1904–05 FAHL season

[1] The newly transferred Ottawa Hockey Club won the league championship – and retained the Stanley Cup – with a record of seven wins and one loss.

The Dawson City team had won no championships and was not a member of any recognized senior league, yet Stanley Cup trustees P.D.

Author Paul Kitchen has speculated that the series was approved because Young knew both Ross and federal government minister Clifford Sifton.

[2] In January 1905, the Dawson City Nuggets travelled 4,000 miles (6,400 km) from the Yukon to Ottawa for a best-of-three Cup challenge series.

Randy McLennan had played in a Stanley Cup challenge for Queen's University of Kingston, Ontario.

During the first twenty minutes of play, the challenging team made a remarkably fine showing against the champions, but after that they gradually faded away and were never seriously in the running, indicating that the chief fault with the team is that they are not in condition to stand the test of a hard battle after their long trip of 23 days from the north.

After the second game, The Globe reported: The visiting team was outclassed to-night quite as decisively as the score indicates.

Ottawa simply skated away from them at the whistle and continued to pile up the goals with a merciless monotonous regularity which was farcical in the extreme.

McGee returned in game two, with his good forearm wrapped in a cast, and only a light bandage on his broken wrist, to decoy the Thistles.

[10] The following Ottawa Hockey Club players and staff were members of the Stanley Cup winning team.