1902–03 Ottawa Hockey Club season

Off-season

Defenceman and former captain Peg Duval left the team to sign with the Pittsburgh Victorias as a professional in the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League.

Regular season

Highlights

This season was the first season for Frank McGee and Art Moore. McGee would place second in the league scoring race with 14 goals in six games.

The season would be a two team race between Montreal Victorias and Ottawa, splitting their matches between each other. The season ended in a tie, which necessitated a two-game playoff, won by Ottawa to win their first Stanley Cup.

Final standing

Schedule and results

Goaltending averages

Scoring Leaders

Playoffs

Ottawa and Victorias played a two-game total-goals series.

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Stanley Cup challenges

Rat Portage vs. Ottawa

Ottawa defeated the Rat Portage Thistles 6–2, 4–2 (10–4) in a two-game, total goals series in Ottawa, March 12–14, 1903.

As the new CAHL and Cup champions, the Ottawas accepted a challenge from the Rat Portage Thistles of the Manitoba & Northwestern Hockey Association (MNWHA). Entering the best-of-three challenge series, the Thistles were younger and quicker than Ottawa; only one player on the Thistles was over the age of 20. Any chance that those factors could have helped the team was negated by soft ice conditions. Ottawa swept the series with scores of 6–2 and 4–2.

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Source: Ottawa Citizen || All of the goals were scored in the first half. Fred Westwick did not play due to his wife's illness. |}

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For their win, the Ottawa players would each receive a silver nugget. From that point on the team would also be known as the Silver Seven.

Ottawa Hockey Club March 1903 Stanley Cup champions

year=1903| goaltenders=*John "Bouse" Hutton| defence=*Harvey Pulford (point-Captain)

• Arthur Fraser (point-cover point)
• Arthur Moore(cover point)
• Frank Wood (point-cover point) | forwards=* Hamilton Billy Gilmour
• Suddy Gilmour
• Harry Westwick (also played rover)
• Percy Sims
• Charles Spittal (played one game of regular season)
• Jack Smith (did not play)
• Frank McGee(also played rover)
• Dave Gilmour(also played cover point) | non-players=
• Placy Mituttler (President), Robert Shillington (manager)
• Alf Smith (coach), A. Mutchamor (treasurer)
• W. Halton (Secretary), Halder Kirby (club doctor)
• Llewellyn Bates, Chauncy Kirby, Martin Rosenthal, Charles Sparks (directors),
• Mac McGilton (Ass't Trainer), Pete Green (trainer)
• Alf Smith did not play for Ottawa in 1903. However he was playing-coach for Ottawa Silver Sevens next 3 Stanley Cup winning seasons. |

References

before = Montreal Hockey Club 1902 | after = Ottawa Hockey Club 1904 | title = Ottawa Hockey Club 1903 Stanley Cup Champions | years = 1903|

References

1. (March 11, 1903). "Champions Again Are The Ottawas". Ottawa Citizen.
2. (March 13, 1903). "Thistles Defeated in the First Match". Ottawa Citizen.
3. (March 16, 1903). "The Stanley Cup Remains In Ottawa". Ottawa Citizen.