1907–08 ECAHA season

1907–08 ECAHA season

The 1907–08 Eastern Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (ECAHA) season lasted from December 29, 1907 until March 7, 1908. Teams played a ten game schedule. The Montreal Wanderers would win the league championship with a record of eight wins, two losses.

League Business

Executive

* Dr. George Cameron, Montreal (President)
* Joe Power, Quebec (1st Vice-President)
* Patrick J. Baskerville, Ottawa (2nd Vice-President)
* W. P. Lunny, Shamrocks (Secretary-Treasurer)

The Nationals applied for a franchise but did not get three-fourths approval.

Mr. Baskerville demanded better protection be given visiting teams at Quebec,as stones had been thrown at the Senators on their last visit.

Rule Changes

* Players would have to declare their professional or amateur status.

Hod Stuart Benefit All-Star Game

The first All-Star game in ice hockey was played on January 2, 1908 before 3,500 fans at the Montreal Arena between the Montreal Wanderers and a team of All-Stars players from the teams the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association. It was held in memory of Montreal Wanderers player Hod Stuart, who had drowned three months after the Wanderers won the Stanley Cup in 1907. The sale of tickets, from 25 cents to $1, raised $2,000 for Mr. Stuart's widow and two children.

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tanley Cup Challenges

Wanderers played in three challenges, during the season against Ottawa Victorias and after the season, against Winnipeg and Toronto.

Wanderers vs. Ottawa

During the season, Wanderers would play a challenge against the Ottawa Victorias of the Federal Amateur Hockey League. On January 9–13, the Wanderers would win 9–3, 13–1 (22–4).

Montreal Wanderers 1908 Stanley Cup Champions

Stanley Cup champion
defence=*Art Ross(point)
*Billy Strachan(point)
*Tom Hooper(coverpoint also played centre)
*Cecil Blachford(Captain-Cover point)
centers=*Frank "Pud" Glass
*Ernie Liffiton(also played wing)
*Bruce Stuart(rover)
*Walter Smaill(rover)
*Harry Smith(rover)†
wingers=*Ernie Moose Johnson
*Larry Gilmour(also played center)
*Ernie Russell
*Jimmy Gardner
goaltenders=* William Riley Hern
non-players=
*James Strachan (President), Clarence McKerrow (Hon. President)
*Dickie Boon (Manager), George Guile (Secretary/Treasurer)
*Tom Hodges (Hon. Secretary/Treasurer), William Jennings (Vice President)
*Robert Stephanson (Vice President), Bob Ahern (Hon. Vice President)
*George Hodges, Bert Strachan, Fred Strachan, H. Watson (Directors)
*Walter Dorion (Club Doctor), Paul Lefbvre (Trainer)
all-notes=† Jimmy Gardner and Harry Smith were not members of Montreal Wanderers during their January, and March 1908 Stanley Cup defenses. However they played in Dec 1908 when the Wanderers defeated Edmonton.

engraving-notes=After engraving 20 members names in the bowl of Stanley Cup in 1907. Wanderers did not even bother including their team name on the Stanley Cup in 1908. It was not until the trophy was redesigned in 1948 that the words "1908 Montreal Wanderers" was put onto its then-new collar. [ [Podnieks] ] .

References

*cite book
author=Coleman, Charles L.
title=The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc.
year=1966
publisher=NHL

* Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books, 12, 48. ISBN 1-55168-261-3.

ee also

* Eastern Canadian Amateur Hockey Association
* List of pre-NHL seasons
* List of ice hockey leagues


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