The 1914–15 PCHA season was the fourth season of the professional men's ice hockey Pacific Coast Hockey Association league. Season play ran from December 8, 1914, until March 9, 1915. The schedule was made for each team to play 18 games, but like the previous three seasons, one game was cancelled. The Vancouver Millionaires club were the PCHA champions. After the season the club faced off against the Ottawa Senators, NHA champions for the Stanley Cup, winning the series and becoming the first west-coast team to win the Cup.

League business

The franchise of the New Westminster Royals was transferred to Portland, Oregon, and renamed the "Rosebuds." The league established a "farm system" called the Boundary Hockey League in the British Columbia towns of Grand Forks, Greenwood and Phoenix.[1]

Rule changes

The league banned body checking within 10 feet (3.0 m) of the boards.[1]

Regular season

Rookie Mickey MacKay led the league with 33 goals, while Cyclone Taylor won the scoring title. The two led the Vancouver Millionaires to the league title, winning 13 of 17 games.[1]

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
Vancouver Millionaires17134011571
Portland Rosebuds189909183
Victoria Aristocrats17413064116

Results

Month Day Visitor Score Home Score
Dec. 8Vancouver6Portland3
11Victoria3Vancouver5
15Portland8Victoria4
18Portland3Vancouver6
26Victoria1Portland8
29Vancouver4Victoria3 (12:06 OT)
Jan. 5Vancouver4Portland3 (11:00 OT)
8Victoria2Vancouver9
12Portland3Victoria4 (3:35 OT)
15Portland3Vancouver2
19Victoria5Portland10
22Vancouver1Victoria4
26Vancouver4Portland10
29Victoria5Vancouver12
Feb. 2Portland5Victoria6 (18:20 OT)
5Portland8Vancouver3
9Victoria2Portland3
12Vancouver6Victoria4
16Vancouver5Portland0
19Victoria3Vancouver10
23Portland3Victoria4
26Portland3Vancouver13
27Portland3Vancouver11
Mar. 2Vancouver14Victoria11
4Victoria1Portland9
6Victoria2Portland6
9aVictoriaVancouver
  • a Cancelled

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

Source: Coleman, p. 271

All-Star games

On March 15 and 17 two All-Star games were played in Portland between the league champions Vancouver Millionaires and a PCHA All-Star aggregation made out of players from the Portland Rosebuds and the Victoria Aristocrats. Vancouver won the first game at the Portland Ice Hippodrome 9 goals to 8, with Cyclone Taylor scoring four times for the winning side, and with Lester Patrick having an impressive five goals and three assists for the losing side, figuring in all of the All-Stars goals.[2]

Vancouver managed to win also the second game by a one-goal margin, defeating the All-Stars 4 goals to 3. Frank Nighbor made a good showing for the winning side with two goals, and for the All-Stars Ran McDonald scored twice.[3]

Playoffs

The champion Vancouver Millionaires hosted the finals against the Ottawa Senators, NHA champions. Vancouver won the series and became the first west-coast team to win the Cup.

Game-by-Game Winning Team Score Losing Team Rules Used Location
1March 22Vancouver Millionaires6–2Ottawa SenatorsPCHADenman Arena, Vancouver
2March 24Vancouver Millionaires8–3Ottawa SenatorsNHA
3March 26Vancouver Millionaires12–3Ottawa SenatorsPCHA
Millionaires win best-of-five series 3 – 0

Player statistics

Frank Nighbor, tied third in points.

Goaltending averages

Name Club GP GA SO Avg.
Hugh Lehman Vancouver177114.2
Mike Mitchell Portland18834.6
Bert Lindsay Victoria171166.8

Scoring leaders

Player Team GP G A Pts PIM
Cyclone TaylorVancouver Millionaires162322459
Mickey MacKayVancouver Millionaires173311449
Frank NighborVancouver Millionaires172373012
Eddie OatmanPortland Rosebuds182283023
Ran McDonaldPortland Rosebuds182272924
Tommy DunderdaleVictoria Aristocrats1617102722
Art ThroopPortland Rosebuds181682443
Dubbie KerrVictoria Aristocrats171441815
Smokey HarrisPortland Rosebuds181431739
Lester PatrickVictoria Aristocrats171251715

Vancouver Millionaires 1915 Stanley Cup champions

1915 Vancouver Millionaires

Players

  Centres
  Defencemen

Coaching and administrative staff

  • None - Defenseman Frank Patrick was owner/president/manager/coach. He ran the whole team.

‡ Played Rover, a position between both Defences and behind the Centre

Stanley Cup engraving

The Senators had the words "Ottawa/NHA Champions/1914–15" engraved on the base of the trophy's original bowl even though they did not win the Cup finals. This was similar to the practice prior to the NHA-PCHA agreement when the trophy was officially passed on to the winner of the league championship of the previous Cup champion's league. The previous Cup winner was the 1913–14 NHA champion Toronto Blueshirts.

After the finals, "Vancouver B.C./1914–15/Defeated Ottawa/3 Straight Games" was added to the Cup. Eight players' names and the manager's name were also engraved inside the bowl along the fluted sides.

Two players were left off the Stanley Cup, even though there was room. Kenny Mallen played 14 of 16 regular season games, and two of three games in the finals. Mallen's name was left off by mistake. Jean Matz was left off, because he only played one game.

See also

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Boileau & Wolf 2000, p. 52.
  2. ↑ "Millionaires take fast hockey game with the All-Stars" Oregon Daily Journal. March 16, 1915 (pg. 11). Retrieved 2021-05-15.
  3. ↑ "Vancouver Champions Win Over the All-Stars Again" The Sun (Vancouver). March 18, 1915 (pg. 6). Retrieved 2021-05-15.

Bibliography

  • Boileau, Ron; Wolf, Philip (2000), "The Pacific Coast Hockey Association", in Diamond, Dan (ed.), Total Hockey, pp. 51–54, ISBN 1-892129-85-X
  • Coleman, Charles (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1936 inc.
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