1904–05 FAHL season

The 1904–05 Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL) season lasted from December 31, 1904 until March 3. Teams played an eight game schedule.

Regular season

The newly transferred Ottawa Hockey Club would win the league championship with a record of seven wins and one loss.

Highlights

Frank McGee would score five goals against the Montagnards on February 4.

Final standing

coring leaders

Sources:
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* Fischler(1990), pg. 261

According to The Globe:

The score was 9 to 2 but Ottawa might have increased its proportions had they set to work to run up a score on the men who had travelled 4,000 miles from the far north in quest of the trophy. During the first twenty minutes of play, the challenging team made a remarkably fine showing agains the champions, but after that they gradually faded away and were never seriously in the running, indicating that the chief fault with the team is that they are not in condition to stand the test of a hard battle after their long trip of 23 days from the north. While defeated to-night, it is undoubtably the fact that the team will be a different proportion in the second game on Monday. [Citation |newspaper=The Globe |date=January 14, 1905 |pages=pg. 21]

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After the series, Ottawa held a banquet for Dawson City at the Ottawa Amateur Athletic Association (OAAA) clubhouse. It was after this banquet that the Stanley Cup was drop kicked into the Rideau Canal.

Ottawa vs. Rat Portage

In March 1905, the Rat Portage Thistles issued another challenge to the Senators. McGee did not play in the first game and the Thistles crushed Ottawa, 9–3. However, he returned to lead the Senators to 4–2 and 5–4 victories in games two and three, respectively.

Ottawa Hockey Club 1905 Stanley Cup Champions

Stanley Cup champion
defence=*Harvey Pulford (Point-Captain)
*Arthur Moore(coverpoint),
* Rod Kennedy(coverpoint)
centers=*Frank McGee
*Harry Westwick(Rover)
wingers=*Angus “Bones” Allan
*Billy Bawlf&
*Hamilton “Billy” Gilmour
*Horace Gaul
*Hamby Shore
*D. McErnie†
* MacDonald
*Alf Smith(playing-Coach)
goaltenders=*Billy Hague
non-players=*G.P. Murphy(President), Bob Shillington(Manager)
*Patrick Basketville(Treasurer), Thomas D'Arcy McGee(Secretary)
*Halder Kirby(Club Doctor), David Barred(Team Denist)
*Llewellyn Bates, J.P. Dickson, Martin Rosenthal, Charles Sparks(Directors)
*Pete Green(Trainer), Mac MacGilton (Ass't Trainer)

player-notes=† Substitute/on team picture/dressed, but did not play&-Missing from the team picture.
engraving-notes=
Weldy Young, a former member of the team in the 1890s, and a member of the Dawson City team, engraved his name on the Cup with a pen knife. [Shea and Wilson(2006), pg. 430]

References and notes

*cite book
author=Coleman, Charles L.
title=The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc.
year=1966
publisher=NHL

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ee also

* Federal Amateur Hockey League
* List of Stanley Cup champions
* List of pre-NHL seasons
* List of ice hockey leagues