1933–34 Ottawa Senators season

1933–34 Ottawa Senators
Division	5th Canadian
1933–34 record	13–29–6
Home record	9–13–2
Road record	4–16–4
Goals for	115
Goals against	143
Team Information
General Manager	Dave Gill
Coach	Buck Boucher
Captain	Syd Howe
Arena	Ottawa Auditorium
Team Leaders
Goals	Desse Roche (14)
Assists	Max Kaminsky (17)
Points	Earl Roche (29)
Penalties in minutes	Ralph Bowman (64)
Wins	Bill Beveridge (13)
Goals against average	Bill Beveridge (2.86)

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The 1933–34 Ottawa Senators season was the team's 16th season in the NHL and 48th season of play overall. It was their last season as the franchise would move to St. Louis, Missouri, playing as the St. Louis Eagles the next season.

Regular Season

Before the season, the Sens replaced head coach Cy Denneny with former defenceman Buck Boucher. Ottawa-born player Syd Howe was named captain of the team. Cooney Weiland, who led the team in scoring the previous season, would hold out, but was eventually signed, and scored only 2 goals in 9 games before the Senators sent him to the Detroit Red Wings for Carl Voss.

The Senators would be led offensively by Earl Roche, who had a team high 29 points, his brother Desse Roche would score a team high 14 goals, while Max Kaminsky would put up a team high 17 assists. Frank Finnigan chipped in with ten goals, to reach 104 in his career.

Bill Beveridge would take over the Senators' goal-tending duties, winning 13 games, while posting three shutouts and a 2.86 GAA. In the Senators last game of the season at home, against the New York Americans, Americans goalie Roy Worters was injured and not able to play after the first period. The Senators let New York use Alex Connell, the Senators backup who had not played a minute all season long, and Connell would play well enough to defeat the Senators 3–2. The last game of the season was a 2–2 draw against the Montreal Maroons at the Montreal Forum. Desse Roche scored the last goal of the original Ottawa Senators on March 17, 1934.

After the season, the Senators announced that the NHL franchise would relocate to St. Louis, Missouri where they would become the St. Louis Eagles, after 16 seasons in the NHL. To fill the Auditorium, the organization kept an Ottawa Senators club in senior league play until 1954. Ottawa would not have an NHL team again until 1992, 58 years later.

Final Standings

Canadian Division

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Toronto Maple Leafs	48	26	13	9	174	119	61
Montreal Canadiens	48	22	20	6	99	101	50
Montreal Maroons	48	19	18	11	117	122	49
New York Americans	48	15	23	10	104	132	40
Ottawa Senators	48	13	29	6	115	143	32

Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points
Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.

Game Log

Regular Season Results
No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	W	November 11, 1933	2–0	Montreal Canadiens (1933–34)	1–0–0
2	W	November 14, 1933	4–2	Montreal Maroons (1933–34)	2–0–0
3	L	November 16, 1933	1–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1933–34)	2–1–0
4	L	November 18, 1933	1–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1933–34)	2–2–0
5	L	November 19, 1933	1–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1933–34)	2–3–0
6	L	November 21, 1933	2–3	Detroit Red Wings (1933–34)	2–4–0
7	L	November 23, 1933	0–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1933–34)	2–5–0
8	L	November 25, 1933	2–3	New York Americans (1933–34)	2–6–0
9	L	November 28, 1933	1–2	@ Boston Bruins (1933–34)	2–7–0
10	W	November 30, 1933	2–1	Boston Bruins (1933–34)	3–7–0
11	W	December 7, 1933	4–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1933–34)	4–7–0
12	W	December 10, 1933	5–2	@ New York Americans (1933–34)	5–7–0
13	T	December 12, 1933	1–1 OT	Montreal Canadiens (1933–34)	5–7–1
14	L	December 14, 1933	3–4	New York Rangers (1933–34)	5–8–1
15	L	December 16, 1933	2–3	@ Montreal Maroons (1933–34)	5–9–1
16	T	December 19, 1933	2–2 OT	Chicago Black Hawks (1933–34)	5–9–2
17	T	December 21, 1933	0–0 OT	@ New York Rangers (1933–34)	5–9–3
18	W	December 25, 1933	6–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (1933–34)	6–9–3
19	T	December 28, 1933	2–2 OT	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1933–34)	6–9–4
20	L	January 2, 1934	2–4	@ New York Americans (1933–34)	6–10–4
21	W	January 4, 1934	9–2	Boston Bruins (1933–34)	7–10–4
22	L	January 6, 1934	3–7	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1933–34)	7–11–4
23	L	January 7, 1934	0–2	@ Detroit Red Wings (1933–34)	7–12–4
24	L	January 11, 1934	3–5	New York Rangers (1933–34)	7–13–4
25	T	January 13, 1934	0–0 OT	@ Montreal Canadiens (1933–34)	7–13–5
26	L	January 16, 1934	4–7 OT	Toronto Maple Leafs (1933–34)	7–14–5
27	W	January 20, 1934	5–4	Detroit Red Wings (1933–34)	8–14–5
28	L	January 23, 1934	2–5	@ New York Rangers (1933–34)	8–15–5
29	L	January 25, 1934	3–6	New York Rangers (1933–34)	8–16–5
30	L	January 30, 1934	0–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1933–34)	8–17–5
31	L	February 1, 1934	1–3	Montreal Maroons (1933–34)	8–18–5
32	L	February 3, 1934	4–8	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1933–34)	8–19–5
33	L	February 6, 1934	2–6	@ Montreal Maroons (1933–34)	8–20–5
34	L	February 10, 1934	0–3	Detroit Red Wings (1933–34)	8–21–5
35	W	February 13, 1934	3–2	New York Americans (1933–34)	9–21–5
36	L	February 15, 1934	2–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1933–34)	9–22–5
37	L	February 18, 1934	1–2 OT	@ Detroit Red Wings (1933–34)	9–23–5
38	L	February 20, 1934	2–6	Montreal Maroons (1933–34)	9–24–5
39	W	February 22, 1934	3–1 OT	@ Boston Bruins (1933–34)	10–24–5
40	W	February 24, 1934	9–4	Boston Bruins (1933–34)	11–24–5
41	L	February 27, 1934	1–3 OT	Montreal Canadiens (1933–34)	11–25–5
42	L	March 4, 1934	0–3	@ New York Americans (1933–34)	11–26–5
43	W	March 6, 1934	5–4 OT	@ New York Rangers (1933–34)	12–26–5
44	W	March 8, 1934	3–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1933–34)	13–26–5
45	L	March 10, 1934	2–3 OT	@ Montreal Canadiens (1933–34)	13–27–5
46	L	March 13, 1934	1–2	@ Boston Bruins (1933–34)	13–28–5
47	L	March 15, 1934	2–3	New York Americans (1933–34)	13–29–5
48	T	March 17, 1934	2–2 OT	@ Montreal Maroons (1933–34)	13–29–6

Playoffs

• The Senators did not qualify for the playoffs.

Player Stats

Regular Season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Roche, EarlEarl Roche	LW	45	13	16	29	22
Shannon, GerryGerry Shannon	LW	48	11	15	26	26
Kaminsky, MaxMax Kaminsky	C	38	9	17	26	14
Roche, DesDes Roche	RW	46	14	10	24	22
Voss, CarlCarl Voss	C	40	7	16	23	10
Howe, SydSyd Howe	C/LW	42	13	7	20	18
Touhey, BillBill Touhey	LW	46	12	8	20	21
Finnigan, FrankFrank Finnigan	RW	48	10	10	20	10
Wasnie, NickNick Wasnie	RW	37	11	6	17	10
Hollett, FlashFlash Hollett	D	30	7	4	11	21
Shields, AlAl Shields	D	47	4	7	11	44
Leduc, AlbertAlbert Leduc	D	32	1	3	4	34
Saunders, TedTed Saunders	RW	18	1	3	4	4
Kalbfleisch, WalterWalter Kalbfleisch	D	22	0	4	4	20
Cox, DannyDanny Cox	LW	29	0	4	4	0
Weiland, CooneyCooney Weiland	C	9	2	0	2	4
Bowman, RalphRalph Bowman	D	46	0	2	2	64
Cook, BudBud Cook	C	18	1	0	1	8
Galbraith, PercyPercy Galbraith	LW/D	2	0	0	0	0
McInenly, BertBert McInenly	LW/D	2	0	0	0	0
Beveridge, BillBill Beveridge	G	48	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Beveridge, BillBill Beveridge	3000	48	13	29	6	143	2.86	3
Team:	3000	48	13	29	6	143	2.86	3

Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/Minus; 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

Milestones

• Frank Finnigan, 100th NHL goal

Transactions

• October 4, 1933 - Traded Hec Kilrea to Toronto for Bob Gracie and $10,000.
• November. 26, 1933 - Traded Cooney Weiland to Detroit for Carl Voss and cash.
• January 2, 1934 - Flash Hollett loaned to Ottawa by Toronto for remainder of 1933-34 season.
• January 30, 1934 - Released Danny Cox.

Gallery

Season Tickets

See Also

• 1933–34 NHL season
• History of the National Hockey League

References

• SHRP Sports
• The Internet Hockey Database
• National Hockey League Guide & Record Book 2007