1921–22 PCHA season

1921–22 PCHA season
1921–22 PCHA season
League	Pacific Coast Hockey Association
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	December 5, 1921–February 24, 1922
Number of teams	3
Regular season
League leader	Seattle Metropolitans
Top scorer	Jack Adams (Vancouver)
Playoffs
Champions	Vancouver Millionaires
Runners-up	Seattle Metropolitans
PCHA seasons
	← 1920–21 1922–23 →

The 1921–22 PCHA season was the 11th season of the professional men's ice hockey Pacific Coast Hockey Association league. Season play ran from December 5, 1921, until February 24, 1922. The season was enlarged to 24 games per team. The Seattle Metropolitans were the regular-season PCHA champions, but lost the play-off with Vancouver Millionaires.

League business

The league introduced the penalty shot rule this season to counter deliberate fouls when a player had a clear goal-scoring opportunity.^[1] Three dots, 35 feet from each net were painted on the ice from which players would shoot on the goalkeeper.

Play started two weeks earlier to accommodate the playoffs against the Western Canada Hockey League.^[1]

Teams

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
1921–22 Pacific Coast Hockey Association
Seattle Metropolitans	Seattle, Washington	Seattle Ice Arena	4,000
Vancouver Millionaires	Vancouver, British Columbia	Denman Arena	10,500
Victoria Aristocrats	Victoria, British Columbia	Patrick Arena	4,000

Map of teams

Metro
politans

Millionaires

Aristocrats

PCHA Teams

Regular season

Lester Patrick twice subbed for goaltender Norman "Hec" Fowler when Fowler was sent off for fighting. His style of getting to his knees to make a save earned him the nickname of the Praying Colonel.^[2]

Ernie "Moose" Johnson played the last game in his career on January 18. He scored the final goal in his career on January 13.^[1]

Frank Foyston had the best one-game performance of the season, scoring five goals against Vancouver on January 11. Jack Adams though led the league in scoring with 25 goals in 24 games.^[3]

Final standings

Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals against
Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold

Pacific Coast Hockey Association	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
Seattle Metropolitans	24	12	11	1	65	64
Vancouver Millionaires	24	12	12	0	77	68
Victoria Aristocrats	24	11	12	1	61	71

Source: Coleman(1966).^[4]

Playoffs

The Millionaires won the two-game total-goals series against Seattle 1-0, 1-0 (2-0)

The Millionaires then played against the Western Canada Hockey League champion Regina in a two-game total-goals series for the right to play the NHL champion. Vancouver won the series 1-2, 4-0 (5-2).

The Millionaires then played the Toronto St. Pats in the 1922 Stanley Cup Finals. The St. Pats won the best-of-five series three games to two to win their second Stanley Cup and the only one while the team was named the St. Pats. Five years later the St. Pats were renamed as the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Schedule and results

Month	Day	Visitor	Score	Home	Score
Dec	5	Seattle	1	Vancouver	2
	7	Victoria	4	Seattle	1
	9	Seattle	1	Victoria	1 (20:00 OT)
	12	Victoria	2	Vancouver	0
	14	Vancouver	4	Seattle	5
	16	Vancouver	3	Victoria	4
	19	Seattle	2	Vancouver	1
	21	Victoria	1	Seattle	2
	23	Seattle	3	Victoria	2 (1:15 OT)
	26	Victoria	2	Vancouver	3
	28	Vancouver	5	Seattle	0
	30	Vancouver	5	Victoria	3
Jan	2	Seattle	0	Vancouver	5
	4	Victoria	4	Seattle	3 (14:34 OT)
	6	Vancouver	2	Victoria	5
	9	Victoria	0	Vancouver	4
	11	Vancouver	2	Seattle	5
	13	Seattle	2	Victoria	5
	16	Seattle	3	Vancouver	10
	18	Victoria	4	Seattle	3
	20	Vancouver	4	Victoria	3 (5:22 OT)
	23	Victoria	5	Vancouver	4
	25	Vancouver	3	Seattle	4
	27	Seattle	4	Victoria	0
	30	Seattle	2	Vancouver	3 (3:03 OT)
Feb	1	Victoria	1	Seattle	3
	3	Vancouver	1	Victoria	2
	6	Victoria	2	Vancouver	3
	8	Vancouver	0	Seattle	3
	10	Seattle	2	Victoria	0
	13	Seattle	0	Vancouver	2
	15	Victoria	0	Seattle	7
	17	Seattle	2	Victoria	3
	20	Victoria	1	Vancouver	5
	22	Vancouver	2	Seattle	7
	24	Vancouver	4	Victoria	7

Source: Coleman(1966).^[4]

Player statistics

Goaltending averages

Name	Club	GP	GA	SO	Avg.
Holmes, Hap	Seattle	24	64	4	2.7
Lehman, Hugh	Vancouver	22	62	4	2.8
Fowler, Norman	Victoria	24	70		2.9
Murray, Tommy	Vancouver	2	6		3.0
Patrick, Lester	Victoria	2	1		0.5

Source: Coleman(1966).^[5]

Scoring leaders

Player	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Jack Adams	Vancouver Millionaires	24	26	4	30	24
Mickey MacKay	Vancouver Millionaires	24	14	12	26	20
Frank Fredrickson	Victoria Aristocrats	24	15	10	25	26
Bernie Morris	Seattle Metropolitans	24	14	10	24	36
Frank Foyston	Seattle Metropolitans	24	16	7	23	25
Tommy Dunderdale	Victoria Aristocrats	24	13	6	19	37
Jim Riley	Seattle Metropolitans	24	16	2	18	27
Eddie Oatman	Victoria Aristocrats	21	9	6	15	28
Smokey Harris	Vancouver Millionaires	23	10	4	14	21
Art Duncan	Vancouver Millionaires	24	5	9	14	25

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Coleman 1966, p. 398.
^ Coleman 1966, p. 399.
^ Coleman 1966, p. 401.
^ ^a ^b Coleman 1966, p. 400.
^ Coleman 1966, p. 404.

Bibliography

Boileau, Ron; Wolf, Philip (2000), "The Pacific Coast Hockey Association", in Diamond, Dan (ed.), Total Hockey, pp. 51–54, ISBN 1-892129-85-X
Coleman, Charles (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893-1936 inc.

[FOOTNOTEColeman1966398-1] Coleman 1966, p. 398.

[FOOTNOTEColeman1966399-2] Coleman 1966, p. 399.

[FOOTNOTEColeman1966401-3] Coleman 1966, p. 401.

[FOOTNOTEColeman1966400-4] Coleman 1966, p. 400.

[FOOTNOTEColeman1966404-5] Coleman 1966, p. 404.

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