Hockey Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide

Hockey Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide — page 7
I have for some time been thinking that it would be a good thing if there were a challenge cup which could be held from year to year by the champion hockey team in the Dominion Stanley wrote to the Ottawa Athletic Association in 1892 He later purchased a silver bowl for 10 guineas equal to about 50 at the time and created rules for how teams would win this new trophy In 1893 it was decided that the champion of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada would start with the trophy The first team to claim the Stanley Cup then known as the Dominion Challenge Trophy was the Montreal AAA The AAA won the trophy by finishing the 1893 season with seven wins and just one loss in league play Two teams challenged the AAA for the title the next year But the AAA defeated the Montreal Victorias and Ottawa Generals to hold on to the trophy Winning back-to-back titles was common in the old days of hockey but it has become