Nhl season cancelled 1919. The series was cancelled after five games had been played due to an outbreak of spanish flu. With the covid 19 pandemic forcing the league to pause things in march and effectively ending the regular season this has been an unprecedented year. The four teams played 24 games in a split schedule format.
The cover of the toronto globe announcing the cancellation of the 1919 stanley cup final. Hosting the series in seattle was the. The 1919 stanley cup final marked the first and only time in nhl history the series was cancelled in a non lockout year.
No champion was declared. In the midst of the panic a number of sporting events were canceled and the college football season was largely abandoned. The series was a rematch of the 1917 stanley cup final and the first since the armistice to end world war i.
The league reportedly is not optimistic the season will be restarted. A quebec team was activated by the nhl increasing the number of teams to four. On january 28 1919 seattles health commissioner announced that the.
It was the only time in the history of the stanley cup that it was not awarded due to a no decision after playoffs were held. There is only one time in history where a season has been called off by pandemic according to the seattle times. The nhl gets ready for the 2020 stanley cup playoffs in the bubbles in edmonton and toronto to safely complete its season.
Thee are unprecedented times. The difference is that the 1919 season was canceled just hours before the decisive game of the stanley cup final. The 1919 stanley cup finals was the ice hockey play off series to determine the 1919 stanley cup champions.
The ottawa senators won the league championship by winning both halves of the split season. The cancellation occurred more than a century ago when the seattle metropolitans of the pacific coast hockey association faced off against the nhls montreal canadiens in the 1919 stanley cup. Nhl season suspension echoes of 1919 stanley cup cancellation.
That series featured the montreal canadiens who took down the ottawa senators in. The 191920 nhl season was the third season of the national hockey league. As five members of the montreal canadiensand manager george kennedylay bedridden with influenza at a downtown seattle hotel on april 1 1919 nursing fevers that ranged from 101 to 105 degrees.
It happened in 1919 when the stanley cup final had to be called off due to the spanish flu pandemic.