The 1921 Stanley Cup Finals took place between March 21 and April 4. The National Hockey League (NHL) champion Ottawa Senators defeated the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) champion Vancouver Millionaires three games to two in the best-of-five game series. The Senators became the first team to win back-to-back Cup championships since the 1912-13 Quebec Bulldogs. 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 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (81st in leap years). ... April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... 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 Vancouver Millionaires were a professional ice hockey team in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 1911 to 1926. ... This article is on the ice hockey team. ...

Background

Ottawa won the first half of the 1920-21 NHL regular season while the Toronto St. Patricks won the second half, setting up a two-game total goals series between the two clubs to determine the NHL title. The Senators recorded 5-0 and 2-0 shutout victories to advance to the Cup finals. Meanwhile, Vancouver finished the 1920-21 PCHA regular season in first place with a 13-11 record, and defeated the second place Seattle Metropolitans in a championship series to win the PCHA title. The 1920-21 NHL season was the 4th regular season of the NHL. Each team played 24 games. ... The Toronto Maple Leafs are a National Hockey League team based in Toronto, Ontario. ... 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 series

The Cup Finals took place at Vancouver's Denman Street Arena (also known as Vancouver Arena ), where the attendance per game during the series averaged over 10,000 people. The attendance for Game 1 was 11,000 fans, setting a new world record for the largest crowd to see a hockey game. Vancouver (pronounced: ) is a Canadian city in the province of British Columbia. ...

All of the contests in the series, which went to the full five games, were decided by only one goal. The Millionaires won Games 1 and 4 with victories of 2-1 and 3-2, respectively. The Senators were victorious in Games 2 and 3 with 4-3 and 3-2 wins. Then in Game 5, Jack Darragh scored both of Ottawa's goals in the 2-1 victory 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. ...

Darragh led the Senators in scoring with 5 goals during the series, while goaltender Clint Benedict only allowed just 12 goals in the 5 games, earning a 2.40 goals-against average. 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. ...

Cup engravings

Just like the previous season, the Senators never engraved their names on the Cup for their 1921 championship. It was only until the trophy was redesigned in 1948 that the words "1921 Ottawa Senators" was put onto its then-new collar.

References

• 1920-21 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, 53. ISBN 1-55168-261-3.
• (1992) Dan Diamond (ed.) The Official National Hockey League Stanley Cup Centennial Book. Firefly Books, 53-54. ISBN 1-895565-15-4.