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The '''1904–05 [[Federal Amateur Hockey League]] (FAHL) season''' lasted from December 31, 1904, until March 3. Teams played an eight-game schedule.

==League business==
[[Ottawa Senators (original)|Ottawa Hockey Club]], who officially joined the FAHL prior to the end of the last season, played its first full season in the league. [[Montreal Le National]] left the league and joined the rival [[Canadian Amateur Hockey League]] (CAHL). Ottawa had negotiated with the CAHL to return, along with the Wanderers joining, but this was turned down. Ottawa Capitals also left the FAHL.

==Regular season==

The newly transferred Ottawa Hockey Club would win the league championship – and retain the [[Stanley Cup]] – with a record of seven wins and one loss.

===Highlights===

Ottawa's Frank McGee would score five goals against the Montagnards on February 4.

===Final standing===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Team
! Games Played
! Wins
! Losses
! Ties
! Goals For
! Goals Against
|-
| Ottawa Hockey Club
| <center>8</center>
| <center>7</center>
| <center>1</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>60</center>
| <center>19</center>
|-
| [[Montreal Wanderers]]
| <center>8</center>
| <center>6</center>
| <center>2</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>44</center>
| <center>27</center>
|-
| [[Brockville, Ontario|Brockville]]
| <center>8</center>
| <center>4</center>
| <center>4</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>34</center>
| <center>30</center>
|-
| [[Cornwall HC]]
| <center>8</center>
| <center>3</center>
| <center>5</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>18</center>
| <center>37</center>
|-
| [[Montreal Montagnards]]
| <center>8</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>8</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>19</center>
| <center>62</center>
|-
|}

===Results===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Month
! Day
! Visitor
! Score
! Home
! Score
|-
|valign=top| Dec.
|| 31 || Cornwall  || 4  || '''Wanderers''' || 6
|-
|rowspan=8 valign=top| Jan.
|| 2 || Montagnards || 3 || '''Brockville'''    || 10
|-
|  7 || Wanderers   || 3  || '''Ottawa'''       || 9
|- 
| 11 || Cornwall    || 2  || '''Brockville'''   || 3
|-
| 13 || '''Wanderers'''   || 6  || Montagnards  || 1
|-
| 21 || Montagnards || 2  || '''Cornwall'''     || 4
|-
| 23 || Ottawa      || 3  || '''Brockville'''   || 5
|-
| 27 || '''Cornwall'''    || 3  || Montagnards  || 2
|-
| 28 || '''Wanderers'''   || 3  || Brockville   || 2
|-
|rowspan=10 valign=top| Feb.
|| 1 || Brockville   || 4  || '''Wanderers'''   || 8
|-
|  1 || '''Ottawa'''       || 7  || Cornwall    || 2
|-
|  4 || Montagnards  || 4  || '''Ottawa'''      || 14
|-
|  8 || Brockville   || 0  || '''Ottawa'''      || 7
|-
| 11 || '''Ottawa'''       || 4  || Wanderers   || 2
|-
| 13 || Brockville   || 1  || '''Cornwall'''    || 2
|-
| 17 || '''Brockville'''   || 9  || Montagnards || 2
|-
| 18 || '''Wanderers'''    || 7  || Cornwall    || 1
|-
| 24 || Cornwall     || 0  || '''Ottawa'''      || 9
|-
| 25 || Montagnards  || 2  || '''Wanderers'''   || 9
|-
|valign=top| Mar.
|| 3 (†)|| '''Ottawa'''      || 7  || Montagnards  || 3
|-
|}

† Ottawa HC lock down League Championship, retain [[Stanley Cup]].

===Goaltending averages===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!width=120| Name
!width=75| Club
!width=25| GP
!width=25| GA
!width=25| SO
!width=25| Avg.
|-
|Finnie, Dave
||Ottawa      || 8 || 19 || 2 || 2.4
|-
|Baker, W.
||Wanderers   || 7 || 23 || 0 || 3.3
|-
|Kerr
||Brockville  || 8 || 30 || 0 || 3.8
|-
|Lavigne
||Montagnards || 1 ||  4 || 0 || 4.0
|-
|Brighton
||Wanderers   || 1 ||  4 || 0 || 4.0
|-
|Hunter, Jack
||Cornwall    || 8 || 37 || 0 || 4.6
|-
|Menard, Henri
||Montagnards || 7 || 58 || 0 || 8.3
|-
|}

===Scoring leaders===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!width=120| Name
!width=75| Club
!width=25| GP
!width=25| G
|-
|McGee, Frank
|| Ottawa    || 6 || 17
|-
|Marshall, Jack
|| Wanderers || 8 || 17
|-
|Westwick, Harry
||Ottawa     || 8 || 15
|-
|Smith, Alf
||Ottawa     || 8 || 13
|-
|Blachford, Cecil
||Wanderers  || 7 || 10
|-
|Glass, Frank
||Wanderers  || 6 || 9
|-
|Lannon, W.
||Brockville || 8 || 7
|-
|Shore, Hamby
||Ottawa     || 3 || 6
|-
|Marks, Jack
||Brockville || 8 || 6
|-
|Mallette, Bob
||Cornwall   || 8 || 5
|-
|}

==Stanley Cup challenges==

===Ottawa vs. Dawson City===
In January 1905, the [[Dawson City Nuggets]] travelled 4,000 miles (6,400&nbsp;km) from the Yukon to Ottawa for a best-of-three Cup challenge series. The Nuggets actually left Dawson City on December 19, 1904, and travelled on a month-long journey by dog sled (Dawson to Whitehorse), ship (Skagway to Vancouver), and train (Whitehorse to Skagway, and Vancouver to Ottawa). Largely because of the long trip, they were no match for the Silver Seven. Ottawa defeating them in the first game, 9–2. Numerous Stanley Cup records were then set in game two, including Frank McGee's 14 goals, which included eight consecutive goals scored in less than nine minutes,<ref>{{cite web|title=History of McGee's Inn: Frank McGee, the hockey legend|url=http://www.mcgeesinn.com/e/history.htm|work=McGee's Inn Bed & Breakfast – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Website|accessdate=16 May 2011}}</ref> and a 23–2 rout, the largest margin of victory for any challenge game or Stanley Cup Final game to date.

Several players playing for Dawson were from the Ottawa area. Jim Johnstone was from Ottawa. Norman Watt was from Aylmer, Quebec. Randy McLennan had played in a Stanley Cup challenge for [[Queen's University]] of Kingston, Ontario. Another player has Stanley Cup challenge experience: Lorne Hanna, "formerly of the Yukon", had played for [[Brandon Wheat Cities]] in their [[1904 CAHL season#Brandon vs. Ottawa|1904 challenge]] of Ottawa.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yukonweb.com/community/dawson/klondike_sun/mar7-97.htmld/ |publisher=Klondike Sun |accessdate=2008-10-31 |title=Dawson City, Yukon · Friday, March 7, 1997:The Genesis of Dawson City's challenge |last=Reddick |first=Don}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width="120" | Date
! width="140" | Winning Team
! width="5" | Score
! width="160" | Losing Team
! width="145" | Location
|-
|January 13, 1905||[[Ottawa Senators]]||9–2||[[Dawson City Nuggets]]||rowspan="2"|Dey's Arena
|-
|January 16, 1905||[[Ottawa Senators]]||23–2||[[Dawson City Nuggets]]
|-
!colspan="5" style="text-align:left;"|Ottawa wins best-of-three series 2 games to 0
|}

{| class="wikitable border="0"
|-
| width="40%" align="right" |
'''Game One''' 
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! colspan="5" align="center" | Dawson at Ottawa, January 13, 1905
|-
!  width=140 |Ottawa 
!  width=30 |9
!  width=30 |P
!  width=140 |Dawson 
!  width=30 |2
|-
| Dave Finnie || || align="center"|G || Albert Forrest  ||
|-
| Arthur "Bones" Allen|| || align="center"|P ||  Jim Johnstone  ||
|-
| Arthur Moore || || align="center"|CP ||| Lorne Hanna{{Ref|1|A}} ||
|-
| Harry Westwick|| 2 || align="center"|RO || Randy McLennan || 1
|-
| Frank McGee || 1 || align="center"|C || Hector Smith ||
|-
| Alf Smith || 4 || align="center"|RW || George Kennedy || 1
|-
| Frank White  || 2 || align="center"|LW || Norman Watt ||
|-
|  colspan="4" | Referee – Harlow Stiles, Cornwall{{Ref|2|B}}
|}

{|
|align="left" |
A. {{Note|1}} Coleman lists spelling as Lorne Hanna, other spellings include Hannay (Reddick's spelling) and Hanney(in ''The Globe'' article)<br/>
B. {{Note|2}} Coleman lists E. Butterworth as referee. However, Boyle is recorded as complaining about Stiles missing off-side calls.

Source: Coleman, pg. 112
|}
||
[[File:Dawson Klondikers in Ottawa jan 14 1905.jpg|250px|Yukon Newspaper report after first game]]
<br/>According to '''The Globe''':

<blockquote>The score was 9 to 2 but Ottawa might have increased its proportions had they set to work to run up a score on the men who had travelled 4,000 miles from the far north in quest of the trophy. During the first twenty minutes of play, the challenging team made a remarkably fine showing against the champions, but after that they gradually faded away and were never seriously in the running, indicating that the chief fault with the team is that they are not in condition to stand the test of a hard battle after their long trip of 23 days from the north. While defeated to-night, it is undoubtably the fact that the team will be a different proportion in the second game on Monday.<ref>{{Cite news |title=none|newspaper=The Globe |date=January 14, 1905 |pages=21 |postscript=<!--None-->}}</ref></blockquote>
|-
|}
Sources:
* {{Cite news |title=none|newspaper=The Globe |date=January 14, 1905 |pages=21 |postscript=<!--None-->}}
* Fischler(1990), pg. 261
{| class="wikitable border="0"
|-
| width="40%" align="right" |
'''Game Two'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! colspan="5" align="center" | Dawson at Ottawa, January 16, 1905
|-
! width=140 | Ottawa 
! width=30 | 23
!  width=30 |P
! width=140 | Dawson 
!  width=30 |2
|-
|Dave Finnie || ||  align="center"|G || Albert Forrest ||
|-
|Harvey Pulford  || ||  align="center"|P ||Jim Johnstone ||
|-
|Arthur Moore || || align="center"|CP || Lorne Hanna ||
|-
|Harry Westwick || 5 || align="center"|RO ||Dave Fairburn || 
|-
|Frank McGee || 14 || align="center"|C ||Hector Smith  || 2
|-
|Alf  Smith || 3 || align="center"|RW ||George Kennedy || 
|-
|Frank White || 1 || align="center"|LW ||Norman Watt ||
|-
|  colspan="4" | Referee – E. Butterworth, Ottawa
|}
Source: Coleman, pg. 112
||
[[File:Dawson Klondikers in Ottawa jan 17 1905.jpg|250px|Report after the overwhelming defeat.]]
<br/>
After the second game, '''The Globe''' reported:

<blockquote>The visiting team was outclassed to-night quite as decisively as the score indicates. In fact had it not been for the fact of Forrest's presence in the Dawson goal the score against them might have been a great deal larger. Ottawa simply skated away from them at the whistle, and continued to pile up the goals with a merciless monotonous regularity which was farcical in the extreme.<ref>{{Cite news |title=none|newspaper=The Globe |date=January 17, 1905 |pages=12 |postscript=<!--None-->}}</ref></blockquote>
|-
|}
Sources: 
* {{Cite news |title=none|newspaper=The Globe |date=January 17, 1905 |pages=12 |postscript=<!--None-->}}
* Fischler(1990), pg. 261

After the series, Ottawa held a banquet for Dawson City at the Ottawa Amateur Athletic Association (OAAA) clubhouse. After the banquet the Stanley Cup was [[drop kick]]ed into the frozen Rideau Canal. It was retrieved the next day.

===Ottawa vs. Rat Portage===

In March 1905, the [[Kenora Thistles|Rat Portage Thistles]] issued another challenge to the Senators. McGee did not play in the first game and the Thistles crushed Ottawa, 9–3. However, he returned to lead the  Senators to 4–2 and 5–4 victories in games two and three, respectively. McGee returned in game two, with his good forearm wrapped in a cast, and only a light bandage on his broken wrist, to decoy the Thistles. Alf Smith scored three goals in game two on slow ice, which the Thistles claimed was salted to slow down the Thistles. There was hard ice in game three, and the lead exchanged hands several times. The Thistles led 2–1 at halftime and 3–2 midway through the second half. Ottawa took a 4–3 lead, before Tommy Phillips scored his third of the game to tie the score. However, McGee came through with the winning score late in the game to win it for Ottawa.{{sfn|Zweig|2012|p=301}}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="width:12em" | Date
! style="width:16em" | Winning Team
! style="width:5em" | Score
! style="width:16em" | Losing Team
! style="width:14em" | Location
|-
|March 7, 1905||Rat Portage Thistles||9–3||Ottawa ||rowspan="3"|Dey's Arena
|-
|March 9, 1905|||Ottawa||4–2||Rat Portage Thistles
|-
|March 11, 1905||Ottawa||5–4||Rat Portage Thistles
|-
!colspan="5" style="text-align:left;"|Ottawa wins best-of-three series two games to one.
|}

==See also==
* [[Federal Amateur Hockey League]]
* [[List of Stanley Cup champions]]
* [[List of pre-NHL seasons]]
* [[1905 CAHL season]]

==References and notes==
*{{cite book 
| author=Coleman, Charles L. 
| title=The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc.
|year=1966
|publisher=NHL }}

* {{cite book |title=Golden ice : the greatest teams in hockey history |last=Fischler |first=Stan |year=1990 |publisher=McGrawHill Ryerson |location=Toronto |isbn=0-07-549963-0}}
* {{cite book |last=Podniecks |first=Andrew |title=Lord Stanley's Cup |publisher=Fenn Publishing Company, Ltd. |year=2004}}
* {{cite book |last=Shea |first=Kevin |author2=Wilson, John Jason |title=Lord Stanley: The Man Behind the Cup |year=2006 |publisher=Fenn Publishing Company, Ltd. |isbn=1-55168-281-8}}

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