1933–34 NHL season

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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

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.[1]

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.[2]

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.[3]

Team Photos

  • Boston Bruins

    Boston Bruins

  • Chicago Black Hawks

    Chicago Black Hawks

  • Detroit Red Wings

    Detroit Red Wings

  • Montreal Canadiens

    Montreal Canadiens

  • Montreal Maroons

    Montreal Maroons

  • New York Americans

    New York Americans

  • New York Rangers

    New York Rangers

  • Toronto Maple Leafs

    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
  1. ↑ Podnieks 2000, pp. 5–10.
  2. ↑ Dinger 2011, p. 147.
  3. ↑ "1933–1934 – Regular Season – Goaltender – Goalie Season Stats Leaders – Goals Against Average". nhl.com. http://www.nhl.com/ice/historicalstats.htm?fetchKey=19342ALLGAHSALL&sort=goalsAgainstAverage&viewName=statsLeadersSingleSeasonGoalies. Retrieved June 21, 2012. 

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