1920–21 Hamilton Tigers season

The 1920–21 Hamilton Tigers season was the 1st season of play for the new Hamilton Tigers team in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Tigers finished in last place in both halves of the season and did not qualify for the playoffs.
==Off-season==
The NHL transferred the Quebec Bulldogs franchise to Hamilton, where it was named the Tigers, after the amateur team.
==Regular Season==
The Tigers would change their jerseys four times in the five seasons they spent in the NHL. For their debut season, their jerseys were gold and black vertical stripes with a tiger head logo. Striped socks and white pants rounded out the uniform.
Noting that the Bulldogs finished in last place in 1919–20, the league encouraged the other teams to provide players to Hamilton to improve the team's competitiveness. Toronto provided Babe Dye but recalled Dye after the first game and loaned Mickey Roach. Montreal provided Billy Coutu in exchange for keeping Harry Mummery. Ottawa did not provide any players willingly. Sprague Cleghorn and Harry Broadbent were eventually ordered by the league to report to Hamilton, but neither did. Cleghorn played some games with Toronto before returning to Ottawa.Coleman, pp. 378-379
After four games, Joe Malone, formerly of Quebec, arrived. He scored 28 goals in 20 games for the Tigers to place fourth in the league in goal-scoring.Coleman, p.381 However, the team won only three games in each half of the schedule to finish last.
===Final Standings===
===Game Log===
Regular Season Results	Regular Season Results	Regular Season Results	Regular Season Results	Regular Season Results 	Regular Season Results
No. 	R 	Date 	Score 	Opponent 	Record
1 	W 	December 22, 1920 	5–0 	Montreal Canadiens (1920–21) 	1–0–0
2 	L 	December 27, 1920 	1–3 	@ Ottawa Senators (1920–21) 	1–1–0
3 	W 	December 29, 1920 	6–2 	@ Montreal Canadiens (1920–21) 	2–1–0
4 	L 	January 3, 1921 	4–5 	Toronto St. Patricks (1920–21) 	2–2–0
5 	L 	January 6, 1921 	1–5 	Ottawa Senators (1920–21) 	2–3–0
6 	W 	January 8, 1921 	3–2 OT 	@ Toronto St. Patricks (1920–21)	3–3–0
7 	L 	January 12, 1921 	2–4 	Toronto St. Patricks (1920–21) 	3–4–0
8 	L 	January 15, 1921 	4–6 	@ Montreal Canadiens (1920–21) 	3–5–0
9 	L 	January 19, 1921 	3–4 	@ Ottawa Senators (1920–21) 	3–6–0
10 	L 	January 22, 1921 	5–7 	Montreal Canadiens (1920–21) 	3–7–0
Second half 	Second half 	Second half 	Second half 	Second half 	Second half
11 	L 	January 26, 1921 	3–10 	@ Toronto St. Patricks (1920–21)	0–1–0
12 	L 	January 29, 1921 	1–2 	Ottawa Senators (1920–21) 	0–2–0
13 	W 	February 2, 1921 	6–5 	Montreal Canadiens (1920–21) 	1–2–0
14 	L 	February 5, 1921 	3–7 	Ottawa Senators (1920–21) 	1–3–0
15 	L 	February 9, 1921 	4–7 	@ Ottawa Senators (1920–21) 	1–4–0
16 	L 	February 12, 1921 	4–6 	Toronto St. Patricks (1920–21) 	1–5–0
17 	L 	February 16, 1921 	5–10 	@ Montreal Canadiens (1920–21) 	1–6–0
18 	L 	February 19, 1921 	4–5 	@ Toronto St. Patricks (1920–21)	1–7–0
19 	W 	February 23, 1921 	7–4 	Toronto St. Patricks (1920–21) 	2–7–0
20 	L 	February 26, 1921 	6–13 	@ Montreal Canadiens (1920–21) 	2–8–0
21 	W 	February 28, 1921 	6–2 	Ottawa Senators (1920–21) 	3–8–0
22 	L 	March 2, 1921 	1–7 	Montreal Canadiens (1920–21) 	3–9–0
23 	L 	March 5, 1921 	3–4 OT 	@ Toronto St. Patricks (1920–21)	3–10–0
24 	L 	March 7, 1921 	5–12 	@ Ottawa Senators (1920–21) 	3–11–0
==Playoffs==
The Tigers did not qualify for the post season.
==Player Stats==
Regular season	 	 	 	 	 	
Scoring 	 	 	 	 	 	
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="wikitable sortable"	 	 	 	 	 	
Player 	Pos 	GP	G 	A	Pts	PIM
 	C/LW	20	28	9	37 	6
 	F/D 	24	18	9	27 	8
 	C 	14	9 	8	17 	0
Joe Matte 	D 	21	6 	9	15 	29
 	D 	24	8 	4	12 	95
 	RW 	23	10	1	11 	10
 	RW 	20	6 	1	7 	8
 	D 	21	2 	1	3 	17
 	D 	22	1 	2	3 	2
 	RW 	1 	2 	0	2 	0
 	D 	6 	2 	0	2 	8
 	RW 	2 	0 	0	0 	0
 	G 	24	0 	0	0 	0
 	C 	5 	0 	0	0 	0
 	D 	1 	0 	0	0 	0
 	D 	1 	0 	0	0 	0
Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes      MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts; 
==Awards and Records==
==Transactions==
Date 	From Tigers 	To Tigers
November 11, 1920	To Montreal CanadiensHarry Mummery,Jack McDonald,Dave Ritchie 	Jack Coughlin,Goldie Prodgers,Joe Matte,Billy Coutu(loan)
December 4, 1920 	To Toronto St. Patricks 	Babe Dye(loan)
December 24, 1920	To Toronto St. PatricksBabe Dye 	 
December 30, 1920	To Ottawa Senators (original) 	Punch Broadbent, Sprague Cleghorn(loan)
January 4, 1921 	To Montreal CanadiensPunch Broadbent,Sprague Cleghorn(players did not report)	cash
January 25, 1921 	To Toronto St. PatricksSprague Cleghorn (did not report) 	 
Source: 
==Gallery==
Mickey_Roach-Tigers.jpg|Mickey Roach sports the Tigers 1920-21 jersey.
Tom_McCarthy-Tigers.jpg|Thomas McCarthy sports the Tigers 1920-21 jersey.
==See Also==
* 1920–21 NHL season
==References==
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Category:1921 in hockey
Category:Hamilton Tigers seasons