The 1916 Stanley Cup Finals was played from March 20 to March 30, 1916. The National Hockey Association (NHA) champion Montreal Canadiens defeated the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) champion Portland Rosebuds 3 games to 2 in the best-of-five game series. This was the first time that a best-of-five Cup championship went the distance. Also, the Rosebuds were the first team based in the United States to play for the Cup. This is the current WikiProject: Ice Hockey Article Improvement Drive collaboration! The Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy of the National Hockey League (NHL), the major professional ice hockey league in Canada and the United States. ... March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in Leap years). ... March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in leap years). ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is part of the Evolution of the NHL series. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Pacific Coast Hockey Association was a professional ice hockey league in western Canada, operating from 1911 to 1924 when it merged with the Western Canada Hockey League. ... The Portland Rosebuds were an ice hockey team based in Portland, Oregon which played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1914 to 1918. ...

Montreal won the NHA title after finishing the 1915-16 regular season in first place with a 16-7-1 record. Meanwhile, Portland clinched the 1915-16 PCHA title with a 13-5 record. The 1915-16 season was the 7th season of the National Hockey Association. ...

All of the games of the 1916 Stanley Cup Finals were played at Montreal's Westmount Arena, the home of the NHA champion Canadiens. Games 1, 3, and 5 were played under NHA rules; Games 2 and 4 were played under PCHA rules. Portland recorded a shutout in Game 1, 2-0, but Montreal came back to win the next two contests, 2-1 and 6-3. The Rosebuds then evened the series with a 6-5 victory in Game 4. In Game 5, Portland's Tommy Dunderdale gave his team a 1-0 lead before Skene Ronan tied the game. The seldom-used Goldie Prodgers then scored the game winning goal to clinch the Cup for the Canadiens. For the entire series, future Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender Georges Vézina aided Montreal by posting a 2.60 goals-against average. Didier Pitre led the Canadiens in scoring with 4 goals. Tommy Dunderdale (May 6, 1887 in Benella, Australia - December 15, 1960) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Victoria Cougars, Portland Rosebuds, and Saskatoon Crescents, among others. ... The Hockey Hall of Fame is located at the corner of Front & Yonge in downtown Toronto The Stanley Cup on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame The Hockey Hall of Fame which is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, celebrates the history of ice hockey with exhibits featuring memorabilia and... Georges Vézina Georges Vézina (pronounced: ), a. ... Didier Pitre (September 1, 1883 in Sault Ste. ...

Cup engravings

Even though they officially did not win the Cup during this season, the Rosebuds had the words "Portland Ore./PCHA Champions/1915-16" engraved on the Cup after obtaining the trophy from the previous year's champions, the Vancouver Millionaires. This was similar to the practice prior to 1915 when the trophy was officially passed on to the winner of the league championship of the previous Cup champion's league. The 1915 Stanley Cup Finals was played from March 22 to March 26, 1915. ... The Vancouver Millionaires were a professional ice hockey team in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 1911 to 1926. ...

After the finals, "Canadian/NHA & World's Champions/Defeated Portland/1915-16" was added to the Cup (Note that the anglicized, singular form of "Canadiens" was engraved). Anglicisation (CwE) or Anglicization (NAE) is a process of making something English. ...

References

• 1915-16 Stanley Cup Winner: Montreal Canadiens. Hockey Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2006-07-02.
• hockeyleaguehistory.com - Pacific Coast Hockey Association. Retrieved on 2006-07-02.
• Podnieks, Andrew, Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books, 12, 48. ISBN 1-55168-261-3.
• (1992) Dan Diamond (ed.) The Official National Hockey League Stanley Cup Centennial Book. Firefly Books, 46-47. ISBN 1-895565-15-4.