NHL 1925/26

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The 1925-26 NHL season was the ninth season in the National Hockey League . Seven teams played 36 games each. The mode for the final round planned in the previous year was also implemented this time. For the last time the NHL had to compete with another league for the Stanley Cup profit. The Montreal Maroons , who had eliminated the table leaders in the NHL final, who eliminated the Ottawa Senators , brought the cup back to the NHL with a 3-1 win against the defending champions, the Victoria Cougars . Ice hockey was a huge success in New York. The New York Americans had taken over the team from the excluded Hamilton Tigers . The hall served as Madison Square Garden , where a game against the Montréal Canadiens was watched by an incredible 17,000 spectators. The other new team, the Pittsburgh Pirates , started the season with tragedy. They met in their first game against the Montréal Canadiens in whose goal, as in all games of the last 15 years, the NHL legend Georges Vezina was. Vezina had a fever and collapsed in the first trimester. The doctors found tuberculosis . Vezina died four months later.

Regular season

Closing tables

Abbreviations: GP = games, W = wins, L = defeats, T = draws, GF = goals scored, GA = goals conceded, Pts = points

	GP	W.	L.	T	GF	GA	Pts
Ottawa Senators	36	24	8th	4th	77	42	52
Montreal Maroons	36	20th	11	5	91	73	45
Pittsburgh Pirates	36	19th	16	1	82	70	39
Boston Bruins	36	17th	15th	4th	92	85	38
New York Americans	36	12	20th	4th	68	86	28
Toronto St. Patricks	36	12	21st	3	92	114	27
Canadiens de Montréal	36	11	24	1	79	108	23

Best scorer

Abbreviations: GP = games, G = goals, A = assists , Pts = points

player	team	GP	G	A.	Pts
Nels Stewart	Mtl. Maroons	36	34	8th	42
Cy Denneny	Ottawa	36	24	12	36
Carson Cooper	Boston	36	28	3	31
Jimmy Herbert	Boston	36	26th	5	31
Howie Morenz	Montreal	31	23	3	26th
Jack Adams	Toronto	36	21st	5	26th
Aurel Joliat	Montreal	35	17th	9	26th
Billy Burch	NY Americans	36	22nd	3	25th
Hooley Smith	Ottawa	28	16	9	25th
Frank Nighbor	Ottawa	35	12	13	25th

Stanley Cup playoffs

NHL Championship (1st Round)

Pittsburgh Pirates (3) vs. Montreal Maroons (2)
date	Away team		Home team		Note
8th of March	Montreal Maroons	3	1	Pittsburgh Pirates
March 11	Pittsburgh Pirates	3	3	Montreal Maroons
Montreal wins the series with 6-4 goals and moves into the NHL Finals.

NHL finals

Montreal Maroons (2) vs. Ottawa Senators (1)
date	Away team		Home team		Note
25th March	Ottawa Senators	1	1	Montreal Maroons
27th of March	Montreal Maroons	1	0	Ottawa Senators
Montreal wins the NHL championship with 2-1 goals and moves into the Stanley Cup Finals.

Stanley Cup Finals

Montreal Maroons vs. Victoria Cougars
date	Away team		Home team		Note
March 30	Victoria Cougars	0	3	Montreal Maroons
April 1st	Victoria Cougars	0	3	Montreal Maroons
3rd of April	Victoria Cougars	3	2	Montreal Maroons
April 6th	Victoria Cougars	0	2	Montreal Maroons
Montreal wins the series 3-1 and the Stanley Cup .

Stanley Cup winner

Stanley Cup winner Montréal Maroons

Goalkeeper: Clint Benedict Defenders: Albert Holway , Hobie Kitchen , Dunc Munro  ( C ), Reg Noble Attackers: Punch Broadbent , Bernie Brophy , Frank Carson , Chuck Dinsmore , George Horne , Merlyn Phillips , Sam Rothschild , Babe Siebert , Nels Stewart Head Coach & General Manager: Eddie Gerard

NHL Awards and trophies awarded

Award	player	team
Hart Memorial Trophy :	Nels Stewart	Montreal Maroons
Lady Byng Trophy :	Frank Nighbor	Ottawa Senators

Web links

• Hacx.de: All NHL final tables ( Memento from March 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )