The 1909 ECHA season was the fourth and final season of the
Eastern Canada Hockey Association (ECHA). Teams played a twelve-game schedule. The
Ottawa Hockey Club
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would win the league championship with a record of ten wins, two losses and take over the
Stanley Cup
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.
League business
Executive
* Joe Power, Quebec (President)
* James Strachan, Wanderers (1st Vice-President)
* J. Eveleigh, Montreal (2nd Vice-President)
*
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 ...
, Quebec (Secretary-Treasurer)
The
Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association
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league meeting was held November 4, 1908, and was a pivotal meeting in the evolution from amateur to professional ice hockey leagues. At the meeting the two last amateur, or at least partly amateur teams resigned over the signing of players from other teams.
Montreal HC and
Montreal Victorias
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left the league and later would continue as senior level men's teams playing for the
Allan Cup
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. Unpaid players would no longer play with paid players.
The league would continue with four professional teams. The league name was changed to Eastern Canadian Hockey Association to reflect the change in status.
Regular season
The Wanderers',
Cecil Blachford
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had retired and
Bruce Stuart
Charles Bruce Stuart (November 30, 1881 – October 28, 1961) was a Canadian amateur and professional ice hockey forward who played for the Quebec Bulldogs, Ottawa Senators, Montreal Wanderers, Portage Lakes Hockey Club, Pittsburgh Victorias ...
had moved to Ottawa. New additions included
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,
Harry Smith, Jimmy Gardner and Steve Vair. The Wanderers would come close to their rivals, finishing second with nine wins and three losses.
Ottawa saw
Harvey Pulford
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and
Alf Smith retire, and Tom Phillips leave. Ottawa would replace these players with
Edgar Dey,
Billy Gilmour
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Gilmour spent three months at a young age with C ...
and
Albert 'Dubby' Kerr from the
Toronto Professionals. Alf Smith would organize the
Ottawa Senators
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of the
Federal Hockey League
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.
Shamrocks added
Harry Hyland
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, and Quebec saw the start of the career of
Joe Malone
Maurice Joseph Malone (February 28, 1890 – May 15, 1969) was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre. He played in the National Hockey Association (NHA) and National Hockey League (NHL) for the Quebec Bulldogs, Montreal Canadiens, and Hamilt ...
.
Ottawa played an exhibition game prior to the season with the Toronto professionals on January 2 in Toronto. Toronto defeated Ottawa 5–4. Dubby Kerr played in the game for Toronto, and signed with Ottawa a week later.
On January 25, Wanderers played an exhibition game in
Cobalt, Ontario
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In the early 1900s, the area was heavily mined for silver; the silver ore also contained cobalt. By 1910, the community was the fourth h ...
, versus the
Cobalt Silver Kings
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, betting $500 on themselves to win, but lost 6–4. After the game Harry Smith would leave the Wanderers to join
Haileybury of the Timiskaming League.
Highlights
The rivalry between Ottawa and Wanderers continued, Wanderers winning the first on January 6 7–6 in overtime, with Harry Smith scoring four against his former team. Ottawa would win the next 5–4 in Ottawa, and defeat Montreal in Montreal 9–8 before 8000 fans. Ottawa would finish the series winning 8–3 in Ottawa to clinch the championship.
Marty Walsh
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of Ottawa would win the scoring championship with 38 goals. Ottawa would average nearly ten goals per game.
Final standing
Stanley Cup challenges
Montreal vs. Edmonton
Prior to the season, Wanderers would play a challenge against the
Edmonton Hockey Club
The Edmonton Hockey Club was a Canadian amateur men's ice hockey club first organized in 1894 and formally established in 1896. The club consisted of two teams, the Thistles who were the elite players, and the Stars who were young prospects. The ...
, champions of the
Alberta Amateur Hockey Association
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. Despite all players except for one being a '
ringer' for Edmonton, Montreal would defeat them December 28–30, 1908, in Montreal. In game one, Harry Smith scored 5 goals as he led the Wanderers to a 7–3 victory. The Edmontons won game two, 7–6, but Montreal took the two-game total goals series, 13–10.
* Spares Edmonton: Bert Boulton, Harold Deeton, Jack “Hay” Miller
* Spares Montreal: Ernie Liffton, Ernie Russell.
* Spares Edmonton: Hugh Boulton, Howard McNamara, Tommy Smith.
* Spares Montreal: Ernie Liffiton, Ernie Russell.
Source: Coleman
After the challenge, Edmonton would play an exhibition game in Ottawa on January 2, defeating the Ottawa Senators (of the FHL) 4–2. Ottawa played the Toronto Pros the same day in Toronto, losing 5–4.
Lindsay, Pitre and Vair, having played with Edmonton for the challenge, would sign after the exhibition game with Renfrew of the Federal League. The players would help Renfrew to the FHL championship.
After the season, Ottawa took over the Cup, but a series against the Winnipeg Shamrocks could not be arranged and no challenge was played. (The Shamrocks would fold before the next season and never played a challenge.) Challenges from Renfrew of the Federal Hockey League and Cobalt of the Timiskaming League were disallowed when the Stanley Cup trustees ruled that the players on Renfrew and Cobalt were ineligible, having joined their teams after January 2.
Post-season exhibition
Ottawa and the Montreal Wanderers played a two-game series at the St. Nicholas Rink in
New York
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on March 12 and March 13. Ottawa won the first game 6–4, and the second game was tied 8–8.
Schedule and results
Player statistics
Goaltending averages
Leading scorers
Stanley Cup engraving
The 1909 Stanley Cup was presented by the trophy's trustee
William Foran
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.
The following Ottawa Hockey Club players and staff were members of the Stanley Cup winning team.
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1909 Ottawa Hockey Club Senators
See also
*
1909 FHL season
*
List of pre-NHL seasons
Prior to the first season of the National Hockey League (NHL), which commenced on December 19, 1917, there had been many seasons of ice hockey played by various amateur and professional leagues, often held contemporaneously, going back to the 188 ...
*
List of ice hockey leagues
This is a list of ice hockey leagues, both professional and amateur, from around the world; parentheses denote year of establishment and, where applicable, year of disestablishment.
North America Major professional
* National Hockey League (1917 ...
*
List of Stanley Cup champions
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References
Notes
Bibliography
*
* Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books, 12, 48. .
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