1922-23 NHL season

The 1922-23 NHL season was the sixth season of the National Hockey League.

Contents

1 Regular Season

1.1 Standings
1.2 Leading Scorers
1.3 Leading Goaltenders

2 Stanley Cup Playoffs

2.1 NHL Finals

2.1.1 Ottawa vs Montreal

2.2 Stanley Cup Finals

2.2.1 Ottawa vs Vancouver
2.2.2 Ottawa vs Edmonton

3 Related topics

Regular Season

At the start of the season, Newsy Lalonde found himself moving west as the Montreal Canadiens traded him to the Saskatoon Sheiks of the Western Canada Hockey League for a rising young star named Aurel Joliat. Joliat would help the Habs win the second playoff spot over the St. Patricks.

Standings

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Ottawa Senators	24	14	9	1	77	54	29
Montreal Canadiens	24	13	9	2	73	61	28
Toronto St. Patricks	24	13	10	1	82	88	27
Hamilton Tigers	24	6	18	0	81	100	12

Leading Scorers

Player	Team	GP	G	A	PTS
Babe Dye	Toronto	22	26	11	37
Cy Denneny	Ottawa	24	23	11	34
Billy Boucher	Montreal	24	24	7	31
Jack Adams	Toronto	23	19	9	28
Mickey Roach	Hamilton	24	17	10	27
Odie Cleghorn	Montreal	24	19	6	25
Georges Boucher	Ottawa	24	14	9	23
Reg Noble	Toronto	24	12	11	23
Cully Wilson	Hamilton	23	16	5	21
Aurel Joliat	Montreal	24	12	9	21

Leading Goaltenders

Player	Team	GP	MINS	GA	SO	GAA
Clint Benedict	Ottawa	24	1486	54	4	2.18
Georges Vezina	Montreal	24	1488	61	2	2.46
John Ross Roach	Toronto St. Patricks	24	1469	88	1	3.59
Jake Forbes	Hamilton Tigers	24	1470	110	0	4.49

Stanley Cup Playoffs

The playoffs out east was won by the Senators, who had won the series despite the dirty play of several Montreal players in the first game and being down 2-0 in the second. Out west, the Pacific Coast Hockey Association abandoned seven-man hockey in favor of the six-man rules used in the NHL and the Western Canada Hockey League. This allowed the PCHA and the WCHL to play interleague games. In the end, the newly renamed Vancouver Maroons won the PCHA championship and the Edmonton Eskimos won the WCHL championship.

The Stanley Cup Finals this year was played out west, in Vancouver. There, the WCHL champions received the privilege of battling the winner between Ottawa and Vancouver. In the end, Ottawa prevailed over both Western opponents to win the Silver Cup.

All dates are in 1923.

NHL Finals

Ottawa vs Montreal

March 7 - Ottawa 2 Montreal 0
March 9 - Montreal 2 Ottawa 1

Ottawa wins total goals series 3-2

Stanley Cup Finals

Ottawa vs Vancouver

March 16 - Ottawa 1 Vancouver 0
March 19 - Ottawa 1 Vancouver 4
March 23 - Ottawa 3 Vancouver 2
March 26 - Ottawa 5 Vancouver 1

Ottawa wins best-of-five series 3-1

Ottawa vs Edmonton

March 29 - Ottawa 2 Edmonton 1 (OT)
March 31 - Ottawa 1 Edmonton 0

Ottawa wins best-of-three series 2-0