1908–09 Ottawa Hockey Club season

The 1908–09 Ottawa Hockey Club season was the club's 24th season, third in the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association. Ottawa won the league championship and took over the Stanley Cup from the Montreal Wanderers.

1908–09 Ottawa Hockey Club
Stanley Cup champions
1908–09 record10–2–0
Home record6–0–0
Road record4–2–0
Goals for122
Goals against69
Team information
CoachPete Green
CaptainMarty Walsh
ArenaThe Arena
Team leaders
GoalsMarty Walsh (38)
WinsPercy LeSueur (13)
Goals against averagePercy LeSueur (4.3)

Team business

This was the first season that the Club played as professionals as the amateur clubs dropped out of the league. There was turnover in Ottawa as Harvey Pulford and Alf Smith retired and Tom Phillips left. 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.

Ottawa played an exhibition game prior to the season with the Toronto Professionals on January 2 in Toronto. Ottawa lost to Toronto 5–4.[1] Dubby Kerr played for Toronto, and signed with Ottawa a week later. Kerr had been the subject of a dispute between the Toronto and Berlin teams. The OPHL awarded Kerr to Guelph, but he instead left to join Ottawa.[2]

1909 Ottawa Hockey Club team picture

Regular season

Marty Walsh would win the scoring championship with 38 goals. Ottawa would average nearly ten goals per game. After losing the first game, Ottawa then won the next ten in a row before losing in the final game of the season, when the league championship was already won.

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

Schedule and results
Month Day Visitor Score Home Score Record
Jan. 6Ottawa6Wanderers7 (7:40 OT)0–1
9Quebec5Ottawa131–1
13Ottawa11Shamrocks32–1
16Shamrocks7Ottawa93–1
23Ottawa18Quebec44–1
30Wanderers4Ottawa55–1
Feb. 6Ottawa9Wanderers86–1
13Quebec6Ottawa147–1
20Ottawa7Shamrocks38–1
27Shamrocks2Ottawa119–1
Mar. 4Wanderers3Ottawa810–1
7Ottawa6Quebec1110–2

Goaltending averages
Name Club GP GA SO Avg.
LeSueur, Percy Ottawa12635.3

Leading scorers
Name Club GP G
Walsh, Marty Ottawa1238
Stuart, Bruce Ottawa1122
Kerr, Dubby Ottawa920
Gilmour, Billy Ottawa1111

Ottawa Hockey Club 1909 Stanley Cup Champions

Players
  Centres
  Wingers
  Defencemen

Coaching and administrative staff

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

Only players were included on the team picture, which is reproduced in Coleman, p. 177.

Stanley Cup engraving

Ottawa added a new ring to the bottom of the Stanley Cup and put their name on it.[3]

See also

References
  • Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books, 12, 50. ISBN 1-55168-261-3.
  • Coleman, Charles (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc. NHL.
  • Harper, Stephen J. (2013). A Great Game. Simon & Schuster Canada. ISBN 978-1-4767-1653-4.
  1. "Ottawa Not Invincible". The Globe. January 4, 1909. p. 7.
  2. Harper 2013, p. 175.
  3. [Podnieks]
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