The 1916–17 PCHA season was the sixth

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of the professional men's ice hockey

Pacific Coast Hockey Association 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 ...

league. Season play ran from December 1, 1916, until March 2, 1917. The season was expanded to 24 games per team, except that the final game was cancelled. The

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club would be PCHA champions. After the season the club would play the

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finals series against the

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, NHA champions. Seattle would win the best-of-five series 3–1 to win the Cup.

League business

In the fall of 1916, the Canadian government expropriated Victoria's

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for war-time training purposes, making the arena unavailable for ice hockey use. It was decided to move the

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. This left Vancouver as the only Canadian team. The experiment in Spokane was not a success due to poor attendance. On February 15, 1917, the Spokane Arena announced that the remaining home games would be played in the other team's arenas. The final regular season game between Vancouver and Spokane was subsequently canceled.

Teams

Map of teams

Regular season

Final standings

''Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals against''

Schedule and results

Source: Coleman 1966.

Player statistics

Scoring leaders

Goaltending averages

References

Bibliography

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Notes

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