1912 PCHA season

The 1912 PCHA season was the first season of the now defunct men's professional ice hockey Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), a league founded on December 7, 1911. The three teams, all based in British Columbia, Canada, were to play a sixteen-game schedule, but one game was cancelled. The season ran from January 2 to March 19, 2012, ending with the New Westminster Royals as the first PCHA champions. In February, the PCHA had issued a challenge to the two-year-old National Hockey Association (NHA) to have the two leagues' champions play a series for the Stanley Cup, but the season ended too late for the Royals to travel east to face the NHA champion Quebec Bulldogs, who retained the Stanley Cup without further challenge for the 1911–12 season.[1]

1912 PCHA season
LeaguePacific Coast Hockey Association
Sportice hockey
DurationJanuary 2, 1912, until March 19, 1912
Number of teams3
1912
ChampionNew Westminster Royals
Top scorerNewsy Lalonde (27 goals)
New Westminster Royals, 1912 PCHA champions.

The season was not profitable. Frank Patrick, captain of the Vancouver Millionaires and director of the Vancouver Arena Company, was interviewed on March 6, 1912, by The Globe and expressed his hopes that the 1912–13 PCHA season, with an expected new team in Seattle, would provide better financial results.[2] As it turned out, the PCHA did not expand beyond three teams until 1915–16, when the Seattle Metropolitans started operations.

Regular season

Most of the players for the league were recruited from the east. Many players joined the PCHA from the National Hockey Association (NHA), including Tom Dunderdale, Jimmy Gardner, Pud Glass, Newsy Lalonde, Bert Lindsay, Tommy Phillips and Skinner Poulin. Frank and Lester Patrick had actively targeted the NHA for players as British Columbia had a smaller base of players. In the previous season, the NHA had imposed maximums on player salaries and a salary cap per team that were extremely unpopular with players. Goaltender Hughie Lehman was signed from Berlin of the Ontario Professional Hockey League (OPHL).

The PCHA played seven-man rules with a rover, while the NHA experimented with six-man rules.

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
New Westminster Royals159607877
Vancouver Millionaires1578010294
Victoria Senators167908190

Schedule and results

Month Day Visitor Score Home Score
Jan. 2New Westminster8Victoria3
5Vancouver8New Westminster3
9Victoria8Vancouver4
12Vancouver7Victoria10
16Victoria3New Westminster4 (7:30 OT)
19New Westminster6Vancouver4
23New Westminster2Victoria3
26Victoria8Vancouver10
30Victoria2New Westminster5
Feb. 2†Vancouver7New Westminster6 (3:30 OT)
6Vancouver11New Westminster6
9Vancouver7Victoria8 (7:15 OT)
13Victoria6Vancouver4
16New Westminster4Victoria2
20New Westminster2Vancouver9
23Victoria3New Westminster4
27Vancouver7Victoria3
Mar. 1Victoria7Vancouver3
5New Westminster6Vancouver10
8New Westminster5Victoria1
12Victoria6New Westminster10
15Vancouver6Victoria8
19New Westminster7Vancouver5

† Played in Victoria

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

Player statistics

Goaltending averages

Note: GP = games played, GA = goals against, SO = shutouts, GAA = Goals against average

Name Club GP GA SO GAA
Hughie Lehman New Westminster15775.1
Bert Lindsay Victoria16905.6
Allan Parr Vancouver15946.3

Scoring leaders

Player Team GP G PIM
Newsy LalondeVancouver Millionaires152751
Harry HylandNew Westminster Royals152644
Tommy DunderdaleVictoria Senators162425
Frank PatrickVancouver Millionaires15230
Don SmithVictoria Aristocrats161922
Sibby NicholsVancouver Millionaires151935
Tommy PhillipsVancouver Millionaires171738
Ran McDonaldNew Westminster Royals151656
Ken MallenNew Westminster Royals131430
Lester PatrickVictoria Senators16109
Bobby RoweVictoria Senators161062

See also

References

Bibliography

Coleman, Charles (1966), The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1936 inc.

Notes

  1. "Coast Champions Not Coming", The Globe, p. 12, March 5, 1912
  2. "Not Profitable in B. C.", The Globe, p. 12, March 7, 1912
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