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1944–45 Boston Bruins season
NHL team season
NHL team season
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| League | NHL |
| Season | 1944–45 |
| year | 1944 |
| Team | Boston Bruins |
| Record | 16–30–4 |
| HomeRecord | 11–12–2 |
| RoadRecord | 5–18–2 |
| LeagueRank | 4th |
| GoalsFor | 179 |
| GoalsAgainst | 219 |
| GeneralManager | Art Ross |
| Coach | Art Ross |
| Captain | Bill Cowley |
| Arena | Boston Garden |
| GoalsLeader | Herb Cain (32) |
| AssistsLeader | Bill Cowley (40) |
| PointsLeader | Bill Cowley (65) |
| PIMLeader | Pat Egan (86) |
| WinsLeader | Harvey Bennett Sr. (20) |
| GAALeader | Harvey Bennett Sr. (4.20) |
The 1944–45 Boston Bruins season was the Bruins' 21st season in the NHL.
Regular season
Final standings
Record vs. opponents
Schedule and results
|- |1||L||October 28, 1944||2–3 || align="left"| @ Montreal Canadiens (1944–45) ||0–1–0 |- |2||L||October 29, 1944||1–7 || align="left"| @ Detroit Red Wings (1944–45) ||0–2–0
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Playoffs
The Detroit Red Wings finished second in the league with 67 points. The Boston Bruins finished fourth with 36 points. This was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams with Detroit winning two of the three previous series. They last met in the 1943 Stanley Cup Finals where the Red Wings won in four games. Detroit won this season's ten-game regular-season series earning nineteen of twenty points.
|1-1-1 =Bill Cowley (1) – 06:20 Bill Cupolo (1) – 10:07 Herb Cain (1) – 14:04 |1-1-2 =No scoring |1-2-1 =No scoring |1-2-2 =No scoring |1-3-1 =Jack McGill (1) – 07:22 |1-3-2 =04:04 – Earl Seibert (1) 09:05 – Joe Carveth (1) 19:04 – Eddie Bruneteau (1) |goalie1-1 =Paul Bibeault |goalie1-2 =Harry Lumley
|2-1-1 =Jack McGill (2) – 02:46 |2-1-2 =No scoring |2-2-1 =Ken Smith (1) – 10:03 Jean-Paul Gladu (1) – 10:18 |2-2-2 =08:25 – Harold Jackson (1) |2-3-1 =Pat Egan (1) – 17:05 |2-3-2 =12:48 – Eddie Bruneteau (2) |goalie2-1 =Paul Bibeault |goalie2-2 =Harry Lumley
|3-1-1 =No scoring |3-1-2 =Ted Lindsay (1) – 18:54 Murray Armstrong (1) – 19:35 |3-2-1 =16:05 – Pat Egan (2) |3-2-2 =No scoring |3-3-1 =17:57 – Gino Rozzini (1) |3-3-2 =Mud Bruneteau (1) – 15:48 |goalie3-1 =Paul Bibeault |goalie3-2 =Harry Lumley
|4-1-1 =08:31 – Ken Smith (2) |4-1-2 =Earl Seibert (2) – 17:21 |4-2-1 =14:38 – Herb Cain (2) |4-2-2 =No scoring |4-3-1 =No scoring |4-3-2 =Joe Carveth (2) – 05:10 Murray Armstrong (2) – 17:15 |goalie4-1 =Paul Bibeault |goalie4-2 =Harry Lumley
|5-1-1 =Herb Cain (3) – 11:52 |5-1-2 =02:51 – Mud Bruneteau (2) 11:41 – Flash Hollett (1) |5-2-1 =No scoring |5-2-2 =No scoring |5-3-1 =Bill Jennings (1) – pp – 17:00 |5-3-2 =No scoring |5-4-1 =No scoring |5-4-2 =17:12 – Mud Bruneteau (3) |goalie5-1 =Paul Bibeault |goalie5-2 =Harry Lumley
|6-1-1 =12:54 – Bill Cowley (2) |6-1-2 =Jud McAtee (1) – 00:45 |6-2-1 =06:24 – Bill Jennings (2) 07:33 – pp – Herb Cain (4) 10:38 – Jean-Paul Gladu (2) |6-2-2 =Joe Carveth (3) – 03:24 Jud McAtee (2) – 17:12 |6-3-1 =09:25 – Bill Cowley (3) |6-3-2 =No scoring |goalie6-1 =Paul Bibeault |goalie6-2 =Harry Lumley
|7-1-1 =Jack McGill (3) – 19:15 |7-1-2 =08:20 – pp – Carl Liscombe (1) |7-2-1 =Herb Cain (5) – 08:50 Ken Smith (3) – 19:39 |7-2-2 =03:51 – Carl Liscombe (2) |7-3-1 =No scoring |7-3-2 =02:01 – Eddie Bruneteau (3) 04:09 – Carl Liscombe (3) 19:54 – Carl Liscombe (4) |goalie7-1 =Paul Bibeault |goalie7-2 =Harry Lumley
Player statistics
Regular season
;Scoring
| Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | 49 | 25 | 40 | 65 | 12 | |
| LW | 50 | 32 | 13 | 45 | 16 | |
| LW | 49 | 20 | 14 | 34 | 2 | |
| RW | 39 | 20 | 13 | 33 | 25 | |
| C | 44 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 24 | |
| LW | 44 | 15 | 9 | 24 | 27 | |
| RW | 47 | 11 | 13 | 24 | 10 | |
| D | 40 | 5 | 19 | 24 | 10 | |
| RW/D | 46 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 16 | |
| D | 48 | 7 | 15 | 22 | 86 | |
| LW | 40 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 2 | |
| C | 31 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 20 | |
| C | 19 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 10 | |
| D | 47 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 31 | |
| C | 14 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | |
| C | 17 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | |
| C | 11 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | |
| RW | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| D | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| G | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| G | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| LW | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| D | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| W | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
;Goaltending
| Player | MIN | GP | W | L | T | GA | GAA | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1470 | 25 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 103 | 4.20 | 0 | |
| 1530 | 26 | 6 | 18 | 2 | 116 | 4.55 | 0 | |
| Team: | 3000 | 50 | 16 | 30 | 4 | 219 | 4.38 | 0 |
Playoffs
;Scoring
| Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LW | 7 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 0 | |
| LW | 7 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0 | |
| C | 7 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | |
| C | 7 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | |
| D | 7 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | |
| LW | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | |
| RW | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| RW | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
| C | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |
| D | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | |
| LW | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| D | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| G | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| RW/D | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| C | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
;Goaltending
| Player | MIN | GP | W | L | GA | GAA | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 437 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 3.02 | 0 | |
| Team: | 437 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 3.02 | 0 |
References
References
- "1944-45 Boston Bruins Schedule".
- "1944-45 Boston Bruins Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com.
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