1925 Stanley Cup Final
| 1925 Stanley Cup Final | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Location(s) | Victoria: Patrick Arena (1, 3, 4) Vancouver: Denman Arena (2) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Format | best-of-five | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coaches | Montreal: Leo Dandurand Victoria: Lester Patrick | ||||||||||||||||||
| Captains | Montreal: Sprague Cleghorn Victoria: Clem Loughlin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dates | March 21–30, 1925 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Series-winning goal | Gizzy Hart (1:35, second) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hall of Famers | Cougars: Frank Foyston (1958) Frank Fredrickson (1958) Hap Holmes (1972) Jack Walker (1960) Canadiens: Sprague Cleghorn (1958) Aurele Joliat (1947) Sylvio Mantha (1960) Howie Morenz (1945) Georges Vezina (1945) Coaches: Leo Dandurand (1963) Lester Patrick (1947, player) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 1925 Stanley Cup Final saw the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) champion Victoria Cougars defeat the National Hockey League (NHL) champion Montreal Canadiens three games to one in a best-of-five game series. The Canadiens were substitute NHL representatives, as the final series to decide the NHL champion was not played.
The Cougars were the last non-NHL team to win the Cup as the WCHL (renamed the Western Hockey League for the 1925–26 season) folded after 1926, leaving the Stanley Cup to become the NHL's de facto championship trophy. The Cougars would also be the last team based west of Chicago to win the Cup until the Edmonton Oilers won the trophy in 1984. These were also the last Stanley Cup Finals games to be played in Western Canada until the Vancouver Canucks qualified for the 1982 Finals. Games one, three, and four were held in Victoria. Game two, held in Vancouver, was the last neutral site game in Stanley Cup Finals history that did not involve the New York Rangers until the 2020 Stanley Cup Finals.