1922–23 NHL season

1922–23 NHL season
League	National Hockey League
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	December 16, 1922 – March 9, 1923
Number of games	24
Number of teams	4
Regular season
Season champions	Ottawa Senators
Top scorer	Babe Dye (Toronto)
O'Brien Cup
O'Brien Cup champions	Ottawa Senators
Runners-up	Montreal Canadiens
NHL seasons
← 1921–22 1923–24 →

The 1922–23 NHL season was the sixth season of the National Hockey League. Four teams played 24 games each. The Ottawa Senators defeated the Montreal Canadiens for the NHL championship, and then defeated Vancouver and Edmonton to win the Stanley Cup.

Regular season

At the start of the season, Newsy Lalonde found himself moving west as the Montreal Canadiens traded him to the Saskatoon Sheiks of the Western Canada Hockey League for a rising young star named Aurel Joliat. Joliat would help the Canadiens win the second playoff spot over the St. Patricks. Joliat scored two goals in his first game with the Canadiens, but Babe Dye had five goals in the Toronto St. Patricks' 7–2 win. Joliat finished with 12 goals and 21 points in 24 games.

On January 31, 1923, the Montreal Canadiens and Hamilton Tigers played the first penalty-free game in NHL history, a 5–4 Montreal victory.

On February 14, 1923, CFCA, the radio station of the Toronto Star, broadcast the third period of the Senators-St. Patricks game in Toronto. This was the first radio broadcast of an NHL game. The broadcaster has not been identified, but it may have been Norman Albert who broadcast the Midland-North Toronto game February 8 from the Toronto Arena.

On February 17, 1923, Cy Denneny of Ottawa scored his 143rd goal, surpassing Joe Malone as the all-time goal-scoring leader as the Ottawa Senators shut out the Montreal Canadiens 2–0.

Standings

Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points, PIM = Penalties in minutes
Note: Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold

National Hockey League	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA	PIM
Ottawa Senators	24	14	9	1	29	77	54	188
Montreal Canadiens	24	13	9	2	28	73	61	174
Toronto St. Patricks	24	13	10	1	27	82	88	200
Hamilton Tigers	24	6	18	0	12	81	100	182

Playoffs

This was the second year in which the Stanley Cup playoffs involved three leagues. The previous year saw all three second place teams win their respective leagues. This year, it was all the first place teams. The NHL total goals playoffs for the O'Brien Cup were won by the Ottawa Senators 3 goals to 2, despite the dirty play of several Montreal Canadiens players. (citation needed) The Pacific Coast Hockey Association abandoned its seven-man hockey in favour of the six-man rules used in the NHL and the Western Canada Hockey League. This allowed the PCHA and the WCHL to play interleague games. Despite playing interleague games, the two separate leagues kept their own standings. The newly renamed Vancouver Maroons won the PCHA championship and the Edmonton Eskimos won the WCHL championship.

NHL Championship

All dates are in 1923

Montreal Canadiens vs. Ottawa Senators

Date	Team	Score	Team	Score	Notes
March 7	Montreal Canadiens	0	Ottawa Senators	2
March 9	Ottawa Senators	1	Montreal Canadiens	2

Ottawa wins total goals series three goals to two.

Stanley Cup playoffs

Main article: 1923 Stanley Cup playoffs

The Stanley Cup playoffs were played in Vancouver. There, the WCHL champions received the privilege of battling the winner between Ottawa and Vancouver. In the end, Ottawa prevailed over both Western opponents to win their eighth Stanley Cup (third as a member of the NHL). Injuries had thinned the Senators line-up, and after seeing the gritty show put on by the undermanned Senators, Vancouver head coach Frank Patrick called them the greatest team he had ever seen.

Ottawa Senators vs. Vancouver Maroons

Date	Away	Score	Home	Score	Notes
March 16	Ottawa Senators	1	Vancouver Maroons	0
March 19	Ottawa Senators	1	Vancouver Maroons	4
March 23	Ottawa Senators	3	Vancouver Maroons	2
March 26	Ottawa Senators	5	Vancouver Maroons	1

Ottawa wins best-of-five series three games to one.

Stanley Cup Finals

Ottawa Senators vs. Edmonton Eskimos

Date	Away	Score	Home	Score	Notes
March 29	Ottawa Senators	2	Edmonton Eskimos	1	(OT)
March 31	Ottawa Senators	1	Edmonton Eskimos	0

Ottawa wins best-of-three series two games to none for the Stanley Cup.

NHL Playoff scoring leader

Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points

Player	Team	GP	G	A	Pts
Punch Broadbent	Ottawa Senators	8	6	1	7

Awards

O'Brien Cup — Ottawa Senators

Player statistics

Scoring leaders

Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; PIM = Penalties in minutes; Pts = Points

Name	Team	GP	G	A	PIM	Pts
Babe Dye	Toronto St. Patricks	22	26	11	19	37
Cy Denneny	Ottawa Senators	24	23	11	28	34
Billy Boucher	Montreal Canadiens	24	24	7	55	31
Jack Adams	Toronto St. Patricks	23	19	9	42	28
Mickey Roach	Hamilton Tigers	24	17	10	8	27
Odie Cleghorn	Montreal Canadiens	24	19	6	18	25
George Boucher	Ottawa Senators	24	14	9	58	23
Reg Noble	Toronto St. Patricks	24	12	11	47	23
Cully Wilson	Hamilton Tigers	23	16	5	46	21
Aurel Joliat	Montreal Canadiens	24	12	9	37	21

Source: NHL

Leading goaltenders

GP = Games Played, GA = Goals Against, Mins = Minutes played, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals Against Average

Name	Team	GP	Mins	W	L	T	GA	SO	GAA
Clint Benedict	Ottawa Senators	24	1486	14	9	1	54	4	2.18
Georges Vézina	Montreal Canadiens	24	1488	13	9	2	61	2	2.46
John Ross Roach	Toronto St. Patricks	24	1469	13	10	1	88	1	3.59
Jake Forbes	Hamilton Tigers	24	1470	6	18	0	110	0	4.49

Source: NHL

Debuts

The following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1922–23 (listed with their first team, asterisk(*) marks debut in playoffs):

• Billy Burch, Hamilton Tigers
• Aurel Joliat, Montreal Canadiens
• Lionel Hitchman, Ottawa Senators

Last games

The following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 1922–23 (listed with their last team):

• Didier Pitre, Montreal Canadiens
• Eddie Gerard, Ottawa Senators
• Harry Cameron, Toronto St. Patricks

Team Photos

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  Montreal Canadiens

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  Ottawa Senators

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  Toronto St. Patricks

See also

• List of Stanley Cup champions
• Pacific Coast Hockey Association
• Western Canada Hockey League
• List of pre-NHL seasons

References

• Coleman, Charles (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc. 
• (2000) in Diamond, Dan: Total Hockey. Total Sports. ISBN 1-892129-85-X. 
• (2011) The National Hockey League Official Guide & Record Book 2012. Dan Diamond & Associates. ISBN 978-1-894801-22-5. 
• (2000) Century of hockey. Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart Ltd.. ISBN 0-7710-4179-9. 
• (2003) The Hockey Chronicle: Year-by-Year History of the National Hockey League. Publications International Inc.. ISBN 0-7853-9624-1. 
• Kitchen, Paul (2008). Win, Lose or Wrangle: The Inside Story of the Old Ottawa Senators – 1883–1935. Manotick Ontario: Penumbra Press. 
• McFarlane, Brian (1973). The Story of the National Hockey League. New York, NY: Pagurian Press. ISBN 0-684-13424-1. 

Notes

External links

• "National Hockey League seasons". Hockey Database. http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/leagues/seasons/nhl19271923.html. 
• NHL.com

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