Maritime Professional Hockey League

The Maritime Professional Hockey League (MaPHL) was a professional men's ice hockey league operating in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia from around 1911 until 1914. Two of the league's champions challenged for the Stanley Cup. The league was preceded in 1910–11 by the Interprovincial Professional Hockey League and followed in 1914–15 by the Eastern Professional Hockey League.

History

The 1913 Sydney Millionaires Professional Ice Hockey Team, Maritime Professional Hockey Association champs, Stanley Cup Challengers.

Originally the Maritime Hockey League, the loop was created as an amateur ice hockey league operating in Nova Scotia around 1900. The league is notable for having several teams challenge for the Stanley Cup.

Stanley Cup Challengers:

• 1900 – Halifax Crescents
• 1906 – New Glasgow Cubs

As part of the general progression of elite ice hockey leagues to paid professionals in the time period around 1910, the league made the switch official in 1910, calling itself the Interprovincial Professional Hockey League. The name changed again in 1911 to the Maritime Professional Hockey League and once again in 1914 to the Eastern Professional Hockey League. The EPHL suspended operations on February 7, 1915 after having shrunk to only two teams.[1]

Two MaPHL champions went on to challenge the NHA champion for the Stanley Cup:

• 1912 – Moncton Victorias
• 1913 – Sydney Millionaires

In September 1913, the MaPHL arranged with the NHA and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) for the formation of a hockey commission to govern inter-league operations, contract issues and the play of the Stanley Cup between the league champions. In 1914, it was expected that the MaPHL champion would play the Toronto Blueshirts of the NHA for the Stanley Cup, but this was cancelled and Maritime champions did not play for the Stanley Cup again.

1910–11 season

1911–12 season

The Halifax Socials joined the three teams from the IPHL: the Moncton Victorias, the New Glasgow Cubs, and the Halifax Crescents. Each team played the other three teams six times, three home, three away.

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

Maritime Professional Hockey League	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Moncton Victorias	18	12	6	0	106	80	24
New Glasgow Cubs	18	10	8	0	108	80	20
Halifax Socials	18	7	11	0	100	126	14
Halifax Crescents	18	7	11	0	94	122	14

1912–13 season

The Sydney Millionaires join the league making five teams that play the others four times each, two home, two away. After the season, the Millionaires would make an unsuccessful challenge against the Quebec Bulldogs for the Stanley Cup.

Maritime Professional Hockey League	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Sydney Millionaires	16	11	5	0	71	60	22
New Glasgow Cubs	16	10	6	0	89	58	20
Moncton Victorias	16	9	7	0	71	63	18
Halifax Socials	16	8	8	0	66	67	16
Halifax Crescents	16	2	14	0	44	95	4

1913–14 season

The New Glasgow Cubs are renamed the New Glasgow Black Foxes. The Moncton Victorias fold bringing the league back to four teams, each playing the others eight times, four home, four away. The Millionaires do not play a planned Stanley Cup challenge against the Toronto Blueshirts.

Maritime Professional Hockey League	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Sydney Millionaires	24	16	8	0	131	113	32
New Glasgow Black Foxes	24	16	8	0	162	117	32
Halifax Crescents	24	12	12	0	108	107	24
Halifax Socials	24	4	20	0	97	161	8

1914–15 season

Teams

• Glace Bay Miners – 1914–1915
• Halifax Crescents – 1910–1914
• Halifax Socials – 1911–1914
• Moncton Victorias – 1910–1913
• New Glasgow Cubs – 1910–1913
• New Glasgow Black Foxes – 1913–1915
• Sydney Millionaires – 1912–1915

See also

• List of Stanley Cup champions

Notes

1. Muller, p. 466

References

• Müller, Stephan (2005). International Ice Hockey Encyclopaedia: 1904–2005. Books on Demand. ISBN 3-8334-4189-5.
• Maritime Professional Hockey League history