The 1905 Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) season was the seventh and final season of the league. Teams played a ten-game schedule. This year saw the addition of two teams, Montreal Westmount and Montreal Nationals. Montreal Nationals had previously been in the FAHL. Montreal Victorias won the league championship with a record of 9–1.

1905 CAHL season
LeagueCanadian Amateur Hockey League
SportIce hockey
DurationJanuary 2 – March 11, 1905
Number of teams6
1905
ChampionsMontreal Victorias
Top scorerRussell Bowie (27 goals)
CAHL seasons
← 1904

League business

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Executive

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  • Fred McRobie, Victorias (President)
  • Harry Shaw, Montreal (Secretary-Treasurer)

At the league meeting, new franchises were granted to Montreal Westmount and Montreal Le National. Grand Trunk, Three Rivers and Montreal Wanderers were turned down. Ottawa representative J.P. Dickson attended the meeting to try to arrange a return to the league by Ottawa on condition that Wanderers were accepted also. This was turned down, partly because the league had decided to have exclusively amateur players.

Pre-season

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Quebec Hockey Club went to New York City in December 1904 for an exhibition series against tha amateur teams of New York at St. Nicholas Rink. Quebec lost to New York Wanderers 5-3[1] and defeated the New York Athletic Club 7-2.[2]

Regular season

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Highlights

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Montreal Hockey Club's captain, Archie Hooper died before the season of complications stemming from a February 1903 ice hockey game injury.

This season saw several impressive rookies including Art Ross for Montreal Westmount and Ernie Russell for Montreal. Lester and Frank Patrick played together for Montreal Westmount.[3]

The league had a lot of scoring. The league leader, Russell Bowie of Victorias scored 27 goals in eight games. On January 7, Shamrocks and Westmount combined for 24 goals in a Shamrocks 14–10 win. On February 18, Fred Brophy, the Westmount goaltender, decided to get in on the act and rushed the length of the ice to score against Paddy Moran of Quebec.[3]

Montreal Le National lost their first four games by a combined score of 6–42 and withdrew from the rest of the schedule, defaulting the rest of their matches.[3]

Montreal Victorias won the season with a record of 9–1, but could not make a satisfactory arrangement with the Stanley Cup trustees and would not play in a challenge against Ottawa. The Victorias were granted a best-of-three series by the trustees, but declined, demanding a sudden-death game or two-game, total-goals series, which was not agreed to by the trustees.[4]

Final standing

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Team Games Played Wins Losses Ties Goals For Goals Against
Montreal Victorias
10
9
1
0
64
32
Quebec Hockey Club
10
8
2
0
78
45
Montreal Hockey Club
10
7
3
0
54
42
Montreal Shamrocks
10
3
7
0
41
62
Montreal Westmount
10
3
7
0
55
75
Montreal Le National
10
0
10†
0
6
42

† Le National defaulted their last six games.

Schedule and results

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Month Day Visitor Score Home Score
Jan. 2 Montreal 9 Le National 1
7 Shamrocks 14 Westmount 10
7 Victorias 5 Quebec 3
11 Montreal 6 Shamrocks 1
14 Quebec 10 Westmount 9
16 Le National 1 Shamrocks 8
18 Victorias 8 Montreal 5
21 Le National 2 Quebec 13
21 Victorias 7 Shamrocks 2
23 Westmount 12 Le National 2
26 Quebec 4 Shamrocks 2
28 Montreal 5 Westmount 4
30† Nationals Victorias
Feb. 1 Westmount 4 Victorias 9
4 Montreal 3 Quebec 7
4 Westmount 3 Shamrocks 2
13† Nationals Westmount
18 Shamrocks 5 Montreal 7
18 Westmount 5 Quebec 17
22 Victorias 13 Shamrocks 4
22† Nationals Montreal
25 Quebec 3 Victorias 8
27† Quebec Nationals
27 Montreal 6 Victorias 3
Mar. 1† Shamrocks Nationals
4 Victorias 11 Westmount 5
4 Shamrocks 3 Quebec 11
6† (††) Victorias Nationals
8 Westmount 3 Montreal 5
11 Quebec 10 Montreal 8

† Defaulted by Nationals

†† Victorias clinch league championship.

Player statistics

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Art Ross with the Montreal Westmount.

Goaltending averages

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Name Club GP GA SO GAA
Nathan Frye Victorias 8 32 4.0
Oliver Waugh Montreal 9 42 4.7
Paddy Moran Quebec 9 45 5.0
Mike Kenny Shamrocks 9 62 6.9
Fred Brophy Westmount 6 49 8.2
Edgar Darling Westmount 3 26 8.7
Joseph Cattarinich Le National 4 42 10.5

Scoring leaders

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Name Club GP G
Bowie, Russell Victorias 8 27
Russel, Blair Victorias 8 19
Power, Joe Quebec 9 15
Foulis, Colin Westmount 7 13
Russell, Ernie Montreal 8 11
Ross, Art Westmount 8 10
Hogan, Eddie Quebec 9 10
Church, Tom Westmount 9 9
Howard, Cavie Victorias 8 9
Jordan, Herb Quebec 8 9

See also

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References

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  • Coleman, Charles L. (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc. NHL.
Notes
  1. ^ "New York Beats Quebec". The Ottawa Journal. December 27, 1904. p. 2 – via newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Quebec Beats New York". The Ottawa Journal. December 27, 1904. p. 2 – via newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b c Coleman, p. 102
  4. ^ Coleman, p. 103
Preceded by CAHL seasons
1905
Succeeded by