1908–09 Ottawa Hockey Club season

The 1908–09 Ottawa Hockey Club season was the club's 24th season, third in the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association. Ottawa won the league championship and took over the Stanley Cup from the Montreal Wanderers.
==Team business==
This was the first season that the Club played as professionals as the amateur clubs dropped out of the league. There was turnover in Ottawa as Harvey Pulford and Alf Smith retired and Tom Phillips left. Ottawa would replace these players with Edgar Dey, Billy Gilmour and Albert 'Dubby' Kerr from Toronto Professionals. Alf Smith would organize the Ottawa Senators of the Federal Hockey League.
Ottawa played an exhibition game prior to the season with the Toronto professionals on January 2 in Toronto. Ottawa defeated Toronto 5–4. Dubby Kerr played for Toronto, and signed with Ottawa a week later.
==Regular season==
Marty Walsh would win the scoring championship with 38 goals. Ottawa would average nearly ten goals per game. After losing the first game, Ottawa then won the next ten in a row before losing in the final game of the season, when the league championship was already won.
===Final Standing===
Team 	Games Played	Wins	Losses	Ties	Goals For	Goals Against
Ottawa HC 	12 	10 	2 	0 	117 	63
Montreal Wanderers	12 	9 	3 	0 	82 	61
Quebec HC 	12 	3 	9 	0 	78 	106
Montreal Shamrocks	12 	2 	10 	0 	56 	103
===Game log===
Month	Day	Visitor 	Score	Home 	Score 	Record
Jan. 	6 	Ottawa 	6 	Wanderers	7 (7:40 OT)	0–1
Jan. 	9 	Quebec 	5 	Ottawa 	13 	1–1
Jan. 	13 	Ottawa 	11 	Shamrocks	3 	2–1
Jan. 	16 	Shamrocks	7 	Ottawa 	9 	3–1
Jan. 	23 	Ottawa 	18 	Quebec 	4 	4–1
Jan. 	30 	Wanderers	4 	Ottawa 	5 	5–1
Feb. 	6 	Ottawa 	9 	Wanderers	8 	6–1
Feb. 	13 	Quebec 	6 	Ottawa 	14 	7–1
Feb. 	20 	Ottawa 	7 	Shamrocks	3 	8–1
Feb. 	27 	Shamrocks	2 	Ottawa 	11 	9–1
Mar. 	4 	Wanderers	3 	Ottawa 	8 	10–1
Mar. 	7 	Ottawa 	6 	Quebec 	11 	10–2
===Goalkeeper Averages===
Name 	Club 	GP	GA	SO	Avg.
LeSueur, Percy	Ottawa	12	63	 	5.3
===Leading scorers===
Name 	Club 	GP	G
Walsh, Marty 	Ottawa	12	38
Stuart, Bruce 	Ottawa	11	22
Kerr, Dubby 	Ottawa	9 	20
Gilmour, Billy	Ottawa	11	11
==Ottawa Hockey Club 1909 Stanley Cup Champions==
==See also==
*1909 ECHA season
*List of Stanley Cup champions
==References==
* Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books, 12, 50. ISBN 1-55168-261-3. 
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Category:Ottawa Senators (original) seasons
Category:1908–09 in ice hockey
Category:1908–09 in Canadian ice hockey by team
Category:Stanley Cup championship seasons