1910 NHA season

The season 1910 was the first regular season of the National Hockey Association (NHA ). Masters were the Montreal Wanderers.

Mode

In the regular season, seven teams completed twelve games. The winner after the regular season was champion. For a win, each team was given two points, a draw one point and a defeat.

Course of the season

The first game of the NHA was held on January 5, 1910 held between the Cobalt Silver Kings and the Canadiens de Montréal, while the competing Canadian Hockey Association had already started on 31 December 1909. Both leagues were trying to take the best hockey players in the country under contract, but the NHA could with the financial backing of the O'Brien family, who supported four of the five NHA teams financially, offer significantly higher sums and Newsy Lalonde players like Didier Pitre that Frank and Lester Patrick brothers and Cyclone Taylor received all contracts for several thousand dollars for just twelve games of the season were given. Due to the higher financial possibilities and the fact that the league was geographically more balanced - in the CHA played three of the five teams in Montreal - presented the CHA already on January 15, 1910 game mode and only the Ottawa Senators and the Montreal Shamrocks were added as expansion teams in the NHA. The Montreal Wanderers won in 1910 as the first team to the championship of the NHA, in which they could win eleven of their twelve games and won the Stanley Cup, which was an integral part of the NHA now. However, the best Canadian teams could continue to challenge the NHA champion. Best scorer of the league was Newsy Lalonde.

Regular Season

Table

Note: GP = Games, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals Scored, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points

Stanley Cup Challenge

In the playoffs for the Stanley Cup, the Montreal Wanderers were able to prevail against the Berlin Union Jacks from the Ontario Professional Hockey League and defend their title.