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Adapted from Chapter 11 Real war in Europe was on as was a salary war in hockey and by the end of the 1914-15 season, the Ottawa Senators were engaged in their own war – hockey style. The National Hockey Association (N.H.A.) and the Pacific Coast Hockey League (P.C.H.A.) had recently entered into an agreement…

Adapted from Chapter 10 As the Silver Seven era was ending so too was the sham of amateurism. It was an open secret that many of the better players were receiving pay in order to play. Newspapers ridiculed the deception. “Hockey and football players in Ottawa,” quipped the Toronto Telegram in 1906, “are to remain…

Adapted from Chapter 9 On and off for about five years, the Ottawas had been hearing about hockey in the Yukon and the aspirations of hockey people there to one day challenge for the Stanley Cup. Finally, in a letter dated August 24, 1904, the president and secretary of the Klondike Hockey Club issued a…