1950–51 Boston Bruins season

1950–51 Boston Bruins
Division	4th NHL
1950–51 record	22–30–18
Goals for	178
Goals against	197
Team information
General manager	Art Ross
Coach	Lynn Patrick
Captain	Milt Schmidt
Team leaders
Goals	Milt Schmidt (22)
Assists	Milt Schmidt (39)
Points	Milt Schmidt (61)
Penalty minutes	Bill Ezinicki (119)
Wins	Jack Gelineau (22)
Goals against average	Jack Gelineau (2.81)

The 1950–51 Boston Bruins season was the Bruins' 27th season in the NHL.

Regular season

Final standings

National Hockey League

		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	DIFF	Pts
1	Detroit Red Wings	70	44	13	13	236	139	+97	101
2	Toronto Maple Leafs	70	41	16	13	212	138	+74	95
3	Montreal Canadiens	70	25	30	15	173	184	−11	65
4	Boston Bruins	70	22	30	18	178	197	−19	62
5	New York Rangers	70	20	29	21	169	201	−32	61
6	Chicago Black Hawks	70	13	47	10	171	280	−109	36

Record vs. opponents

1950–51 NHL Records
Team	BOS	CHI	DET	MTL	NYR	TOR
Boston	—	9–4–1	2–8–4	5–6–3	4–2–8	2–10–2
Chicago	4–9–1	—	1–13	4–8–2	2–9–3	2–8–4
Detroit	8–2–4	13–1	—	8–4–2	8–3–3	7–3–4
Montreal	6–5–3	8–4–2	4–8–2	—	5–3–6	2–10–2
New York	2–4–8	9–2–3	5–7–2	3–5–6	—	3–10–1
Toronto	10–2–2	8–2–4	3–7–4	10–2–2	10–3–1	—

Schedule and results

Regular season schedule

No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	T	October 14, 1950	1–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	0–0–1
2	L	October 15, 1950	1–2	Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	0–1–1
3	L	October 18, 1950	0–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	0–2–1
4	T	October 22, 1950	0–0	New York Rangers (1950–51)	0–2–2
5	T	October 25, 1950	1–1	@ New York Rangers (1950–51)	0–2–3
6	L	October 28, 1950	2–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	0–3–3
7	L	October 29, 1950	0–2	@ Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	0–4–3
8	L	November 2, 1950	2–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	0–5–3
9	W	November 4, 1950	3–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	1–5–3
10	L	November 5, 1950	2–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	1–6–3
11	T	November 8, 1950	3–3	Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	1–6–4
12	L	November 11, 1950	2–4	Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	1–7–4
13	L	November 12, 1950	0–7	Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	1–8–4
14	W	November 15, 1950	4–3	@ New York Rangers (1950–51)	2–8–4
15	L	November 18, 1950	1–2	Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	2–9–4
16	W	November 19, 1950	3–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	3–9–4
17	L	November 23, 1950	1–4	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	3–10–4
18	T	November 25, 1950	3–3	New York Rangers (1950–51)	3–10–5
19	L	November 26, 1950	1–3	Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	3–11–5
20	W	November 29, 1950	6–3	Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	4–11–5
21	L	December 2, 1950	2–3	New York Rangers (1950–51)	4–12–5
22	W	December 3, 1950	5–3	@ New York Rangers (1950–51)	5–12–5
23	W	December 6, 1950	5–4	Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	6–12–5
24	W	December 7, 1950	3–0	@ Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	7–12–5
25	L	December 9, 1950	1–8	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	7–13–5
26	W	December 10, 1950	5–2	Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	8–13–5
27	L	December 14, 1950	2–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	8–14–5
28	L	December 16, 1950	1–4	Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	8–15–5
29	L	December 17, 1950	2–4	Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	8–16–5
30	T	December 20, 1950	4–4	@ New York Rangers (1950–51)	8–16–6
31	W	December 21, 1950	3–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	9–16–6
32	T	December 23, 1950	2–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	9–16–7
33	W	December 25, 1950	7–4	Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	10–16–7
34	T	December 27, 1950	4–4	Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	10–16–8
35	L	December 31, 1950	0–3	@ New York Rangers (1950–51)	10–17–8
36	W	January 1, 1951	3–2	New York Rangers (1950–51)	11–17–8
37	W	January 4, 1951	4–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	12–17–8
38	L	January 7, 1951	0–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	12–18–8
39	W	January 9, 1951	5–4	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	13–18–8
40	L	January 13, 1951	0–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	13–19–8
41	W	January 14, 1951	5–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	14–19–8
42	T	January 17, 1951	3–3	@ New York Rangers (1950–51)	14–19–9
43	L	January 20, 1951	1–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	14–20–9
44	W	January 21, 1951	5–1	New York Rangers (1950–51)	15–20–9
45	T	January 25, 1951	3–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	15–20–10
46	W	January 27, 1951	3–0	Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	16–20–10
47	T	January 28, 1951	1–1	Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	16–20–11
48	L	February 1, 1951	2–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	16–21–11
49	L	February 3, 1951	1–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	16–22–11
50	T	February 4, 1951	3–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	16–22–12
51	T	February 7, 1951	2–2	New York Rangers (1950–51)	16–22–13
52	W	February 10, 1951	6–0	Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	17–22–13
53	L	February 11, 1951	1–2	Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	17–23–13
54	W	February 18, 1951	7–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	18–23–13
55	T	February 19, 1951	2–2	@ Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	18–23–14
56	T	February 21, 1951	2–2	@ New York Rangers (1950–51)	18–23–15
57	L	February 24, 1951	2–6	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	18–24–15
58	W	February 25, 1951	3–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	19–24–15
59	T	February 28, 1951	1–1	Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	19–24–16
60	T	March 3, 1951	3–3	New York Rangers (1950–51)	19–24–17
61	W	March 4, 1951	10–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	20–24–17
62	L	March 7, 1951	2–3	Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	20–25–17
63	L	March 10, 1951	3–5	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	20–26–17
64	W	March 11, 1951	3–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	21–26–17
65	L	March 15, 1951	0–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	21–27–17
66	L	March 17, 1951	1–3	@ Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	21–28–17
67	T	March 18, 1951	2–2	Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	21–28–18
68	W	March 21, 1951	6–5	Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	22–28–18
69	L	March 24, 1951	1–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	22–29–18
70	L	March 25, 1951	0–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	22–30–18

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Milt Schmidt	C/D	62	22	39	61	33
Woody Dumart	LW	70	20	21	41	7
Johnny Peirson	RW	70	19	19	38	43
Bill Ezinicki	RW	53	16	19	35	119
Lorne Ferguson	LW	70	16	17	33	31
Paul Ronty	C	70	10	22	32	20
Dunc Fisher	RW	53	9	20	29	20
Bill Quackenbush	D	70	5	24	29	12
Pete Horeck	LW	66	10	13	23	57
Ed Sandford	LW	51	10	13	23	33
Vic Lynn	LW/D	56	14	6	20	69
Murray Henderson	D	66	4	7	11	37
Max Quackenbush	D	47	4	6	10	26
Dave Creighton	C	56	5	4	9	4
Ed Kryzanowski	D	69	3	6	9	10
Ross Lowe	D/LW	43	5	3	8	40
Ken Smith	LW	14	1	3	4	11
Phil Maloney	C	13	2	0	2	2
Fern Flaman	D	14	1	1	2	37
Hal Laycoe	D	6	1	1	2	4
Ed Reigle	D	17	0	2	2	25
Ed Harrison	C/LW	9	1	0	1	0
Zellio Toppazzini	RW	4	0	1	1	0
Bob Armstrong	D	2	0	0	0	2
Jack Gelineau	G	70	0	0	0	4
Stephen Kraftcheck	D	22	0	0	0	8

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Jack Gelineau	4200	70	22	30	18	197	2.81	4
Team:	4200	70	22	30	18	197	2.81	4

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Woody Dumart	LW	6	1	2	3	0
Bill Ezinicki	RW	6	1	1	2	18
Johnny Peirson	RW	2	1	1	2	2
Lorne Ferguson	LW	6	1	0	1	2
Dunc Fisher	RW	6	1	0	1	0
Dave Creighton	C	5	0	1	1	0
Hal Laycoe	D	6	0	1	1	5
Bill Quackenbush	D	6	0	1	1	0
Paul Ronty	C	6	0	1	1	2
Ed Sandford	LW	6	0	1	1	4
Milt Schmidt	C/D	6	0	1	1	7
Jack Gelineau	G	4	0	0	0	0
Murray Henderson	D	5	0	0	0	2
Gord Henry	G	2	0	0	0	0
Pete Horeck	LW	4	0	0	0	13
Stephen Kraftcheck	D	6	0	0	0	7
Ed Kryzanowski	D	6	0	0	0	2
Vic Lynn	LW/D	5	0	0	0	2
Jack McIntyre	D	2	0	0	0	0
Max Quackenbush	D	6	0	0	0	4
Red Sullivan	C	2	0	0	0	2

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Jack Gelineau	260	4	1	2	7	1.62	1
Gord Henry	120	2	0	2	10	5.00	0
Team:	380	5	1	4	17	2.68	1

Note:

Pos = Position; GPI = Games played in; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes; +/- = Plus/minus; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals

Min, TOI = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T,T/OT = Ties; OTL = Overtime losses; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts; SA = Shots against; SV = Shots saved; SV% = Save percentage;

See also

• 1950–51 NHL season

References

• "1950–51 Boston Bruins Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved May 6, 2009.