St. Paul Hockey Association
It was a three team race for the Capital Cup in the SPHA between White Bear Lake, St. Paul Athletic, & Como Park with all three spending time in first at some point during the season. When the dust settled after the 22 game grind it was the White Bears of White Bear Lake who took home their first ever title, edging out the Saints by just one win. Como was also in the hunt but a 3 game losing streak to end the season spoiled their opportunity and left them settling for third. The St. Paul Hockey Association was an incredibly competitive and balanced league with pretty much anyone capable of getting a win on any given night. East Side, Stillwater, Phoenix Athletic, North St. Paul, South St. Paul, Rose, & West St. Paul each finished within four wins of one another, swapping places in the standings all year until settling where you see them now. The only exceptions to the rule come from the H-towns on the shores of the St. Croix with Hastings and Hudson combining for just 3 wins against the rest of the league. It was a disastrous year for Hudson, going from 10 wins to just 2 in the span of one season. The main reason as to why this happened was a series of injuries that forced the team to play with at least one replacement player on their roster for nearly the entire season. These replacements were far less experienced skaters than their regular players and could hardly keep up when playing teams like White Bear or St. Paul Athletic, losing multiple games by double digits.



Thus concludes the 1905/06 season. Let me know what you think, comments are always appreciated!

Do any of the teams from the Minneapolis league still play any of the teams from the St. Paul side? Even as exhibitions?

Did I just become another Stickman personality?

But I figured if any league would do interleague, I would've assumed Minneapolis and St. Paul.

When the world needed him most... he returned.

Happy you are back!!!!

1906/07
After several years of talks and debates, an agreement has finally been reached and a new organization has been formed to oversee amateur hockey in Minnesota. The group is called the Minnesota Amateur Hockey League, or MAHL for short, and it consists of 8 sub-leagues. Under the new agreement each sub-league will retain some autonomy, able to add/remove teams & set schedule lengths as they see fit, but the MAHL oversees everything and has the final say as far as rules are concerned. New leagues are also able to be formed in the future so long as there is a minimum of 6 clubs, the league is headquartered in Minnesota, and that a plurality of the league is based in Minnesota.

The league decided to standardize a few rules going into their inaugural season. First off it is now a 6 man game instead of 7, and unlike before players are able to make substitutions during stoppages in play. The other big change was moving from 2 30-minute halves to 3 20-minute periods. The final rule standardization implemented across the league was the decision to switch ends after every goal instead of at halftime since there were now 3 periods.

The MAHL is based out of the state capital, St. Paul, and a championship tournament was announced which will also be held in St. Paul to determine who is the best hockey team in the state. An 8 team tournament called the “Super Series” will be played annually during the 2nd weekend of March at the newly built 6,700 seat St. Paul Hippodrome. Competing teams will be the winners of their respective leagues, with each league sending their champion to represent the league in front of the whole state.



The trophy the teams will compete for was donated by Frank B. Kellogg, one of the most influential lawyers and Minnesotans in the nation who got interested in hockey after moving from Rochester to St. Paul and catching some games in his new hometown. When he heard about a new league being formed he took it upon himself to commission a trophy he described as being “Worthy of the hands of champions, and of champions alone”. The end result is a nearly 3 foot, 17 pound, silver cup bearing Kellogg’s name to honor his support of the new league, the sport of hockey, and for commissioning the trophy.