Vancouver Millionaires
The Vancouver Millionaires were a professional ice hockey team from Vancouver, Canada, which existed from 1911 to 1926. The 1915 team won the prestigious Stanley Cup.
History
In the first three years, the team had each exhibit a negative game balance. In the debut season of the team, especially the duo Newsy Lalonde and Frank Patrick, who also serves as head coach in charge of the Millionaires later dropped due to their Torgefahr very positive in appearance. The following year, Lalonde left the team and returned to the Montreal Canadiens. In the 1914/15 season, the team made the point best team in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and met in the finals for the Stanley Cup as the winner of the PCHA on the Ottawa Senators, who won the prize of the National Hockey Association. The series ended in three games in favor of the victorious Vancouver Millionaires who decided all three games against the Senators for themselves and thereby achieved 26 goals, while the Senators reach eight goals.
They moved further into the finals five times, but each lost (1918 against the Toronto Arenas in 1921 and 1923 against the Ottawa Senators, 1922 against the Toronto St. Patricks and 1924 against the Canadiens de Montréal). 1922 changed the team changed its name to Vancouver Maroons. By 1924, the team was represented in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, then in the Western Canada Hockey League.
The team wore their home games at the 10,500 -seat end Denman Arena, which was opened in 1911 and was destroyed in 1936 by fire.
Well-known players and coaches
- Jack Adams
- Lloyd Cook
- Type Duncan
- Hughie Lehman
- Frank Patrick
- Alf Skinner