 Quebec 12
6 Ottawa 6 Wanderers 7 (7:40 OT)
9 Quebec 5 Ottawa 13
13 Ottawa 11 Shamrocks 3
13 Wanderers 7 Quebec 3
16 Shamrocks 7 Ottawa 9
16 Quebec 6 Wanderers 7
20 Shamrocks 5 Wanderers 7
23 Ottawa 18 Quebec 4
27 Shamrocks 1 Wanderers 5
30 Wanderers 4 Ottawa 5
30 Quebec 4 Shamrocks 8
Feb. 6 Ottawa 9 Wanderers 8
6 Shamrocks 6 Quebec 9
10 Shamrocks 6 Wanderers 8
13 Quebec 6 Ottawa 14
17 Wanderers 12 Shamrocks 2
20 Ottawa 7 Shamrocks 3
20 Wanderers 7 Quebec 4
27 Shamrocks 2 Ottawa 11
27 Quebec 6 Wanderers 7
Mar. 4 Wanderers 3 Ottawa 8
7 Ottawa 6 Quebec 11

Player statistics

Goaltending averages

Name Club GP GA SO Avg.
Hern, Riley Wanderers 12 61 5.1
LeSueur, Percy Ottawa 12 63 5.3
Baker, W. Shamrocks 12 103 8.6
Moran, Paddy Quebec 12 106 8.8

Leading scorers

Name Club GP G
Walsh, Marty Ottawa 12 38
Jordan, Herb Quebec 12 29
Stuart, Bruce Ottawa 11 22
Power, Charles Quebec 12 22
Kerr, Dubby Ottawa 9 20
Hyland, Harry Shamrocks 11 18
Glass, Frank Wanderers 12 17
Vair, Steve Wanderers 7 12
Gilmour, Billy Ottawa 11 11
Gardner, Jimmy Wanderers 12 11

Ottawa Hockey Club 1909 Stanley Cup champions

Roster

  Centres
  Wingers
  Defencemen
  Goaltenders


  Coaching and administrative staff
  • Thomas D'arcy McGee (President), Llewellyn Bates (Vice President)
  • Pete Green (Coach), Patrick Basketville (Treasurer)
  • Martin Rosenthal (Secretary), Mac McGilton (Trainer)
  • Charles Sparks, George Bryson, Dave Mulligan (Directors)
  • Perciville Buttler, S.N. Nagle† (Directors)


  • There are two team picture one including only players were included on the team picture, which is reproduced in Coleman, p. 177. The other include all the players and executives Podnieks Page 41.
  • †Unknown first name.

Stanley Cup engraving

Ottawa added a new ring to the bottom of the Stanley Cup and put their name on it.[7]

Winning team, 1909

See also

References

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Preceded by Ottawa HC
Stanley Cup Champions
1909		 Succeeded by
Ottawa HC
January 1910
Preceded by ECAHA seasons
1909		 Succeeded by
Canadian Hockey Association (1909–1910)
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