The Royal Montreal Hockey Club, also known as the Montreal Royals, was a Canadian amateur

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club formed in

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, in 1932. It operated various teams in men's junior and senior leagues until 1961. The senior team of the club won the

Allan Cup The Allan Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the national senior amateur men's ice hockey champions of Canada. It was donated by Sir Montagu Allan of Ravenscrag, Montreal, and has been competed for since 1909. The current champions are the ...

men's championship in 1939 and 1947, and the junior team of 1949 won the

Memorial Cup The Memorial Cup () is the national championship of the Canadian Hockey League, a consortium of three major junior ice hockey leagues operating in Canada and parts of the United States. It is a four-team round-robin tournament played between t ...

junior men's Canadian championship.

History

The hockey club was founded in 1932, operated by E. S. Hamilton and G. T. Ogilvie. Formed from the

Montreal Hockey Club The Montreal Hockey Club of Montreal, Quebec, Canada was a senior-level men's amateur ice hockey club, organized in 1884. They were affiliated with Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (MAAA) and used the MAAA 'winged wheel' logo. The team was ...

, the senior Royals played in the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association play from 1932–1933, in the

Quebec Senior Hockey League The Quebec Senior Hockey League (QSHL) was an ice hockey league that operated from 1941 to 1959 , based in Quebec, Canada. The league played senior ice hockey under the jurisdiction of the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association until 1953, when it becam ...

from 1944–1953, the Quebec Hockey League from 1953–1959, and the Eastern Professional Hockey League from 1959–1961. The senior Royals won the QSHL championship in 1945 and 1946, and the QHL championship in 1959. The senior Royals won the

in 1947. The junior Royals played in the Quebec Junior Hockey League. The Junior team reached the eastern Canadian championship five times, winning in 1941 and 1949, and finished runners-up in 1933, 1944 and 1945. The junior Royals won the

in 1949, and were finalists in 1941. When the Royals advanced to the 1941 Memorial Cup semifinals, Quebec Amateur Hockey Association president Norman Dawe lobbied for games to be played at the Montreal Forum instead of all games in Toronto. The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association voted against his request due to budget constraints and travel costs. In the 1941 Memorial Cup final, the Montreal Royals won both games played on home ice, but failed to win the cup when since they lost all three games played in Toronto. In the 1942 Memorial Cup playoffs, the Montreal Royals defeated the Halifax Junior Canadians by a 12–3 score in the first game of a best-of-three series at Montreal Forum. The remainder of series was cancelled due to poor attendance and

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Championships

* 1939, 1947 – Allan Cup champions * 1945, 1946, 1947 – Quebec Senior Hockey League * 1949 – Memorial Cup champions * 1959 – Quebec Hockey League

Season-by-season results

Season-by-season results for the Montreal Royals senior hockey team. * 1932–1941: Montreal Senior Group, (QAHA) * 1941–1953: Quebec Senior Hockey League (QSHL) * 1953–1959 : Quebec Hockey League (QHL) * 1959–1961 : Eastern Professional Hockey League (EPHL) † Team played some four-point games against McGill Source: 1935–38: ''

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'', 1942–43: ''Ottawa Citizen'', 1943–44: ''Ottawa Citizen''

References

{{Authority control Ice hockey teams in Montreal Defunct ice hockey teams in Canada Ice hockey clubs established in 1932 1932 establishments in Quebec