The 1926 Stanley Cup Finals saw the National Hockey League (NHL) champion Montreal Maroons defeat the Western Hockey League (WHL) champion Victoria Cougars 3 games to 1 in the best-of-five game series. This was the last Stanley Cup playoffs before the WHL folded, leaving the Stanley Cup entirely to the NHL. 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. ... NHL redirects here. ... Montreal Maroons white logo Montreal Maroons dark logo The Montreal Maroons were a professional ice hockey team from Montreal, Quebec. ... The Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL), founded in 1921, was a major professional ice hockey league originally based in the prairies of Canada. ... Victoria Cougars logo from 1990-1994 The Victoria Cougars were a Pacific Coast Hockey Association (and after its merger with the Western Canadian Hockey League, the Western Hockey League) hockey team based in Victoria, British Columbia. ...

The Cougars finished the 1925-26 WHL regular season in third place, but eventually upset the Edmonton Eskimos in the WHL championship by a combined score of 5-3 to reach the Stanley Cup Finals. Meanwhile, the Maroons finished the NHL regular season in second place. Montreal went on to beat the third seed Pittsburgh Pirates and then defeated the first place Ottawa Senators 2 goals to 1 in a two game total goals series, thus capturing the Prince of Wales Trophy and the right to play Victoria for the Cup. The 1925-26 season was the fifth and last season for the now defunct Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL), which was renamed Western Hockey League (WHL) at the start of the season due to one of its Canadian teams, the Regina Capitals, moving to Portland, Oregon in the United States... The Edmonton Eskimos were a Canadian ice hockey team that played in the Western Canada Hockey League from 1921 to 1928. ... The 1925-26 NHL season was the 9th regular season of the National Hockey League. ... The Pittsburgh Pirates were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... This article discusses the original Ottawa Senators franchise. ... Prince of Wales Trophy on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame The Prince of Wales Trophy, or simply the Wales Trophy, is a National Hockey League trophy awarded to the Eastern Conference playoff champions. ...

All of the games in the 1926 Stanley Cup Finals were played at the Montreal Forum. Aided by three future Hockey Hall of Famers, the Maroons ended up dominating the series. Goaltender Clint Benedict, who previously helped Ottawa in three Cup championships, recorded three shutouts. Rookie Nels Stewart scored 6 of Montreal's 10 overall goals in the 4 games. Punch Broadbent also recorded a goal for the Maroons. The Cougars' lone win came in Game 3, 3-2. The Montreal Forum was an indoor arena located in Montreal, Canada. ... 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... 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. ... Nels Stewart December 2, 1902 - August 21, 1957 in Montreal was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Montreal Maroons, New York Americans and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League. ... Harry L. Punch Broadbent (b. ...

The Montreal Forum was an indoor arena located in Montreal, Canada. ...

Cup engravings

After the series win, a new ring was added directly underneath the original bowl of the Cup with the words "Won/By Montreal 'Maroons' 1925-26". In addition to engraving players names' to the trophy, the Maroons became the first Cup champions to add non-players: team president James Strachan, vice-presidents Gordon Cushing and Tom Arnold, team secretary-treasurer Art Cayford, team trainer Bill O'Brien, and Donat Raymond who was the then-current president of the Forum. Senator Donat Raymond (born January 3, 1880 in St. ...

See also

• 1925-26 NHL season
• 1925-26 WHL season

The 1925-26 NHL season was the 9th regular season of the National Hockey League. ... The 1925-26 season was the fifth and last season for the now defunct Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL), which was renamed Western Hockey League (WHL) at the start of the season due to one of its Canadian teams, the Regina Capitals, moving to Portland, Oregon in the United States...

References

• 1925-26 Stanley Cup Winner: Montreal Maroons. Hockey Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2006-06-29.
• Podnieks, Andrew, Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books, 12, 58. ISBN 1-55168-261-3.
• (1992) Dan Diamond (ed.) The Official National Hockey League Stanley Cup Centennial Book. Firefly Books, 67-68. ISBN 1-895565-15-4.