 the seattle metropolitans were a professional ice hockey team based in seattle, washington which played in the pacific coast hockey association from 1915 to 1924. they won the stanley cup in 1917, becoming the first american team to do so. they played their home games at the seattle ice arena. ==history== the metropolitans were formed in 1915 as an expansion team. to stock the team, the toronto blueshirts of the national hockey association (nha) was raided. the blueshirts had won the stanley cup in 1914 and this provided seattle with an immediately competitive squad. the blueshirts' players who moved to seattle were eddie carpenter, frank foyston, hap holmes, jack walker and cully wilson. === the united states' first stanley cup ===  seattle won the 1917 championship by defeating the national hockey association's montreal canadiens three games to one by a combined score of 19 to 3. fourteen of seattle's goals were scored by bernie morris (including six in game four alone). games one and three were played under pcha rules, i.e., seven players per side, forward passing in the neutral zone, and no substitution for penalized players. games two and four were played under nha rules, i.e., six players per side, no forward passing, substitutions allowed. ===life in the pcha=== after winning the 1917 stanley cup the metropolitans also played in the stanley cup finals in 1919 (which was cancelled due to the spanish flu pandemic after five games, with the series tied 2-2-1) and 1920, when they lost to the [[ottawa senators (o
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