1933–34 NHL season

1933–34 NHL season
League	National Hockey League
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	November 9, 1933 – April 10, 1934
Number of games	48
Number of teams	9
Regular season
Season champions	Toronto Maple Leafs
Season MVP	Aurel Joliat (Montreal Canadiens)
Top scorer	Charlie Conacher (Toronto Maple Leafs)
Canadian Division champions	Toronto Maple Leafs
American Division champions	Detroit Red Wings
Stanley Cup
Finals champions	Chicago Black Hawks
Runners-up	Detroit Red Wings
NHL seasons
← 1932–33 1934–35 →

The 1933–34 NHL season was the 17th season of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nine teams each played 48 games. The Chicago Black Hawks were the Stanley Cup winners as they beat the Detroit Red Wings three games to one.

League business

The New York Americans introduce new sweaters. The team's home uniform uses the word 'Americans' across the front with white stars over a blue area around the shoulders with red and white stripes below the wording. The road uniform is white with a shield logo. There are sleeves and shoulders are blue with a horizontal red stripe at the bottom of the sweater. The team is the second NHL team to have two sets of uniforms, after the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Regular season

The Ottawa Senators, having enough problems, now had to deal with holdout Cooney Weiland. He was sold to Detroit, strengthening the Red Wings. The Senators continued to lose, but won a few games when they signed an amateur named Max Kaminsky to centre the Roche brothers Desse and Earl. A defenceman, Ralph "Scotty" Bowman, gave Ottawa fans a little to cheer about. But the handwriting was on the wall, and in the last NHL game to be played in Ottawa until the NHL returned to that city in 1992, the Senators let the New York Americans use goaltender Alex Connell when Roy Worters was hurt. He helped the Americans beat his club.

A major trade was a swap of goaltenders as Lorne Chabot was traded to the Montreal Canadiens for George Hainsworth. The Canadiens also loaned Wilf Cude to Detroit and he led the Red Wings to first place. Chabot did not do badly either, leading the Canadian Division in goaltending, helping the goal-strapped Canadiens to second place. Aurel Joliat of the Canadiens won the Hart Trophy.

Final standings

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes
Note: Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold

Canadian Division	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA	PIM
Toronto Maple Leafs	48	26	13	9	61	174	119	529
Montreal Canadiens	48	22	20	6	50	99	101	308
Montreal Maroons	48	19	18	11	49	117	122	414
New York Americans	48	15	23	10	40	104	132	365
Ottawa Senators	48	13	29	6	32	115	143	344

American Division	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA	PIM
Detroit Red Wings	48	24	14	10	58	113	98	368
Chicago Black Hawks	48	20	17	11	51	88	83	337
New York Rangers	48	21	19	8	50	120	113	401
Boston Bruins	48	18	25	5	41	111	130	385

NHL All-Star Game

Participants of Ace Bailey Benefit game

On February 14, 1934, the first NHL All-Star Game, albeit an unofficial one, was held to benefit Toronto Maple Leafs forward Ace Bailey, who suffered a career-ending injury. On December 12, 1933, near the end of the second period of a game between the Leafs and the Boston Bruins in the Boston Garden, Bailey was tripped from behind by Bruins defenceman Eddie Shore, in retaliation for a check that Toronto defenceman King Clancy had delivered to Shore. Bailey was not the intended target of the check; Shore wanted to hit Clancy instead. Bailey was badly hurt, unconscious and bleeding. The Leafs' Red Horner took offence to the hit, and subsequently knocked out Shore with a punch. Shore was forgiven after the game when both players regained consciousness, with Bailey saying that it was "all part of the game." However, Bailey would pass out and lapse into convulsions. Bailey was not expected to live after a single night in the hospital after suffering from severe hemorrhaging. It was made well known that Shore would have been charged with manslaughter were Bailey to die. Fortunately, he gradually recovered, but his hockey career was over. For his actions, Shore received a 16-game suspension, a third of the 48-game schedule of the time, while Horner was suspended for the remainder of 1933.

The game itself was proposed by Walter Gilhooley, the sports editor of the Journal in Montreal. This proposal would become a reality on January 24, 1934, in a meeting of the NHL's Board of Governors in 1934. The NHL's first All-Star Game was held at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, during which Bailey's #6 uniform was retired by the Leafs. It was the first number to be retired in the NHL. The game saw the Leafs battle against an All-Star team made of players from the other eight teams, which the Leafs won 7–3. One of the more memorable moments before the game was when Bailey presented Shore with his All-Star jersey, showing to the public that Bailey had clearly forgiven him for his actions. Bailey also presented a trophy to NHL President Frank Calder before a game in the hope that the trophy would go to the winner of an annual All-Star Game for the benefit of injured players.

Playoffs

First round

Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Detroit Red Wings Date Away Team Home Team Notes March 22 Detroit 2 1 Toronto OT March 24 Detroit 6 1 Toronto March 26 Toronto 3 1 Detroit March 28 Toronto 5 1 Detroit March 30 Toronto 0 1 Detroit Detroit won the series 3-games-to-2 and advanced to the final.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Chicago Blackhawks Date Away Team Home Team Notes March 22 Chicago 3 2 Mtl. Canadiens March 25 Mtl. Canadiens 1 1 Chicago OT Chicago won the series 4-3 in total goals.

Montreal Maroons vs. New York Rangers Date Away Team Home Team Notes March 20 NY Rangers 0 0 Mtl. Maroons March 25 Mtl. Maroons 2 1 NY Rangers Mtl. Maroons won the series 2-1 in total goals.

Second round

Montreal Maroons vs. Chicago Blackhawks Date Away Team Home Team March 28 Chicago 3 0 Mtl. Maroons April 1 Mtl. Maroons 2 3 Chicago Chicago won the series 6-2 in total goals.

Final

Chicago Black Hawks vs. Detroit Red Wings

Date	Away	Score	Home	Score	Notes
April 3	Chicago	2	Detroit	1	2OT
April 5	Chicago	4	Detroit	1
April 8	Detroit	5	Chicago	2
April 10	Detroit	0	Chicago	1	2OT

Chicago wins best-of-five series 3–1. The Chicago Black Hawks beat the Detroit Red Wings three games to one with the fourth game going into double overtime. After regulation time in the fourth game, Black Hawks star goaltender and two-time Vezina Trophy winner, Charlie Gardiner, left the game because he wasn't feeling well. He died two months later of a brain hemorrhage.

Awards

Rookie of the Year:	Russ Blinco, Montreal Maroons
Hart Trophy: (Most valuable player)	Aurel Joliat, Montreal Canadiens
Lady Byng Trophy: (Excellence and sportsmanship)	Frank Boucher, New York Rangers
O'Brien Cup: (Canadian Division champion)	Toronto Maple Leafs
Prince of Wales Trophy: (American Division champion)	Detroit Red Wings
Vezina Trophy: (Fewest goals allowed)	Charlie Gardiner, Chicago Black Hawks

Player statistics

Scoring leaders

Note: GP = Games played, G = Goals, A = Assists, PTS = Points, PIM = Penalties in minutes

Player	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	PIM
Charlie Conacher	Toronto Maple Leafs	42	32	20	52	38
Joe Primeau	Toronto Maple Leafs	45	14	32	46	8
Frank Boucher	New York Rangers	48	14	30	44	4
Marty Barry	Boston Bruins	48	27	12	39	12
Nels Stewart	Boston Bruins	48	22	17	39	68
Cecil Dillon	New York Rangers	48	13	26	39	10
Busher Jackson	Toronto Maple Leafs	38	20	18	38	38
Aurel Joliat	Montreal Canadiens	48	22	15	37	27
Hooley Smith	Montreal Maroons	47	18	19	37	58
Paul Thompson	Chicago Black Hawks	48	20	16	36	17

Source: NHL.

Leading goaltenders

Note: GP = Games played; Mins = Minutes played; GA = Goals against; SO = Shut outs; GAA = Goals against average

Player	Team	GP	Mins	GA	SO	GAA
[ilf Cude	Montreal, Detroit	30	1920	47	5	1.47
Charlie Gardiner	Chicago Black Hawks	48	3050	83	10	1.63
Roy Worters	New York Americans	36	2240	75	4	2.01
Lorne Chabot	Montreal Canadiens	47	2928	101	8	2.07
Andy Aitkenhead	New York Rangers	48	2990	76	7	2.27

Source: NHL.

Team Photos

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  Boston Bruins

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  Chicago Black Hawks

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  Detroit Red Wings

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  Montreal Canadiens

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  Montreal Maroons

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  New York Americans

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  New York Rangers

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  Toronto Maple Leafs

References

• (2000) in Diamond, Dan: Total Hockey. Total Sports. ISBN 1-892129-85-X. 
• (2011) The National Hockey League Official Guide & Record Book 2012. Dan Diamond & Associates. ISBN 978-1-894801-22-5. 
• (2000) Century of hockey. Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart Ltd.. ISBN 0-7710-4179-9. 
• (2003) The Hockey Chronicle: Year-by-Year History of the National Hockey League. Publications International Inc.. ISBN 0-7853-9624-1. 
• McFarlane, Brian (1973). The Story of the National Hockey League. New York, NY: Pagurian Press. ISBN 0-684-13424-1. 
• Podnieks, Andrew (2000). The NHL All-Star Game: 50 years of the great tradition. Toronto: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-200058-X. 

Notes

External links

• Hockeydb.com 1933–34 season
• NHL.com

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