1915–16 Montreal Canadiens season

Regular season

Schedule and results

Playoffs

Montreal Canadiens 1916 Stanley Cup champions

References

Final standings

Stanley Cup Finals

Roster

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1915–16 Montreal Canadiens season was the team's seventh season and seventh of the National Hockey Association (NHA). After finishing last in 1914–15, the club rebounded to win the league championship and win the Stanley Cup for the first time.

The Canadiens revised their lineup after finishing last. Ernie Dubeau, Jimmy Gardner and Harry Scott retired. The Canadiens added Howard McNamara and Goldie Prodgers on defence. Jack Laviolette moved to forward from defence. Lalonde would have an outstanding season, leading the league in scoring with 31 goals and Georges Vezina would improve his GAA to 3.2, second in the league to Clint Benedict. The team would win all of its last seven games (and eleven of the last twelve) of the season to take the league championship.

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Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals Against

Month	Day	Visitor	Score	Home	Score
Dec.	18	Canadiens	2	Toronto	1
	22	Wanderers	3	Canadiens	2
	29	Canadiens	2	Quebec	5
Jan.	1	Canadiens	4	Ottawa	2
	5	Toronto	1	Canadiens	6
	8	Canadiens	3	Wanderers	5
	12	Quebec	3	Canadiens	5
	15	Ottawa	5	Canadiens	2
	20	Canadiens	2	Quebec	2 (20' OT)
	23	Canadiens	1	Toronto	3
	26	Wanderers	4	Canadiens	5
Feb.	2	Wanderers	9	Canadiens	5
	6	Toronto	5	Canadiens	10
	9	Ottawa	2	Canadiens	3 (7'20" OT)
	12	Canadiens	3	Ottawa	1
	16	Quebec	3	Canadiens	4
	19	Wanderers	3	Canadiens	1
	23	Canadiens	3	Quebec	2
	26	Quebec	3	Canadiens	4 (15" OT)
Mar.	1	Toronto	3	Canadiens	7
	4	Canadiens	15	Wanderers	5
	11	Ottawa	1	Canadiens	4
	12	Canadiens	5	Ottawa	1
	16	Canadiens	6	Toronto	4

The club won the league outright to proceed to the Stanley Cup championship.

Main article: 1916 Stanley Cup Finals

The series was held in Montreal, it being the turn of the NHA champion to host the series. The games were held at the Montreal Arena.

Champions	Runners up	Format	Result
Montreal Canadiens	Portland Rosebuds	best of 5	3–2

Centres

Wingers

Defencemen

Goaltenders

Georges Vezina

‡ also played rover
† missing from team picture

Coaching and administrative staff

U. P. Boucher (President)
George Kennedy (Manager/Treasurer)
Napoleon Dorval (Secretary)
S. Newsworthy (Trainer), Aldrie Guiment (Ass't Trainer).

Even though they officially did not win the Cup during this season, the Rosebuds had the words "Portland Ore./PCHA Champions/1915–16" engraved on the Cup after obtaining the trophy from the previous year's champions, the Vancouver Millionaires. This was similar to the practice prior to 1915 when the trophy was officially passed on to the winner of the league championship of the previous Cup champion's league.

After the finals, "Canadians/NHA & World's Champions/Defeated Portland/1915–16" was added to the Cup (Note that the anglicized, singular form of "Canadiens" was engraved).

Montreal Canadiens

Ottawa Senators

Quebec Bulldogs

Montreal Wanderers

Toronto Hockey Club

Coleman, Charles L. (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, vol. 1 1893–1926 inc. National Hockey League. pp. 286–304.
McFarlane, Brian (1996). The Habs. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing. ISBN 0-7737-2981-X.
O'Brien, Andy (1971). Les Canadiens: the story of the Montreal Canadiens. Toronto, New York: McGrawHill-Ryerson. ISBN 0-07-092950-5.

↑ Standings: Coleman, Charles (1966). Trail of the Stanley Cup, vol. 1, 1893-1926 inc. National Hockey League. p. 293.

Preceded by Vancouver Millionaires 1915	Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup Champions 1916	Succeeded by Seattle Metropolitans 1917

Montreal Canadiens seasons

1900s	1909–10

1910s	1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20

1920s	1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30

1930s	1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40

1940s	1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50

1950s	1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60

1960s	1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70

1970s	1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80

1980s	1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90

1990s	1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00

2000s	2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10

2010s	2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15

Highlighted seasons indicate Stanley Cup championship

1915–16 NHA season

NHA	Montreal Canadiens Montreal Wanderers Ottawa Quebec Toronto

See also	Stanley Cup Finals

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