1922–23 NHL season

At the start of the season, Newsy Lalonde found himself moving west as the Montreal Canadiens traded him to the Saskatoon Sheiks of the Western Canada Hockey League for a rising young star named Aurel Joliat.{{sfn|Dryden|2000|p=25}} Joliat would help the Canadiens win the second playoff spot over the St. Patricks. Joliat scored two goals in his first game with the Canadiens, but Babe Dye had five goals in the Toronto St. Patricks' 7–2 win. Joliat finished with 12 goals and 21 points in 24 games.{{sfn|Dinger|2011|p=146}}

The Canadiens sent Bert Corbeau and Edmond Bouchard to Hamilton

in exchange for Joe Malone, now in the twilight of his great career.

On January 31, 1923, the Montreal Canadiens and Hamilton Tigers played the first penalty-free game in NHL history, a 5–4 Montreal victory.

On February 14, 1923, CFCA, the radio station of the Toronto Daily Star, broadcast the third period of the Senators-St. Patricks game in Toronto. This was the first radio broadcast of an NHL game. The broadcaster has not been identified, but it may have been Norman Albert who broadcast the Midland-North Toronto game February 8 from the Toronto Arena.{{sfn|Kitchen|2008|p=246}}

On February 17, 1923, Cy Denneny of Ottawa scored his 143rd goal, surpassing Joe Malone as the all-time goal-scoring leader as the Ottawa Senators shut out the Montreal Canadiens 2–0.

{{1922–23 NHL standings}}

This was the second year in which the Stanley Cup playoffs involved three leagues. The previous year saw all three second place teams win their respective leagues. This year, it was all the first place teams. The NHL total goals playoffs for the O'Brien Cup were won by the Ottawa Senators 3 goals to 2. The Pacific Coast Hockey Association abandoned its seven-man hockey in favour of the six-man rules used in the NHL and the Western Canada Hockey League. This allowed the PCHA and the WCHL to play interleague games. Despite playing interleague games, the two separate leagues kept their own standings. The newly renamed Vancouver Maroons won the PCHA championship and the Edmonton Eskimos won the WCHL championship.{{sfn|McFarlane|1973|p=33}}

In the O'Brien Trophy playoffs, the first-place Ottawa Senators, played off against the second-place Montreal Canadiens in a two-game total goals series.

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|1-1-2 =No scoring

|1-2-1 =No scoring

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|1-3-1 =No scoring

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Billy Boucher (1) - 19:15

|2-1-2 =No scoring

|2-2-1 =No scoring

|2-2-2 =No scoring

|2-3-1 =No scoring

|2-3-2 =5:05 - Cy Denneny (2)

|goalie2-1 =Georges Vezina

|goalie2-2 =Clint Benedict

|series = Ottawa won the series on total goals 3-2

}}

{{main article|1923 Stanley Cup playoffs}}

The Stanley Cup playoffs were played in Vancouver. There, the WCHL champions received the privilege of battling the winner between Ottawa and Vancouver. In the end, Ottawa prevailed over both Western opponents to win their eighth Stanley Cup (third as a member of the NHL). Injuries had thinned the Senators line-up, and after seeing the gritty show put on by the undermanned Senators, Vancouver head coach Frank Patrick called them the greatest team he had ever seen.

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|1-2-2 =No scoring

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3:37 - Frank Boucher (1)
14:45 - Frank Boucher (2)

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|2-2-1 =13:51 - Art Duncan (2)

|2-2-2 =No scoring

|2-3-1 =No scoring

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|goalie2-2 =Clint Benedict

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|3-1-1 =5:23 - Alf Skinner (1)

|3-1-2 =Punch Broadbent (2) - 6:33
Punch Broadbent (3) - 14:35

|3-2-1 =16:47 - Mickey MacKay (1)

|3-2-2 =No scoring

|3-3-1 =No scoring

|3-3-2 =Frank Nighbor (1) - 2:13

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|goalie3-2 =Clint Benedict

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|4-1-1 =No scoring

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Eddie Gerard (1) - 17:25

|4-2-1 =No scoring

|4-2-2 =Punch Broadbent (4) - 10:07

|4-3-1 =16:46 - Smokey Harris (1)

|4-3-2 =King Clancy (1) - 9:15
Punch Broadbent (5) - 19:56

|goalie4-1 =Hugh Lehman

|goalie4-2 =Clint Benedict

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}}

{{main article|1923 Stanley Cup Finals}}

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|1-1-2 =No scoring

|1-2-1 =10:05 - John Morrison (1)

|1-2-2 =No scoring

|1-3-1 =No scoring

|1-3-2 =Lionel Hitchman (1) - 13:04

|1-4-1 =No scoring

|1-4-2 =Cy Denneny (3) - 2:08

|goalie1-1 =Hal Winkler

|goalie1-2 =Clint Benedict

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|2-1-1 =No scoring

|2-1-2 =Punch Broadbent (6) - pp - 11:23

|2-2-1 =No scoring

|2-2-2 =No scoring

|2-3-1 =No scoring

|2-3-2 =No scoring

|goalie2-1 =Hal Winkler

|goalie2-2 =Clint Benedict

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}}

Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points

O'Brien Cup — Ottawa Senators

Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; PIM = Penalties in minutes; Pts = Points

GP = Games Played, GA = Goals Against, Mins = Minutes played, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals Against Average

• Hamilton Tigers: Art Ross
• Montreal Canadiens: Leo Dandurand
• Ottawa Senators: Pete Green
• Toronto St. Patricks: George O'Donoghue

The following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1922–23 (listed with their first team, asterisk(*) marks debut in playoffs):

• Billy Burch, Hamilton Tigers
• Aurel Joliat, Montreal Canadiens
• Lionel Hitchman, Ottawa Senators

The following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 1922–23 (listed with their last team):

• Didier Pitre, Montreal Canadiens
• Eddie Gerard, Ottawa Senators
• Harry Cameron, Toronto St. Patricks

• List of Stanley Cup champions
• Pacific Coast Hockey Association
• Western Canada Hockey League
• List of pre-NHL seasons
• 1922 in sports
• 1923 in sports

• {{cite book|title=The Trail of the Stanley Cup, vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc|last=Coleman |first=Charles|year=1966 }}
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|last3=Hughes |first3=Morgan |last4=Romain |first4=Joseph |last5=Duplacey |first5=James

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• {{cite book |last=Kitchen |first=Paul |title=Win, Tie or Wrangle: The Inside Story of the Old Ottawa Senators – 1883–1935 |publisher=Penumbra Press |location=Manotick Ontario |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-897323-46-5}}
• {{cite book |last=McFarlane |first=Brian |title=The Story of the National Hockey League |publisher=Pagurian Press |location=New York, NY |year=1973 |isbn=0-684-13424-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/storyofnationalh0000mcfa }}
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;Notes

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite web |url=http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/leagues/seasons/nhl19271923.html |title=National Hockey League seasons |publisher=Hockey Database}}
• [http://nhl.com/ NHL.com]

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