The 1920 Stanley Cup Finals took place between March 22 and April 1. The National Hockey League (NHL) champion Ottawa Senators defeated the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) champion Seattle Metropolitans 3 games to 2 in the best-of-five game series. Although all of the games for the series was scheduled to be played at Dey's Arena in Ottawa, unseasonably warm weather and poor ice conditions forced the last two contests to be played on the artificial ice at Toronto's Arena Gardens (also known as the Mutual Street Arena). 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 22 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (82nd in Leap years). ... April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... NHL redirects here. ... This article discusses the original Ottawa Senators franchise. ... 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 Seattle Metropolitans were an ice hockey team based in Seattle, Washington which played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1915 to 1924. ...

The Senators captured the 1919-20 NHL title after they won both halves of the regular season, thus eliminating the need for a league championship playoff. Meanwhile, Seattle finished the 1919-20 PCHA regular season in first place with a 12-10 record, but had to defeat the second place Vancouver Millionaires in a two game total goals championship series, 7-3, to win the PCHA title. The 1919-20 National Hockey League season was the third season of the National Hockey League. ... The Vancouver Millionaires were a professional ice hockey team in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 1911 to 1926. ...

Before the finals began, a problem arose as Seattle's green, red, and white uniforms looked almost alike to Ottawa's black, red, and white uniforms. The Senators agreed to play in white sweaters.

Ottawa won the first 2 games of the series. After Jack Darragh scored the game-winning goal in their 3-2 victory in Game 1, goaltender Clint Benedict led the Senators to a 3-0 shutout win in Game 2. Seattle won Game 3, 3-1, before the series was shifted to Toronto because of Ottawa's slushy ice conditions(Ottawa did not have artificial ice). Frank Foyston then scored twice to lead the Mets to a 5-2 victory in Game 4 even the series. But in Game 5, Darragh recorded a hat-trick as the Senators won 6-1 to clinch the Cup. Jack Darragh (December 4, 1890 in Ottawa, Ontario - June 24, 1924 was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League. ... Clint Benedict (September 25, 1894 in Ottawa, Ontario - November 12, 1976) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Maroons in the National Hockey League. ... Frank Foyston (February 2, 1891 in Minesing, Ontario - January 19, 1966) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League and the Seattle Metropolitans and Victoria Cougars in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. ... In sports, a hat-trick (more often rendered in North America as hat trick, without the hyphen) is associated with achieving something in a group of three. ...

For the series, Frank Nighbor led Ottawa in goals with 6, while Darragh scored 5. Benedict recorded a 2.20 goals-against average during the series Frank Nighbor (January 26, 1893 in Pembroke, Ontario - April 13, 1966) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League, Toronto Blueshirts of the National Hockey Association, and Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. ...

Cup engravings

For reasons unknown, the Senators never did engrave their names on the Cup for their 1920 championship. It was only until the trophy was redesigned in 1948 that the words "1920 Ottawa Senators" was put onto its then-new collar.

References

• 1919-20 Stanley Cup Winner: Ottawa Senators. Hockey Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2006-07-04.
• hockeyleaguehistory.com - Pacific Coast Hockey Association. Retrieved on 2006-07-04.
• Podnieks, Andrew, Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books, 12, 52. ISBN 1-55168-261-3.
• (1992) Dan Diamond (ed.) The Official National Hockey League Stanley Cup Centennial Book. Firefly Books, 52-53. ISBN 1-895565-15-4.