1904–05 FAHL season

The 1904–05 Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL) season lasted from December 31, 1904 until March 3. Teams played an eight game schedule.

Regular season
The newly transferred Ottawa Hockey Club would win the league championship with a record of seven wins and one loss.

Highlights
Frank McGee would score five goals against the Montagnards on February 4.

Ottawa vs. Dawson City
In January 1905, the Dawson City Nuggets travelled 4,000 miles (6,400 km) from the Yukon to Ottawa for a best-of-three Cup challenge series. The Nuggets actually left Dawson City on December 19 1904 and travelled on a month-long journey by dog sled (Dawson to Whitehorse), ship (Skagway to Vancouver), and train (Whitehorse to Skagway, and Vancouver to Ottawa). Largely because of the long trip, they were no match for the Silver Seven. Ottawa defeating them in Game 1, 9–2. Numerous Stanley Cup records were then set in Game 2, including Frank McGee's 14 goals, and a 23–2 rout, the largest margin of victory for any challenge game or Stanley Cup Final game to date.

Several players playing for Dawson were from the Ottawa area. Jim Johnstone was from Ottawa. Norman Watt was from Aylmer, Quebec. Randy McLennan had played in a Stanley Cup challenge for Queen's University of Kingston, Ontario. Another player has Stanley Cup challenge experience: Lorne Hanna, "formerly of the Yukon", had played for Brandon Wheat Cities in their 1904 challenge of Ottawa.

After the series, Ottawa held a banquet for Dawson City at the Ottawa Amateur Athletic Association (OAAA) clubhouse. After the banquet the Stanley Cup was drop kicked into the frozen Rideau Canal. It was retrieved the next day.

Ottawa vs. Rat Portage
In March 1905, the Rat Portage Thistles issued another challenge to the Senators. McGee did not play in the first game and the Thistles crushed Ottawa, 9–3. However, he returned to lead the Senators to 4–2 and 5–4 victories in games two and three, respectively.

Ottawa Hockey Club 1905 Stanley Cup champions
{{Stanley Cup champion| † Substitute/on team picture/dressed, but did not play &-Missing from the team picture. Weldy Young, a former member of the Ottawa team in the 1890s, and the captain of the Dawson City team, engraved his name on the Cup with a pen knife. He had missed playing for Dawson as he was working in the federal election, although he did arrive in Ottawa during the series.
 * defence=*Harvey Pulford (Point-Captain)
 * Arthur Moore(coverpoint),
 * Rod Kennedy(coverpoint)
 * centers=*Frank McGee
 * Harry Westwick(Rover)
 * wingers=*Angus “Bones” Allan
 * Billy Bawlf
 * Hamilton “Billy” Gilmour
 * Horace Gaul
 * Hamby Shore
 * MacDonald
 * Alf Smith(playing-Coach)
 * goaltenders=*Billy Hague
 * non-players=*G.P. Murphy(President), Robert T. "Bob" Shillington(Manager)
 * Patrick Baskerville(Treasurer), Thomas D'Arcy McGee(Secretary)
 * Halder Kirby(Club Doctor), David Barred(Team Denist)
 * Llewellyn Bates, J.P. Dickson, Martin Rosenthal, Charles Sparks(Directors)
 * Pete Green(Trainer), Mac MacGilton (Ass't Trainer)
 * player-notes=
 * engraving-notes=

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