1913–14 NHA season

The 1913–14 NHA season was the 6th season of the National Hockey Association. The Toronto Blueshirts won the NHA championship over the Montreal Canadiens, then defeated the challenging Victoria Aristocrats of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association to capture the Stanley Cup.

League Business

Board of Directors

* T. Emmett Quinn( president)
* Percy J. Quinn, Toronto
* C. Irvin, Ottawa
* Sam E. Lichtenhein, Wanderers

Rule Changes

The referees now would drop the puck, instead of placing it on the ice.

A goalkeeper lying down to stop a puck would receive a minor penalty and $2 fine.

Penalties were set at $2 fine for minor fouls. Major fouls would cost more per incident,starting at $3 and 5 minutes off, increasing to $5 and 10 minutes, and to $10 and a match penalty.

Deliberate injury was a $15 fine and banishment until the injured player returned to play.

Goalkeeper sticks now had a limit on their width of 3 1/2 inches.

Assists were now to be recorded.

A dark line between the goal posts was now mandatory.

Referees for the season were named:

*Leo Dandurand,
*Russell Bowie,
*Harvey Pulford,
*Bob Melville,
*Tom Melville, and
*Reg Percival.

Regular Season

Highlights

On January 21, Tommy Smith would score nine goals for Quebec against the Wanderers. He would score 4 against the Canadiens on January 4.

Newsy Lalonde would score six against Wanderers on January 10, and haunt the Wanderers with another five on February 11.

Harry Hyland would score five in a game for the Wanderers against Toronto on March 4.

Allan Davidson would score five against the Ontarios on January 21.

Sprague Cleghorn would score five against Ontarios on December 27.

In the game of February 28 between Canadiens and Wanderers, the referee Leo Dandurand was assaulted by Canadiens manager George Kennedy.

The new arena at Quebec opened on December 30 with a game between Canadiens and Quebec, marred by a match penalty to Newsy Lalonde for hitting Joe Hall in the head, opening a cut requiring eight stitches. On the return match at Montreal on January 14, Mr. Hall would charge Lalonde into the boards for a ten stich wound.

The longest team winning streak was seven by Ottawa.

Final standings

"Teams in bold made the playoffs."

coring Leaders

Toronto Blueshirts 1914 Stanley Cup Champions

Stanley Cup champion
defence=*Jack Marshall (Point-Playing-Manager)
*Connie Con Corbeau (Point)
*Harry Cameron (Coverpoint)
*George McNamara(Coverpoint)
goaltenders=* Harry Hap Holmes
*Claude Wilson(sub)
wingers=*Allan Scotty Davidson (Captain)
*James Harriston†
*Roy McGiffen‡
*Jack Walker
*Carol Cully Wilson
centers=*Frank Foyston
player-notes=† missing from team picture ‡ also played rover in the Stanley Cup Finals
non-players=
*Percy Quinn (President)†
*Dick Carroll (Trainer)
*Frank Carroll (Ass’t Trainer)

ee also

*National Hockey Association
*List of pre-NHL seasons
*List of Stanley Cup champions
*1913 in sports
*1914 in sports

References

* cite book
last=Coleman
first=Charles
title=The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc.
year=1966
publisher=NHL
* Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books, 12, 50. ISBN 1-55168-261-3.