The 1915–16 PCHA season was the fifth
season of the professional men's ice hockey
Pacific Coast Hockey Association league. Season play ran from December 7, 1915, until February 25, 1916. Each team would play 18 games. The
Portland Rosebuds club would be PCHA champions. After the season the club would play the
Stanley Cup
The Stanley Cup (french: La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion. It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America, an ...
finals series against the
Montreal Canadiens,
NHA champions. Montreal would win the best-of-five series 3–2 to win the Cup.
League business
The league granted a new franchise to Seattle, the Metropolitans. To stock the team, the team signed
Harry Holmes,
Frank Foyston,
Jack Walker,
Cully Wilson of the Toronto NHA team. This caused retaliatory raids and
Bert Lindsay,
Frank Nighbor,
Skinner Poulin
George Vincent "Skinner" Poulin (September 17, 1887 – May 3, 1971) was a professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey Association and the Victoria Aristocrats in the Pacific Coast Hockey Associ ...
and
Walter Smaill
Walter Sydney Smaill (December 18, 1884 – March 2, 1971) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 137 games in various professional and amateur leagues, including the National Hockey Association, Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Ass ...
all were signed to NHA clubs.
Regular season
Final standings
''Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals against''
Playoffs
The Rosebuds won the championship and travelled east to meet the
Montreal Canadiens for the
Stanley Cup
The Stanley Cup (french: La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion. It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America, an ...
. The Canadiens won the series 3-2 to claim the Cup. As champions of the PCHA, the Rosebuds engraved their team name on the Cup.
Stanley Cup Final
Results
* † Cancelled due to fog.
* ‡ Replay of game on February 15.
*
a at Seattle.
Source: Coleman 1966.
Player statistics
Goaltending averages
Scoring leaders
See also
*
1915 in sports
:''Note — many sporting events did not take place because of World War I''
1915 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
American football
College championship
* College football national championship – Cornell Big Red, Minneso ...
*
1916 in sports
:''Note — many sporting events did not take place because of World War I''
1916 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
American football
College championship
* College football national championship – Pittsburgh Panthers
Eve ...
*
1915–16 NHA season
The 1915–16 NHA season was the seventh season of the National Hockey Association. Five teams played a 24 game schedule. Montreal Canadiens won the league championship and defeated the Portland Rosebuds to win their first ever Stanley Cup.
Le ...
*
List of pre-NHL seasons
References
Notes
Bibliography
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