1893 AHAC season

Ice hockey season March 2026 1893 AHAC season Amateur Hockey Association of Canada Ice hockey January 7 – March 17, 1893 5 1893 Montreal Hockey Club Champions Amateur Hockey Association of Canada AHAC 1892 AHAC season 1892 1894 AHAC season 1894 thumb|right|295px|Montreal Hockey Club with the Stanley Cup The 1893 Amateur Hockey Association of Canada season lasted from January 7 until March 17. The Montreal Hockey Club defeated the Montreal Crystals 2-1 to claim the league and Canadian champion for the sixth season in a row and was awarded the new Stanley Cup without any competition by virtue of their status as AHAC champion. Executive On December 15, 1892, the AHAC elected its officers for the season: President - F. M. S. Jenkins, Ottawa 1st Vice. Pres. - J. Crathern, Victorias 2nd Vice. Pres. - A. Laurie, Quebec Secretary-Treasurer - J. A. Findlay, Montreal Council - A. Ritchie, Crystals; G. Carpenter, Shamrocks; M. Costigan, McGill; A. Z. Palmer, Ottawa Rebels; J. Farwell, Sherbrooke Season The season came down to the wire between Montreal Hockey Club (MAAA) and Ottawa Hockey Club (the future Senators). MAAA won the showdown match with Ottawa 7-1 on February 18, then clinched first place on March 10 vs Crystals. However, two disputes needed to be settled at a special meeting on March 13 before the AHAC title was confirmed to MAAA. The meeting took place at the offices of James Caruthers at 3416 Av. du Parc, Montreal (formerly 699 Sherbrooke St.). Both decisions would have an impact as MAAA ended up finishing one game ahead of the Ottawa Hockey Club. Ottawa won the Quebec protest, but Montreal HC were also favored in the protest filed by Crystals, thereby confirming the AHAC championship and (eventually) the first Stanley Cup. First protest: Ottawa and Quebec got into a dispute. Quebec protested their loss on January 21 in Quebec and refused to play in the return match until the protest was decided. The return match was scheduled for February but was not played until March 17. However, the matter was ruled in favor of Ottawa. At the same time, Ottawa was in a dispute with the Ontario Hockey Association over the location of the final match for the Ontario championship. In the end, Ottawa seceded from the Ontario association. Second protest: In the March 3 game between MAAA and Crystals, a Crystals player was sent off and the penalty carried over into overtime. Crystals tried to argue that the overtime consisted of a new game and that they should be restored to full strength. They decided to not play the overtime. An unlikely protest said the papers. It was denied and MAAA was credited with the victory. The end result was that MAAA was declared AHAC champions, and would eventually be handed the Stanley Cup. It is not clear if they knew they were also playing for Lord Stanley's Cup, which had been donated the year before, but they were aware it was an AHAC clinching game. It would be known as the Dominion Challenge Cup until April 30 when the Board of Trustees released rules for the "Stanley Hockey Championship Cup" and announced that MAAA's name was already engraved on the Cup and that it would soon be presented to them. Final standing Note GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against Team GP W L T GF GA Montreal Hockey Club 8 7 1 0 38 18 Ottawa Hockey Club 8 6 2 0 49 22 Montreal Crystals 8 3 5 0 25 34 Quebec Hockey Club 8 2 5 1 23 46 Montreal Victorias 8 1 6 1 20 35 Results MonthDayVisitorScoreHomeScoreLocation Jan. 7 Ottawa HC 3 Victorias 4 Victoria Rink 13 Quebec HC 3 Crystals 8 Crystal Rink 14 Montreal HC 2 Ottawa HC 4 Rideau Rink 14 Quebec HC 1 Victorias 1 Victoria Rink 18 Crystals 3 Victorias 1 Victoria Rink 21 Ottawa HC 5 Quebec HC 3 Quebec Skating Rink 23 Montreal HC 7 Victorias 5 Victoria Rink 28 Victorias 2 Ottawa HC 7 Rideau Rink 28 Montreal HC 3 Quebec HC 2 Quebec Skating Rink Feb. 3 Ottawa HC 4 Crystals 3 Crystal Rink 4 Victorias 3 Quebec HC 4 Quebec Skating Rink 10 Quebec HC 2 Montreal HC 9 Victoria Rink 11 Crystals 1 Ottawa HC 11 Rideau Rink 18 Crystals 3 Quebec HC 8 Quebec Skating Rink 18 Ottawa HC 1 Montreal HC 7 Victoria Rink 23 Victorias 3 Crystals 4 Crystal Rink Mar. 3 (†) Crystals 2 Montreal HC 2 Victoria Rink 4 Montreal HC 6 Victorias 1 Victoria Rink 10 (††) Montreal HC 2 Crystals 1 Crystal Rink 17 Quebec HC 0 Ottawa HC 14 Rideau Rink † Game awarded to Montreal because Crystals refused to continue. †† Montreal clinches league championship. Source: Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1.Coleman 1966 8-12 Player Stats Scoring leaders Note: GP = Games played, G = Goals scored Name Club GP G Haviland Routh Montreal HC 8 12 Reginald Bradley Ottawa HC 8 11 AE Dolly Swift Quebec HC 8 11 Chauncey Kirby Ottawa HC 8 10 William Murray Montreal Crystals 7 9 Shirley Davidson Montreal Victorias 6 8 Jack Kerr Ottawa HC 7 7 Billy Barlow Montreal HC 7 7 Archie Hodgson Montreal HC 8 7 Dave Brown Montreal Crystals 7 7 Source Coleman(1966) pp. 9–10 Goaltending averages Note: GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average Name Club GP GA SO GAA Tom Paton Montreal HC 8 18 0 2.3 Albert Morel Ottawa HC 8 22 1 2.8 Herbert Collins Crystals 8 34 1 4.3 Robert Jones Victorias 8 35 0 4.4 Harry Patton Quebec HC 7 32 0 4.6 Frank Stocking Quebec HC 1 14 0 14.0 Championship 1893 Stanley Cup championship Montreal HC won the championship for placing first in the regular season. This was Montreal HC's third straight championship since the Championship Trophy was inaugurated in 1891. According to the terms for the trophy, Montreal HC was allowed to keep the Trophy.http://www.legendsofhockey.net/html/silver_splashsrchampionship.htm Senior Championship Trophy Hockey Hall of Fame 2008-09-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20081006065511/http://www.legendsofhockey.net/html/silver_splashsrchampionship.htm 6 October 2008 dead A new version was struck for following seasons (this new version is on display at the MAA building at 2070 rue Peel Street, Montreal). The version won 1891-1893 that was gifted to Montreal is on display in the collection of the Hockey Hall of Fame. As champions of the AHAC, the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup (known today as the Stanley Cup) was to be awarded to Montreal as its inaugural champion. On May 15, 1893, Sheriff John Sweetland finally presented the trophy to the MAAA president J. A. Taylor during the MAAA annual meeting at the Montreal Gymnasium SW corner of Mansfield and de Maisonneuve in Montreal. This was the first MAAA clubhouse before they moved to Peel Street in 1905. Each player received a souvenir gold ring as a gift of the MAAA.Montreal Gazette May 16, 1893 8 Governor-General's Cup. A Handsome Trophy Was Presented to the M.A.A.A. last night. Disputes between the Montreal HC and the MAAA kept the Cup in the MAAA hands until it was accepted by the Club on February 23, 1894.Diamond, p.14 Therefore, contrary to what was previously believed, the first Stanley Cup was not awarded at the Victoria Skating Rink but at Crystal Rink on March 10, 1893, at the SE corner of what is now Boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest {then Dorchester} & Rue Guy in Montreal. The rink was inset eastward from Guy, closer to Mackay, but the lot took up the entire corner. This was not the original Crystal Palace, which had stood where the Palace Theatre would later be built on Sainte-Catherine Street, and was dismantled and relocated to what is now Mile End in 1878. We know it was at the Dorchester rink because the owner of Crystals was "Genial" Sam Robertson, who also owned the Dorchester Street rink. The March 11, 1893 Montreal Daily Star (see image to the right) demonstrates that the Montreal Hockey Club understood the stakes: a victory that night would secure the AHAC trophy as regular season champions. The Stanley Cup itself was yet to be formally named and had been donated the previous year by Governor-General Lord Stanley of Preston, and the players possibly knew it also was on the line — the Cup appears prominently in the team's 1893 photograph (see above), positioned in front of the AHAC trophy. No playoff existed yet to determine a champion (unless a tie-breaker was needed); the title went to whoever finished atop the regular season standings. That would change the following year, when hockey's first playoff was held at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal. So, there are really four points of interest in Montreal when it comes to the first Stanley Cup. 1. MAAA/MHC defeated Ottawa Hockey Club 7-1, in what effectively was the championship game at Victoria Skating Rink (site on Stanley Street in downtown Montreal) on February 18, 1893. 2. MHC defeated Crystals at Crystal Palace (SE corner of what is now Boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest & Rue Guy in Montreal) to clinch first place and the AHAC championship (and the Stanley Cup) on March 10. 3. However, two disputes needed to be settled at a special meeting on March 13 before the AHAC title was confirmed to MHC. The meeting took place at the offices of James Caruthers at 3416 Av. du Parc, Montreal (formerly 699 Sherbrooke St.). Both decisions would have an impact as MHC ended up finishing one game ahead of the Ottawa Hockey Club. Ottawa won the Quebec protest, but MHC were also favored in the protest filed by Crystals, thereby confirming the AHAC championship and (eventually) the first Stanley Cup. 4. On May 15, 1893, Sheriff John Sweetland finally presented the trophy to the MAAA president J. A. Taylor during the MAAA annual meeting at the Montreal Gymnasium SW corner of Mansfield and de Maisonneuve in Montreal. thumb|right|295px|Montreal Daily Star, March 11, 1893 — reporting on the Crystal Rink game that decided both the AHAC title and the first Stanley Cup. thumb|The second Crystal Palace, Fletcher's Field, Montreal, 1880. Stanley Cup engraving Players+ 1893 Montreal Amateur Athletic Association Forwards Billy Barlow ^ Archie Hodgson ^ "Harvie" Routh ^ Alex Kingan ^ Alex Irving ^ George Low ^ Defencemen Allan Cameron (point) † James A. Stewart (cover point Goaltender Tom Paton ^ Unknown who played Center, Rover, Right Wing and Left Wing, so the players are listed as forwards non-players= Harry L. Shaw (Manager/Secretary-Treasurer) James Taylor (President of AAA) (Missing from team picture) See also List of pre-NHL seasons List of Stanley Cup champions References Bibliography Coleman Charles L. The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc. 8–12 1966 1964 Diamond Dan The Official National Hockey League Stanley Cup centennial book McClelland & Stewart 1992 Toronto, Ontario 0-7710-2803-2 Podnieks Andrew Hockey Hall of Fame 2004 Lord Stanley's Cup Triumph Books 1-55168-261-3 Notes External links Composite photo of 1893 hockey game (at McCord Museum website) https://web.archive.org/web/20070927220119/http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/II-101415?Lang=1&accessnumber=II-101415 2007-09-27 Montreal HC1892 Montreal HC1894 Montreal Hockey ClubAHAC Champions 1893 first winners Montreal HC1894 Montreal Hockey ClubStanley Cup Champions 1893 1892 AHAC season 1894 AHAC season AHAC seasons 1893 Category:Amateur Hockey Association of Canada seasons AHAC