1916–17 NHA season
The season 1916/17 was the eighth and final regular season of the National Hockey Association (NHA ). Masters were the Canadiens de Montréal. Then the league by the National Hockey League has been replaced.
Team changes
The following changes were made before the start of the season:
- The Toronto 228th Battalion was added as an expansion team in the league.
Mode
In the regular season, seven teams should complete season two halves, each with ten games per team and the winners of both season halves finally meet in a playoff final in two games, the combined score of the two games were decisive for the title. Due to the withdrawal of the Toronto 228th Battalion and the Toronto Blue Shirts after the first half of the season, however, the game plan had to be changed. For a win, each team was given two points, a draw one point and at a defeat.
Course of the season
The inclusion of the military team Toronto 228th Battalion was quite controversial, but the team that played in jerseys that resembled the uniforms that used the Canadian Forces at this time during the First World War, very popular with the spectators enjoyed. Following the first half of the season, which was won by the Canadiens de Montréal, the 228th Battalion was shipped to Europe from Toronto to the front. As the other teams could not agree with the owner of the Toronto Blueshirts, Eddie Livingstone, on a common residual Schedule also drew this his team back with immediate effect from the game. The second half of the season was won by the Ottawa Senators, the documents in the playoffs almost 6:7 gates of the Canadiens de Montréal. Due to the dispute with Livingstone was finally established in November 1917 by the other team owners, the National Hockey League.
Regular Season
First half
Note: GP = Games, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals Scored, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points
Second half
Note: GP = Games, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals Scored, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points
Playoffs
- Canadiens de Montréal - Ottawa Senators 7:6 ( 5:2, 2:4 )
Stanley Cup Challenge
In the playoffs for the Stanley Cup, the Canadiens de Montréal subject to the Seattle Metropolitans of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, who were thus the first U.S. team that won the Stanley Cup in a best- of-five series with 1: 3 wins.