The Quebec Bulldogs () were an ice hockey team based in Quebec City. The team was officially known as the Quebec Hockey Club (), and later as the Quebec Athletic Club (). One of the first organized ice hockey clubs, the club debuted in 1878 with the opening of the Quebec Skating Rink. The club continued as an amateur team through various leagues, eventually becoming professional in 1908. The club would play in the National Hockey Association (the forerunner to the NHL) and the National Hockey League. In 1920, the team moved to Hamilton, Ontario and became the Hamilton Tigers.

History

Amateur roots, 1878–1909

thumb|left|250px|Quebec Hockey Club in 1891–92. Players are Bertram Patton, Herbert Bignell, Arthur Dickson Scott, Charles Smith, Arthur Edward Scott, Herbert Scott, Robert Davidson and [[David Watson (general)|David Watson.]]The Quebec Hockey Club was founded in 1878, after the construction of the Quebec Skating Rink in 1877. rather than Bulldogs.

While the team had been suspended, their star player, Joe Malone, played for the Canadiens. Malone rejoined the franchise, and won the scoring championship that year with 39 goals. Despite Malone's scoring and the presence of players like Harry Mummery, Quebec had a dismal season, finishing last, with 4 wins and 20 losses.

Before the 1920–21 season, the NHL took back the franchise, and sold it to new owners who moved the team to Hamilton, where it became the Tigers. This helped to head off a potential competing league organized by Livingstone from setting up in Hamilton.

The Tigers played in the NHL from 1920 to 1925. Due in large part to a team players' strike in the 1925 NHL playoffs, the franchise was revoked a second time that summer, this time for good. The entire Tigers roster was then sold to Bill Dwyer, owner of the expansion New York Americans franchise. However, the NHL does not reckon the Americans as a continuation of the Bulldogs/Tigers franchise. The Americans would play in the NHL from 1925 to 1942.

The last active Bulldogs player in major-league hockey was Dave Ritchie, who retired in 1926. The last active Bulldog player was Eddie Oatman, who played pro hockey until 1939 and played against the CAHL Quebec Beavers in 1929.

Over time, various hockey teams played in Quebec, including the minor-pro Quebec Castors and Quebec Aces. Big-league hockey would not return to Quebec City until the Quebec Nordiques were founded in 1972 as part of the new World Hockey Association. They joined the NHL in 1979. However, as with the Bulldogs, they found the going difficult playing in the league's smallest market. They moved to Denver in 1995 as the Colorado Avalanche. A potential National Hockey League expansion bid for Quebec City has been tabled by the league's board of governors since 2015.

Season-by-season record

thumb|right|385px|The 1912–13 team with the [[Stanley Cup.]]

  • 1888–1898 – Amateur Hockey Association of Canada
  • 1899–1905 – Canadian Amateur Hockey League
  • 1906–1909 – Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association
  • Jan. 1910 – Canadian Hockey Association
  • 1910–1917 – National Hockey Association
  • 1919–1920 – National Hockey League

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

{| cellpadding=5

|- bgcolor="#dddddd"

! Season || GP || W || L || T || Pts || GF || GA || Finish || Postseason

|-

| 1888–89 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0 || – || 2 || 3 ||colspan="2" |lost one AHAC challenge 2–3 to Montreal HC.

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| 1890 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0 || – || 1 || 5 ||colspan="2" |lost one AHAC challenge 1–5 to Montreal HC.

|-

| 1891 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0 || – || 0 || 0 ||colspan="2" |lost one AHAC challenge by default to Montreal HC.

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| 1892 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0 || – || 3 || 6 ||colspan="2" |lost two AHAC challenges to Ottawa HC.

|-

| 1893 || 8|| 2|| 5||1|| 4|| 23|| 46||fourth, AHAC||Did not qualify

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| 1894 || 8|| 5|| 3||0||10|| 26|| 27||1st place tie, AHAC||Did not participate

|-

| 1895 || 7|| 2|| 5||0|| 0|| 18|| 27||fifth, AHAC||Did not qualify

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| 1896 || 8|| 4|| 4||0|| 8|| 23|| 23||third, AHAC||Did not qualify

|-

| 1897 || 8|| 2|| 6||0|| 4|| 22|| 46||fourth, AHAC||Did not qualify

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| 1898 || 8|| 2|| 6||0|| 4|| 29|| 35||fourth, AHAC||Did not qualify

|-

| 1899 || 8|| 0|| 8||0|| 0|| 12|| 31||fifth, CAHL||Did not qualify

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| 1900 || 8|| 2|| 6||0|| 4|| 33|| 52||fifth, CAHL||Did not qualify

|-

| 1901 || 8|| 1|| 7||0|| 2|| 21|| 43||fifth, CAHL||Did not qualify

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| 1902 || 8|| 4|| 4||0|| 8|| 26|| 34||fourth, CAHL||Did not qualify

|-

| 1903 || 7|| 3|| 4||0|| 6|| 30|| 46||fourth, CAHL||Did not qualify

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| 1904 || 8|| 7|| 1||0||14|| 50|| 37||first, CAHL||Did not challenge for Stanley Cup

|-

| 1905 ||10|| 8|| 2||0||16|| 78|| 45||second, CAHL||Did not qualify

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| 1906 ||10|| 3|| 7||0|| 6|| 57|| 70||fourth, ECAHA||Did not qualify

|-

| 1907 ||10|| 2|| 8||0|| 4|| 62|| 88||fifth, ECAHA||Did not qualify

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| 1907–08 ||10|| 5|| 5||0||10|| 81|| 74||third, ECAHA||Did not qualify

|-

| 1909 ||12|| 3|| 9||0|| 6|| 78||106||third, ECAHA||Did not qualify

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| 1910 || 3|| 2|| 1||0|| 6|| 20|| 22||n/a||Season incomplete

|-

| 1910–11 ||16|| 4||12||0|| 8|| 65|| 97||fifth, NHA||Did not qualify

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| 1911–12 ||18||10|| 8||0||20|| 81|| 79||first, NHA||Won O'Brien Cup<br />Won Stanley Cup

|-

| 1912–13 ||20||16|| 4||0||32||112|| 75||first, NHA||Won O'Brien Cup<br />Won Stanley Cup

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| 1913–14 ||20||12|| 8||0||24||111|| 73||third, NHA||Did not qualify

|-

| 1914–15 ||20||11|| 9||0||22|| 85|| 85||third, NHA||Did not qualify

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| 1915–16 ||24||10||12||2||22|| 91|| 98||third, NHA||Did not qualify

|-

| 1916–17 <sup>1</sup> ||10|| 2|| 8||0|| 4|| 43|| 80||sixth, NHA||Did not qualify

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| 1916–17 <sup>2</sup> ||10|| 8|| 2||0||16|| 54|| 46||second, NHA||Did not qualify

|-

| 1919–20 <sup>1</sup> ||12|| 2||10||0|| 4|| 44|| 81||fourth, NHL||Did not qualify

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| 1919–20 <sup>2</sup> ||12|| 2||10||0|| 4|| 47|| 96||fourth, NHL||Did not qualify

|- bgcolor="#dddddd"

| colspan="10" align="center" | Relocated to Hamilton

|- bgcolor="#dddddd"

! Totals || 311 || 134 || 175 || 3 || 267 || 1422 || 1662 || colspan="2" | &nbsp;

|}

Note: 1 = first half of season, 2 = second half of season

Head coaches

  • Charles Nolan (1910–12)
  • Mike Quinn (1912–20)

Notable players

Hall of Famers

  • Rusty Crawford
  • Thomas Dunderdale
  • Joe Hall
  • Joe Malone
  • Paddy Moran
  • Tommy Smith
  • Bruce Stuart
  • Hod Stuart

Team captains

This list is incomplete.

  • Hod Stuart (1901)
  • Herb Jordan (1905)
  • Joe Malone (1910–17, 1919–20)

1912 Stanley Cup champions

  • Paddy Moran – goal
  • Goldie Prodgers – point
  • Joe Hall – cover point
  • Joe Malone – centre
  • Eddie Oatman – right wing
  • Jack McDonald – left wing
  • Jack Marks – sub
  • Walter Rooney – centre sub
  • George Leonard – sub
  • Joe Savard – sub goalie

1913 Stanley Cup champions

  • Paddy Moran goal
  • Joe Hall – point
  • Harry Mummery – cover point
  • Joe Malone – centre
  • Tommy Smith – right wing
  • Jack Marks – left wing
  • Russell Crawford – sub
  • Billy Creighton – sub
  • Jeff Malone – sub
  • James "Rockett" Power – sub
  • Walter Rooney – sub
  • Joe Savard – sub goalie

See also

  • List of defunct NHL teams
  • List of Quebec Bulldogs players
  • Head Coaches of the Quebec Bulldogs
  • List of NHL players
  • List of Stanley Cup champions
  • Quebec Nordiques
  • List of NHL seasons
  • List of pre-NHL seasons

References

Notes

Sources

  • Quebec Bulldogs at Sportsecyclopedia.com
  • Unofficial website