The 1919 Stanley Cup Final is the only major American championship series to end in a tie — after seven players and both coaches contracted the Spanish flu. OnlyAGameNPR
Kevin Ticen is a former minor league baseball player. And he says he didn’t know much about hockey. But, while researching"It was just a weird anomaly," Ticen says."It was kind of a cute little side story.""All of a sudden it's relevant," he says."As this coronavirus started to spread, I definitely was looking at it thinking, 'This is eerily similar.
KT: So there's two leagues back then. It's similar to the American League and the National League in baseball, right? So you have the NHL, at that point, is the East Coast league. And the Pacific Coast Hockey Association is the West Coast league. The Metropolitans and the Vancouver Millionaires are, you know, widely regarded as the two best teams out West. And I think the Metropolitans were probably the better of the two teams.
"The war had been devastating, and this virus had been devastating. And [the Stanley Cup Final] was finally something everyone could rally around and celebrate."Seattle Post Intelligencer, Thursday, March 27, 1919:"Skating rings around the Flying Frenchmen, Eastern champions the Seattle Metropolitans put the skids under the Montreal squad in the first game of the world's hockey title series at the local Arena last night. ...
And this game again goes into overtime, and the Canadiens win. You know, and I don't think the Metropolitans are that stressed about it. I think they know that Game 6 is gonna be played by Western rules, and, you know, they wake up the next morning, and life's completely changed for them.KG: OK. So each team has now won two games. That Game 4 tie has forced a deciding Game 6. And it's pretty clear at this point that the players are under tremendous strain.
KT: I mean, maybe they did. And maybe they're trying to avoid striking up fear again. But, you know, from everything that I've seen, nobody picked up on it until the day after Game 5's played. KT: Yeah. So George Kennedy, the owner of the Canadiens, he recovers from the short-term effects of this flu. But, you know, he has a pretty severe health complications for the last two years of his life. And he passes away.
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