![]() That lasts until the WCHL and PCHA merge into the Western Hockey League in 1924.ġ924: Engraving the names of the winning team on the Cup becomes an annual tradition.ġ925: The Victoria Cougars become the last non-NHL team to win the Cup. With three leagues, the Cup format changes to have two league champions face off for the right to challenge the champion of the third league in the Final. The teams split the first four games.ġ922: The Western Canada Hockey League is formed. ![]() The Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S.-based team to win the Stanley Cup.ġ919: In the only Stanley Cup Final not played to completion, Seattle and the Montreal Canadiens abandoned the series due to an influenza outbreak. But a year later, the Vancouver Millionaires defeated Ottawa to win the Cup.ġ916: The Montreal Canadiens win the first of their 24 Stanley Cups by beating Portland in a five-game final.ġ917: The National Hockey League supplants the NHA. The NHA quickly became the best league in Canada and held the Cup for four years.ġ912: Trustees mandate that the Cup was only to be defended at the end of the champion's regular season.ġ914: The Victoria Aristocrats become the first member of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) to challenge for the Cup. They held it through February 1906.ġ910: The National Hockey Association, the predecessor of the National Hockey League, is founded. ![]() 1903: The first hockey dynasty, the Ottawa Silver Seven, won the first of its four consecutive Stanley Cups in March. ![]()
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