The 1922–23 PCHA season was the 12th

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of the professional men's ice hockey

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league. Season play ran from November 13, 1922, until March 2, 1923. The

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club would be regular-season PCHA champions, and won the play-off with

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League business

The league finally dropped the position of

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, adopting the six-man hockey of the

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(NHL), eleven years after the

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(NHA) dropped it. The Vancouver Millionaires were renamed the Maroons, and the Victoria Aristocrats were renamed the Cougars. The season was increased to 30 games per team, including eight games against

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(WCHL) teams. Vancouver acquired Corbett Denneny from Toronto for

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and signed

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from Ottawa.

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had an outstanding season, scoring 41 goals in thirty games.

Teams

Map of teams

Regular season

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made the final appearance of his career on December 8 at Victoria.

Final standings

The standings include the interlocking games. ''Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals against''
''Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold''

Playoffs

The Maroons won the two-game total-goals series against Victoria 3-0, 2-3 (5-3) The Maroons then played against the

champion Ottawa in a best-of-five series for the right to play the WCHL champion for the Stanley Cup. Ottawa won the series 1-0, 1-4, 3-2, 5-1 (3-1).

Schedule and results

‡ at Seattle. † The results of this game were stricken from the record after a Victoria protest. The game was to be replayed on March 5 if it would affect the standings."Hockey Protest Is Successful"
''The Daily Colonist'' (Victoria, British Columbia). Feb. 6, 1923 (pg. 11). †† at Victoria. * at Vancouver. Source: Coleman(1966).

Player statistics

Scoring leaders

Goaltending averages

References

Notes

Bibliography

{{DEFAULTSORT:1922-23 PCHA season Pacific Coast Hockey Association seasons

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 ...