Montréal AAA

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The Montreal AAA team that won the first Stanley Cup in 1893.

The Montreal Hockey Club (short: Montreal HC ) was an ice hockey club in the Canadian city ​​of Montreal in the province of Québec .

The club was the "ice hockey department" of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association ( Montreal AAA for short ). It existed from 1884 to 1933 and won a total of four Stanley Cup titles in 1893, 1894, 1902 and 1903 . The Montreal HC played first from 1886 to 1898 in the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada and later, from 1899 to 1906, in the Canadian Amateur Hockey League and from 1907 to 1908 in the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association and finally from 1909 to 1933 in the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association . In 1930 the Montreal HC won the Allan Cup . In addition, the club was the first ever winner in Stanley Cup history in 1893 (but there was no challenger to win this title).