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1915–16 NHA season

National Hockey Association season

Field	Value
title	1915–16 NHA season
league	National Hockey Association
sport	Ice hockey
duration	December 18, 1915 – March 18, 1916
season	Regular season
no_of_games	24
no_of_teams	5
top_scorer	Newsy Lalonde (28)
finals	O'Brien Cup
finals_link	O'Brien Cup
finals_champ	Montreal Canadiens
nextseason_link	1916–17 NHA season
prevseason_link	1914–15 NHA season
nextseason_year	1916–17
prevseason_year	1914–15
seasonslistnames	NHA

| conf1_runner-up = | conf2_runner-up = | finals_runner-up = The 1915–16 NHA season was the seventh season of the National Hockey Association. Five teams played a 24 game schedule. Montreal Canadiens won the league championship and defeated the Portland Rosebuds to win their first ever Stanley Cup.

League business

Toronto Blueshirts included the players from the Toronto Shamrocks/Ontarios/Tecumsehs franchise. Before the season, Ed Livingstone, the Shamrocks owner, purchased the Blueshirts franchise from Frank Robinson. At the annual meeting of November 9, 1915, he was ordered to sell the Shamrocks franchise but could not do so as the Pacific Coast Hockey Association 'raided' the franchise and signed its players.

Emmett Quinn continued as president
Frank Calder continued as secretary-treasurer

Directors:

Sam Lichtenhein, Ernie Russell, Wanderers
E. J. Livingstone, Shamrocks
Frank Robinson, M. J. Quinn, Toronto
Barney Kane, Quebec
George Kennedy, Canadiens
Martin Rosenthal, Frank Shaughnessy, Ottawa

President Quinn instituted a rule that officials would be locked in their dressing rooms between periods to disallow influence from the press or players.

Regular season

Several players from the PCHA signed with NHA clubs:

Frank Nighbor, Ottawa
Bert Lindsay, Wanderers
Walter Smaill, Wanderers

Highlights

On January 23, 1916, Skene Ronan was arrested by Toronto police and charged with assault for hitting Alf Skinner.

On February 23, 1916, Gordon Roberts of the Wanderers drew a match penalty for cutting Ottawa's Frank Nighbor in a game in Montreal. On the next visit of the Wanderers to Ottawa, Roberts was pelted with bottles from the Ottawa fans.

The race for the scoring championship was close between Newsy Lalonde of the Canadiens, Joe Malone of Quebec and Cy Denneny of Toronto. Lalonde finished with 31 goals in 25 games and Malone and Denneny tied for second with 26 goals. Clint Benedict of Ottawa had the best G.A.A. of 3.0 to surpass Georges Vezina's 3.2 goals per game. Gordon Keats of Toronto scored five goals in a game against Quebec on February 7, 1916, and finished the season with 22 goals in 24 games.

Final standings

Montreal was the O'Brien Cup champion by virtue of leading the league in its season.

Results

Month	Day	Visitor	Score	Home	Score
Dec.		18	Canadiens	2	Toronto	1
18	Quebec	5	Wanderers	8
22	Toronto	1	Ottawa	7
22	Wanderers	3	Canadiens	2
25	Ottawa	2	Quebec	3
25	Wanderers	6	Toronto	5
29	Ottawa	0	Wanderers	4
29	Canadiens	2	Quebec	5
Jan.		1	Canadiens	4	Ottawa	2
1	Quebec	4	Toronto	3
5	Toronto	1	Canadiens	6
5	Wanderers	1	Quebec	6
8	Quebec	2	Ottawa	4
8	Canadiens	3	Wanderers	5
12	Ottawa	0	Toronto	1
12	Quebec	3	Canadiens	5
15	Ottawa	5	Canadiens	2
15	Toronto	3	Quebec	4
17	Wanderers	7	Ottawa	3
19	Toronto	4	Wanderers	7
19	Canadiens	2	Quebec	2 (OT 20')
23	Canadiens	1	Toronto	3
23	Quebec	2	Wanderers	1
24	Ottawa	6	Quebec	3
26	Toronto	1	Ottawa	2
26	Wanderers	4	Canadiens	5
29	Ottawa	5	Wanderers	4
29	Toronto	5	Quebec	6 (OT 16'10")
31	Wanderers	2	Toronto	8
Feb.		2	Quebec	0	Ottawa	4
2	Wanderers	9	Canadiens	5
5	Toronto	5	Canadiens	10
5	Wanderers	5	Quebec	8
7	Wanderers	1	Ottawa	3
7	Quebec	5	Toronto	11
9	Ottawa	2	Canadiens	3 (OT 7'20")
9	Toronto	3	Quebec	3 (OT 20')
12	Canadiens	3	Ottawa	1
12	Toronto	1	Wanderers	3
16	Ottawa	1	Toronto	3
16	Quebec	3	Canadiens	4
19	Toronto	2	Ottawa	5
19	Wanderers	3	Canadiens	1
23	Ottawa	4	Wanderers	3
23	Canadiens	3	Quebec	2
26	Ottawa	2	Toronto	9
26	Quebec	3	Canadiens	4 (OT 15")
28	Wanderers	2	Ottawa	6
Mar.		1	Wanderers	2	Quebec	6
1	Toronto	3	Canadiens	7
4	Canadiens	15	Wanderers	5
4	Quebec	5	Toronto	7
8	Quebec	5	Ottawa	8
8	Toronto	3	Wanderers	2
11	Ottawa	1	Canadiens	4
11	Wanderers	2	Toronto	10
13	Ottawa	4	Quebec	0
15	Canadiens	5	Ottawa	1
15	Quebec	6	Wanderers	1
18	Canadiens	6	Toronto	4

Player statistics

Scoring leaders

Note: GP = Games played, G = Goals scored, A = Assists, Pts = Points, PIM = Penalties in minutes

Club	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Canadiens	24	24	15	39	42
Quebec	24	25	10	35	21
Canadiens	24	28	6	34	78
Toronto	24	22	7	29	112
Toronto	24	24	4	28	57
Wanderers	21	18	7	25	64
Ottawa	23	19	5	24	26
Toronto	22	20	3	23	75
Quebec	22	18	5	23	54
Wanderers	21	15	7	22	51

Goaltending averages

Note: GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average

Name	Club	GP	GA	SO	GAA
Clint Benedict	Ottawa	24	72	1	3.0
Georges Vezina	Canadiens	24	76		3.2
Paddy Moran	Quebec	22	82		3.7
Percy LeSueur	Toronto	23	92	1	4.0
Bert Lindsay	Wanderers	23	110	1	4.8
Harry Holmes	Toronto	1	6		6.0
Billy Hague	Wanderers	1	6		6.0
Harry Rochon	Quebec	2	16		8.0

Playoffs

The Canadiens hosted the Portland Rosebuds, champions of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), for the Stanley Cup.

Stanley Cup Finals

Main article: 1916 Stanley Cup Finals

Champions	Runners up	Format	Result
Montreal Canadiens	Portland Rosebuds	best of 5	3–2

Exhibitions

After the Stanley Cup playoff, Portland and Montreal traveled to New York for two exhibition games. The teams then played two games in Cleveland. Montreal then traveled to Boston to play the winner of an exhibition series played between Ottawa, Quebec and the Wanderers.

References

Bibliography

{{cite book | last=Coleman

Notes

before = 1914–15 NHA season | after = 1916–17 NHA season | title = NHA seasons | years = 1915–16|

References

Coleman, p. 290
(April 4, 1916). "Canadiens and Rosebuds Leave for New York". Montreal Daily Mail.

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