1912 PCHA season

The 1912 PCHA season was the first season of the now defunct men's professional Pacific Coast Hockey Association, which was founded on December 7, 1911. Season play ran from January 2, 1912 until March 19. Teams were to play a 16 game schedule, but one game was cancelled. The New Westminster club would be the first PCHA champions. The Royals would challenge NHA champion Quebec for the Stanley Cup, but the season ended too late to play in the east.
The season was not profitable financially. After the season, Frank Patrick, captain of Vancouver, and director of the Vancouver Arena Company was interviewed on March 6, 1912 by the Toronto Globe and expressed his hopes that next season with the new team from Seattle that results will be better.
==Regular season==
Most of the players for the league were recruited from the east. Many players joined the PCHA from the National Hockey Association(NHA), including Tom Dunderdale, Jimmy Gardner, Pud Glass, Newsy Lalonde, Bert Lindsay, Tommy Phillips and Skinner Poulin. Frank and Lester Patrick had actively targeted the NHA for players as British Columbia had a smaller base of players.. In the previous season, the NHA has imposed maximums on player salaries and a salary cap per team that were extremely unpopular with players. Goaltender Hughie Lehman was signed from Berlin of the Ontario Professional Hockey League(OPHL).
The PCHA played seven-man rules with a rover, while the NHA experimented with six-man rules.
===Final standings===
Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals Against
Pacific Coast Hockey Association	GP	W	L	T	GF 	GA
New Westminster Royals 	15	9	6	0	78 	77
Vancouver Millionaires 	15	7	8	0	102	94
Victoria Senators 	16	7	9	0	81 	90
===Results===
Month	Day	Visitor 	Score	Home 	Score
Jan. 	2 	New Westminster	8 	Victoria 	3
Jan. 	5 	Vancouver 	8 	New Westminster	3
Jan. 	9 	Victoria 	8 	Vancouver 	4
Jan. 	12 	Vancouver 	7 	Victoria 	10
Jan. 	16 	Victoria 	3 	New Westminster	4 (7:30 OT)
Jan. 	19 	New Westminster	6 	Vancouver 	4
Jan. 	23 	New Westminster	2 	Victoria 	3
Jan. 	26 	Victoria 	8 	Vancouver 	10
Jan. 	30 	Victoria 	2 	New Westminster	5
Feb. 	2† 	Vancouver 	7 	New Westminster	6 (3:30 OT)
Feb. 	6 	Vancouver 	11 	New Westminster	6
Feb. 	9 	Vancouver 	7 	Victoria 	8 (7:15 OT)
Feb. 	13 	Victoria 	6 	Vancouver 	4
Feb. 	16 	New Westminster	4 	Victoria 	2
Feb. 	20 	New Westminster	2 	Vancouver 	9
Feb. 	23 	Victoria 	3 	New Westminster	4
Feb. 	27 	Vancouver 	7 	Victoria 	3
Mar. 	1 	Victoria 	7 	Vancouver 	3
Mar. 	5 	New Westminster	6 	Vancouver 	10
Mar. 	8 	New Westminster	5 	Victoria 	1
Mar. 	12 	Victoria 	6 	New Westminster	10
Mar. 	15 	Vancouver 	6 	New Westminster	8
Mar. 	19 	New Westminster	7 	Vancouver 	5
† Played in Victoria
A game between Vancouver and New Westminster was cancelled at the end of the season.
===Goalkeeper Averages===
Name 	Club 	GP	GA	SO	Avg.
Hughie Lehman	New Westminster	15	77	 	5.1
Bert Lindsay 	Victoria 	16	90	 	5.6
Allan Parr 	Vancouver 	15	94	 	6.3
===Scoring leaders===
Name 	Club 	GP	G
Lalonde, Newsy 	Vancouver 	15	27
Hyland, Harry 	New Westminster	15	26
Dunderdale, Tom	Victoria 	16	24
Patrick, Frank 	Vancouver 	15	23
Smith, Don 	Victoria 	16	19
Nichols, Sibby 	Vancouver 	15	19
Phillips, Tom 	Vancouver 	14	17
McDonald, Ran 	New Westminster	15	16
Mallen, Ken 	New Westminster	13	14
Rowe, Bobby 	Victoria 	16	10
==Team Photos==
1912NewWest.jpg|New Westminster Royals
1912VanMil.jpg|Vancouver Millionaires
1912VicSen.jpg|Victoria Senators
==Game Ads==
11-12PCHAOpenerGameAd.jpg|Opening game @ Victoria
11-12PCHAVictoriaGameAd.jpg|Victoria
PCHA season
Category:Pacific Coast Hockey Association