1928 Newfoundland season

This was the 1928 ice hockey season in Newfoundland:

St. John's Senior League

• 1/23: Guards - St. Bon's 8:3
• 1/25: Feildians - Terra Novas 6:3
• 1/27: Guards - Terra Novas 8:2
• 1/30: St. Bon's - Feildians 8:0
• 2/3: Guards - Feildians 7:3
• 2/6: St. Bon's - Terra Novas 8:1
• 2/9: St. Bon's - Guards 5:3 OT
• 2/11: Terra Novas - Feildians 7:4
• 2/13: Terra Novas - Guards 8:4
• 2/15: St. Bon's - Feildians 6:4
• 2/27: Guards - Feildians 9:7
• 2/29: St. Bon's - Terra Novas 6:2
• 3/2: Guards - St. Bon's 6:4
• 3/5: Terra Novas - Feildians 10:5
• 3/8: Terra Novas - Guards 5:2
• 3/9: 'St. Bon's - Feildians 9:2
• 3/12: Guards - Feildians 11:6
• 3/13: Terra Novas' - St. Bon's 6:5 OT
• 3/19: St. Bon's - Guards 3:2
• 3/21: Guards - Terra Novas 6:0
• 3/23: St. Bon's - Terra Novas 3:1

St. Bon's won.

St. John's Tie Cup

Terra Novas won.

Corner Brook League

Senior League

• 1/20: Head Office - All-Stars 6:3
• 1/24: All-Stars - Paper Makers 4:3
• 1/27: Head Office - Paper Makers 8:4
• 2/10: All-Stars - Head Office 8:6

Head Office won the Stadler Cup as league champions. The Paper Makers finished second.

Intermediate League

The Mechanics won the title and were presented a beautiful silver cup by the Corner Brook Sports Club.

Schoolboys Hockey League

• Public School - RC School 2:1
• Public School - Curling School - "easy win for Public School"
• RC School - Curling School 1:1
• 2/11: Public School - RC School 2:0
• 2/25: RC School - Curling School 2:0

Public School won the title.

St. John's Intercollegiate League

• 2/11: Feildians - United College 6:1
• 2/15: St. Bon's - United College 19:1
• 2/22: St. Bon's - Feildians 6:0
• 2/25: Feildians - United College 6:4
• 2/28: St. Bon's - United College 18:1
• 3/3: St. Bon's - Feildians 8:2

St. John's Mercantile League

• 2/1: Harvey & Co. - James Baird Ltd. 6:1
• 2/7: Royal Stores - Bowring Bros. 2:1
• 2/8: James Baird Ltd. - G. Knowling Ltd. 2:1
• 2/15: Royal Stores - Harvey & Co. 4:0
• 2/24: Bowring Bros. - G. Knowling Ltd. 7:1
• 2/28: James Baird Ltd. - Royal Stores 1:1
• 3/1: Bowring Bros. - Harvey & Co. 3:1
• 3/6: Royal Stores - G. Knowling Ltd. 11:1
• 3/20: Harvey & Co. - G. Knowling Ltd. 5:5

1. Royal Stores 3-0-1-7 18:3
2. Bowring Bros. 3-1-0-6 18:6
3. James Baird Ltd. 1-2-1-3 6:15
4. Harvey & Co. 1-2-1-3 12:13
5. G. Knowling Ltd. 0-3-1-1 8:25

St. John's City League

• 1/26: Commercial Cable Co. - Newfoundland Light & Power Co. 15:1
• 1/31: Parker & Monroe - Commercial Cable Co. 6:1
• 2/7: Railway Welfare Association - Post Office 4:1
• 2/7: Ayre & Sons - Parker & Monroe 7:6 OT
• 2/9: Ayre & Sons - Newfoundland Light & Power Co. 5:4
• 2/14: Ayre & Sons - Post Office 7:1
• 3/1: Railway Welfare Association - Newfoundland Light & Power Co. 10:0
• 3/8: Commercial Cable Co. - Railway Welfare Association 12:6
• 3/13: General Post Office - Newfoundland Light & Power Co. 10:6
• 3/15: Parker & Monroe - General Post Office Forfeit - game was disputed
• 3/25: Parker & Monroe - Newfoundland Light & Power Co. 8:4

Ayre won the title for the second year in a row.

Other games

• 1/9: St. John's Guards - Corner Brook 6:5 @ Corner Brook
• Corner Brook - St. John's Guards @ Corner Brook
• St. John's Guards - Corner Brook @ Corner Brook

The Guards were awarded a silver cup presented to the Corner Brook Sports Club by Mr. A.E. Hickman of St. John's.

• 1/14: St. John's Guards - Grand Falls 11:5 @ Grand Falls
• 1/27: Woods Department, Postal Telegraph and Stores - Hydro-Electrics 6:5 @ Deer Lake
• 2/8: Canadian Bank of Commerce - Royal Bank 7:1 - St. John's Bankers League
• 2/10: Mercantiles - Hydro-Electrics 13:4 @ Deer Lake
• 2/13: Mercantiles - Hydro-Electrics 4:3 @ Deer Lake
• 2/20: St. John's - Halifax Crescents 6:5 @ St. John's
• 2/21: Halifax Crescents - St. John's 7:1 @ St. John's
• 2/22: Old Timers tied Youngsters - Commercial Cable Co. game; Youngsters had won the week before
• 2/24: St. Bon's Collegians - Halifax Crescents 2:2 @ St. John's
• 2/24: Factory Staff - Office Staff 6:3 - Imperial Tobacco Co. game @ St. John's
• 2/25: Bay Roberts - Brigus 5:0

There was a three-game series played in Corner Brook between the hosts and Grand Falls for the Tuma Cup in mid-February. Corner Brook won the first game, Grand Falls the second, and in the third, the home team defeated the visitors in overtime.

A return series was played in Grand Falls the following week. Corner Brook won the first game, Grand Falls the second, and the third was stopped abruptly early in the second period due to an injury to a Grand Falls player. The home team was up 3-0 at the time.

• 3/2: Public School - RC School 4:3 @ Corner Brook - benefit for injured hockey players
• 3/10: General Office - Steamship Department 4:4 - Harvey & Co. game
• 3/12: Head Office - All-Stars/Papermakers Combination 7:5 @ Corner Brook
• 3/13: Western Division - Eastern Division 2:1 - Bell Island Championship; teams had played an OT tie on 3/8
• 3/14: Bishop Spencer College - United College 2:1 - ladies game
• 3/14: Commercial Cable Co. - Law Students 8:7
• 3/22: RC School - Public School 3:1 @ Corner Brook
• 3/27: St. Bon's Collegians - St. Bon's Seniors 4:2
• 3/31: St. Bon's Seniors - St. Bon's Collegians 5:2
• 4/2: Royal Stores - Feildians-United 6:2
• 4/2: Church of England Orphanage - C.L.B. Live Wires 0:0 @ St. John's

Bay Roberts Series

• 1/24: Whites - Blues 2:1
• 1/31: Blues - Reds 1:0
• 2/1: Reds - Whites 3:3 OT
• 2/4: Blues - Whites 5:1
• 2/6: Reds - Blues 3:2
• 2/7: Reds - Whites 5:2

Sources

• Bay Roberts Guardian
• St. John's Evening Telegram
• Western Star (Corner Brook)