NHA hockey team season (last NHA season)
The 1916–17 Toronto Hockey Club season was the fifth and final season of the Toronto franchise in the National Hockey Association (NHA). With the departure of the Toronto 228th Battalion when their regiment was ordered overseas, the NHA decided to suspend the Toronto Blueshirts franchise as well for the remainder of the season.[ 1] Before the start of the next season, the NHA folded and a new league, the National Hockey League (NHL), was founded with a new team, the Toronto Hockey Club , which went on to become the present day Toronto Maple Leafs .[ 2] [ 3]
Second Half
GP
W
L
T
GF
GA
Ottawa Senators
10
8
2
0
63
22
Quebec Bulldogs
10
8
2
0
54
46
Montreal Canadiens
10
3
7
0
31
42
Montreal Wanderers
10
2
8
0
38
65
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Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals Against
After the 228th Battalion dropped out, and Toronto suspended, the schedule was revised so that the remaining teams would play a 20 game schedule of two halves
containing 10 games each. Some of the games to that point were moved into the second half. The 'second half' standings therefore include some games that the 228th and Toronto played.
Toronto Blueshirts franchise suspended on February 11.
[ 5]
^ Coleman, Charles (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc . NHL. p. 311.
^ Holzman, Morey; Joseph Nieforth (2002). Deceptions and Doublecross: How the NHL Conquered Hockey . Toronto, ON, Canada: Dundurn Press. p. 159. ISBN 1-55002-413-2 .
^ McKinley, Michael (2006). Hockey: A People's History . McClelland & Stewart. p. 77. ISBN 0-7710-5769-5 .
^ Standings: Coleman, Charles (1966). Trail of the Stanley Cup, vol. 1, 1893-1926 inc . National Hockey League. p. 315.
^ Coleman, Charles (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc . NHL.