1920–21 Hamilton Tigers season

1920–21 Hamilton Tigers (NHL)
Division	4th NHL
1920–21 record	6–18–0
Team information
General manager	Percy Thompson
Coach	Percy Thompson
Team leaders
Goals	Joe Malone (28)
Assists	Joe Malone Goldie Prodgers Joe Matte (9)
Points	Joe Malone (37)
Penalty minutes	Billy Coutu (95)
Wins	Howie Lockhart (6)
Goals against average	Howie Lockhart (5.45)

The 1920–21 Hamilton Tigers season was the 1st season of play for the new Hamilton Tigers team in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Tigers finished in last place in both halves of the season and did not qualify for the playoffs.

Off-season

The NHL transferred the Quebec Bulldogs franchise to Hamilton, where it was named the Tigers, after the amateur team.

Regular Season

Joe Malone sports the Tigers 1920-21 jersey.

The Tigers would change their jerseys four times in the five seasons they spent in the NHL. For their debut season, their jerseys were gold and black vertical stripes with a tiger head logo. Striped socks and white pants rounded out the uniform.

Noting that the Bulldogs finished in last place in 1919–20, the league encouraged the other teams to provide players to Hamilton to improve the team's competitiveness. Toronto provided Babe Dye but recalled Dye after the first game and loaned Mickey Roach. Montreal provided Billy Coutu in exchange for keeping Harry Mummery. Ottawa did not provide any players willingly. Sprague Cleghorn and Harry Broadbent were eventually ordered by the league to report to Hamilton, but neither did. Cleghorn played some games with Toronto before returning to Ottawa.

After four games, Joe Malone, formerly of Quebec, arrived. He scored 28 goals in 20 games for the Tigers to place fourth in the league in goal-scoring. However, the team won only three games in each half of the schedule to finish last.

Final Standings

First Half

	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA
Ottawa Senators	10	8	2	0	16	49	23
Toronto St. Patricks	10	5	5	0	10	39	47
Montreal Canadiens	10	4	6	0	8	37	51
Hamilton Tigers	10	3	7	0	6	34	38

Second Half

	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA
Toronto St. Patricks	14	10	4	0	20	66	53
Montreal Canadiens	14	9	5	0	18	75	48
Ottawa Senators	14	6	8	0	12	48	52
Hamilton Tigers	14	3	11	0	6	58	94

Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points
Note: Teams that qualified for playoffs highlighted in bold.

Game Log

Regular Season Results
No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	W	December 22, 1920	5–0	Montreal Canadiens (1920–21)	1–0–0
2	L	December 27, 1920	1–3	@ Ottawa Senators (1920–21)	1–1–0
3	W	December 29, 1920	6–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1920–21)	2–1–0
4	L	January 3, 1921	4–5	Toronto St. Patricks (1920–21)	2–2–0
5	L	January 6, 1921	1–5	Ottawa Senators (1920–21)	2–3–0
6	W	January 8, 1921	3–2 OT	@ Toronto St. Patricks (1920–21)	3–3–0
7	L	January 12, 1921	2–4	Toronto St. Patricks (1920–21)	3–4–0
8	L	January 15, 1921	4–6	@ Montreal Canadiens (1920–21)	3–5–0
9	L	January 19, 1921	3–4	@ Ottawa Senators (1920–21)	3–6–0
10	L	January 22, 1921	5–7	Montreal Canadiens (1920–21)	3–7–0
Second half
11	L	January 26, 1921	3–10	@ Toronto St. Patricks (1920–21)	0–1–0
12	L	January 29, 1921	1–2	Ottawa Senators (1920–21)	0–2–0
13	W	February 2, 1921	6–5	Montreal Canadiens (1920–21)	1–2–0
14	L	February 5, 1921	3–7	Ottawa Senators (1920–21)	1–3–0
15	L	February 9, 1921	4–7	@ Ottawa Senators (1920–21)	1–4–0
16	L	February 12, 1921	4–6	Toronto St. Patricks (1920–21)	1–5–0
17	L	February 16, 1921	5–10	@ Montreal Canadiens (1920–21)	1–6–0
18	L	February 19, 1921	4–5	@ Toronto St. Patricks (1920–21)	1–7–0
19	W	February 23, 1921	7–4	Toronto St. Patricks (1920–21)	2–7–0
20	L	February 26, 1921	6–13	@ Montreal Canadiens (1920–21)	2–8–0
21	W	February 28, 1921	6–2	Ottawa Senators (1920–21)	3–8–0
22	L	March 2, 1921	1–7	Montreal Canadiens (1920–21)	3–9–0
23	L	March 5, 1921	3–4 OT	@ Toronto St. Patricks (1920–21)	3–10–0
24	L	March 7, 1921	5–12	@ Ottawa Senators (1920–21)	3–11–0

Playoffs

The Tigers did not qualify for the post season.

Player Stats

Regular season
Scoring
Player Pos GP G A Pts PIM Malone, JoeJoe Malone C/LW 20 28 9 37 6 Prodgers, GoldieGoldie Prodgers F/D 24 18 9 27 8 Roach, MickeyMickey Roach C 14 9 8 17 0 Joe Matte D 21 6 9 15 29 Coutu, BillyBilly Coutu D 24 8 4 12 95 McCarthy, ThomasThomas McCarthy RW 23 10 1 11 10 Carey, GeorgeGeorge Carey RW 20 6 1 7 8 Carpenter, EdEd Carpenter D 21 2 1 3 17 McDonnell, MoylanMoylan McDonnell D 22 1 2 3 2 Dye, BabeBabe Dye RW 1 2 0 2 0 Reise, LeoLeo Reise D 6 2 0 2 8 Coughlin, JackJack Coughlin RW 2 0 0 0 0 Lockhart, HowardHoward Lockhart G 24 0 0 0 0 Lowrey, EdEd Lowrey C 5 0 0 0 0 McLean, FredFred McLean D 1 0 0 0 0 Pletsch, CharlesCharles Pletsch D 1 0 0 0 0
Goaltending
Player MIN GP W L T GA GAA SO Lockhart, HowardHoward Lockhart 1454 24 6 18 0 132 5.45 1 Team: 1454 24 6 18 0 132 5.45 1

Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes
      MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;

Transactions

Date	From Tigers	To Tigers
November 11, 1920	To Montreal Canadiens Harry Mummery, Jack McDonald, Dave Ritchie	Jack Coughlin, Goldie Prodgers, Joe Matte, Billy Coutu(loan)
December 4, 1920	To Toronto St. Patricks	Babe Dye(loan)
December 24, 1920	To Toronto St. Patricks Babe Dye
December 30, 1920	To Ottawa Senators (original)	Punch Broadbent, Sprague Cleghorn(loan)
January 4, 1921	To Montreal Canadiens Punch Broadbent, Sprague Cleghorn (players did not report)	cash
January 25, 1921	To Toronto St. Patricks Sprague Cleghorn (did not report)

Source: Hockey Transactions Search Results. prosportstransactions.com. Retrieved on 2009-05-19.

Gallery

Mickey Roach sports the Tigers 1920-21 jersey.

Thomas McCarthy sports the Tigers 1920-21 jersey.

See Also

• 1920–21 NHL season

References

• Coleman, Charles (1966). Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol I., 1893–1926 inc.. Kendall/Hunt.