1913–14 PCHA season

The 1913–14 PCHA season was the third season of the professional men's ice hockey Pacific Coast Hockey Association league. Season play ran from December 5, 1913, until February 24, 1914. Like the previous two seasons, teams were to play a 16-game schedule, but one game was cancelled. The Victoria Aristocrats club would be the PCHA champions. After the season, Victoria travelled to Toronto to play the Toronto Hockey Club, National Hockey Association (NHA) champions, in a challenge series for the 1914 Stanley Cup. Toronto won the series.
==League business==
Frank Patrick became league president, succeeding C. E. Doherty. The Victoria Senators changed their name to the Victoria Aristocrats. In the fall of 1913, the PCHA and the NHA agreed to support a draft arrangement, whereby the PCHA could draft NHA players annually for four years. The PCHA would draft three players on a rotating basis among the NHA teams. The first draft, in 1914, would have the PCHA select one player from Ottawa, one from Quebec, and one from the Wanderers. An agreement was made with the NHA to send the PCHA champion east to play the NHA champion for the "world's championship" at the end of the season.
;Rule changes
This season marked the introduction of the blue lines used in today's official ice hockey rinks. The league sub-divided the rink into three zones of 67 feet, allowing forward passing in the centre zone. This change was at the instigation of the Patrick brothers.Coleman, p. 258 The league also started awarding assists for players helping to set up a goal, allowing substitution at any time, banning players from within 5 feet of a faceoff, having separate dressing rooms for the officials, allowing the kicking of the puck except to score and added a goal line between the posts of the goal net.
==Regular season==
Cyclone Taylor won the scoring championship with 39 points. Taylor and Tommy Dunderdale won the goal-scoring championship with 24 goals. The top single-game scoring feat was accomplished by Eddie Oatman, who scored six goals in his final game of the season against Vancouver on February 24, 1914, to finish with 22 goals.
Victoria was in last place on January 23, but then won six games in a row to claim the league championship and the Patterson Cup.
===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
Victoria Aristocrats 	15	10	5	0	80	67
New Westminster Royals 	16	7 	9	0	75	81
Vancouver Millionaires 	15	6 	9	0	76	83
==Stanley Cup playoffs==
After the season, Victoria travelled to Toronto to play the Toronto Blueshirts, the NHA and Stanley Cup champion. A controversy occurred when it was revealed that the Victoria club had not filed a formal challenge. A letter arrived from the Stanley Cup trustees on March 17, that the trustees would not let the Stanley Cup travel west, as they did not consider Victoria a proper challenger because they had not formally notified the trustees. However, on March 18, Trustee William Foran stated that it was a misunderstanding. PCHA president Frank Patrick had not filed a challenge, because he had expected Emmett Quinn of the NHA to make all of the arrangements in his role as hockey commissioner, whereas the trustees thought they were being deliberately ignored. In any case, all arrangements had been ironed out and the Victoria challenge was accepted.
Date 	 	Score	 	Score	Rules	Notes
March 14	Victoria	2 	Toronto	5 	NHA 	
March 17	Victoria	5 	Toronto	6 	PCHA 	15:00 OT
March 19	Victoria	1 	Toronto	2 	NHA 	
==Exhibition series==
Vancouver travelled to New York, and played in a tournament with the Quebec Bulldogs and Montreal Wanderers of the NHA.
==Schedule and results==
Month	Day	Visitor 	Score	Home 	Score
Dec. 	5 	New Westminster	7 	Vancouver 	5
Dec. 	9 	Victoria 	5 	New Westminster	6
Dec. 	12 	New Westminster	2 	Vancouver 	6
Dec. 	16 	Victoria 	3 	Vancouver 	11
Dec. 	19 	New Westminster	4 	Victoria 	6
Dec. 	26 	Vancouver 	4 	Victoria 	9
Dec. 	30 	New Westminster	3 	Vancouver 	7
Jan. 	2 	New Westminster	5 	Victoria 	4
Jan. 	6 	Victoria 	6 	Vancouver 	5
Jan. 	9 	Vancouver 	3 	New Westminster	2
Jan. 	13 	New Westminster	3 	Victoria 	5
Jan. 	16 	New Westminster	5 	Vancouver 	8
Jan. 	20 	Vancouver 	7 	Victoria 	6 (14:45 OT)
Jan. 	23 	Victoria 	4 	New Westminster	6
Jan. 	27 	Victoria 	5 	Vancouver 	3
Jan. 	30 	New Westminster	5 	Victoria 	7
Feb. 	3 	Vancouver 	2 	New Westminster	8
Feb. 	6 	New Westminster	3 	Vancouver 	1
Feb. 	10 	Vancouver 	2 	Victoria 	5
Feb. 	13 	Victoria 	2 	New Westminster	1 (36:46 OT)
Feb. 	17 	Victoria 	5 	Vancouver 	4 (7:40 OT)
Feb. 	20 	New Westminster	1 	Victoria 	8
Feb. 	24 	New Westminster	6 	Vancouver 	9
Feb. 	24a	Victoria 	 	Vancouver 	
*a Cancelled
A game between Vancouver and Victoria was cancelled at the end of the season.
==Player statistics==
===Goaltenders===
Name 	Club 	GP	GA	SO	Avg.
Bert Lindsay	Victoria 	15	67	 	4.5
Hugh Lehman 	New Westminster	16	81	 	5.0
Allan Parr 	Vancouver 	15	83	 	5.5
===Scoring leaders===
Player 	Team 	 	 	 	 	
Cyclone Taylor 	Vancouver Millionaires	16	24	15	39	18
Dubbie Kerr 	Victoria Aristocrats 	16	20	11	31	15
Tommy Dunderdale	Victoria Aristocrats 	16	24	4 	28	34
Eddie Oatman 	New Westminster Royals	16	22	5 	27	18
Ken Mallen 	New Westminster Royals	16	20	6 	26	46
Ran McDonald 	New Westminster Royals	16	15	5 	20	34
Sibby Nichols 	Vancouver Millionaires	12	14	6 	20	21
Frank Patrick 	Vancouver Millionaires	16	11	9 	20	3
Smokey Harris 	Vancouver Millionaires	15	14	3 	17	33
Didier Pitre 	Vancouver Millionaires	15	14	2 	16	12
==References==
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==Notes==
Category:1913 in ice hockey
Category:1914 in ice hockey
Category:Pacific Coast Hockey Association seasons