The 1890 AHAC season was the fourth season of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada. Play was in challenges. The Montreal Hockey Club would win the final challenge of the season to win the Canadian championship for the third season in a row.

League Business

The annual meeting of the Amateur Hockey Association was held in the rooms of the MAAA in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, on November 22, 1889. The main business was whether to accept Quebec or not, and whether to change the Crystals team name to the Dominions. Representatives from most of the hockey clubs were present. The election for the ensuing year resulted as follows:

• President, Mr. J. Stewart (Montreal);
• first vice-president, H. Kinghorn (McGill);
• second vice-president, W.G Cameron (Victorias);
• secretary-treasurer, J.A Findlay (Montreal);
• Council — A.E McNaughton (Montreal), W.E Stevenson (Victoria), J. McDonald (Crystals), D.B. Holden (McGill), R. Davidson (Quebec).

Regular season

The season consisted of challenge games as well as numerous exhibition matches between all the teams in the AHAC. Quebec would challenge this season. The Montreal Crystals

Montreal Crystals

Montreal Crystals were an ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that existed from 1886 to 1895. The Club was a member of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada . The team won the Canadian championship twice. In 1895, the team became the Montreal Shamrocks...

 would be known as the Dominion Hockey Club of Montreal for this season.

Results

Date	home	Score	Visitor	Score	Location	Match type
January 3	Montreal Hockey Club Montreal Hockey Club The Montreal Hockey Club of Montreal, Quebec, Canada was a senior-level men's amateur ice hockey club, organized in 1884. They were affiliated with Montreal Amateur Athletic Association and used the MAAA 'winged wheel' logo. The team is notable for winning the first Stanley Cup in 1893, and in a...	5	Montreal Victorias Montreal Victorias The Victoria Hockey Club of Montreal, Quebec, Canada was an early men's amateur ice hockey club. Its date of origin is ascribed to either 1874, 1877 or 1881, making it either the first or second organized ice hockey club after McGill University. The club played at its own rink, the Victoria Skating...	4	Dominion Rink	Exhibition
January 7	Montreal Hockey Club	5	Quebec	1	Dominion Rink	Challenge
January 13	Montreal Victorias	11	McGill University McGill Redmen The McGill Redmen CIS football team is one of the oldest in all of Canada, having begun organized competition in 1898. The team has appeared in three Vanier Cup national championships, in 1969, 1973 and 1987, with the Redmen finally winning the title in the 1987 game...	4	n/a	Exhibition
January 17	Montreal Hockey Club	4	Montreal Victorias	2	Dominion Rink	Challenge
January 24	Montreal Hockey Club	5	Montreal Victorias	1	n/a	Exhibition
January 28	Montreal Victorias	3	Ottawa	1	n/a	Exhibition
January 31	Montreal Hockey Club	6	Montreal Dominions	4	Dominion Rink	Challenge
Feb 11	Montreal Hockey Club	6	Montreal Dominions	2	Dominion Rink	Challenge
Feb 18	Montreal Hockey Club	2	Montreal Victorias	1	Dominion Rink	Challenge
Feb 25	Montreal Hockey Club	3	Montreal Dominions	2	Crystal Rink	Challenge
Mar 4th	Montreal Hockey Club	2	Montreal Victorias	1	Crystal Rink	Challenge

On February 19 (in non association play) the Ottawa team played in a losing cost (9-3) an exhibition game against a select team of Montrealers which included Hon. E. Stanley and A. Stanley.

Overall Record

Statistics are based on challenge games only and do not include stats regarding exhibition games

Team	Games Played	Wins	Losses	Ties	Goals For	Goals Against
Montreal Hockey Club Montreal Hockey Club The Montreal Hockey Club of Montreal, Quebec, Canada was a senior-level men's amateur ice hockey club, organized in 1884. They were affiliated with Montreal Amateur Athletic Association and used the MAAA 'winged wheel' logo. The team is notable for winning the first Stanley Cup in 1893, and in a... †	7	7	0	0	28	13
Quebec Hockey Club Quebec Bulldogs The Quebec Bulldogs were a men's senior-level ice hockey team officially known as the Quebec Hockey Club, later as the Quebec Athletic Club. Their recorded play goes back as far as the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada in 1889, although the Quebec Hockey Club is known to have played since 1880...	1	0	1	0	1	5
Montreal Dominions	3	0	3	0	3	15
Montreal Victorias Montreal Victorias The Victoria Hockey Club of Montreal, Quebec, Canada was an early men's amateur ice hockey club. Its date of origin is ascribed to either 1874, 1877 or 1881, making it either the first or second organized ice hockey club after McGill University. The club played at its own rink, the Victoria Skating...	3	0	3	0	4	8

† National Champion

Scoring Leaders

Name	Club	GP	G
McNaughton, Archie	Montreal	7	12
Findlay, J	Montreal	7	6
Brown, Desse	Dominions	3	4
Kingan, A	Montreal	2	3
Cameron, A	Montreal	6	2
Lee, S	Montreal	4	2
Ritchie, A	Dominions	3	2
Arnton, J	Victorias	2	1
Barlow, E	Victorias	3	1
Scott, A	Quebec	1	1
Low, G	Montreal	1	1

No scorer identified for 1 Montreal and Victoria goal.

Goalkeeper Averages

Name	Club	GP	GA	SO	Avg.
Paton, Tom Tom Paton (ice hockey) Tom L. Paton born 1854 - died February 10, 1909 was a Canadian ice hockey player of the pre-NHL era of the sport. He played the position of Goaltender for the Montreal HC and was a member of the first Stanley cup winning team in 1893....	Montreal	7	13	0	1.9
Jones, Robert Robert Jones (ice hockey) Robert Jones was a notable Canadian ice hockey player of the pre-NHL era of the sport. He played the position of Goaltender for the Montreal Victorias and was a member of a Stanley cup winning team .-Playing career:...	Victorias	3	8	0	2.7
Fyfe, Joe	Dominions	1	3	0	2.0
Laurie, A.	Quebec	1	5	0	5.0
Scanlan, Robert	Dominions	2	12	0	6.0