1912 PCHA season

The 1912 PCHA season was the first seasonof the now defunct men's professional ice hockey Pacific Coast Hockey Association league, which was founded on December 7, 1911. Teams were to play a sixteen-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 had 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
==Schedule and 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 	Victoria 	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.
==Player statistics==
===Goaltending averages===
Note: GP = games played, GA = goals against, SO = shutouts, GAA = Goals against average
Name 	Club 	GP	GA	SO	GAA
Hughie Lehman	New Westminster	15	77	 	5.1
Bert Lindsay 	Victoria 	16	90	 	5.6
Allan Parr 	Vancouver 	15	94	 	6.3
===Scoring leaders===
Player 	Team 	 	 	
Newsy Lalonde 	Vancouver Millionaires	15	27	51
Harry Hyland 	New Westminster Royals	15	26	44
Tommy Dunerdale	Victoria Senators 	16	24	25
Frank Patrick 	Vancouver Millionaires	15	23	0
Don Smith 	Victoria Aristocrats 	16	19	22
Sibby Nichols 	Vancouver Millionaires	15	19	35
Tommy Philipps 	Vancouver Millionaires	17	17	38
Ran McDonald 	New Westminster Royals	15	16	56
Ken Mallen 	New Westminster Royals	13	14	30
Lester Patrick 	Victoria Senators 	16	10	9
Bobby Rowe 	Victoria Senators 	16	10	62
==References==
Category:1912 in ice hockey
Category:Pacific Coast Hockey Association seasons