1912 PCHA season

Canadian pro ice hockey league season August 2023 1912 PCHA season Pacific Coast Hockey Association ice hockey January 2, 1912–March 19, 1912 3 Results New Westminster Royals Champion Newsy Lalonde (Vancouver) List of PCHA seasons PCHA 1912–13 PCHA season 1912–13 thumb|right|225px|New Westminster Royals, 1912 PCHA champions. The 1912 PCHA season was the first season of the now defunct men's professional ice hockey Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), a league founded on December 7, 1911. The three teams, all based in British Columbia, Canada, were to play a sixteen-game schedule, but one game was cancelled. The season ran from January 2 to March 19, 2012, ending with the New Westminster Royals as the first PCHA champions. In February, the PCHA had issued a challenge to the two-year-old National Hockey Association (NHA) to have the two leagues' champions play a series for the Stanley Cup, but the season ended too late for the Royals to travel east to face the NHA champion Quebec Bulldogs, who retained the Stanley Cup without further challenge for the 1911–12 season.The Globe 1912-03-05 Coast Champions Not Coming 12 The season was not profitable. Frank Patrick, captain of the Vancouver Millionaires and director of the Vancouver Arena Company, was interviewed on March 6, 1912, by The Globe and expressed his hopes that the 1912–13 PCHA season, with an expected new team in Seattle, would provide better financial results.The Globe 12 1912-03-07 Not Profitable in B. C. As it turned out, the PCHA did not expand beyond three teams until 1915–16, when the Seattle Metropolitans started operations. Teams 1912 Pacific Coast Hockey Association Team City Arena Capacity New Westminster Royals Vancouver, British Columbia Denman Arena 10,500 Vancouver Millionaires Vancouver, British Columbia Denman Arena 10,500 Victoria Senators Victoria, British Columbia Patrick Arena 4,000 Map of teams left 10px PCHA Teams 3550 400 375 390 1750 Canada 3200 Canada 49.29 -123.13 Red pog.svg 100 bottom Royals Canada 49.29 -123.13 Red pog.svg 100 top Millionaires Canada 48.43 -123.32 Red pog.svg 100 top Senators Regular season Most of the players for the league were recruited from the east. Many players joined the PCHA from the National Hockey Association (NHA), including Tom Dunderdale, Jimmy Gardner, Pud Glass, Newsy Lalonde, Bert Lindsay, Tommy Phillips and Skinner Poulin. Frank and Lester Patrick had actively targeted the NHA for players as British Columbia had a smaller base of players. In the previous season, the NHA had imposed maximums on player salaries and a salary cap per team that were extremely unpopular with players. Goaltender Hughie Lehman was signed from Berlin of the Ontario Professional Hockey League (OPHL). The PCHA played seven-man rules with a rover, while the NHA experimented with six-man rules. 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 New Westminster Royals 15 9 6 0 78 77 Vancouver Millionaires 15 7 8 0 102 94 Victoria Senators 16 7 9 0 81 90 Schedule and results Month Day Visitor Score Home Score Jan. 2 New Westminster 8 Victoria 3 5 Vancouver 8 New Westminster 3 9 Victoria 8 Vancouver 4 12 Vancouver 7 Victoria 10 16 Victoria 3 New Westminster 4 (OT 7'30") 19 New Westminster 6 Vancouver 4 23 New Westminster 2 Victoria 3 26 Victoria 8 Vancouver 10 30 Victoria 2 New Westminster 5 Feb. 2† Vancouver 7 New Westminster 6 (OT 3'30") 6 Vancouver 11 New Westminster 6 9 Vancouver 7 Victoria 8 (OT 7'15") 13 Victoria 6 Vancouver 4 16 New Westminster 4 Victoria 2 20 New Westminster 2 Vancouver 9 23 Victoria 3 New Westminster 4 27 Vancouver 7 Victoria 3 Mar. 1 Victoria 7 Vancouver 3 5 New Westminster 6 Vancouver 10 8 New Westminster 5 Victoria 1 12 Victoria 6 New Westminster 10 15 Vancouver 6 Victoria 8 19 New Westminster 7 Vancouver 5 † Played in Victoria A game between Vancouver and New Westminster was cancelled at the end of the season. Player statistics Scoring leaders Player Team GP Games played G Goals PIM Penalties in minutes Newsy Lalonde Vancouver Millionaires 15 27 51 Harry Hyland New Westminster Royals 15 26 44 Tommy Dunderdale Victoria Senators 16 24 25 Frank Patrick Frank Patrick (ice hockey) Vancouver Millionaires 15 23 0 Don Smith Don Smith (ice hockey, born 1887) Victoria Aristocrats 16 19 22 Sibby Nichols Vancouver Millionaires 15 19 35 Tommy Phillips Vancouver Millionaires 17 17 38 Ran McDonald New Westminster Royals 15 16 56 Ken Mallen New Westminster Royals 13 14 30 Lester Patrick Victoria Senators 16 10 9 Bobby Rowe Bobby Rowe (ice hockey) Victoria Senators 16 10 62 Goaltending averages Note: GP = games played, GA = goals against, SO = shutouts, GAA = Goals against average Name Club GP GA SO GAA Hughie Lehman New Westminster 15 77 5.1 Bert Lindsay Victoria 16 90 5.6 Allan Parr Vancouver 15 94 6.3 See also Pacific Coast Hockey Association List of pre-NHL seasons 1912 in sports References Bibliography Coleman Charles The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1936 inc. 1966 Notes PCHA Category:Pacific Coast Hockey Association seasons PCHA, 1912