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Quebec Bulldogs
Quebec Bulldogs
Founded	1878
History	Quebec Bulldogs; 1878 – 1920; Hamilton Tigers; 1920 – 1925
Home arena	Quebec Skating Rink 1878-1913; Quebec Arena 1913-1920
City	Quebec City, Quebec
Colours	Blue and White
Stanley Cups	1912, 1913

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For the former minor league baseball team known as the Quebec Athletics, see Quebec Athletics (baseball)

The Quebec Bulldogs were a men's senior-level ice hockey team officially known as the Quebec Hockey Club,^[3] later as the Quebec Athletic Club. Their recorded play goes back as far as the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada (AHAC) in 1889, although the Quebec Hockey Club is known to have played in tournaments prior to that date. The club continued as an amateur team through various leagues, eventually becoming professional in 1908, and eventually playing in the National Hockey League. The Bulldog name was given by the media and was so popular with the fans a Bulldog mascot was created but was never officially changed until the team moved to Hamilton, Ontario in 1920 and became the Tigers.

Franchise history

Amateur Roots, 1878–1909

The Quebec Hockey Club was founded in 1878, after the founding of the Quebec Skating Club in 1877 and the construction of the Quebec Skating Rink in 1877.^[1] Play was by exhibition only, against teams drawn from the club members or visiting teams from Montreal. In the 1880s, the club played in the Montreal Winter Carnival, and joined the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada (AHAC) in 1888 and were members until 1898. After the AHAC, Quebec played in the Canadian Amateur Hockey League from 1899 to 1905, and the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association from 1906 to 1909.

The club came close to winning the Stanley Cup on two occasions. In the 1894 season, Quebec tied for the AHAC regular season lead with three other clubs. The AHAC drew up plans to hold the playoff solely in Montreal. Quebec declined to play in Montreal without one game in Quebec and the championship was eventually won by the Montreal Hockey Club. In 1905, Quebec won the outright championship of the CAHL. In a dispute, the club did not win the Stanley Cup or challenge for it. The Ottawa Hockey Club was the defending champions in 1904–05, but withdrew from the league. Quebec went on to win the CAHL and expected to receive the Stanley Cup as league champions. The trustees of the Cup instead ruled that the Cup went with Ottawa. Quebec refused to challenge Ottawa for the Cup.

National Hockey Association

In late 1909, Quebec became a founding member of the Canadian Hockey Association (CHA) in 1909. The CHA, however, would only last one month before being absorbed into the much more powerful National Hockey Association (NHA). Unsure if they wanted to join the NHA, the Bulldogs sat out the inaugural 1910 season. The following season, 1910–11, the Bulldogs took over the defunct Cobalt Silver Kings franchise, but had a rough initiation, finishing dead last with 4 wins and 12 losses in a 16 game season. On a positive note, and a sign of things to come, Jack McDonald scored 14 goals and Tommy Dunderdale scored 13.

For 1911–12, the Bulldogs went from worst to first, with Joe Malone having a spectacular season, to win the O'Brien Cup as champions of the NHA and the Stanley Cup. The Dogs' record improved to 10 wins and 8 losses while Malone scored 21 goals and Jack McDonald scored 18. In a Stanley Cup challenge, they crushed the Moncton Victorias in 2 games, 9–3 and 8–0, in the best of three playoff.

File:QuebecBulldogs1911.png

Logo used (1911 – 1913)

In their third season (1912–13), Quebec would again finish first overall with a record of 16 wins and 4 losses to retain the championship. Joe Malone won the scoring race with an unprecedented 43 goals. His teammate, Tommy Smith, was a close second with 39. In a Stanley Cup challenge after the season the team easily beat the Sydney Millionaires in two games by a combined score of 20 to 5.

The Victoria Aristocrats of the PCHA next challenged the Bulldogs. The powerhouse Bulldogs expected to bowl over the Aristocrats, but were shocked after splitting the first two games and then losing 6–1 in the decisive third game. Fortunately for Quebec, and unfortunately for Victoria, the Stanley Cup Board of trustees did not recognise the challenge by the Aristocrats as being official and the Bulldogs were able to keep the Cup.

In December 1913, the Bulldogs moved to the new Quebec Arena.^[2] The following seasons would see the Bulldogs drop from the top of the league. They would finish third overall in each of the next three seasons and in the last NHA season (1916–17) went second overall. After their two Stanley Cup wins, though, they would never again challenge for the Cup.

National Hockey League and the move to Hamilton 1917–1925

With the end of the National Hockey Association and the start of the National Hockey League, the Quebec HC were invited to become a founding member of the NHL. Unfortunately, Quebec was unable to garner the required funds or merge with a top amateur team, and suspended operations for two seasons. While the team was suspended, their star player, Joe Malone, played for the Montreal Canadiens.

For the 1919–20 season, Mike Quinn revived the Quebec HC and changed the club name to the Quebec Athletic Club ^[4] upon entry to the NHL. Newspapers at the time now referred to the team as the Quebec Athletics.^[5] rather than Bulldogs. Joe Malone rejoined the franchise. Malone would win the scoring championship that year with 39 goals. Despite Malone's scoring and the presence of players like Harry Mummery, Quebec had a dismal season, finishing last, with four wins and twenty losses.

Before the 1920–21 season, the NHL took back the franchise, and sold it to Hamilton owners who moved the team to Hamilton where it became the Tigers. This helped to head off a potential competing league from setting up in Hamilton.^[6]

The team played as the Hamilton Tigers in the NHL from 1920 to 1925. Due in large part to a players' strike in the 1925 NHL playoffs, the franchise was revoked a second time, in the summer of 1925 and the players bought out by the expansion New York Americans franchise. The Americans would play in the NHL from 1925 to 1942.

The last active Bulldogs player was Dave Ritchie, who retired in 1926.

Season-by-season record

1888–1898 – Amateur Hockey Association of Canada
1899–1905 – Canadian Amateur Hockey League
1906–1909 – Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association
Jan. 1910 – Canadian Hockey Association
1910–1917 – National Hockey Association
1919–1920 – National Hockey League

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

Season	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA	Finish	Postseason
1888–89	Data incomplete
1890	Data incomplete
1891	Data incomplete
1892	Data incomplete
1893	8	2	5	1	4	23	46	fourth, AHAC	Did not qualify
1894	8	5	3	0	10	26	27	fourth, AHAC	Did not qualify
1895	8	0	8	0	0	18	27	fifth, AHAC	Did not qualify
1896	8	4	4	0	8	23	23	third, AHAC	Did not qualify
1897	8	2	6	0	4	22	46	fourth, AHAC	Did not qualify
1898	8	2	6	0	4	29	35	fourth, AHAC	Did not qualify
1899	8	0	8	0	0	12	31	fifth, CAHL	Did not qualify
1900	8	2	6	0	4	33	52	fifth, CAHL	Did not qualify
1901	8	1	7	0	2	21	43	fifth, CAHL	Did not qualify
1902	8	4	4	0	8	26	34	fourth, CAHL	Did not qualify
1903	7	3	4	0	6	30	46	fourth, CAHL	Did not qualify
1904	8	7	1	0	14	50	37	first, CAHL	Did not challenge for Stanley Cup
1905	10	8	2	0	16	78	45	second, CAHL	Did not qualify
1906	10	3	7	0	6	57	70	fourth, ECAHA	Did not qualify
1907	10	2	8	0	4	62	88	fifth, ECAHA	Did not qualify
1907–08	10	5	5	0	10	81	74	third, ECAHA	Did not qualify
1909	12	3	9	0	6	78	106	third, ECAHA	Did not qualify
1910	3	2	1	0	6	20	22	n/a	Season incomplete
1910–11	16	4	12	0	8	65	97	fifth, NHA	Did not qualify
1911–12	18	10	8	0	20	81	79	first, NHA	Won O'Brien Cup Won Stanley Cup
1912–13	20	16	4	0	32	112	75	first, NHA	Won O'Brien Cup Won Stanley Cup
1913–14	20	12	8	0	24	111	73	third, NHA	Did not qualify
1914–15	20	11	9	0	22	85	85	third, NHA	Did not qualify
1915–16	24	10	12	2	22	91	98	third, NHA	Did not qualify
1916–17 ¹	10	2	8	0	4	43	80	sixth, NHA	Did not qualify
1916–17 ²	10	8	2	0	16	54	46	second, NHA	Did not qualify
1919–20 ¹	12	2	10	0	4	44	81	fourth, NHL	Did not qualify
1919–20 ²	12	2	10	0	4	47	96	fourth, NHL	Did not qualify
Totals	312	132	177	3	267	1422	1662

Note: 1 = first half of season, 2 = second half of season

Notable players

Hall of Famers

Team captains

Joe Malone (1910–17, 1919–20)

1912 Stanley Cup Champions

Paddy Moran - goal
Goldie Prodgers - point
Joe Hall - coverpoint
Joe Malone - centre
Eddie Oatman - right wing
Jack McDonald - left wing
Jack Marks - sub
Walter Rooney - sub
G. Leonard - sub

1913 Stanley Cup Champions

Paddy Moran goal
Joe Hall - point
Harry Mummery - coverpoint
Joe Malone - centre
Tommy Smith - right wing
Jack Marks - left wing
Russell Crawford - sub
Billy Creighton - sub
Jeff Malone - sub
James "Rocket" Power - sub

References

Farrell, Arthur (1899). Hockey: Canada's Royal Winter Game. Montreal.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "Welcome to the Plains of Abraham". Government of Canada. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "WINTER SPORTS IN QUEBEC.; First Snow Start a Season of Which Much Is Expected". New York Times. December 13, 1913. p. XX5.
↑ Farrell, pg. 77
↑ http://quebecbulldogs.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/bulldogs-dabord-une-mascotte/
↑ Diamond, Dan (1991). The Official National Hockey League 75th anniversary commemorative book. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. p. 26. ISBN 0771067275.
↑ Holzman, Morey (2001). Deceptions and Doublecross: How the NHL conquered hockey. Dundurn Press.

External links

Template:Defunct Quebec Sports

[battfields-1878-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "Welcome to the Plains of Abraham". Government of Canada. Retrieved 2008-11-10.

[times-arena-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "WINTER SPORTS IN QUEBEC.; First Snow Start a Season of Which Much Is Expected". New York Times. December 13, 1913. p. XX5.

[3] Farrell, pg. 77

[4] ttps://quebecbulldogs.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/bulldogs-dabord-une-mascotte/

[5] Diamond, Dan (1991). The Official National Hockey League 75th anniversary commemorative book. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. p. 26. ISBN 0771067275.

[6] Holzman, Morey (2001). Deceptions and Doublecross: How the NHL conquered hockey. Dundurn Press.

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-| [[1893 AHAC season|1893]] || 8|| 2|| 5||1|| 4|| 23|| 46||4th, AHAC||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1893 AHAC season|1893]] || 8|| 2|| 5||1|| 4|| 23|| 46||fourth, AHAC||''Did not qualify''
 |- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
-| [[1894 AHAC season|1894]] || 8|| 5|| 3||0||10|| 26|| 27||4th, AHAC||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1894 AHAC season|1894]] || 8|| 5|| 3||0||10|| 26|| 27||fourth, AHAC||''Did not qualify''
 |-
-| [[1895 AHAC season|1895]] || 8|| 0|| 8||0|| 0|| 18|| 27||5th, AHAC||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1895 AHAC season|1895]] || 8|| 0|| 8||0|| 0|| 18|| 27||fifth, AHAC||''Did not qualify''
 |- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
-| [[1896 AHAC season|1896]] || 8|| 4|| 4||0|| 8|| 23|| 23||3rd, AHAC||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1896 AHAC season|1896]] || 8|| 4|| 4||0|| 8|| 23|| 23||third, AHAC||''Did not qualify''
 |-
-| [[1897 AHAC season|1897]] || 8|| 2|| 6||0|| 4|| 22|| 46||4th, AHAC||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1897 AHAC season|1897]] || 8|| 2|| 6||0|| 4|| 22|| 46||fourth, AHAC||''Did not qualify''
 |- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
-| [[1898 AHAC season|1898]] || 8|| 2|| 6||0|| 4|| 29|| 35||4th, AHAC||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1898 AHAC season|1898]] || 8|| 2|| 6||0|| 4|| 29|| 35||fourth, AHAC||''Did not qualify''
 |-
-| [[1899 CAHL season|1899]] || 8|| 0|| 8||0|| 0|| 12|| 31||5th, CAHL||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1899 CAHL season|1899]] || 8|| 0|| 8||0|| 0|| 12|| 31||fifth, CAHL||''Did not qualify''
 |-  bgcolor="#eeeeee"
-| [[1900 CAHL season|1900]] || 8|| 2|| 6||0|| 4|| 33|| 52||5th, CAHL||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1900 CAHL season|1900]] || 8|| 2|| 6||0|| 4|| 33|| 52||fifth, CAHL||''Did not qualify''
 |-
-| [[1901 CAHL season|1901]] || 8|| 1|| 7||0|| 2|| 21|| 43||5th, CAHL||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1901 CAHL season|1901]] || 8|| 1|| 7||0|| 2|| 21|| 43||fifth, CAHL||''Did not qualify''
 |- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
-| [[1902 CAHL season|1902]] || 8|| 4|| 4||0|| 8|| 26|| 34||4th, CAHL||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1902 CAHL season|1902]] || 8|| 4|| 4||0|| 8|| 26|| 34||fourth, CAHL||''Did not qualify''
 |-
-| [[1903 CAHL season|1903]] || 7|| 3|| 4||0|| 6|| 30|| 46||4th, CAHL||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1903 CAHL season|1903]] || 7|| 3|| 4||0|| 6|| 30|| 46||fourth, CAHL||''Did not qualify''
 |- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
-| [[1904 CAHL season|1904]] || 8|| 7|| 1||0||14|| 50|| 37||'''1st, CAHL'''||Did not challenge for Stanley Cup
+| [[1904 CAHL season|1904]] || 8|| 7|| 1||0||14|| 50|| 37||'''first, CAHL'''||Did not challenge for Stanley Cup
 |-
-| [[1905 CAHL season|1905]] ||10|| 8|| 2||0||16|| 78|| 45||2nd, CAHL||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1905 CAHL season|1905]] ||10|| 8|| 2||0||16|| 78|| 45||second, CAHL||''Did not qualify''
 |- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
-| [[1906 ECAHA season|1906]] ||10|| 3|| 7||0|| 6|| 57|| 70||4th, ECAHA||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1906 ECAHA season|1906]] ||10|| 3|| 7||0|| 6|| 57|| 70||fourth, ECAHA||''Did not qualify''
 |-
-| [[1907 ECAHA season|1907]] ||10|| 2|| 8||0|| 4|| 62|| 88||5th, ECAHA||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1907 ECAHA season|1907]] ||10|| 2|| 8||0|| 4|| 62|| 88||fifth, ECAHA||''Did not qualify''
 |- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
-| [[1907–08 ECAHA season|1907–08]] ||10|| 5|| 5||0||10|| 81|| 74||3rd, ECAHA||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1907–08 ECAHA season|1907–08]] ||10|| 5|| 5||0||10|| 81|| 74||third, ECAHA||''Did not qualify''
 |-
-| [[1909 ECAHA season|1909]] ||12|| 3|| 9||0|| 6|| 78||106||3rd, ECAHA||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1909 ECAHA season|1909]] ||12|| 3|| 9||0|| 6|| 78||106||third, ECAHA||''Did not qualify''
 |- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
 | [[Canadian Hockey Association (1909–1910)|1910]] || 3|| 2|| 1||0|| 6|| 20|| 22||n/a||''Season incomplete''
 |-
-| [[1910–11 NHA season|1910–11]] ||16|| 4||12||0|| 8|| 65|| 97||5th, NHA||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1910–11 NHA season|1910–11]] ||16|| 4||12||0|| 8|| 65|| 97||fifth, NHA||''Did not qualify''
 |- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
-| [[1911–12 NHA season|1911–12]] ||18||10|| 8||0||20|| 81|| 79||'''1st, NHA'''||'''Won O'Brien Cup''' <br>'''Won Stanley Cup'''
+| [[1911–12 NHA season|1911–12]] ||18||10|| 8||0||20|| 81|| 79||'''first, NHA'''||'''Won O'Brien Cup''' <br>'''Won Stanley Cup'''
 |-
-| [[1912–13 NHA season|1912–13]] ||20||16|| 4||0||32||112|| 75||'''1st, NHA'''||'''Won O'Brien Cup''' <br>'''Won Stanley Cup'''
+| [[1912–13 NHA season|1912–13]] ||20||16|| 4||0||32||112|| 75||'''first, NHA'''||'''Won O'Brien Cup''' <br>'''Won Stanley Cup'''
 |- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
-| [[1913–14 NHA season|1913–14]] ||20||12|| 8||0||24||111|| 73||3rd, NHA||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1913–14 NHA season|1913–14]] ||20||12|| 8||0||24||111|| 73||third, NHA||''Did not qualify''
 |-
-| [[1914–15 NHA season|1914–15]] ||20||11|| 9||0||22|| 85|| 85||3rd, NHA||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1914–15 NHA season|1914–15]] ||20||11|| 9||0||22|| 85|| 85||third, NHA||''Did not qualify''
 |-  bgcolor="#eeeeee"
-| [[1915–16 NHA season|1915–16]] ||24||10||12||2||22|| 91|| 98||3rd, NHA||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1915–16 NHA season|1915–16]] ||24||10||12||2||22|| 91|| 98||third, NHA||''Did not qualify''
 |-
-| [[1916–17 NHA season|1916–17]] <sup>1</sup> ||10|| 2|| 8||0|| 4|| 43|| 80||6th, NHA||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1916–17 NHA season|1916–17]] <sup>1</sup> ||10|| 2|| 8||0|| 4|| 43|| 80||sixth, NHA||''Did not qualify''
 |- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
-| [[1916–17 NHA season|1916–17]] <sup>2</sup> ||10|| 8|| 2||0||16|| 54|| 46||2nd, NHA||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1916–17 NHA season|1916–17]] <sup>2</sup> ||10|| 8|| 2||0||16|| 54|| 46||second, NHA||''Did not qualify''
 |-
-| [[1919–20 NHL season|1919–20]] <sup>1</sup> ||12|| 2||10||0|| 4|| 44|| 81||4th, NHL||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1919–20 NHL season|1919–20]] <sup>1</sup> ||12|| 2||10||0|| 4|| 44|| 81||fourth, NHL||''Did not qualify''
 |- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
-| [[1919–20 NHL season|1919–20]] <sup>2</sup> ||12|| 2||10||0|| 4|| 47|| 96||4th, NHL||''Did not qualify''
+| [[1919–20 NHL season|1919–20]] <sup>2</sup> ||12|| 2||10||0|| 4|| 47|| 96||fourth, NHL||''Did not qualify''
 |- bgcolor="#dddddd"
 ! Totals || 312 || 132 || 177 || 3 || 267 || 1422 || 1662

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