NHA 1910
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The 1910 season was the National Hockey Association (NHA) 's first regular season . The Montreal Wanderers became champions .
mode
In the regular season, the seven teams played twelve games each. The first place after the regular season became champions. Each team received two points for a win, one point for a tie and zero points for a defeat.
Season course
The first game of the NHA took place on January 5, 1910 between the Cobalt Silver Kings and the Canadiens de Montréal , while the competing Canadian Hockey Association had already started on December 31, 1909. Both leagues tried to get the best ice hockey players in the country under contract, but with the financial background of the O'Brien family, who financially supported four of the five NHA teams, the NHA was able to offer significantly higher sums and players like Newsy Lalonde , Didier Pitre , Brothers Frank and Lester Patrick and Cyclone Taylor all received several thousand dollar contracts for just twelve games of the season. Due to the higher financial possibilities and the fact that the league was geographically better balanced - three of the five teams played in Montréal in the CHA - the CHA stopped playing on January 15, 1910 and only the Ottawa Senators and the Montreal Shamrocks became accepted into the NHA as expansion teams. The Montreal Wanderers won 1910 as the first team to win the championship of the NHA, in which they could win eleven of their twelve games and won the Stanley Cup , which was now an integral part of the NHA. However, the best Canadian teams were able to continue to challenge the NHA champions. The league's top scorer was Newsy Lalonde.
Regular season
table
Abbreviations: GP = games, W = wins, L = defeats, T = draws, GF = goals scored, GA = goals conceded, Pts = points
| GP | W. | L. | T | GF | GA | Pts | |
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| Montreal Wanderers | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91 | 41 | 22nd |
| Ottawa Senators | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 89 | 66 | 18th |
| Renfrew Creamery Kings | 12 | 8th | 3 | 1 | 96 | 54 | 17th |
| Cobalt Silver Kings | 12 | 4th | 8th | 0 | 79 | 104 | 12 |
| Haileybury Comets | 12 | 4th | 8th | 0 | 77 | 83 | 12 |
| Montreal shamrocks | 12 | 3 | 8th | 1 | 52 | 95 | 7th |
| Canadiens de Montréal | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 59 | 100 | 4th |
Stanley Cup Challenge
In the playoffs for the Stanley Cup , the Montreal Wanderers were able to prevail against the Berlin Union Jacks from the Ontario Professional Hockey League and defend their title.
literature
- Dan Diamond (Ed.): Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Hockey League . 1st edition. Total Sports, 1998, ISBN 0-8362-7114-9 .