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In the season of 1904, the Ottawa team, was then known as the Silver Seven. The players had each received a silver nugget to celebrate the team’s first championship and of course, there were then 6 skaters, all well before the forward pass and even player substitutions.
The Silver Seven successfully defended the trophy against the Winnipeg Rowing Club (was that really the name of the hockey team ?), the Toronto Marlboroughs, and a team from Brandon, Manitoba.
The following year the Silver guys defeated a team which traveled from Dawson City, of the Yukon, which was far before Air Canada or even Trans Canada Airlines…whoever remembers that name goes to the top of the old boys club, hence this was quite a road trip for a hockey tourney. They were finally beaten by the Montreal Wanderers in 1907.