1922–23 NHL season

Professional ice hockey league season 1922–23 NHL season National Hockey League Ice hockey December 16, 1922 – March 9, 1923 Regular season 24 4 Ottawa Senators Babe Dye (St. Patricks) O'Brien Cup 1922–23 NHL season#NHL Championship Ottawa Senators Montreal Canadiens 1923–24 NHL season 1921–22 NHL season 1923–24 1921–22 NHLThe 1922–23 NHL season was the sixth season of the National Hockey League (NHL). Four teams played 24 games each. The Ottawa Senators defeated the Montreal Canadiens for the NHL championship, and then defeated Vancouver and Edmonton to win the Stanley Cup. Regular season At the start of the season, Newsy Lalonde found himself moving west as the Montreal Canadiens traded him to the Saskatoon Sheiks of the Western Canada Hockey League for a rising young star named Aurel Joliat.Dryden 2000 25 Joliat would help the Canadiens win the second playoff spot over the St. Patricks. Joliat scored two goals in his first game with the Canadiens, but Babe Dye had five goals in the Toronto St. Patricks' 7–2 win. Joliat finished with 12 goals and 21 points in 24 games.Dinger 2011 146 The Canadiens sent Bert Corbeau and Edmond Bouchard to Hamilton in exchange for Joe Malone. On January 31, 1923, the Montreal Canadiens and Hamilton Tigers played the first penalty-free game in NHL history, a 5–4 Montreal victory. On February 14, 1923, CFCA, the radio station of the Toronto Daily Star, broadcast the third period of the Senators-St. Patricks game in Toronto. This was the first radio broadcast of an NHL game. The broadcaster has not been identified, but it may have been Norman Albert who broadcast the Midland-North Toronto game February 8 from the Toronto Arena.Kitchen 2008 246 On February 17, 1923, Cy Denneny of Ottawa scored his 143rd goal, surpassing Joe Malone as the all-time goal-scoring leader as the Ottawa Senators shut out the Montreal Canadiens 2–0. Standings Playoffs This was the second year in which the Stanley Cup playoffs involved three leagues. The previous year saw all three second place teams win their respective leagues. This year, it was all the first place teams. The NHL total goals playoffs for the O'Brien Cup were won by the Ottawa Senators 3 goals to 2. The Pacific Coast Hockey Association abandoned its seven-man hockey in favour of the six-man rules used in the NHL and the Western Canada Hockey League. This allowed the PCHA and the WCHL to play interleague games. Despite playing interleague games, the two separate leagues kept their own standings. The newly renamed Vancouver Maroons won the PCHA championship and the Edmonton Eskimos won the WCHL championship.McFarlane 1973 33 NHL Championship In the O'Brien Trophy playoffs, the first-place Ottawa Senators, played off against the second-place Montreal Canadiens in a two-game total-goals series. Montreal Canadiens Ottawa Senators Mount Royal Arena The Arena March 7 2 2-0 2 bigmouthsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1923-Stanley-Cup-Playoff-boxscores-OTT.pdf No scoring No scoring No scoring Cy Denneny (1) - 11:00 No scoring Jack Darragh (1) - 11:00 Georges Vezina Clint Benedict March 9 1 2-1 1 bigmouthsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1923-Stanley-Cup-Playoff-boxscores-OTT.pdf Aurel Joliat (1) - 16:00Billy Boucher (1) - 19:15 No scoring No scoring No scoring No scoring 5:05 - Cy Denneny (2) Georges Vezina Clint Benedict Ottawa won the series on total goals 3-2 Stanley Cup playoffs 1923 Stanley Cup playoffs The Stanley Cup playoffs were played in Vancouver. There, the WCHL champions received the privilege of battling the winner between Ottawa and Vancouver. In the end, Ottawa prevailed over both Western opponents to win their eighth Stanley Cup (third as a member of the NHL). Injuries had thinned the Senators line-up, and after seeing the gritty show put on by the undermanned Senators, Vancouver head coach Frank Patrick called them the greatest team he had ever seen. Vancouver Maroons Ottawa Senators Denman Arena The Arena March 16 2 1-0 2 bigmouthsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1923-Stanley-Cup-Playoff-boxscores-OTT.pdf No scoring No scoring No scoring No scoring No scoring Punch Broadbent (1) - 15:00 Hugh Lehman Clint Benedict March 19 2 1-4 1 www.nhl.com/gamecenter/sen-vs-vma/1923/03/18/1922030212#game=1922030212,game_state=final 1:18 - Art Duncan (1)3:37 - Frank Boucher (1)14:45 - Frank Boucher (2) No scoring 13:51 - Art Duncan (2) No scoring No scoring Buck Boucher (1) - 1:58 Hugh Lehman Clint Benedict March 23 2 3-2 2 www.nhl.com/gamecenter/sen-vs-vma/1923/03/23/1922030213#game=1922030213,game_state=final 5:23 - Alf Skinner (1) Punch Broadbent (2) - 6:33Punch Broadbent (3) - 14:35 16:47 - Mickey MacKay (1) No scoring No scoring Frank Nighbor (1) - 2:13 Hugh Lehman Clint Benedict March 26 2 5-1 2 www.nhl.com/gamecenter/sen-vs-vma/1923/03/26/1922030214#game=1922030214,game_state=final No scoring Buck Boucher (2) - 7:35Eddie Gerard (1) - 17:25 No scoring Punch Broadbent (4) - 10:07 16:46 - Smokey Harris (1) King Clancy (1) - 9:15Punch Broadbent (5) - 19:56 Hugh Lehman Clint Benedict Ottawa won the series 3-1 Stanley Cup Finals 1923 Stanley Cup Finals Edmonton Eskimos Ottawa Senators Denman Arena The Arena March 29 2 2-1 1 2 www.nhl.com/gamecenter/sen-vs-ede/1923/03/29/1922030311#game=1922030311,game_state=final No scoring No scoring 10:05 - John Morrison (1) No scoring No scoring Lionel Hitchman (1) - 13:04 No scoring Cy Denneny (3) - 2:08 Hal Winkler Clint Benedict March 31 2 1-0 2 www.nhl.com/gamecenter/sen-vs-ede/1923/03/31/1922030312#game=1922030312,game_state=final No scoring Punch Broadbent (6) - pp - 11:23 No scoring No scoring No scoring No scoring Hal Winkler Clint Benedict Ottawa won the series 2-0 NHL Playoff scoring leader Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points Player Team GP G A PtsPunch Broadbent Ottawa Senators 8 6 1 7 Awards O'Brien Cup — Ottawa Senators Player statistics Scoring leaders Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; PIM = Penalties in minutes; Pts = Points Name Team GP Games played G Goals A Assists PIM Penalties in minutes Pts Points Babe Dye Toronto St. Patricks 22 26 11 19 37 Cy Denneny Ottawa Senators 24 23 11 28 34 Billy Boucher Montreal Canadiens 24 24 7 55 31 Jack Adams Toronto St. Patricks 23 19 9 42 28 Mickey Roach Hamilton Tigers 24 17 10 8 27 Odie Cleghorn Montreal Canadiens 24 19 6 18 25 George Boucher Ottawa Senators 24 14 9 58 23 Reg Noble Toronto St. Patricks 24 12 11 47 23 Cully Wilson Hamilton Tigers 23 16 5 46 21 Aurel Joliat Montreal Canadiens 24 12 9 37 21Source: NHLDinger 2011 146 Leading goaltenders GP = Games Played, GA = Goals Against, Mins = Minutes played, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals Against Average Name Team GP Games played Mins Minutes played W Wins L Losses T Ties GA Goals against SO Shutouts GAA Goals against average Clint Benedict Ottawa Senators 24 1486 14 9 1 54 4 2.18 Georges Vezina Montreal Canadiens 24 1488 13 9 2 61 2 2.46 John Ross Roach Toronto St. Patricks 24 1469 13 10 1 88 1 3.59 Jake Forbes Hamilton Tigers 24 1470 6 18 0 110 0 4.49Source: NHLNHL http://www.nhl.com/ice/historicalstats.htm?season=19221923&gameType=2&team=&position=G&country= https://web.archive.org/web/20120302050359/http://www.nhl.com/ice/historicalstats.htm?season=19221923&gameType=2&team=&position=G&country= dead March 2, 2012 1922–23 Regular Season – Goalie Season Stats Leaders December 4, 2011 Coaches Hamilton Tigers: Art Ross Montreal Canadiens: Leo Dandurand Ottawa Senators: Pete Green Toronto St. Patricks: George O'Donoghue Debuts The following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1922–23 (listed with their first team, asterisk(*) marks debut in playoffs): Billy Burch, Hamilton Tigers Aurel Joliat, Montreal Canadiens Lionel Hitchman, Ottawa Senators Last games The following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 1922–23 (listed with their last team): Didier Pitre, Montreal Canadiens Eddie Gerard, Ottawa Senators Harry Cameron, Toronto St. Patricks Free agency Date Players Team January 30, 1923 Billy Burch Hamilton Tigers February 23, 1923 Lionel Hitchman Ottawa Senators Transactions May 27, 1922 To Hamilton Tigers Jake Forbes To Toronto St. Patrickscash October 1, 1922 To Hamilton TigersBert Corbeau To Montreal Canadiens cash December 22, 1922 To Montreal CanadiensJoe Malone To Hamilton Tigers Edmond Bouchard See also List of Stanley Cup champions Pacific Coast Hockey Association Western Canada Hockey League List of pre-NHL seasons 1922 in sports 1923 in sports References The Trail of the Stanley Cup, vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc Coleman Charles 1966 Total Hockey Diamond Dan Total Sports 2000 1-892129-85-X Dinger Ralph 2011 The National Hockey League Official Guide & Record Book 2012 Dan Diamond & Associates 978-1-894801-22-5 registration https://archive.org/details/nationalhockeyle0000unse_u6g5 Dryden Steve Century of hockey McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Toronto, ON 2000 0-7710-4179-9 Fischler Stan Fischler Shirley Hughes Morgan Romain Joseph Duplacey James 2003 The Hockey Chronicle: Year-by-Year History of the National Hockey League Publications International Inc. 0-7853-9624-1 Fischler 2003 Kitchen Paul Win, Tie or Wrangle: The Inside Story of the Old Ottawa Senators – 1883–1935 Penumbra Press Manotick Ontario 2008 978-1-897323-46-5 McFarlane Brian The Story of the National Hockey League Pagurian Press New York, NY 1973 0-684-13424-1 registration https://archive.org/details/storyofnationalh0000mcfa Ross J. Andrew 2015 Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945 Syracuse University Press 978-0-8156-3383-9 Notes External links http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/leagues/seasons/nhl19271923.html National Hockey League seasons Hockey Database NHL.com 1922 NHL