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1925–26 Boston Bruins season

NHL hockey team season

Field	Value
League	NHL
Season	1925–26
year	1925
Team	Boston Bruins
LeagueRank	4th
Record	17–15–4 (38 points)
HomeRecord	10–7–1
RoadRecord	7–8–3
GoalsFor	92
GoalsAgainst	85
GeneralManager	Art Ross
Coach	Art Ross
Captain	Sprague Cleghorn
Arena	Boston Arena
GoalsLeader	Carson Cooper (28)
AssistsLeader	Jimmy Herbert, Sprague Cleghorn (5)
PointsLeader	Carson Cooper, Jimmy Herbert (31)
PIMLeader	Jimmy Herbert (50)
WinsLeader	Doc Stewart (16)
GAALeader	Charles Stewart (2.21)

The 1925–26 Boston Bruins season was the team's second season in the NHL. The Bruins finished fourth in the league standings, failing to make the playoffs.

Regular season

Opening the season with a 2–1 loss to the expansion Pittsburgh Pirates, it looked initially as if the Bruins would turn in as poor a season as the year before, as they won only two of their first ten games, and after two consecutive wins, turned in an 0–5–3 record for most of January.

From a 5–0 shutout victory over the Maroons on January 30, however, the Bruins won 13 of their last 17 games, a 2–1 overtime loss to the Pirates on March 12 being the difference to lose out on a playoff berth to Pittsburgh by a single point. The winning percentage improvement of .328 from the previous season was an NHL record at the time, and remains the third best single season improvement ever.

A healthy Carson Cooper contributed to a near doubling of goals scored to lead the league, while the purchase of veteran star defenseman Sprague Cleghorn from the Montreal Maroons for $5000 solidified the defense – despite a knee injury in the opener against Pittsburgh that sidelined Cleghorn for a month – and saw goals allowed decline by over a third. Cooper and Jimmy "Sailor" Herbert finished second and third respectively in the league scoring race, behind Nels Stewart of the Maroons.

Among other debuts was that of goaltender Moe Roberts, at age 19 the second youngest player in the league and its first Jewish player. Roberts would wind up with one of the longest professional careers on record, playing his final game for the Chicago Black Hawks in 1951, the oldest player ever to play in the NHL, prior to Gordie Howe. He was the youngest player ever to play goal for twenty years, until surpassed by future Bruin Harry Lumley.

Final standings

Record vs. opponents

Schedule and results

|- |1||L||November 26, 1925||1–2 || align="left"| Pittsburgh Pirates (1925–26) ||0–1–0 |- |2||W||November 28, 1925||3–2 || align="left"| @ Toronto St. Patricks (1925–26) ||1–1–0

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Player statistics

Leading scorers

Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes

		Regular season		Playoffs	Player	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Carson Cooper	36	28	3	31	10	–	–	–	–	–
Jimmy Herbert	36	26	5	31	47	–	–	–	–	–
Lionel Hitchman	36	7	4	11	70	–	–	–	–	–
Sprague Cleghorn	25	6	5	11	49	–	–	–	–	–
Hago Harrington	26	7	2	9	6	–	–	–	–	–
Red Stuart	33	6	1	7	41	–	–	–	–	–
George Geran	33	5	1	6	6	–	–	–	–	–
Stan Jackson	28	3	3	6	30	–	–	–	–	–
Herb Mitchell	26	3	0	3	14	–	–	–	–	–
Normand Shay	13	2	0	2	2	–	–	–	–	–

Goaltenders

Note: GP = Games played; Min = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals against average

		Regular season		Playoffs	Player	GP	Min	W	L	T	GA	SO	GAA	GP	Min	W	L	GA	SO	GAA
Doc Stewart	35	2173	16	14	4	80	6	2.21	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Moe Roberts	2	85	1	1	0	5	0	3.53	–	–	–	–	–	–	–

Transactions

Purchased Sprague Cleghorn from the Montreal Maroons for $5,000.

References

(November 3, 1927). "Sprague Cleghorn selected as coach of Boston Bruins". The Gazette.
Vautour, Kevin. (1997). "The Bruins Book". ECW Press.
Vautour, Kevin. (1997). "The Bruins Book". ECW Press.
(1987). "The Klein & Reif Hockey Compendium". McClelland & Stewart.
Vautour, Kevin. (1997). "The Bruins Book". ECW Press.
Coleman, Charles L.. (1964). "Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol I.". National Hockey League.
Coleman, Charles L.. (1964). "Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol I.". National Hockey League.
Vautour, Kevin. (1997). "The Bruins Book". ECW Press.
"1925-26 Boston Bruins Schedule".
Coleman, Charles L.. (1964). "Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol I.". National Hockey League.

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