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In the fall of 1911 the Halifax Rink Arena Manager Fred “Brownie” Mahar headed to Montreal to meet with representatives of the NHA and to inspect the “big rinks in upper Canada”.

The Moncton Victorias defeated the Halifax Crescents by a margin of three games to one and a spread of a dozen goals.  They were awarded the Starr trophy in front of twelve hundred fans at the Halifax rink.  Unfortunately the Vics were unable to challenge for the Stanley Cup.  On February 28^th,  1911, the Stanley Cup Trustees Philip D. Ross and William A.

On February 13, 1911 it was announced that Manager “Brownie” Mahar of the Halifax Rink Arena had completed negotiations with Montreal Canadien's owner George Kennedy to bring them to Halifax to play two exhibition games.  According to the Echo, one of the strong points of the contract is that “the full Canadians team will appear on the ice”.  The Canadians arrived in Halifax in late February to play the two games, the first on Th

The Maritime Professional Hockey League began to look more like a professional organization when an interesting newspaper story popped up in late January, 1911.

The first game of the new professional league took place on January eleventh between the New Glasgow Cubs and the Halifax Crescents in New Glasgow's Arena Rink. The Arena Rink, built in 1904 by George Mason was located on the East River had a capacity of two thousand spectators. The game took place nearly a week after the original start date being postponed due to warm temperatures and poor ice. From all accounts the first game of the Maritime Professional league was a great success. The New Glasgow Standard reported that "the large arena was packed with an audience anticipating the more strenuous kind of hockey and were not disappointed". The Standard went on to proclaim that "no finer article of hockey was ever seen in the Province."