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Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Cup

During the period of challenge, no leagues have played for the trophy had a formal series decide their masters, as is the team to the first place finishes after the regular season won the championship. But in 1894, four teams of five teams AHAC equal to the championship with the files from 5-3-0. The AHAC no system fraction of equality. After long negotiations and the World of the League of competition, it was decided that a team of three tournament will be held in Montreal, Ottawa, with a pass for the finals because they were the only team. On 17 March, in the first game of the Stanley Cup playoffs, the hockey club in Montreal (Montreal HC) defeated the Montreal Victorias, 3-2. Five days later, in the first part of Stanley Cup finals, Montreal HC, the Generals of Ottawa, 3-1.
In 1895, the Queen's University was the first official challenger by FIFA, although he disputed. The Montreal Victorias won the championship and thus the Stanley Cup, but the challenge of the game between the champions of the previous year, HC Montreal, and the University group. The trustees have decided that if the HC Montreal won the game challenge, which would Victorias Stanley Cup champions. The HC Montreal won the game 5-1 and the crossing town rivals were the winners crowned. The first challenge for the success of the FIFA came in the following year by the Winnipeg Victorias, the master of hockey League of Manitoba. On 14 In February 1896, the Brigade of Winnipeg defeated the champions 2-0 and became the first team outside the AHAC to win from .

As the prestige gained increased interfaces so that the need to attract the best players. What nine months after winning the cup, in March 1906, in Montreal Wanderers driven by a resolution at the annual meeting of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (ECAHA), which allows professional players play alongside amateurs. Because the ECAHA were the best hockey league in Canada at the time, the trustee has to open the challenges of the professional teams. The first professionally from the competition came a month later in the Wanderers' double game, the sum of the objectives challenge series, of which they have won 17 goals in 5 .

The smallest municipality champion in the Stanley Cup team is Kenora, Ontario, the city has a population of about 4000, when the Kenora Thistles caught, FIFA in January 1907. Supported by future Hall Famers Art Ross and "Bad" Joe Hall, the Thistles defeated the Montreal Wanderers, in a game two, the sum of the objectives challenge series. The Thistles defended the Cup success against a team from Brandon, Manitoba. In March 1907, against the Wanderers Thistles to a rematch. Despite an improvement in the range, the Thistles lost World Championships in Montreal.

In 1908, Allan was the trophy from Canada lovers, and the Stanley Cup begins, a symbol of the supremacy of professional hockey. In the same year, the first team by all experts, in Toronto Trolley Leaguers of the newly created Ontario Professional Hockey League (OPHL) are in the race for the Cup. A year later, on HC and Montreal Victorias of Montreal, the other two amateur teams, left ECAHA and ECAHA largué "lovers" from their names, a professional league. 1910, the National Hockey Association (NHA). The NHA soon proved that it was the best in Canada, as it has the trophy for the next four years.

Before 1912, the challenges could be at any time when the conditions for ice, and it is common for teams to defend the Cup many times a year. In 1912, FIFA trustee said that it not only defends, at the end of the team in the regular season.

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