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April 6, 1926 was a day of decisive endings on the ice and wobbly, yet enthralling beginnings in the air. The entity in the latter event would later have an indirect connection with an NHL team established the same year. On the day in question, the NHL’s Montreal Maroons captured the Stanley Cup with a…

From the NHL’s inception onward, only the 1924-25 Victoria Cougars delivered a Stanley Cup championship to another league. The WCHL champions fed off their home crowd on their second attempt to eliminate the Montreal Canadiens in the best-of-five final. With a 6-1 romp, they denied the future sovereigns of North American professional hockey a repeat…

The Montreal Canadiens nabbed their first Stanley Cup as an NHL team March 25, 1924. A 3-0 blanking of the Calgary Tigers cemented a best-of-three sweep and delivered the Habs’ first title since they were still NHA tenants in 1916. Over the next seven decades, Montreal would add another 22 banners, which remains a runaway…

The original Ottawa Senators were the NHL’s original model franchise. They made that evident no later than March 31, 1923, becoming the fledgling league’s first tenant to win three Stanley Cups. For the latter half of the month, Vancouver’s Denman Arena emboldened its image as the Sens’ home away from home. As the host site…

The Vancouver Millionaires were one win away from bringing home their first Stanley Cup in seven years. But upon facing elimination in the best-of-five championship round, the Toronto St. Patricks erupted. With a 6-0 rout in Game 4, Toronto forced the rubber match for March 28, 1922. On that evening, the hosts romped again, 5-1,…

Hockey in April? How radical! At least, that’s how it was when the 1919-20 Ottawa Senators faced the Seattle Metropolitans in the rubber match of their best-of-five Stanley Cup Final. Ottawa’s eventual 6-1 victory was the first game ever played after March with hockey’s hallowed chalice at stake. As it happened, that milestone also coincided…

When the original Ottawa Senators vanquished the Vancouver Millionaires for the 1921 Stanley Cup, a budding actress who would log one degree of separation from hockey cinema several times later in life came into being. A best-of-five series, contested entirely in the PCHA champion Millionaires’ barn, culminated April 4, 1921. Four nights after his club…

Editor’s note: This is the latest installment in a recurring series where a Pucks and Rec writer will select the top contemporary actor from each city in a hockey league. This week, we focus on the current markets in the OHL Central Division. All filmography and award information was found on the Internet Movie Database.…