1931–32 Boston Bruins season

1931–32 Boston Bruins
Division	4th American
1931–32 record	15–21–12
Goals for	122 (4th)
Goals against	117 (5th)
Team information
General manager	Art Ross
Coach	Art Ross
Captain	George Owen
Arena	Boston Garden
Team leaders
Goals	Marty Barry (17)
Assists	Dit Clapper (22)
Points	Dit Clapper (39)
Penalty minutes	Eddie Shore (80)
Wins	Tiny Thompson (13)
Goals against average	Tiny Thompson (2.29)

The 1931–32 Boston Bruins season was the Bruins' 8th season in the NHL. The Bruins finished last in the American Division and did not qualify for the playoffs.

Off-season

Lionel Hitchman, Eddie Shore, Art Ross, George Owen, Joe Jerwa, November 3, 1931.

The "Dynamite Line" of Dutch Gainor, Cooney Weiland and Dit Clapper was broken up with the trade of Gainor to the New York Rangers for Joe Jerwa on August 25, 1931. Joe joined his brother Frank to become the first brothers to play defense for the Bruins.

Regular Season

The season saw a great deal of line-up instability with 25 different players suiting up for the Bruins. This included two different goalies, Wilf Cude and Percy Jackson, spelling in for Tiny Thompson who missed games for the first time in his career.

Percy Jackson subbed for Tiny Thompson in January 1932.

Goal scoring was down for the Bruins from previous seasons and they suffered through stretches without wins including a miserable January that saw only one win (though 5 ties).

During the March 15, 1932 game versus the Toronto Maple Leafs, goalie Lorne Chabot took a first period tripping penalty. Rules at the time required that Chabot serve his time in the penalty box for the full two minutes, regardless of whether the opposing team scored on the power play. Three different Leafs, King Clancy, Red Horner and Alex Levinsky all took turns in goal with no success as the Bruins scored three power play goals during the penalty. Marty Barry had two while George Owen potted the other.

The Montreal Maroons were very interested in obtaining Eddie Shore from Boston. Even though James Strachan, president of the Maroons, said he was willing to pay up to $40,000 for Shore, there was no deal.

Final Standings

American Division

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
New York Rangers	48	23	17	8	134	112	54
Chicago Black Hawks	48	18	19	11	86	101	47
Detroit Falcons	48	18	20	10	95	108	46
Boston Bruins	48	15	21	12	122	117	42

Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against

Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.

Game Log

Regular Season Results
No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	L	November 14, 1931	1–4	@ Montreal Maroons (1931–32)	0–1–0
2	W	November 17, 1931	1–0 OT	Detroit Falcons (1931–32)	1–1–0
3	L	November 19, 1931	1–2	@ New York Rangers (1931–32)	1–2–0
4	L	November 21, 1931	0–3	@ Montreal Canadiens (1931–32)	1–3–0
5	W	November 24, 1931	7–1	Montreal Canadiens (1931–32)	2–3–0
6	W	November 26, 1931	1–0	Chicago Black Hawks (1931–32)	3–3–0
7	L	November 28, 1931	5–6 OT	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1931–32)	3–4–0
8	W	December 1, 1931	7–3	Montreal Maroons (1931–32)	4–4–0
9	L	December 8, 1931	2–3	New York Americans (1931–32)	4–5–0
10	T	December 10, 1931	1–1 OT	@ Detroit Falcons (1931–32)	4–5–1
11	W	December 13, 1931	3–0	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1931–32)	5–5–1
12	T	December 15, 1931	2–2 OT	New York Rangers (1931–32)	5–5–2
13	W	December 22, 1931	6–2	Detroit Falcons (1931–32)	6–5–2
14	T	December 26, 1931	4–4 OT	@ Montreal Maroons (1931–32)	6–5–3
15	T	December 29, 1931	3–3 OT	Chicago Black Hawks (1931–32)	6–5–4
16	W	December 31, 1931	5–0	Montreal Canadiens (1931–32)	7–5–4
17	T	January 3, 1932	0–0 OT	@ New York Americans (1931–32)	7–5–5
18	T	January 5, 1932	3–3 OT	Toronto Maple Leafs (1931–32)	7–5–6
19	T	January 7, 1932	0–0 OT	@ Detroit Falcons (1931–32)	7–5–7
20	T	January 10, 1932	1–1 OT	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1931–32)	7–5–8
21	L	January 12, 1932	3–5 OT	New York Rangers (1931–32)	7–6–8
22	L	January 14, 1932	1–3	@ New York Rangers (1931–32)	7–7–8
23	T	January 16, 1932	2–2 OT	@ Montreal Canadiens (1931–32)	7–7–9
24	L	January 19, 1932	2–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1931–32)	7–8–9
25	L	January 23, 1932	0–2	Detroit Falcons (1931–32)	7–9–9
26	L	January 26, 1932	3–4	Montreal Maroons (1931–32)	7–10–9
27	W	January 28, 1932	4–1	@ New York Rangers (1931–32)	8–10–9
28	L	February 2, 1932	3–4	New York Americans (1931–32)	8–11–9
29	W	February 4, 1932	5–0	@ New York Americans (1931–32)	9–11–9
30	L	February 6, 1932	0–6	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1931–32)	9–12–9
31	W	February 9, 1932	2–1	New York Rangers (1931–32)	10–12–9
32	L	February 11, 1932	4–7	Montreal Maroons (1931–32)	10–13–9
33	W	February 14, 1932	3–1	@ New York Americans (1931–32)	11–13–9
34	W	February 16, 1932	3–0	Toronto Maple Leafs (1931–32)	12–13–9
35	T	February 18, 1932	0–0 OT	@ Detroit Falcons (1931–32)	12–13–10
36	L	February 21, 1932	1–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1931–32)	12–14–10
37	L	February 23, 1932	0–2 OT	New York Rangers (1931–32)	12–15–10
38	T	February 25, 1932	3–3 OT	@ New York Rangers (1931–32)	12–15–11
39	L	February 27, 1932	2–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1931–32)	12–16–11
40	W	March 1, 1932	7–6	Montreal Canadiens (1931–32)	13–16–11
41	L	March 5, 1932	1–3	@ Montreal Maroons (1931–32)	13–17–11
42	W	March 8, 1932	2–0	Detroit Falcons (1931–32)	14–17–11
43	L	March 10, 1932	2–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1931–32)	14–18–11
44	L	March 12, 1932	3–5 OT	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1931–32)	14–19–11
45	W	March 15, 1932	6–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1931–32)	15–19–11
46	T	March 17, 1932	1–1 OT	@ Detroit Falcons (1931–32)	15–19–12
47	L	March 20, 1932	0–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1931–32)	15–20–12
48	L	March 22, 1932	6–8	New York Americans (1931–32)	15–21–12

Playoffs

• The Bruins did not qualify for the post season.

Player Stats

Regular Season

Scoring

#	Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
5	Clapper, DitDit Clapper	RW/D	48	17	22	39	21
10	Barry, MartyMarty Barry	C	48	21	17	38	22
7	Weiland, CooneyCooney Weiland	C	46	14	12	26	20
12	Chapman, ArtArt Chapman	C	48	11	14	25	18
4	Owen, GeorgeGeorge Owen	D	42	12	10	22	29
2	Shore, EddieEddie Shore	D	45	9	13	22	80
9	Oliver, HarryHarry Oliver	RW	44	13	7	20	22
11	Touhey, BillBill Touhey	LW	26	5	4	9	12
14, 16	Jerwa, FrankFrank Jerwa	LW/D	24	4	5	9	14
16, 17	Cook, BudBud Cook	C	28	4	4	8	14
3	Hitchman, LionelLionel Hitchman	D	48	4	3	7	36
14	Burke, EddieEddie Burke	RW/C	16	3	0	3	12
14, 17	Boyd, IrwinIrwin Boyd	RW	29	2	1	3	10
6	Galbraith, PercyPercy Galbraith	LW/D	47	2	1	3	28
8	Foster, YipYip Foster	D	34	1	2	3	12
11	Klein, LloydLloyd Klein	LW	5	1	0	1	0
15	Runge, PaulPaul Runge	C/LW	14	0	1	1	8
15	Beattie, RedRed Beattie	LW	1	0	0	0	0
15	Sutherland, MaxMax Sutherland	LW	2	0	0	0	0
8	Pratt, JackJack Pratt	C/D	5	0	0	0	6
15	Jeremiah, EdEd Jeremiah	RW/D	5	0	0	0	0
8	Jerwa, JoeJoe Jerwa	D	11	0	0	0	8
1	Cude, WilfWilf Cude	G	2	0	0	0	0
1, 18	Jackson, PercyPercy Jackson	G	4	0	0	0	0
1	Thompson, TinyTiny Thompson	G	43	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Thompson, TinyTiny Thompson	2698	43	13	19	12	103	2.29	9
Cude, WilfWilf Cude	120	2	1	1	0	6	3.00	1
Jackson, PercyPercy Jackson	232	4	1	1	0	5	2.07	0
Team:	3050	48	15	21	12	117	2.30	10

Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals

MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts

Awards and Records

• Eddie Shore, Defence, NHL First Team All-Star

Transactions

• Bill Touhey obtained in the dispersal draft of Ottawa and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
• Purchase Bud Cook from the Montreal Canadiens on May 13, 1931.
• Trade Dutch Gainor to the New York Rangers for Joe Jerwa on August 25, 1931.
• Joe Jerwa sent to Boston Cubs on December 14, 1931. Call up Yip Foster to replace Jerwa.
• Purchase Eddie Jeremiah from the New York Americans on February 1, 1932.
• Purchase Billy Burch from the Americans on April 13, 1932.

Trivia

• Tiny Thompson went down in the January 26, 1932 game versus the Montreal Maroons and only played 18 minutes. Percy Jackson played the remaining 42 minutes but Thompson took the loss as the Bruins were trailing 3-0 when he was replaced. Thompson missed the next 4 games as Jackson played 2 games (a win and a loss), followed by Wilf Cude playing 2 games (including a February 4, 1932 5-0 shutout of the New York Americans and a 6-0 loss to the Leafs). Thompson returned February 9, 1932 to beat the New York Rangers 2-1.
• Firsts in Bruins history accomplished during this season include:
  • Frank and Joe Jerwa became the first brothers to play for the Bruins.
• Bruins who recorded a hat trick this season include:
  • Harry Oliver during the 7-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens on November 24, 1931.
  • Dit Clapper during the 7-6 win over the Canadiens on March 1, 1932.
  • Marty Barry during the 6-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on March 15, 1932.

Farm Teams

• Boston Cubs, Canadian American Hockey League

See Also

• 1931–32 NHL season