1912–13 NHA season

The 1912–13 NHA season was the fourth season of the now defunct National Hockey Association. Six teams played 20 games each. The Quebec Bulldogs won the league championship to retain the Stanley Cup. They played and defeated the Sydney Millionaires in a challenge after the regular season.
==League business==
The Arena Gardens was completed in Toronto and the two dormant NHA franchises started play as the Toronto Blueshirts and the Toronto Tecumsehs. The Arena Gardens hosted a pre-season exhibition match between the Montreal Canadiens and Montreal Wanderers, at which a brawl broke out and Sprague Cleghorn would be charged with assault.
===Major Rule Changes===
For this season the NHA teams played for the first time with six skaters, abandoning the position of rover. It was agreed that from February onwards, the teams would play with seven. However, after several games at the start of February played with the rover, the decision was made to abandon the rover position permanently.
The Stanley Cup trustees decided prior to this season that all future Stanley Cup challenges would take place after the end of the regular season.
==Regular season==
In this season, the Ottawa Hockey Club became more commonly known as the 'Ottawa Senators'. The organization remained known as the Ottawa Hockey Association.
===Final standings===
Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals Against
National Hockey Association	GP	W 	L 	T	GF 	GA
Quebec Bulldogs 	20	16	4 	0	112	75
Montreal Wanderers 	20	10	10	0	93 	90
Toronto Blueshirts 	20	9 	11	0	86 	95
Montreal Canadiens 	20	9 	11	0	83 	81
Ottawa Senators 	20	9 	11	0	87 	81
Toronto Tecumsehs 	20	7 	13	0	59 	98
===Results===
Month	Day	Visitor 	Score	Home 	Score
Dec. 	25 	Canadiens	9 	Toronto 	5
Dec. 	28 	Ottawa 	3 	Quebec 	7
Dec. 	28 	Toronto 	5 	Canadiens	8
Dec. 	28 	Wanderers	7 	Tecumsehs	4
Dec. 	31 	Quebec 	3 	Wanderers	1
Jan. 	1 	Toronto 	1 	Ottawa 	7
Jan. 	1 	Canadiens	4 	Tecumsehs	3
Jan. 	4 	Ottawa 	7 	Canadiens	3
Jan. 	4 	Tecumsehs	5 	Quebec 	3
Jan. 	4 	Wanderers	3 	Toronto 	5
Jan. 	8 	Ottawa 	1 	Tecumsehs	4
Jan. 	8 	Toronto 	5 	Quebec 	10
Jan. 	8 	Canadiens	4 	Wanderers	3
Jan. 	11 	Ottawa 	5 	Wanderers	11
Jan. 	11 	Canadiens	3 	Quebec 	4
Jan. 	11 	Toronto 	2 	Tecumsehs	5
Jan. 	15 	Wanderers	1 	Ottawa 	9
Jan. 	15 	Tecumsehs	1 	Toronto 	6
Jan. 	15 	Quebec 	4 	Canadiens	5
Jan. 	18 	Canadiens	6 	Ottawa 	0
Jan. 	18 	Quebec 	4 	Tecumsehs	2
Jan. 	18 	Toronto 	1 	Wanderers	3
Jan. 	22 	Tecumsehs	4 	Ottawa 	3 (7' overtime)
Jan. 	22 	Quebec 	3 	Toronto 	6
Jan. 	22 	Wanderers	4 	Canadiens	3
Jan. 	25 	Ottawa 	9 	Toronto 	5
Jan. 	25 	Wanderers	10 	Quebec 	6
Jan. 	25 	Tecumsehs	4 	Canadiens	5 (17' overtime)
Jan. 	29 	Tecumsehs	2 	Wanderers	6
Jan. 	29 	Quebec 	5 	Ottawa 	3
Feb. 	1‡ 	Toronto 	2 	Wanderers	3
Feb. 	1‡ 	Quebec 	5 	Tecumsehs	4 (4' overtime)
Feb. 	1‡ 	Canadiens	1 	Ottawa 	2
Feb. 	5‡ 	Ottawa 	0 	Toronto 	2
Feb. 	5‡ 	Wanderers	3 	Quebec 	4
Feb. 	5‡ 	Tecumsehs	5 	Canadiens	4
Feb. 	8‡ 	Quebec 	4 	Ottawa 	1
Feb. 	8 	Tecumsehs	2 	Wanderers	1
Feb. 	8‡ 	Canadiens	3 	Toronto 	5
Feb. 	12 	Tecumsehs	0 	Ottawa 	11
Feb. 	12 	Quebec 	11 	Toronto 	2
Feb. 	12 	Wanderers	4 	Canadiens	6
Feb. 	15 	Ottawa 	3 	Canadiens	2
Feb. 	15 	Wanderers	3 	Toronto 	10
Feb. 	15 	Tecumsehs	0 	Quebec 	8
Feb. 	19 	Ottawa 	2 	Wanderers	8
Feb. 	19 	Canadiens	2 	Quebec 	4
Feb. 	19 	Toronto 	7 	Tecumsehs	3
Feb. 	22 	Wanderers	3 	Ottawa 	9
Feb. 	22 	Tecumsehs	3 	Toronto 	5
Feb. 	22 	Quebec 	7 	Canadiens	6
Feb. 	26 	Ottawa 	3 	Tecumsehs	4
Feb. 	26 	Toronto 	4 	Quebec 	6
Feb. 	26 	Canadiens	4 	Wanderers	5
Mar. 	1 	Canadiens	3 	Tecumsehs	1
Mar. 	1 	Toronto 	2 	Ottawa 	3
Mar. 	1 	Quebec 	6 	Wanderers	4
Mar. 	5 	Ottawa 	6 	Quebec 	8
Mar. 	5 	Wanderers	10 	Tecumsehs	3
Mar. 	5 	Toronto 	6 	Canadiens	2
‡ Played with rover (7 man hockey)
===Goalkeeper Averages===
Name 	Club 	GP	GA	SO	Avg.
Benedict, Clint 	Ottawa 	4 	11	1 	2.8
Moran, Paddy 	Quebec 	20	75	1 	3.8
Marchand, Ray 	Toronto 	6 	24	 	4.0
Cadotte, Bert 	Wanderers	4 	16	 	4.0
Vezina, Georges 	Canadiens	20	81	1 	4.1
LeSueur, Percy 	Ottawa 	16	70	 	4.4
Boyes, Art 	Wanderers	16	74	 	4.6
Nicholson, Billy	Tecumsehs	20	98	 	4.9
Holmes, Harry 	Toronto 	14	71	1 	5.1
===Scoring Leaders===
Name 	Club 	GP	G
Malone, Joe 	Quebec 	20	43
Smith, Tommy 	Quebec 	19	39
Hyland, Harry 	Wanderers	20	27
Nighbor, Frank 	Toronto 	17	25
Lalonde, Newsy 	Canadiens	18	25
Pitre, Didier 	Canadiens	17	24
Broadbent, Harry	Ottawa 	20	20
Davidson, Allan 	Toronto 	20	19
Smith, Don 	Canadiens	20	19
Ronan, Skene 	Ottawa 	20	18
==Post-season Exhibition series==
After the season a series was arranged between Ottawa and Montreal Wanderers and Quebec to play in New York. Ottawa and Montreal played first, with the winner to play-off against Quebec. After the Wanderers defeated Ottawa 10–8 (3–2, 7–6), the Wanderers the two-game series against Quebec 12–10 (9–5, 3–5).
Date 	Winning Team 	Score	Losing Team 	Location
March 8, 1913 	Montreal Wanderers	3–2 	Ottawa 	St. Nicholas Rink, New York
March 10, 1913	Montreal Wanderers	7–6 	Ottawa 	St. Nicholas Rink, New York
March 13, 1913	Montreal Wanderers	9–5 	Quebec 	St. Nicholas Rink, New York
March 15, 1913	Quebec 	5–3 	Montreal Wanderers	St. Nicholas Rink, New York
Later in March the Bulldogs went to Victoria to play a series against the Victoria Aristocrats. They lost the best-of-three series two wins to one.
==Stanley Cup Challenges==
===Sydney vs. Quebec===
Joe Malone made a try for Frank McGee's record, but fell short at 9 goals. He was not in the lineup for the second game.
 March 8, 1913
Sydney 	3	at 	Quebec 	14	
T. McDonald 	 	G 	Paddy Moran 	 	
Trenouth 	1	P 	Joe Hall 	 	
Cap McDonald 	 	CP 	Harry Mummery 	1 	
Ken Randall 	1	F 	Joe Malone 	9 	
Bill Dumphy 	 	F 	Tommy Smith 	3 	
Fraser 	 	F 	Rusty Crawford 	 	
Joe Tetreault	1	sub	Billy Creighton	1 	
 March 10, 1913
Sydney 	2	at 	Quebec 	6	
T. McDonald 	 	G 	Paddy Moran 	 	
Trenouth 	1	P 	Joe Hall 	3	
Cap McDonald	 	CP 	Harry Mummery 	 	
Ken Randall 	 	F 	Tommy Smith 	1	
Bill Dumphy 	 	F 	Jack Marks 	2	
Fraser 	 	F 	Billy Creighton	 	
Wilkie 	1	sub	 	 	
Quebec wins series 20–5
==Quebec Bulldogs 1913 Stanley Cup Champions==
==Team Photos==
12-13MonWan.jpg|Montreal Wanderers
12-13QueBulldogs.jpg|Quebec Bulldogs
12-13TorTec.jpg|Toronto Tecumsehs
==Game Ads==
12-13NHACanadiensGameAd.jpg|Montreal Canadiens
12-13NHAWanderersGameAd.jpg|Montreal Wanderers
12-13NHAOttawaGameAd.jpg|Ottawa
12-13NHAQuebecGameAd.jpg|Quebec City
12-13NHABlueshirtsGameAd.jpg|Toronto Blueshirts
12-13NHATecumsehsGameAd.jpg|Toronto Tecumsehs
==Stanley Cup Game Ads==
1913SCupQuebecGameAd.jpg|Quebec City
==See also==
*National Hockey Association
*List of pre-NHL seasons
*List of Stanley Cup champions
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