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[[Image:Montreal Victorias Hockey Club 1881.png|right|thumb|A photo of the club taken in 1881 in [[Quebec]].<ref name="Farrell 1899">{{cite book|title=Hockey: Canada's Royal Winter Game|year=1899|last=Farrell|first=Arthur}}</ref>]]

The '''Victoria Hockey Club''' of Montreal, [[Quebec]], [[Canada]] was an early men's amateur [[ice hockey]] club. Its date of origin is ascribed to either 1874,<ref name="Montreal Gazette Dec 31 1939">{{cite news
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P3ktAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rpgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6698,5465943&dq=montreal+victorias+hockey&hl=en
|work=Montreal Gazette
|date=December 31, 1939
|title=Casual Closeups
|page=16
|last=McNeil
|first=Marc}}</ref> 1877<ref>{{cite news
|work=The Globe
|title=After the Puck
|date=November 22, 1899
|page=9}}</ref> or 1881, making it either the first or second organized ice hockey club after [[McGill Redmen|McGill University]]. The club played at its own rink, the [[Victoria Skating Rink (Montreal)|Victoria Skating Rink]] in Montreal. The club was winners of the [[Stanley Cup]] in 1895 and held it except for a period in 1896 until 1899. The club remained amateur, splitting from the ranks of teams turned professional in 1908. The amateur hockey club was the first winner of the [[Allan Cup]] and continued in play until 1939 after its 65th season.<ref name="Montreal Gazette Dec 31 1939"/> The club often also fielded junior and intermediate teams.

==Team history==
Interest in ice hockey at the Victoria Skating Club in Montreal, dates to at least 1874, and is attributed to the efforts of James Creighton then a judge of skating at the club, in organizing his friends to play on the rink with sticks and skates from his home province of Nova Scotia. In 1875, the [[First indoor hockey game|first recorded organized hockey game]] took place at its rink, the Victoria Skating Rink, which had opened in 1862, between skating club members and [[McGill Redmen|McGill University]] students. Until 1883, there was only exhibition matches against other teams in Montreal. Tournaments would begin in 1883 at the Montreal Winter Carnival.

On January 10, 1882, the Victoria Hockey Club held what was described as its 'first annual meeting', whereby it elected its president James G. Monk. Other directors included George W. Gardner as vice-president, secretary-treasurer was Charles Lamothe.<ref>{{cite news |work=Montreal Gazette |title=A Hockey Club |date=January 11, 1882 |page=3}}</ref> Hockey was played with both balls and pucks during this period. According to McGill hockey club member W. L. Murray, by 1881 it was normally played with a square puck, made by slicing a rubber ball. According to Murray, the Victoria club of the 1880s is credited with eliminating the square edges and playing with a round puck.<ref>{{cite news |work=Montreal Gazette |title=McGill Man Tells of How First Rules for Hockey Were Written |date=December 17, 1936 |page=17 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0b0tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oZgFAAAAIBAJ&dq=1883%20montreal%20winter%20carnival&pg=5799%2C2185856}}</ref>

In 1886, the club helped to found the [[Amateur Hockey Association of Canada]] (AHAC). The team played in this league from 1887-1898. It was during this period that the team had its greatest success, winning the [[Stanley Cup]] in 1895, December 1896, 1897, 1898 and February 1899. They also won the AHAC league in 1895, 1896, 1897 and 1898. In 1894, the team participated in the first [[Stanley Cup]] playoff, losing 3–2 to Montreal in the semi-final.

The team resigned from the AHAC in 1898 over the proposal to allow the [[Ottawa Capitals]] into the league, and helped form the [[Canadian Amateur Hockey League]] (CAHL) in which they played from 1899-1905. The CAHL itself folded in 1905 and the team helped found the [[Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association]]. The league allowed amateurs and professionals to play against each other openly. The Victorias played in the league for two years as a purely amateur team leaving the ECAHA after the 1908 season to focus on amateur play.

[[Image:Montreal Victorias Hockey Club 1897.png|right|thumb|250px|[[Stanley Cup]] champions, 1897.<ref name="Farrell 1899"/>]]

In 1908, the new [[Allan Cup]] was awarded to the Victorias as the top amateur team at the time. The Victorias remained active in senior-league amateur play in the [[Interprovincial Amateur Hockey Union]] until 1913. From 1913–1923, the club was a member of the [[Montreal City Hockey League]]. The club then joined the [[Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League]]. Later the team played in the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association.

In 1924, as a part of a 50th anniversary, the Victorias played an exhibition match against the Parkdale Canoe Club of Toronto at the then-new [[Montreal Forum]]. The game was the first amateur ice hockey game at the new venue. The game was held on December 13, 1924 and was a fund-raising event for the Club.<ref>{{cite news |work=Montreal Gazette |title=Vics To Celebrate 50th Anniversary |date=November 22, 1924 |page=19}}</ref> The Victoria Skating Rink was closed in 1925<ref name="1925-sale">{{cite news
|work=Montreal Gazette
|title=Victoria Skating Rink Property Sold
|page=4 |date=September 5, 1925}}</ref> and the Victorias moved to Mount Royal Arena and the Forum.

In 1927, the Victorias became the first North American club team to tour in Europe. In [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]], the club played exhibition games against an all-Sweden team, winning 17–1. Next, the Victorias defeated [[IK Gota]] 5–0, Djurgardens IF 6–2, Sodertalje SK 6–0 and IK Gota again 19–3. The team next played in Sodertalje, defeating Sodertalje IF 8–1. The club then played in [[Berlin]], [[Germany]], defeating an all-Czechoslovakia team 8–0 and [[Berliner SC]] 13–0. The team then moved to [[Vienna]], [[Austria]], where it defeated [[Wiener EV]] 8–0 and 7–0. In [[Milan]], [[Italy]], the club defeated a combined team of [[HC Davos]] and [[EHC St. Moritz]] 18–0 and defeating [[HC Milano]] 15–2. In [[Davos]], [[Switzerland]], the team played Davos again, winning 9–0. The final stop on the tour was [[London]], [[England]], where the Victorias defeated an all-England side 14–1.<ref>{{citation |title=SIHR Journal |contribution=MONTREAL VICTORIAS EUROPEAN TOUR 1927 |pages=72–82 |last=Giden |first=Carl |last2=Houda |first2=Patrick |last3=Nordmark |first3=Birger |volume=XIII |issue=Fall 2009}}</ref>

The club won a second Allan Cup in [[1928 Allan Cup|1928]].

The Victoria Hockey Club ceased activities in 1939.<ref>{{cite web|
title=Chronologie du sport québécois|
last=Secrétariat au loisir et au sport|
year=2003|
url=http://www5.mels.gouv.qc.ca/sportloisir/publications/sport/chronologiesport.pdf|
accessdate=2007-11-01}}
</ref>

===Logo and uniforms===
The team's logo was that of the Victoria Skating Club, a yellow or white 'V' in cursive. The team's sweaters were maroon in colour, and the team was sometimes nicknamed the "Maroons" by the Montreal Gazette in its reporting.<ref>{{cite news |work=Montreal Gazette |title=Vics Show Class |date=December 24, 1906 |page=2}}</ref>

==Season by season record==
[[File:Montreal Victorias Hockey Club.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Montreal Victorias around 1905.]]
Except for 1887–88, season play prior to 1892–93 was arranged in challenges. The Victorias also participated in exhibitions or tournaments.

{| class="wikitable"
|- align="center"
! Season !! League !! Games !! W !! L !! T !! Pts !! GF !! GA !! Standing !! Playoffs

|- align="center"
| 1883 || [[Montreal Winter Carnival ice hockey tournaments|MWC]] || 2 || - || - || - || - || - || - || - ||align="left"|

|- align="center"
| 1884 || MWC || 3 || 2 || 1 || 0 || - || 1 || 1 || - ||align="left"| Won tournament. One win by default.

|- align="center"
| [[1887 AHAC season|1887]] || AHAC || 6 || 5 || 1 || 0 || - || 21 || 7 || - ||align="left"| Defeated by Crystals in final challenge of season.
|- align="center"
| 1887 || MWC|| 3 || 2 || 1 || 0 || - || 7 || 2 || - ||align="left"| Lost to Montreal HC in final.
|- align="center"
| [[1888 AHAC season|1888]] || AHAC || 7 || 5 || 2 || 0 || - || 25 || 11 || 1st(tie) ||align="left"| Lost to Montreal HC in playoff.
|- align="center"
| [[1888–89 AHAC season|1889]] || AHAC || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0 || - || 1 || 6 || - ||align="left"| --
|- align="center"
| 1889 || MWC || 2 || 2 || 0 || 0 || - || 5 || 3 || - ||align="left"| Won tournament.
|- align="center"
| [[1890 AHAC season|1890]] || AHAC || 3 || 0 || 3 || 0 || - || 4 || 8 || - ||align="left"| --
|- align="center"
| [[1891 AHAC season|1891]] || AHAC || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0 || - || 2 || 6 || - ||align="left"| --
|- align="center"
| [[1892 AHAC season|1892]] || AHAC || colspan="9" | Did not participate in AHAC challenges
|- align="center"
| [[1893 AHAC season|1893]] || AHAC || 8 || 1 || 6 || 1 || 3 || 20 || 35 || 5th ||align="left"| --
|- align="center"
| |[[1894 AHAC season|1894]] || AHAC || 8 || 5 || 3 || 0 || 10 || 36 || 20 || 1st(tie) ||align="left"| Lost 3–2 to [[Montreal HC]] in Stanley Cup playoff.
|- align="center"
| |[[1895 AHAC season|1895]] || AHAC || 8 || 6 || 2 || 0 || 12 || 35 || 20 || 1st ||align="left"| '''Won Stanley Cup as AHAC champions.'''
|- align="center"
| |[[1896 AHAC season|1896]] || AHAC || 8 || 7 || 1 || 0 || 14 || 41 || 24 || 1st ||align="left"| Lost Stanley Cup in challenge to [[Winnipeg Victorias]].
|- align="center"
| |[[1897 AHAC season|1897]] || AHAC || 8 || 7 || 1 || 0 || 14 || 48 || 26 || 1st ||align="left"| '''Won Stanley Cup in challenge vs. Winnipeg.<br/> Defended as AHAC champions.'''
|- align="center"
| |[[1898 AHAC season|1898]] || AHAC || 8 || 8 || 0 || 0 || 16 || 53 || 33 || 1st ||align="left"| '''Defended Stanley Cup in challenge vs. [[Ottawa Capitals]]<br/>Defended as AHAC champions'''
|- align="center"
| |[[1899 CAHL season|1899]] || CAHL || 8 || 6 || 2 || 0 || 12 || 44 || 23 || 2nd ||align="left"| '''Defended Stanley Cup in challenge vs. Winnipeg Victorias'''<br>
Lost Stanley Cup to CAHL league champions [[Montreal Shamrocks]].
|- align="center"
| |[[1900 CAHL season|1900]] || CAHL || 8 || 2 || 6 || 0 || 4 || 44 || 55 || 4th ||align="left"| --
|- align="center"
| |[[1901 CAHL season|1901]] || CAHL || 8 || 4 || 3 || 1 || 9 || 45 || 32 || 2nd ||align="left"| --
|- align="center"
| |[[1902 CAHL season|1902]] || CAHL || 8 || 4 || 4 || 0 || 8 || 36 || 25 || 3rd ||align="left"| --
|- align="center"
| |[[1903 CAHL season|1903]] || CAHL || 8 || 6 || 2 || 0 || 12 || 48 || 33 || 2nd ||align="left"| --
|- align="center"
| |[[1904 CAHL season|1904]] || CAHL || 8 || 5 || 3 || 0 || 10 || 75 || 48 || 2nd ||align="left"| --
|- align="center"
| |[[1905 CAHL season|1905]] || CAHL || 10 || 9 || 1 || 0 || 18 || 64 || 32 || 1st ||align="left"| Did not play challenge for Stanley Cup
|- align="center"
| |[[1906 ECAHA season|1906]] || ECAHA || 10 || 6 || 4 || 0 || 12 || 76 || 73 || 3rd ||align="left"| --
|- align="center"
| |[[1907 ECAHA season|1907]] || ECAHA || 10 || 6 || 4 || 0 || 12 || 101 || 70 || 3rd ||align="left"| --
|- align="center"
| |[[1907–08 ECAHA season|1907–08]] || ECAHA || 10 || 4 || 6 || 0 || 8 || 73 || 78 || 5th ||align="left"| --
|- align="center"
| | 1908–09 || [[Inter-Provincial Amateur Hockey Union|IPAHU]] || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - ||align="left"| -
|- align="center"
| | 1909–10 || IPAHU || 6 || 4 || 2 || 0 || 8 || - || - || 1st(tie) ||align="left"| Lost playoff to [[Ottawa Cliffsides]] for league title<ref>{{cite news |work=Ottawa Citizen |date=February 21, 1910 |page=8 |title=Interprovincial Standings}}</ref>
|- align="center"
| |1935–36 || QAHA || 22 || 8 || 9 || 5 || 64 || 80 || 22 || 5th ||align="left"| --
|- align="center"
| |1936–37 || QAHA || 22 || 7 || 12 || 3 || 58 || 65 || 18 || 6th ||align="left"| --
|- align="center"
| |1937–38 || QAHA || 22 || 8 || 11 || 3 || 63 || 74 || 21 || 6th ||align="left"| --
|- align="center"
| |1938–39 || QAHA || 22 || 5|| 15 || 3 || 66 || 79 || 16 || 6th ||align="left"| --
|-
|}

*1883–1892: ''Total Hockey'' and other sources.
*1893–1908: (Source: Coleman(1966)
*1935–39: Point totals include 4 point games against McGill (Source: Ottawa Citizen)

==References and notes==
{{Reflist}}
* {{Cite book| author=Colman, Charles L|title=The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1896–1926 inc}}
* Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books, 12, 50. ISBN 1-55168-261-3.

{{Wikipedia}}

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