Seattle Metropolitans

Seattle Metropolitans
City	Seattle, Washington
League	PCHA
Founded	1915
Home arena	Seattle Ice Arena
Colors	Green, red and white
Head coach	Pete Muldoon
Championships
Regular season titles	1917, 1918, 1920, 1922, 1924
Stanley Cups	1917

The Seattle Metropolitans were a professional ice hockey team based in Seattle, Washington which played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1915 to 1924. They won the Stanley Cup in 1917, becoming the first United States team to do so, eleven years before the NHL's American franchise, the New York Rangers did so in 1928. The Metropolitans played their home games at the Seattle Ice Arena.

The Metropolitans were formed in 1915 as an expansion team. To stock the team, the Toronto Blueshirts of the National Hockey Association (NHA) was raided. The Blueshirts had won the Stanley Cup in 1914 and this provided Seattle with an immediately competitive squad. The Blueshirts' players who moved to Seattle were Eddie Carpenter, Frank Foyston, Hap Holmes, Jack Walker and Cully Wilson.

Seattle won the 1917 championship by defeating the National Hockey Association's Montreal Canadiens three games to one by a combined score of 23 to 11. Fourteen of Seattle's goals were scored by Bernie Morris (including six in game four alone). Games one and three were played under PCHA rules, i.e., seven players per side, forward passing in the neutral zone, and no substitution for penalized players. Games two and four were played under NHA rules, i.e., six players per side, no forward passing, substitutions allowed.

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