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1914 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1914 Stanley Cup Finals was a series between the Victoria Aristocrats, champions of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), and the Toronto Hockey Club (, in media of the day, the Torontos or the Blueshirts), champions of the National Hockey Association (NHA). The Torontos defeated the Aristocrats in three games to win the best-of-five series. It was the first officially sanctioned series for the Stanley Cup between the two leagues, starting the "World's Series" era where the NHL champion played off against a PCHA or Western league champion annually for the Stanley Cup. It was also the final series of the "challenge" era, where inter-league series for the Stanley Cup were sanctioned by the Stanley Cup trustees. An anticipated follow-on challenge series between Toronto and Sydney, champions of the Maritime League did not take place as Sydney abandoned their challenge for the Cup. Paths to the Finals Nearing the end of the season, the NHA made arrangements for the NHA ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913–14 Toronto Hockey Club Season
The 1913–14 Toronto Hockey Club season was the second season of the Toronto franchise in the National Hockey Association (NHA). The Blue Shirts would win the NHA championship in a playoff to take over the Stanley Cup. The club then played and defeated the Victoria Aristocrats in the first hockey "World Series" against the champion of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA). Off-season Bruce Ridpath resigned as general manager of the club prior to the season, replaced by the owner Percy Quinn. Jack Marshall returned as coach. Ridpath himself tried out as a player but gave up his comeback before the season started. Of the previous season's squad, Archie McLean was dropped and Frank Nighbor moved to British Columbia. Jack Walker, who had played one game with Toronto in the previous season before playing in the Maritime league was added. Con Corbeau was acquired from the Toronto Ontarios just before the start of the season. Regular season Harry Cameron suffered a separa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Sydney is a former city and urban community on the east coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Sydney was founded in 1785 by the British, was incorporated as a city in 1904, and dissolved on 1 August 1995, when it was amalgamated into the regional municipality. Sydney served as the Cape Breton Island's colonial capital, until 1820, when the colony merged with Nova Scotia and the capital moved to Halifax. A rapid population expansion occurred just after the turn of the 20th century, when Sydney became home to one of North America's main steel mills. During both the First and Second World Wars, it was a major staging area for England-bound convoys. The post-war period witnessed a major decline in the number of people employed at the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation steel mill, and the Nova Scotia and Canadian governments had to nationalize it in 1967 to save the region's biggest employer, forming the new crown corpora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Harriston
James Harriston was a professional ice hockey player. He played one season in the National Hockey Association in 1914. Harriston played one regular season game for the Stanley Cup champions Toronto Blueshirts at right wing Right-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics, authori .... Harriston is missing from 1914 Toronto Blueshirts team picture. Stanley Cup champions Toronto Blueshirts players Year of birth missing Place of birth missing Year of death missing Canadian ice hockey right wingers {{Canada-icehockey-winger-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Wilson (ice Hockey)
Claude Wilson (March 4, 1893 – May 16, 1976) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender, spending majority of his career as the backup goaltender for the Toronto Blueshirts. Wilson was from Oshawa, Ontario.Nieforth, Joseph. "Cully Wilson Did Not Play For Toronto in 1915–16". Retrieved 3 March 2013. Career In the 1914 NHA season, Wilson played three games in injury relief for regular goaltender Hap Holmes,Society for International Hockey Research Database including the first game of the Stanley Cup finals against the Victoria Aristocrats of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. Wilson was included in the 1914 team picture with rest of the Stanley Cup championship team, however he was subsequently released from the Blueshirts the following season. He later returned; signing a contract to play with the Blueshirts on October 26, 1914; and played for three games in the 1915–16 season as the backup netminder to Percy LeSueur. In late December 1916, Wilson, still under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Con Corbeau
Henry John "Harry, Con" Corbeau (May 8, 1885 – June 1, 1920) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman in the National Hockey Association for the Toronto Blueshirts. Corbeau was a member of the Blueshirts when they won the Stanley Cup in 1914. Corbeau's brother Bert also played professional ice hockey. Both Corbeau brothers are distant cousins of Ted Lindsay. Playing career Born in Penetanguishene, Ontario, Corbeau played senior ice hockey with Toronto St. Georges and Victoria Harbour, before signing as a professional with the Pittsburgh Professionals of the International Professional Hockey League in 1905. In one of the earliest trades of a player, Pittsburgh traded him to the Calumet Miners in exchange for the Miners' vote to reinstate Hod Stuart. Corbeau played for both Calumet and the Canadian Soo teams that season as well as Pittsburgh. The following season, he signed with the Portage Lakes Hockey Club but was released and finished the season with Calumet. In 1907, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torontos
The Torontos may refer to the following professional ice hockey clubs based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada: *Toronto Blueshirts (1912–1917) *Toronto Arenas The Toronto Arenas or Torontos were a professional men's ice hockey team that played in the first two seasons of the National Hockey League (NHL). It was operated by the owner of the Mutual Street Arena, Arena Gardens, the Toronto Arena Company. ... (1917–1919) {{disambiguation Ice hockey teams in Toronto History of the Toronto Maple Leafs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario Hockey Association
The Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) is the governing body for the majority of junior and senior level ice hockey teams in the Province of Ontario. The OHA is sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Federation along with the Northern Ontario Hockey Association. Other Ontario sanctioning bodies along with the OHF include the Hockey Eastern Ontario and Hockey Northwestern Ontario. The OHA control 3 tiers of junior hockey; the "Tier 2 Junior "A", Junior "B" , Junior "C", and one senior hockey league, Allan Cup Hockey. In 1980, the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League vacated what was known as Tier I Junior "A" hockey. The league is now known as the Ontario Hockey League. Although it is not a charter member of the OHA, the OHL is affiliated with the OHA and Ontario Hockey Federation. History Founding The OHA was founded in 1890 to govern amateur ice hockey play in Ontario. This was the idea of Arthur Stanley, son of Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Lord Stanley, then Governor Genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Genge
Robert Allan Genge (December 20, 1889 – September 20, 1937) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. As a defenceman, he played with the Victoria Aristocrats and briefly the Spokane Canaries of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1912 to 1921. Large in stature, Genge was known as a "dominating two-way player". He died from sepsis Sepsis, formerly known as septicemia (septicaemia in British English) or blood poisoning, is a life-threatening condition that arises when the body's response to infection causes injury to its own tissues and organs. This initial stage is follo ... at Vancouver in 1937, aged 47. References External linksStatistics* {{DEFAULTSORT:Genge, Bobby 1889 births 1937 deaths Ice hockey people from Ontario Spokane Canaries players Victoria Aristocrats players Canadian ice hockey defencemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cully Wilson
Carol William "Cully" Wilson (June 5, 1892 – July 7, 1962) was an Icelandic-Canadian professional ice hockey player. The right winger played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Toronto St. Pats, Montreal Canadiens, Hamilton Tigers, and Chicago Black Hawks between 1919 and 1927. He was also a member of two teams that won the Stanley Cup before the NHL came into existence in 1917, the Toronto Blueshirts and Seattle Metropolitans. Wilson came from a family of Icelandic descent and was born as Karl Wilhons Erlendson to parents Sigurður Erlendson and Medónía Indriðadóttir. The family later changed its name to Wilson. Career Wilson played amateur hockey in his hometown of Winnipeg between 1910 and 1912, with the Winnipeg Falcons and the Winnipeg Monarchs. He began his professional career with the National Hockey Association's Toronto Blueshirts in 1912–13. The next year, he won his first Stanley Cup when the Blueshirts beat the Montreal Canadiens in the NHA playo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmett Quinn
Thomas Emmett Quinn (September 10, 1877 – February 9, 1930) was a Canadian ice hockey executive, coach and referee. Quinn served as president of the National Hockey Association (NHA), the predecessor of today's National Hockey League (NHL). His brother Percy Quinn was also an ice hockey executive. At the time of his death, Quinn was a Fire Commissioner in Montreal. Ice hockey career Quinn first became notable in the field of ice hockey as a coach of the Montreal Shamrocks in the 1906–07 season. He was replaced after the season and worked as a referee for the 1907–08 season. He was the referee of the game, in Cornwall, Ontario in February, 1907 in which Owen McCourt died as a result of his on-ice injuries. He returned to coaching, for the Quebec Bulldogs of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (ECHA) in 1908–09. He also served as the ECHA's secretary-treasurer. In 1909, he was part of the dissolution of the ECHA. He became the Canadian Hockey Association's secre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Patrick (ice Hockey)
Francis Alexis Patrick (December 21, 1885 – June 29, 1960) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, head coach and manager. Raised in Montreal, Patrick moved to British Columbia with his family in 1907 to establish a lumber company. The family sold the company in 1910 and used the proceeds to establish the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), the first major professional hockey league in the West. Patrick, who also served as president of the league, would take control of the Vancouver Millionaires, serving as a player, coach, and manager of the team. It was in the PCHA that Patrick would introduce many innovations to hockey that remain today, including uniform numbers, the blue line, the penalty shot, among others. His Millionaires won the Stanley Cup in 1915, the first team west of Manitoba to do so, and played for the Cup again in 1918. In 1926 the league, which had since been renamed the Western Canada Hockey League and later Western Hockey League due to mergers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Foran
William Michael Foran (February 4, 1871 – November 30, 1945) was an ice hockey executive, Stanley Cup trustee and government official. For over 50 years, he was secretary of the Board of Civil Service Examiners and its follow-up organization, the Civil Service Commission of the Government of Canada. Government career Mr. Foran served as the secretary for the Board of Civil Service Examiners for the Government of Canada from 1896 to 1908. In 1908 the Board was re-organized and Mr. Foran was the founding secretary of the Civil Service Commission, (CSC) the branch of government in charge of civil service appointments through competitive examinations. That same year, he was elected to Ottawa City Council, representing St. George's Ward. He served for over 30 years in the post, and was responsible for negotiations between the CSC and parliament over civil service reform in the Civil Service Act of 1918. In 1915 he was elected vice-president of the Civil Service Assembly of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
