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{{Infobox sports season
| title              = 1891 AHAC season
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| league             = [[Amateur Hockey Association of Canada]]
| sport              = [[ice hockey]]
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| duration           = January 7, 1891 – March 5, 1891
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| season             = 1891
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| league_champs      = [[Montreal Hockey Club]]
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| seasonslist        = [[Amateur Hockey Association of Canada]]
| seasonslistnames   = AHAC
| prevseason_link    = [[1890 AHAC season]]
| prevseason_year    = [[1890 AHAC season|1890]]
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| nextseason_link    = [[1892 AHAC season]]
| nextseason_year    = [[1892 AHAC season|1892]]
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The '''1891 [[Amateur Hockey Association of Canada]] season''' saw the [[Montreal Hockey Club]] win the league and Canadian championship for the fourth straight season. Ontario launched the [[Ontario Hockey Association]] (OHA) as the popularity of the sport spread west. Ottawa, the eventual Ontario champion, played in a challenge with Montreal and lost.

==Season==
The Dominion Hockey Club did not return to put on a challenge. The Shamrock Athletic Association mounted their first challenge. The [[Ottawa Hockey Club]] returned to AHAC play.

===Overall challenge record===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Team
! Games Played
! Wins
! Losses
! Ties
! Goals For
! Goals Against
|-
| '''[[Montreal Hockey Club]]'''†
| <center>8</center>
| <center>8</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>28</center>
| <center>7</center>
|-
| [[Ottawa Senators (original)|Ottawa Hockey Club]]
| <center>1</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>1</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>3</center>
|-
| [[Montreal Shamrocks]]
| <center>2</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>2</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>2</center>
| <center>9</center>
|-
| [[Montreal Victorias]]
| <center>2</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>2</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>2</center>
| <center>6</center>
|-
| [[Montreal Crescents]]
| <center>2</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>2</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>3</center>
| <center>10</center>
|-
| [[Quebec Hockey Club]]
| <center>1</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>1</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>0</center>
|-
|}
Quebec lost to Montreal by default on January 7. As a result, Quebec was not allowed to issue any additional challenges for the 1891 season.

† National champion. The Montreals retained their championship all season without being defeated.

==Schedule and results==

Games consisted of a mixture of Challenge games and Exhibition (friendlies)
{| class="wikitable"
! Date
! Home
! Score
! Visitor
! Score
! Location
! Match type
|-
| December 19 || [[Montreal Hockey Club]] ||align="center"| 3 || [[McGill University|McGill]] ||align="center"| 1 || -- || Exhibition
|-
| January 2 || Montreal Hockey Club ||align="center"| 1 || Montreal Crescents ||align="center"| 2 || Crystal rink || Exhibition<ref>{{cite news |work=Montreal Herald |date=January 3, 1891 |page=2 |title=A Practice Game}}</ref>
|-
| January 7 || Montreal Hockey Club ||align="center"| -- || Quebec||align="center"| -- || -- || Challenge<ref name="herald-note"/>
|-
| January 17 || Ottawa ||align="center"| 3 || McGill ||align="center"| 2 || -- || Exhibition<ref name="ott-globe"/>
|-
| January 19 || Montreal Hockey Club ||align="center"| 4 || Montreal Victorias ||align="center"| 1 || Crystal rink || Challenge
|-
| January 28 || Montreal Hockey Club ||align="center"| 4 || Montreal Shamrocks ||align="center"| 1 || Crystal rink || Challenge
|-
| January 29 || Montreal Victorias ||align="center"| 3 || Montreal Crescents ||align="center"| 1 || -- || Exhibition
|-
| January 31 || Ottawa ||align="center"| 1 || Montreal Victorias ||align="center"| 0 || -- || Exhibition<ref name="ott-globe"/>
|-
| February 4 || Montreal Hockey Club ||align="center"| 2 || Montreal Crescents ||align="center"| 1 || Crystal rink || Challenge
|-
| February 9 || Montreal Victorias ||align="center"| 6 || McGill ||align="center"| 5 || --|| Exhibition
|-
| February 12 || Montreal Hockey Club ||align="center"| 2 || Montreal Victorias ||align="center"| 1 || Crystal rink || Challenge
|-
| February 21 || Montreal Hockey Club ||align="center"| 3 || Ottawa||align="center"| 0 || Crystal rink || Challenge<ref name="ott-globe">{{Citation |newspaper=The Globe |date=March 23, 1891 |page=3 |title=A Good Record At The Capital}}</ref>
|-
| February 27 || Montreal Hockey Club ||align="center"| 5 || Montreal Shamrocks ||align="center"| 1 || Crystal rink || Challenge
|-
| March 5 || Montreal Hockey Club ||align="center"| 8 || Montreal Crescents ||align="center"| 2 || Crystal rink || Challenge
|-
|}

Game on January 7 was defaulted to Montreal HC by Quebec. Quebec telegraphed that the team would not show.<ref name="herald-note">{{cite news
 |work=Montreal Herald
 |title=Did Not Take Place
 |date=January 8, 1891
 |page=2}}</ref>

==Player statistics==
===Goaltending averages===
Note: GP = games played, GA = goals against, SO = shutouts, GAA = Goals against average
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="width:10em"| Name
! style="width:8em"| Club
! style="width:3em"| GP
! style="width:3em"| GA
! style="width:3em"| SO
! style="width:5em"| GAA
|- align="center"
| align="left"| Tom Paton
| align="left"|Montreal   ||6||6||1||1.0
|- align="center"
| align="left"| Robert Jones
| align="left"|Victorias  ||2||6||0||3.0
|- align="center"
| align="left"| Albert Morel
| align="left"|Ottawa     ||1||3||0||3.0
|- align="center"
| align="left"| Joe McKenna
| align="left"|Shamrocks||2||9||0||4.5
|-
|}
'''Source:''' ''Ultimate Hockey''

===Scoring leaders===
Note: GP = games played, G = goals scored
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="width:10em"| Name
! style="width:8em"| Club
! style="width:3em"| GP
! style="width:3em"| G
|-
|Kingan, A
|Montreal
| align="center"|7
| align="center"|5
|-
|Low, G
|Montreal
| align="center"|6
| align="center"|4
|-
|McNaughton, A
|Montreal
| align="center"|6
| align="center"|3
|-
|Cafferty, T
|Shamrocks
| align="center"|2
| align="center"|1
|-
|Cameron, A
|Montreal
| align="center"|6
| align="center"|1
|-
|Lee, S
|Montreal
| align="center"|1
| align="center"|1
|-
|Kinghorn, J
|Victorias
| align="center"|1
| align="center"|1
|-
|McQuisten, S
|Crescents
| align="center"|2
| align="center"|1
|-
|Warden, W
|Montreal
| align="center"|2
| align="center"|1
|-
|}
'''Source:''' ''Ultimate Hockey''

17 Goals un accounted for in statistics

==References==
* {{cite book |title=Ultimate Hockey |last=Weir |first=Glen |publisher=Stoddart Publishing |year=1991}}
* {{cite book |title=Total Hockey |editor=Diamond, Dan |publisher=Total Sports |isbn=0-8362-7114-9 |year=2000}}
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{{Succession box|
  before = [[1890 AHAC season|Montreal HC<br>1890]] |
  after = [[1892 AHAC season|Montreal HC<br>1892]] |
  title = [[Montreal Hockey Club]]<br>'''AHAC Champions''' |
  years = 1891|
}}
{{Succession box|
  before = [[1890 AHAC season|1890]]|
  after = [[1892 AHAC season|1892]] |
  title = [[Amateur Hockey Association of Canada|AHAC seasons]] |
  years = 1891|
}}
{{S-end}}

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[[Category:1891 in ice hockey]]

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