1912–13 PCHA season

The 1912–13 PCHA season was the second season of the professional men's ice hockey Pacific Coast Hockey Association league. Season play ran from December 10, 1912, until March 18, 1913. Like the previous season, 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 the club would play, and win, an exhibition series against the Quebec Bulldogs, NHA champions.
==Offseason==
The Patricks signed Cyclone Taylor from the Ottawa Senators, replacing Newsy Lalonde who returned to the Montreal Canadiens. Taylor signed with the Vancouver Millionaires on November 19, 1912.Kotylo(2006), p. 16
==Regular season==
The PCHA moved two games east of the Rockies, on March 17 in Calgary, Alberta, and on March 18 in Regina, Saskatchewan. The final game of the season, between Victoria and New Westminster was cancelled. Victoria won the championship and formally asked to play for the Stanley Cup, but was turned down due to the PCHA season ending several weeks later than the eastern leagues' season finished.
===Highlights===
On January 14, 1913, the PCHA held a speed skating competition among PCHA players. Ken Mallen was the victor, defeating Cyclone Taylor and Si Griffis. Griffis defeated Ernie Johnson to challenge Mallen.
Tommy Dunderdale won the overall scoring championship with 24 goals in 15 games. The top one-game performance was on March 17, when Eddie Oatman scored five goals in a game against Vancouver. On January 31, Lester Patrick, a defenseman, scored four goals in one game versus New Westminster.
The PCHA tried out NHA-style six-man hockey on February 15, in a game between New Westminster and Vancouver, but reverted to seven-man play for the rest of the season.
===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 Senators 	15	10	5	0	68	56
Vancouver Millionaires 	16	7 	9	0	84	89
New Westminster Royals 	15	6 	9	0	67	74
===Results===
Month	Day	Visitor 	Score	Home 	Score
Dec. 	10 	New Westminster	2 	Vancouver 	7
Dec. 	13 	New Westminster	4 	Victoria 	6
Dec. 	17 	Victoria 	3 	Vancouver 	6
Dec. 	27 	Vancouver 	4 	Victoria 	5 (14:15 OT)
Jan. 	4 	New Westminster	5 	Vancouver 	10
Jan. 	9 	New Westminster	2 	Victoria 	3 (12:45 OT)
Jan. 	17 	Vancouver 	3 	Victoria 	4
Jan. 	21 	Victoria 	5 	Vancouver 	4
Jan. 	25a	Victoria 	1 	New Westminster	3
Jan. 	28 	New Westminster	2 	Vancouver 	8
Jan. 	31 	New Westminster	3 	Victoria 	7
Feb. 	4 	Victoria 	7 	Vancouver 	4
Feb. 	7 	Vancouver 	3 	New Westminster	2 (5:45 OT)
Feb. 	11 	Vancouver 	2 	Victoria 	7
Feb. 	15 	New Westminster	5 	Vancouver 	3
Feb. 	18 	Victoria 	1 	New Westminster	6
Feb. 	21 	New Westminster	1 	Victoria 	8
Feb. 	25 	Victoria 	6 	Vancouver 	9
Feb. 	28 	Vancouver 	3 	New Westminster	11
Mar. 	4 	Vancouver 	5 	Victoria 	4
Mar. 	7 	Victoria 	1 	New Westminster	0
Mar. 	17b	Vancouver 	7 	New Westminster	11
Mar. 	18c	Vancouver 	6 	New Westminster	10
Mar. 	d 	Victoria 	- 	New Westminster	-
*a Played in Vancouver
*b Played in Calgary
*c Played in Regina
*d Cancelled
A game between Victoria and New Westminster was cancelled at the end of the season.
===Goaltending averages===
Name 	Club 	GP	GA	SO	Avg.
Lindsay, Bert	Victoria 	15	56	1 	3.7
Lehman, Hugh 	New Westminster	14	64	 	4.6
Parr, Allan 	Vancouver 	16	89	 	5.6
Smith, Foxy 	New Westminster	1 	10	 	10.0
===Scoring leaders===
Player 	Team 	 	 	 	 	
Tommy Dunderdale	Victoria Senators 	15	24	5	29	36
Carl Kendall 	Vancouver Millionaires	14	14	6	20	21
Smokey Harris 	Vancouver Millionaires	16	14	6	20	61
Frank Patrick 	Vancouver Millionaires	14	12	8	20	17
Lester Patrick 	Victoria Senators 	15	14	5	19	12
Cyclone Taylor 	Vancouver Millionaires	14	10	8	18	5
Jack McDonald 	Vancouver Millionaires	16	11	4	15	9
Ran McDonald 	New Westminster Royals	12	11	3	14	29
Charles Tobin 	New Westminster Royals	13	11	3	14	20
Eddie Oatman 	New Westminster Royals	13	9 	5	14	46
==Exhibition Series==
The Stanley Cup champion Quebec Bulldogs came west for an unoffical exhibition series against the Victoria Aristocrats in late March.
The first game was played under PCHA seven-man rules, with Victoria winning 7-5. Quebec won the second game 6-3 which used NHA six-man rules. The third and deciding game was played with NHA rules in the first half and PCHA rules in the sedond. Victoria won that game 6-1.
All the games drew capacity crowds.
Date 	Winner 	Loser 	Location
March 24	Victoria 7	Quebec 5 	Victoria
March 27	Quebec 6 	Victoria 3	Victoria
March 29	Victoria 6	Quebec 1 	Victoria
Victoria Aristocrats beat Quebec Bulldogs 2 wins to 1.
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