1893 AHAC season

1893 AHAC season
League	Amateur Hockey Association of Canada
Sport	ice hockey
Duration	January 7, 1893 – March 17, 1893
Number of teams	5
1893
Champion	Montreal Hockey Club

The 1893 Amateur Hockey Association of Canada season lasted from January 7 until March 17. The Montreal Hockey Club was the league and Canadian champion for the sixth season in a row and was awarded the new Stanley Cup. As the first winners of the Cup they did not have to challenge for it.

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On December 15, 1892, the AHAC elected its officers for the season:

President - F. M. S. Jenkins, Ottawa
1st Vice. Pres. - J. Crathern, Victorias
2nd Vice. Pres. - A. Laurie, Quebec
Secretary-Treasurer - J. A. Findlay, Montreal
Council - A. Ritchie, Crystals; G. Carpenter, Shamrocks; M. Costigan, McGill; A. Z. Palmer, Ottawa Rebels; J. Farwell, Sherbrooke

Season

Ottawa and Quebec got into a dispute. Quebec protested their loss on January 21 in Quebec and refused to play in the return match until the protest was decided. The return match was scheduled for February but was not played until March 17. At the same time, Ottawa was in a dispute with the Ontario Hockey Association over the location of the final match for the Ontario championship. In the end, Ottawa seceded from the Ontario association.

Final Standing

Team	Games Played	Wins	Losses	Ties	Goals For	Goals Against
Montreal Hockey Club	8	7	1	0	38	18
Ottawa Hockey Club	8	6	2	0	49	22
Montreal Crystals	8	3	5	0	25	34
Quebec Hockey Club	8	2	5	1	23	46
Montreal Victorias	8	1	6	1	20	35

Results

Month	Day	Visitor	Score	Home	Score
Jan.	7	Ottawa	3	Victorias	4
	13	Quebec	3	Crystals	8
	14	Montreal	2	Ottawa	4
	14	Quebec	1	Victorias	1
	18	Victorias	1	Crystals	3
	21	Ottawa	5	Quebec	3
	23	Montreal	7	Victorias	5
	28	Victorias	2	Ottawa	7
	28	Montreal	3	Quebec	2
Feb.	3	Ottawa	4	Crystals	3
	4	Victorias	3	Quebec	4
	10	Quebec	2	Montreal	9
	11	Crystals	1	Ottawa	11
	18	Crystals	3	Quebec	8
	18	Ottawa	1	Montreal	7
	23	Victorias	3	Crystals	4
Mar.	3 (†)	Crystals	2	Montreal	2
	4	Montreal	6	Victorias	1
	9 (††)	Montreal	2	Crystals	1
	17	Quebec	0	Ottawa	14

† Game awarded to Montreal because Crystals refused to continue.

†† Birthday of the Champion.

Championship

Main article: 1893 Stanley Cup championship

Montreal HC won the championship for placing first in the regular season. This was Montreal HC's third straight championship since the Championship Trophy was inaugurated in 1891. According to the terms for the trophy, Montreal HC was allowed to keep the Trophy.^[1] A new version was struck for following seasons. The version won by Montreal is on display in the collection of the Hockey Hall of Fame.

As champions of the AHAC, the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup (known today as the Stanley Cup) was to be awarded to Montreal as its inaugural champion. On May 15, 1893, Sheriff John Sweetland finally presented the trophy to the MAAA president J. A. Taylor during the MAAA annual meeting. Each player received a souvenir gold ring as a gift of the MAAA.^[2] Disputes between the Montreal HC and the MAAA kept the Cup in the MAAA hands until it was accepted by the Club on February 23, 1894.^[3]

Player stats

Goaltending averages

Name	Club	GP	GA	SO	Avg.
Paton, Tom	Montreal	8	18	0	2.3
Morel, A.	Ottawa	8	22	1	2.8
Collins, Herbert	Crystals	8	34	1	4.3
Jones, Robert	Victorias	8	35	0	4.4
Patton, Harry	Quebec	7	32	0	4.6
Stocking, Frank	Quebec	1	14	0	14.0

Scoring leaders

Name	Club	GP	G
Haviland Routh	Montreal	7	12
A.E. Swift	Quebec	8	11
R.Bradley	Ottawa	8	11
Desse Brown	Crystals	7	10
Chauncey Kirby	Ottawa	8	10
Shirley Davidson	Victorias	6	8
Billy Barlow	Montreal	7	7
George Lowe	Montreal	5	6
William Murray	Crystals	7	6
Archie Hodgson	Montreal	8	6

Source

Coleman(1966) pp. 9–10

Montreal Hockey Club 1893 Stanley Cup champions

Roster

Forwards

Billy Barlow^
Archie Hodgson^
"Harvie" Routh^
Alex Kingan^
Alex Irving^
George Lowe^

Defencemen

Allan Cameron (point)
James A. Stewart (cover point-playing President of Montreal AAA).

Goaltenders

Tom Paton

Coaching and administrative staff

Harry Shaw(Manager/Secretary-Treasurer).
James Taylor (President of Hockey Club) (Missing from team picture)
^Unknown who played Center, Rover, Right Wing and Left Wing, so the players are listed as forwards

Stanley Cup engraving

Montreal AAA

References and notes

Coleman, Charles L. (1966) [1964]. The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc. pp. 8–12.
Diamond, Dan (1992). Diamond, Dan (ed.), ed. The Official National Hockey League Stanley Cup centennial book. Toronto, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 0-7710-2803-2.
Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books. ISBN 1-55168-261-3.

↑ "Senior Championship Trophy". Hockey Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-30.
↑ "Governor-General's Cup. A Handsome Trophy Was Presented to the M.A.A.A. last night.". Montreal Gazette. May 16, 1893. p. 8.
↑ Diamond, p.14

External links

Composite photo of 1893 hockey game (at McCord Museum website)

Preceded by Montreal HC 1892	Montreal Hockey Club AHAC Champions 1893	Succeeded by Montreal HC 1894
Preceded by first winners	Montreal Hockey Club Stanley Cup Champions 1893	Succeeded by Montreal HC 1894
Preceded by 1892	AHAC seasons 1893	Succeeded by 1894

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