1919–20 PCHA season

1919–20 PCHA season
1919–20 PCHA season
League	Pacific Coast Hockey Association
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	December 29, 1919–March 10, 1920
Number of teams	3
Regular season
League leader	Seattle Metropolitans
Top scorer	Tommy Dunderdale (Victoria)
Playoffs
Champions	Seattle Metropolitans
Runners-up	Vancouver Millionaires
PCHA seasons
	← 1919 1920–21 →

The 1919–20 PCHA season was the ninth season of the professional men's ice hockey Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) league. Season play ran from December 26, 1919, to March 10, 1920. The season was enlarged to 22 games per team. The Seattle Metropolitans club finished first during the regular season and then won the playoff with the Vancouver Millionaires to take the PCHA championship. The Mets then played in the 1920 Stanley Cup Finals against the National Hockey League (NHL) champion Ottawa Senators. The Senators won the best-of-five series three games to two.

League business

At the league's annual meeting on November 21, 1919, Frank Patrick was re-elected as PCHA president.

Several players retired, including Si Griffis, Barney Stanley, and Mickey MacKay of Vancouver, and Ran McDonald of Seattle. Three players from Stanley Cup champion Toronto of the NHL moved to the PCHA this season: Alf Skinner, Jack Adams, and Harry Meeking.

Regular season

Final standings

Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals against
Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold

Pacific Coast Hockey Association	GP	W	L	GF	GA
Seattle Metropolitans	22	12	10	59	55
Vancouver Millionaires	22	11	11	75	65
Victoria Aristocrats	22	10	12	57	71

Schedule and results

Month	Day	Visitor	Score	Home	Score
Dec	26	Seattle	1	Victoria	2
	29	Victoria	3	Vancouver	4 (00:24 OT)
	31	Vancouver	2	Seattle	3
Jan	2	Vancouver	4	Victoria	7
	5	Seattle	2	Vancouver	3
	7	Victoria	2	Seattle	5
	9	Seattle	0	Victoria	2
	12	Victoria	4	Vancouver	3
	14	Vancouver	3	Seattle	1
	16	Vancouver	2	Victoria	1
	19	Seattle	5	Vancouver	2
	21	Victoria	1	Seattle	3
	23	Vancouver	1	Victoria	4
	26	Victoria	5	Vancouver	7
	28	Vancouver	3	Seattle	4 (3:59 OT)
	30	Seattle	4	Victoria	2
Feb	2	Seattle	3	Vancouver	4 (3:40 OT)
	4	Victoria	0	Seattle	3
	6	Vancouver	3	Victoria	1
	9	Victoria	3	Vancouver	2
	11	Vancouver	4	Seattle	2
	13	Seattle	1	Victoria	6
	16	Seattle	3	Vancouver	2
	18	Victoria	0	Seattle	6
	20	Vancouver	1	Victoria	3
	23	Victoria	4	Vancouver	10
	25	Vancouver	8	Seattle	0
	27	Seattle	2	Victoria	3 (7:04 OT)
Mar	1	Seattle	2	Vancouver	5
	3	Victoria	0	Seattle	2
	5	Vancouver	2	Victoria	3
	8	Seattle	2	Vancouver	0
	10	Victoria	1	Seattle	5

Source: Coleman (1966)^[1]

Player statistics

Goaltending averages

Name	Club	GP	GA	SO	Avg.
Holmes, Hap	Seattle	22	55	4	2.2
Lehman, Hughie	Vancouver	22	65	1	3.0
Fowler, Hec	Victoria	22	71	1	3.2

Scoring leaders

Player	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Tommy Dunderdale	Victoria Aristocrats	22	26	7	33	35
Frank Foyston	Seattle Metropolitans	22	26	3	29	3
Smokey Harris	Vancouver Millionaires	22	14	11	25	12
Eddie Oatman	Victoria Aristocrats	22	11	14	25	38
Gordon Roberts	Vancouver Millionaires	22	16	3	19	13
Alf Skinner	Vancouver Millionaires	22	15	2	17	28
Jim Riley	Seattle Metropolitans	22	11	4	15	49
Charles Tobin	Seattle Metropolitans	19	10	4	14	3
Lloyd Cook	Vancouver Millionaires	21	10	4	14	15
Art Duncan	Vancouver Millionaires	22	5	9	14	3

Source: Toronto World, March 19, 1920.^[2]

Playoffs

Seattle and Vancouver met for the third straight year in the playoffs to decide the PCHA championship. Vancouver won the first game 3–0 at Seattle, but Seattle struck back in Vancouver, defeating the Millionaires 6–0 to win the championship and advance to the Stanley Cup Finals in Ottawa. Gordon Roberts of Vancouver played his last professional game in the first game and scored a goal.^[3]

Date	Home	Score	Away	Score
March 12	Seattle	1	Vancouver	3
March 15	Vancouver	0	Seattle	6

Source: Coleman (1966)^[4]

Stanley Cup Finals

Ottawa won the first two games of the series. After Jack Darragh scored the game-winning goal in their 3–2 victory in game one, goaltender Clint Benedict led the Senators to a 3–0 shutout win in game two. Seattle won game three, 3–1, before the series was shifted to Toronto because of Ottawa's slushy ice conditions (the Ottawa Arena did not have artificial ice). Frank Foyston then scored twice to lead the Mets to a 5–2 victory in game four to even the series. In the fifth game, Darragh recorded a hat-trick to lead the Senators to a 6–1 win to clinch the Cup.

	Date	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Location
1	March 22	Ottawa Senators	3–2	Seattle Metropolitans	The Arena, Ottawa
2	March 24	Ottawa Senators	3–0	Seattle Metropolitans
3	March 27	Seattle Metropolitans	3–1	Ottawa Senators
4	March 30	Seattle Metropolitans	5–2	Ottawa Senators	Arena Gardens, Toronto
5	April 1	Ottawa Senators	6–1	Seattle Metropolitans	Arena Gardens, Toronto
Ottawa wins best-of-five series 3 games to 2

Source: Coleman (1966)^[5]

References

Notes

^ Coleman 1966, p. 372.
^ "Foyston is Second Best Man At Coast". Toronto World. March 19, 1920. p. 9.
^ Coleman 1966, p. 373.
^ Coleman 1966, pp. 373–374.
^ Coleman 1966, pp. 375–376.

Bibliography

Coleman, Charles (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1936 inc.

[FOOTNOTEColeman1966372-1] Coleman 1966, p. 372.

[2] "Foyston is Second Best Man At Coast". Toronto World. March 19, 1920. p. 9.

[FOOTNOTEColeman1966373-3] Coleman 1966, p. 373.

[FOOTNOTEColeman1966373–374-4] Coleman 1966, pp. 373–374.

[FOOTNOTEColeman1966375–376-5] Coleman 1966, pp. 375–376.

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