Year-By-Year Highlights, Scores and Rosters

2007-2000   1999-1990   1989-1980   1979-1970   1969-1960   1959-1950
1949-1940   1939-1930   1929-1920   1919-1910   1909-1900   1899-1893

1929   1928   1927   1926   1925   1924   1923   1922   1921   1920  

1929

When the Bruins met the Rangers in this series, it marked the first time in Stanley Cup history that two American teams clashed head-on for the prized trophy.

Goalie Cecil “Tiny” Thompson backstopped the Bruins to consecutive wins, allowing just one goal in the two games and posting the third Stanley Cup shutout ever by an NHL rookie as Boston captured its first Cup.

Dit Clapper and Bill Carson scored the two game-winning goals.

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1928-29 – Boston Bruins – Tiny Thompson, Eddie Shore, Lionel Hitchman (Captain), Percy Galbraith, Mickey MacKay, Red Green, Dutch Gainor, Harry Oliver, Eddie Rodden, Dit Clapper, Cooney Weiland, Lloyd Klein, Cy Denneny, Bill Carson, George Owen, Myles Lane, Art Ross (Manager/Coach), Win Green (Trainer).

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1928

Though the Rangers moved into the Final, the circus moved into New York’s Madison Square Garden and took priority over the hockey team. As a result, club management decided to play the entire series in Montreal.

After losing goalie Lorne Chabot to an eye injury midway through game two, 44-year-old Rangers coach and early era star player Lester Patrick took over between the pipes, inspiring the New Yorkers to a 2–1 overtime victory. The following day the Rangers signed New York Americans netminder Joe Miller, who responded with two wins including the second shutout by an NHL rookie in Stanley Cup history.

In only their second NHL season, the Rangers captured their first Stanley Cup title and became only the second American team in history, joining the 1917 Seattle Metropolitans of the PCHA, to win the trophy.

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1927-28 – New York Rangers – Lorne Chabot, Clarence Abel, Leo Bourgeault, Ching Johnson, Bill Cook (Captain), Bun Cook, Frank Boucher, Bill Boyd, Murray Murdoch, Paul Thompson, Alex Gray, Joe Miller, Patsy Callighen, Lester Patrick (Manager/Coach), Harry Westerby (Trainer).

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1927

With the collapse of major professional hockey in the west, the Stanley Cup became sole property of the NHL in 1927. The American Division champion Boston Bruins met the Canadian Division champion Ottawa Senators in what became the first Stanley Cup Final of a new era.

Cy Denneny led the Senators with four of the team’s seven total goals, including the game-winners in both victories.

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1926-27 – Ottawa Senators – Alec Connell, King Clancy, Georges Boucher (Captain), Ed Gorman, Frank Finnigan, Alex Smith, Hec Kilrea, Hooley Smith, Cy Denneny, Frank Nighbor, Jack Adams, Milt Halliday, Dave Gill (Manager/Coach).

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1926

The Montreal Maroons became NHL champions in just their second season in the league and hosted the first Stanley Cup series to be played at the Montreal Forum.

Playing in his first career Stanley Cup series, Nels Stewart scored six of Montreal’s 10 goals, and goaltender Clint Benedict recorded an unprecedented three shutouts en route to the Maroons’ Stanley Cup triumph versus the Victoria Cougars.

With the NHL taking full control of the Stanley Cup following the Western Hockey League’s demise soon after this series, the 1926 championship marked the finale of one of the most dynamic eras in Stanley Cup history. Since 1893, Cup play had grown from an amateur challenge in eastern Canada to a professional competition involving teams from across the continent.

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1925-26 – Montreal Maroons – Clint Benedict, Reg Noble, Frank Carson, Dunc Munro (Captain), Nels Stewart, Punch Broadbent, Babe Siebert, Chuck Dinsmore, Merlyn Phillips, Hobie Kitchen, Sam Rothschild, Albert Holway, George Horne, Bernie Brophy, Eddie Gerard (Manager/Coach), Bill O’Brien (Trainer).

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1925

The Victoria Cougars, who joined the Western Canada Hockey League with the Vancouver Maroons after the Pacific Coast Hockey Association folded, became the last non-NHL team to win the Stanley Cup and only the third west coast club to capture the trophy, joining the 1915 Vancouver Millionaires and the 1917 Seattle Metropolitans as champions.

All eight Montreal goals in the series came from the Canadiens’ top line of Howie Morenz, Aurel Joliat and Billy Boucher, but Victoria posted a more balanced attack with eight different skaters combining for 16 goals.

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1924-25 – Victoria Cougars – Hap Holmes, Clem Loughlin (Captain), Gord Fraser, Frank Fredrickson, Jack Walker, Gizzy Hart, Harold Halderson, Frank Foyston, Wally Elmer, Harry Meeking, Jocko Anderson, Lester Patrick (Manager/Coach).

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1924

The PCHA champions (Vancouver Maroons) and the winners of the WCHL (Calgary Tigers) met in a postseason playoff, the winner of which advanced to the Stanley Cup Final. This best-of-three series was won by the Tigers two games to one, relegating the Maroons to a semi-final berth vs. the NHL champion (Montreal Canadiens).

Billy Boucher scored three of the Canadiens’ five goals in the semi-final series vs. the Maroons, including both game-winning tallies, to lift Montreal over Vancouver, which lost its chance at the Stanley Cup for the fourth straight year.

Montreal then faced Calgary in the Stanley Cup Final. A 21-year-old rookie forward named Howie Morenz paced the Canadiens with a hat trick in game one and a goal in game two as Montreal rolled past Calgary to complete a sweep of both series.

Morenz, Aurel Joliat and Sylvio Mantha all made their first appearances on a Stanley Cup winner.

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1923-24 – Montreal Canadiens – Georges Vezina, Sprague Cleghorn (Captain), Billy Coutu, Howie Morenz, Aurel Joliat, Billy Boucher, Odie Cleghorn, Sylvio Mantha, Bobby Boucher, Billy Bell, Billy Cameron, Joe Malone, Charles Fortier, Leo Dandurand (Manager/Coach).

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1923

The NHL champion Ottawa Senators travelled to Vancouver to join with the top teams in the PCHA and WCHL to determine a Stanley Cup winner. Ottawa defeated the Vancouver Maroons in the semi-final. Edmonton, the WCHL champion, then faced Ottawa in a best-of-three Cup Final. The Eskimos gave the weary Senators a difficult time, but Ottawa came through with a pair of one-goal victories. Cy Denneny and Punch Broadbent scored the game-winning goals.

For the first time in Stanley Cup history, brothers opposed each other in the playoffs. In fact, two sets of brothers — Cy and Corb Denneny and Georges and Frank Boucher — faced one and other in the semi-final. Cy and Georges skated with Ottawa, while Corb and Frank suited up for Vancouver. Each of the Boucher brothers scored twice in this series.

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1922-23 – Ottawa Senators – Georges Boucher, Lionel Hitchman, Frank Nighbor, King Clancy, Harry Helman, Clint Benedict, Jack Darragh, Eddie Gerard (Captain), Cy Denneny, Punch Broadbent, Tommy Gorman (Manager), Pete Green (Coach), F. Dolan (Trainer).

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1922

With the inception of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) in 1921-22, a new playoff structure was designed to match the champions of the two western leagues against each other with the winner to meet the NHL champions for the Stanley Cup. After defeating the WCHL’s Regina Capitals in the preliminary series, the PCHA’s Vancouver Millionaires set out for Toronto, where the NHL champion St. Pats awaited their arrival.

Cecil “Babe” Dye notched nine of his club’s 16 goals, including two game-winners, and goaltender John Ross Roach, who recorded the first Stanley Cup shutout by an NHL rookie, posted a 1.80 goals-against average as Toronto won its second Stanley Cup championship.

Jack Adams, who had been lured away from Toronto by Vancouver in 1920, returned in impressive fashion, scoring six goals in the series.

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1921-22 – Toronto St. Patricks – Ted Stackhouse, Corb Denneny, Rod Smylie, Lloyd Andrews, John Ross Roach, Harry Cameron, Billy Stuart, Babe Dye, Ken Randall, Reg Noble (Captain), Eddie Gerard (borrowed for one game from Ottawa), Stan Jackson, Ivan Mitchell, Charlie Querrie (Manager), George O’Donoghue (Coach).

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1921

A gathering of 11,000 fans, the largest crowd ever to see a hockey game anywhere in the world at the time, jammed the Vancouver arena for the first game of this series, and an estimated record of 51,000 tickets were sold for the entire five-game series.

Jack Darragh was the hero for the second straight year, scoring both Ottawa goals in the finale as the Senators became the first NHL club to capture back-to-back Stanley Cup titles and the first team since the Quebec Bulldogs of 1912 and 1913 to repeat as champions.

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1920-21 – Ottawa Senators – Jack MacKell, Jack Darragh, Morley Bruce, Georges Boucher, Eddie Gerard (Captain), Clint Benedict, Sprague Cleghorn, Frank Nighbor, Punch Broadbent, Cy Denneny, Leth Graham, Tommy Gorman (Manager), Pete Green (Coach), F. Dolan (Trainer).

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1920

When the Seattle Metropolitans arrived in Ottawa, it became apparent that their red, white and green barber pole uniforms were all too similar to the Senators’ red, white and black pattern. Ottawa agreed to play in white jerseys.

Poor ice conditions marred the first three games, and the series was subsequently shifted to the artificial ice surface at Toronto’s Mutual Street Arena. Jack Darragh, who had tallied the winning marker in game one, lifted Ottawa to the championship with a hat trick in the decisive game.

Pete Green became the second rookie coach in the NHL to win the Cup, joining Dick Carroll of the 1918 Toronto Arenas.

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1919-20 – Ottawa Senators – Jack MacKell, Jack Darragh, Morley Bruce, Horrace Merrill, Georges Boucher, Eddie Gerard (Captain), Clint Benedict, Sprague Cleghorn, Frank Nighbor, Punch Broadbent, Cy Denneny, Tommy Gorman (Manager), Pete Green (Coach).

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