The 1915–16 PCHA season was the fifth

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of the professional men's ice hockey

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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

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series against the

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, 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,

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of the Toronto NHA team. This caused retaliatory raids and

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and Walter Smaill all were signed to NHA clubs.

Teams

Map of teams

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

for the

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. 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 Finals

Results

* † Cancelled due to fog. * ‡ Replay of game on February 15. * ^a at Seattle. Source: Coleman 1966.

Player statistics

Scoring leaders

Goaltending averages

References

Notes

Bibliography

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PCHA The Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) was a professional ice hockey league in Western Canada and the Western United States, which operated from 1911 to 1924 when it then merged with the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). The PCHA was cons ...