In the third, Morris and Frank Foyston scored to bring Seattle within two goals, before Pitre scored again. So I did a little research on the players who were a part of that 1917 team that defeated the Montreal Canadiens 3 games to 1 at the old Seattle Ice Arena. He passed away in 1959 at the age of 65. Or, maybe. Con Corbeau and Newsy Lalonde scored in the second to put the Canadiens ahead 5–1 after two periods. Foyston also wound up coaching the Syracuse Stars of the IHL and Bronx Tigers of the Canadian American Hockey League before returning to Seattle to coach the Seattle Seahawks (even I didn’t know that team existed, let alone that there was a previous Seahawks franchise until I did my homework for this article) in the short-lived North West Hockey League. Seattle Metropolitans PCHA champion roster - Harry "Happy" Holmes goalie, Roy Rickey defence, Everard "Ed" Carpenter defence, Jack Walker rover-right wing, Bernie Morris center, Frank Foyston (Captain) left wings, Jim Riley left wing, Bobby "Stubby" Rowe defence, Carol "Cully" Wilson right wing, Pete Muldoon (Owner/Manager-Coach). ( Log Out /  But how much do you REALLY know about that team outside of the fact that they won a championship? In his 8 seasons coaching the Mets, he claimed a 115-105-4 record in Seattle. In the third, Foyston scored after five minutes and Morris scored a quick pair of goals to give Seattle a 4–0 lead. List of Stanley Cup Final overtime series winners, 1916-17 Stanley Cup Winner: Seattle Metropolitans, hockeyleaguehistory.com - Pacific Coast Hockey Association, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA), https://icehockey.fandom.com/wiki/1917_Stanley_Cup_Finals?oldid=407425. Walker is also one of only 10 players in history to win the Stanley Cup with three different organizations. Montreal's goaltender Georges Vézina made several big saves in the second to hold Seattle off from scoring. Coach Pete Muldoon had quite a history making career here in the Northwest. Seattle won the PCHA title after finishing the 1916–17 regular season in first place with a 16–8 record. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. He wound up playing 7 season with the Metropolitans, collecting a total of 70 goals and 22 assists for 92 points in 165 games. The inspiring story of the Mets' 1917 championship was chronicled in the 2019 book, When It Mattered Most. ‡ Played rover, a position between both defences and behind the centre. The 1917 Stanley Cup Final was contested by the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) champion Seattle Metropolitans and the National Hockey Association (NHA) champion Montreal Canadiens. He eventually retired in 1930 and moved back to live in Bremerton, where he died in 1963 at the age of 72. Games one and three were played under PCHA seven-man rules; games two and four were played under NHA six-man rules. He calmed his act down in the Finals against Montreal, though. Overall in his career in Seattle, he racked-up 32 goals and 40 assists for 72 points in 176 games. Stanley Cup awarded on challenge basis 1893–1914, by prearranged inter-league competitions 1915–1926, to NHL champion since 1927, Seattle Metropolitans 1917 Stanley Cup champions, "1916–17 Stanley Cup Winner: Seattle Metropolitans", "hockeyleaguehistory.com – Pacific Coast Hockey Association", "Seattle Metropolitans win the Stanley Cup on March 26, 1917", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1917_Stanley_Cup_Finals&oldid=969097763, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Montreal Canadiens NHA champion roster - George Vezina goalie, Bert Corbeau defence, Harry Mummery defence, Edouard "Newsy" Lalonde (Captain) Center-Rover Tommy Smith center, Didier Pitre right wing, Reginald "Reg" Noble left wing, Jack Laviolette left wing, Louis Berlinguette left wing, Wilfred "Billy" Coutu defence spares - Sarsfield "Steve" Malone center, George "Skinner" Poulin center, Jules Rochon - defence Harold "Hal" McNamara defence He ended his playing career playing 2 games with the Portland Rosebuds in the 1915-26 season. This page was last edited on 23 July 2020, at 11:17. Later, he also spent parts of two seasons in the NHL with the Detroit Cougars and Chicago Blackhawks, picking up 2 assists in 17 games combined between the two teams Jim Riley also holds a distinction held by nobody else in sports history. Dave Majors defence, Arthur Brooks defence, Joe Maltais right wing, U.P. But the Mets won the next three contests to clinch the Cup, allowing only one goal in each game. He’ll probably be best remembered for having not one, not two, but THREE fights against noted Montreal tough guy Billy Coutu during the Stanley Cup final (interesting note on Coutu; he was fined and suspended several times throughout his career, leading him to be the only player in NHL history to actually be BANNED FOR LIFE due to his violent exploits). He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1960 and died one year later in Seattle at the age of 61. On the Stanley Cup winning team,  posted 3 goals in 17 games for the Mets. Eventually one day in a fit of un-laziness, I’ll probably change the name of the page). The 1917 Stanley Cup Final was contested by the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) champion Seattle Metropolitans and the National Hockey Association (NHA) champion Montreal Canadiens.