This is a list of seasons for the
Pacific Coast Hockey Association
The Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) was a professional ice hockey league in Western Canada and the Western United States, which operated from 1911 to 1924 when it then merged with the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). The PCHA was cons ...
professional men's
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...
league, which existed from 1912 to 1924.
Teams
† Stanley Cup Champions.
*The
1915 Stanley Cup Finals were the first organized as a pre-scheduled playoff between the two teams that won that year's PCHA and
National Hockey Association
The National Hockey Association (NHA), initially the National Hockey Association of Canada Limited, was a professional ice hockey organization with teams in Ontario and Quebec, Canada. It is the direct predecessor of today's National Hockey Leagu ...
(NHA) league championships, a one-off arrangement agreed to by the Stanley Cup trustee. Prior to this, individual teams would file with the Stanley Cup trustee with an official challenge to face the existing Cup holder. The following year, the Stanley Cup trustee deemed this league-vs-league format would be an ongoing arrangement.
*PCHA champion Seattle's victory at the
1917 Stanley Cup Finals marked the first time a non-Canadian team won the Cup.
‡ Portland was 1915–16 PCHA regular season PCHA champion, but did not claim the Stanley Cup.
* As Portland had not defeated Cup holder Vancouver of the PCHA in a direct playoff showdown, they could not claim the Cup. Instead, the new Cup holder was determined at the pre-arranged
1916 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1916 Stanley Cup Finals was played between the National Hockey Association (NHA) champion Montreal Canadiens and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) champion Portland Rosebuds. This was the first time that a best-of-five Cup champi ...
between the champions of the PCHA and NHA.
* The PCHA's Portland based champion made this the first Cup finals to feature a non-Canadian finalist.
‡‡ Vancouver claimed the Cup by defeating existing Cup holder Seattle in the 1917-18 PCHA playoffs, but lost in the scheduled Cup finals to Toronto, champions of the new
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Cana ...
(NHL).
*The format of a league's playoffs determining the passing of the Stanley Cup had been the norm during the
Challenge Cup era of 1893–1914. Vancouver's claim to the Cup in 1917 would be the last time a claim of this type was used.
*This was the first Cup finals held after the NHA suspended operations in order to get rid of unwanted owner
Eddie Livingstone, with the remaining NHA team owners creating the NHL.
See also
*
List of Stanley Cup champions
The Stanley Cup is a trophy awarded annually to the Season structure of the NHL, playoff champion club of the National Hockey League (NHL). It was donated by the Governor General of Canada Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Lord Stanley of Pr ...
References
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