Seattle Metropolitans

Pro hockey team
team = Seattle Metropolitans

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city = Seattle, Washington
league = PCHA
founded = 1915 [cite web
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operated = 1924 [cite web
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arena = Seattle Ice Arena [cite web
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colors = Green, red and white
reg_season_titles = 1917,1918,1920,1922,1924
stanley_cups = 1917

The Seattle Metropolitans were a professional ice hockey team based in Seattle, Washington which played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1915 to 1924. They won the Stanley Cup in 1917, becoming the first American team to do so. They played their home games at the Seattle Ice Arena.

History

The United States first Stanley Cup

Seattle won the 1917 championship by defeating the National Hockey Association's Montreal Canadiens three games to one by a combined score of 19 to 3. Fourteen of Seattle's goals were scored by Bernie Morris (including six in game four alone).cite book | title = The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol I | author = Coleman, Charles L. | publisher=Kendall/Hunt | year = 1964] . Games one and three were played under PCHA rules, i.e., seven players per side, forward passing in the neutral zone, and no substitution for penalized players. Games two and four were played under NHA rules, i.e., six players per side, no forward passing, substitutions allowed.cite book | title = The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol I | author = Coleman, Charles L. | publisher=Kendall/Hunt | year = 1964] .

Life in the PCHA

After winning the 1917 stanley cup the Metropolitans also played in the Stanley Cup finals in 1919 (which was cancelled due to the Spanish flu pandemic after five games, with the series tied 2-2-1) and 1920, when they lost to the Ottawa Senatorscite book | title = The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol I | author = Coleman, Charles L. | publisher=Kendall/Hunt | year = 1964] .

In the 1919 cancelled stanley cup finals two brillant performances by seattle players were recorded, one by Hap holmes keeping the last played game scoreless resulting in the referee declaring a tie and that of Frank Foyston scoring 8 goals in the first 4 games of the series.

During the 1920 stanley cup finals the Ottawa Senators would don solid white Jerseys [http://www.hhof.com/html/dyntmott.shtml] to avoid confusion with Seattle's barber pole style of green, red and white (Ottawa traditionally wore black red and white pole style jersey's) cite book | title = The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol I | author = Coleman, Charles L. | publisher=Kendall/Hunt | year = 1964] . The 1920 Series was subsequently relocated from Ottawa to Toronto's mutual artificial ice surface at Toronto's Mutual Arena due to poor ice conditions [http://www.hhof.com/html/dyntmott.shtml] .

The PCHA consisted of four teams for 1915-16 and 1916-17 seasons, while operating under three teams from 1917 until its fold in 1924. From 1922-23 games against the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) counted in the PCHA standings. This allowed Seattle to have a losing record yet still win the league regular season championship in 1924. In 1924 The Seattle team folded and the PCHA ceased to operate. In the last season the team had an average of 1000 fans per game in attendance [http://www.narhist.ewu.edu/pnf/articles/bernklow.html] . Arena owner's subsequently did not renew the team's lease [cite web
url = http://www.seattlehockey.net/metropolitans/metropolitans.htm
title = Seattle Metropolitans
work = seattle hockey
accessdate = 2008-08-29] . The remaining teams of Vancouver and Victoria joined the WCHL for the 1925 season.

Season-by-season record

"Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against"

Hall of famers

* Frank Foyston
* Gordon Roberts
* Jack Walker
* Harry Holmes

References

External links

* [http://www.seattlehockey.net/metropolitans/metropolitans.htm Page with Seattle Metropolitans history]