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(Top) 1 Team business 2 Season 2.1 Highlights 2.2 Final standing 3 Schedule and results 3.1 Goaltending averages 3.2 Scoring Leaders 4 Awards and records 5 Transactions 6 Roster 7 See also 8 References

1896–97 Ottawa Hockey Club season

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1896–97 Ottawa Hockey Club
League	2nd AHAC
1896–97 record	5–3–0
Team information
Captain	Fred Chittick
Arena	Dey's Skating Rink
Team leaders
Goals	Alf Smith (12)
Goals against average	Fred Chittick (2.3)
← 1895–96 1897–98 →

The 1896–97 Ottawa Hockey Club season was the club's 12th season of play. Ottawa placed second in the league.

Team business

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Directors

P. D. Ross – Honorary president
A. Z. Palmer – Honorary vice-president
S. M. Rogers – President
C. Kirby – Vice-president
J. P. Dickson – Secretary
G. P. Murphy – Treasurer
F. C. Chittick – Captain
W. A. Cox, H. Westwick, Fred White – Executive committee

Source: "Sports of all sorts". The Globe. November 14, 1896. p. 26.

Season

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Highlights

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Fred Chittick was the league's leading goaltender, only allowing 2.3 goals per game. Former captains Chauncy Kirby and Bert Russel retired from the team.

The Ottawa club moved to the new Dey's Skating Rink. In the first game in the new rink, it was inaugurated with the Governor General, the Earl of Aberdeen and his wife, the Countess of Aberdeen in attendance.^[1]

Final standing

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Team	Games Played	Wins	Losses	Goals For	Goals Against
Montreal Victorias	8	7	1	48	26
Ottawa	8	5	3	25	18
Montreal	8	5	3	31	26
Quebec	8	2	6	22	46
Montreal Shamrocks	8	1	7	27	37

Schedule and results

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Day	Visitor	Score	Home	Score	Record
January
9	Shamrocks	1	Ottawa	4	1–0
16	Quebec	1	Ottawa	4	2–0
30†	Ottawa	0	Montreal	1	2–1†
February
6	Victorias	4	Ottawa	2	2–1
13	Ottawa	3	Victorias	1	3–1
17‡	Ottawa	4	Montreal	0	4–1
20	Montreal	4	Ottawa	3	4–2
27	Ottawa	1	Quebec	4	4–3
March
6	Ottawa	4	Shamrocks	3	5–3

† Protested by Ottawa who scored the tying goal in last few seconds but the goal was disallowed by the referee. The protest was upheld and the game replayed.

‡ Replay of January 30 protested game.

Goaltending averages

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Name	GP	GA	SO	Avg.
Fred Chittick	8	18	1	2.3

Scoring Leaders

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Name	GP	G
Smith, Alf	8	12
Westwick, Harry	8	6
Charlie Spittal	7	3
Alf Living	2	2
Daniel "Moxie" Smith	5	2

Awards and records

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Transactions

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Roster

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Fred Chittick – goal
William Dey
Howard Hutchison
Alf Living
Harvey Pulford
Alf Smith
Daniel "Moxie" Smith
Charlie Spittal
Harry Westwick
Weldy Young

References

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^ "Shamrocks v. Ottawa". The Ottawa Citizen. January 9, 1987. p. 5.

Coleman, Charles L. (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc. pp. 35–38.

v t e Ottawa Hockey Club / Ottawa Senators (original) seasons
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1890s	1890–91 1891–92 1892–93 1893–94 1894–95 1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–00
1900s	1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10
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1920s	1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30
1930s	1930–31 . 1931–32 . 1932–33 1933–34 St. Louis
Highlighted seasons indicate Stanley Cup championship

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