The 1905–06 Ottawa Hockey Club season, the club's twenty-first season, saw the Silver Seven defend their Stanley Cup championship in two challenges, but lose the Cup in a league playoff with the Montreal Wanderers.
The Club moved to the new Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (ECAHA) formed in 1905.
McGee would equal the 8 goals in a game feat against Montreal HC on March 3.
[5] In the first game in Montreal, the Wanderers dominated Ottawa, as Ernie Russell got four goals, Frank Glass got three and Moose Johnson would get two for a 9–1 victory.
Rush seats on sale the day of the game produced a throng that caused the ticket seller's glass to break.
Harry Smith would score to open the second half, followed by Rat Westwick.
[6][7] The Toronto Globe called it the "greatest game of hockey ever played on Canadian ice, or any other.
It had been knocked of the Earl Grey's head, and a fan had snatched it up, giving it to Johnson later in the dressing room.
Between 1903 and 1906 Ottawa engraved each of the ten Stanley Cup series they won, and teams they played, on the outside of the bowl.