But after seeing the gritty show put on by the undermanned Senators, Frank Patrick, the head coach of the PCHA champion Vancouver Maroons, called Ottawa the greatest team he had ever seen.
Edmonton clinched the WCHL title after Duke Keats scored the series-winning overtime goal in Game 2.
Both rounds of the 1923 Stanley Cup playoffs were played at Denman Street Arena in Vancouver.
The Ottawa-Vancouver best-of-five series marked the first time in Stanley Cup history that brothers faced each other.
After watching the gritty show by the undermanned Senators, Patrick called them the greatest team he had ever seen.
Ottawa swept Edmonton in the best-of-three final series, winning both games by one-goal margins.