Career
Amongst the teams he played with were the Montreal Shamrocks, Spokane Canaries, Seattle Metropolitans, Vancouver Millionaires, and Victoria Aristocrats. He also played lacrosse with the Vancouver Lacrosse Club. Nichols started out playing hockey in Montreal, Quebec where he represented the Montreal Shamrocks, Montreal Light Heat Power, and Montreal Astor-Canadien in different leagues.
In the 1910-1911 season he also played for Moncton Victorias of the IPPHL and with Belleville of the EOPHL, before moving out west to Vancouver and the Vancouver Millionaires in the PCHA for the 1912 season.
Victoria Aristocrats were transferred to Spokane, Washington for the 1916-1917 PCHA season and played there for one year as the Spokane Canaries, with Nichols tallying 10 goals. Sibby Nichols was born in Alexandria in the township of North Glengarry, Ontario in 1884 and died in Los Angeles in 1957.
