1934–35 St. Louis Eagles season

1934–35 St. Louis Eagles
Division	5th Canadian
1934–35 record	11–31–6
Home record	7–14–3
Road record	4–17–3
Goals for	86
Goals against	144
Team information
General manager	Clare Brunton
Coach	Eddie Gerard Buck Boucher
Captain	Syd Howe
Arena	St. Louis Arena
Team leaders
Goals	Syd Howe (14)
Assists	Carl Voss Glen Brydson (18)
Points	Carl Voss (31)
Penalty minutes	Irv Frew (89)
Wins	Bill Beveridge (11)
Goals against average	Bill Beveridge (2.89)

The 1934–35 St. Louis Eagles season was the Eagles' only season in the NHL. The Ottawa Senators franchise relocated to St. Louis in the summer of 1934 due to financial losses in Ottawa. Despite good attendance at the St. Louis Arena, the Eagles would have financial problems, due to travel costs. The Eagles would take the Senators' spot in the Canadian Division, and would face numerous road trips to Montreal and Toronto throughout the season, despite being closer to Chicago and Detroit, who played in the American Division.

Pre-season

The Eagles held their training camp in Ottawa.

Regular Season

Ernie Kenny stops Des Roche from scoring on Lorne Chabot in the Eagles first game, November 8, 1934.

The Eagles opened the NHL season at home, in the segregated seating of the St. Louis Arena, against the Chicago Black Hawks on November 8, 1934. Howie Morenz made his debut for Chicago during the game and assisted on the game's first goal, by Johnny Gottselig. Earl Roche scored the Eagles first goal, assisted by Ralph "Scotty" Bowman but the Black Hawks triumphed 3-1.

The Eagles were led offensively by Carl Voss and his team leading 31 points, team captain Syd Howe would lead the club with 14 goals, despite being traded to the Detroit Red Wings late in the season, while Glen Brydson would finish 2nd in team scoring with 29 points. Joe Jerwa, acquired by the Boston Bruins, would lead the defense with 11 points in only 16 games in St. Louis.

Bill Beveridge would be the Eagles goaltender, winning 11 games with a 2.89 GAA and 3 shutouts.

The strain of so many long train rides showed early on. Midway through the season, new head coach and former Senators player Eddie Gerard was relieved of his duties after a 2–11–0 start and was replaced by Buck Boucher, who was the head coach of the Senators the previous season. Boucher would post a 9–20–6 record in 35 games. All told, the Eagles finished 11–31–6, dead last in the league with a winning percentage of .292.

After the season, the franchise owners asked permission to suspend operations for a year. Instead, the NHL bought the players' contracts for $40,000 and dispersed the players to the other NHL teams. The NHL took back the franchise, on the condition that if it were resold, the original franchisees would share in the proceeds.

The Montreal Maroons nearly relocated to St. Louis in 1938, but the NHL nixed the move. St. Louis would be without an NHL team until 1967, when the league expanded from 6 teams to 12, and the St. Louis Blues took the ice.

Final Standings

Canadian Division

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Toronto Maple Leafs	48	30	14	4	157	111	64
Montreal Maroons	48	24	19	5	123	92	53
Montreal Canadiens	48	19	23	6	110	145	44
New York Americans	48	12	27	9	100	142	33
St. Louis Eagles	48	11	31	6	86	144	28

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	L	November 8, 1934	1–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1934–35)	0–1–0
2	W	November 10, 1934	4–2	New York Rangers (1934–35)	1–1–0
3	L	November 13, 1934	1–2 OT	Montreal Maroons (1934–35)	1–2–0
4	L	November 17, 1934	0–1	@ Boston Bruins (1934–35)	1–3–0
5	L	November 18, 1934	0–5	@ New York Rangers (1934–35)	1–4–0
6	L	November 20, 1934	2–5	Toronto Maple Leafs (1934–35)	1–5–0
7	L	November 22, 1934	0–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1934–35)	1–6–0
8	L	November 24, 1934	1–4	Boston Bruins (1934–35)	1–7–0
9	L	November 25, 1934	1–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (1934–35)	1–8–0
10	L	December 1, 1934	3–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1934–35)	1–9–0
11	W	December 4, 1934	2–0	New York Americans (1934–35)	2–9–0
12	L	December 8, 1934	0–1	@ Montreal Maroons (1934–35)	2–10–0
13	L	December 9, 1934	1–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (1934–35)	2–11–0
14	L	December 13, 1934	2–11	Detroit Red Wings (1934–35)	2–12–0
15	T	December 15, 1934	1–1 OT	@ Montreal Canadiens (1934–35)	2–12–1
16	W	December 18, 1934	2–1 OT	@ New York Americans (1934–35)	3–12–1
17	T	December 20, 1934	1–1 OT	Toronto Maple Leafs (1934–35)	3–12–2
18	L	December 22, 1934	1–2	Montreal Canadiens (1934–35)	3–13–2
19	W	December 27, 1934	5–2	Detroit Red Wings (1934–35)	4–13–2
20	T	December 30, 1934	3–3 OT	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1934–35)	4–13–3
21	L	January 3, 1935	0–3	Montreal Maroons (1934–35)	4–14–3
22	W	January 5, 1935	2–1	@ Montreal Maroons (1934–35)	5–14–3
23	L	January 10, 1935	1–2	Boston Bruins (1934–35)	5–15–3
24	L	January 13, 1935	2–3	@ New York Rangers (1934–35)	5–16–3
25	L	January 15, 1935	3–5	@ Boston Bruins (1934–35)	5–17–3
26	L	January 17, 1935	1–5	Chicago Black Hawks (1934–35)	5–18–3
27	L	January 19, 1935	2–6	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1934–35)	5–19–3
28	W	January 20, 1935	6–1	@ Detroit Red Wings (1934–35)	6–19–3
29	L	January 22, 1935	1–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1934–35)	6–20–3
30	T	January 24, 1935	2–2 OT	New York Americans (1934–35)	6–20–4
31	L	January 27, 1935	3–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1934–35)	6–21–4
32	L	January 29, 1935	2–5	@ Montreal Maroons (1934–35)	6–22–4
33	T	February 2, 1935	1–1 OT	Montreal Canadiens (1934–35)	6–22–5
34	T	February 5, 1935	3–3 OT	@ New York Americans (1934–35)	6–22–6
35	W	February 7, 1935	1–0 OT	Chicago Black Hawks (1934–35)	7–22–6
36	L	February 9, 1935	2–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1934–35)	7–23–6
37	L	February 12, 1935	1–5	New York Rangers (1934–35)	7–24–6
38	W	February 16, 1935	3–0	Boston Bruins (1934–35)	8–24–6
39	L	February 19, 1935	1–2	@ New York Rangers (1934–35)	8–25–6
40	W	February 21, 1935	4–3	@ New York Americans (1934–35)	9–25–6
41	L	February 23, 1935	0–4	Montreal Maroons (1934–35)	9–26–6
42	L	February 26, 1935	0–5	@ Boston Bruins (1934–35)	9–27–6
43	L	February 28, 1935	2–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1934–35)	9–28–6
44	L	March 2, 1935	2–3 OT	Montreal Canadiens (1934–35)	9–29–6
45	W	March 7, 1935	3–2	New York Americans (1934–35)	10–29–6
46	L	March 9, 1935	1–5	New York Rangers (1934–35)	10–30–6
47	W	March 12, 1935	3–2	Detroit Red Wings (1934–35)	11–30–6
48	L	March 19, 1935	3–5	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1934–35)	11–31–6

Playoffs

• The Eagles did not qualify for the post season.

Player Stats

Regular Season

Scoring

#	Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
9	Voss, CarlCarl Voss	C	48	13	18	31	14
10	Brydson, GlenGlen Brydson	RW	48	11	18	29	45
11	Howe, SydSyd Howe	C/LW	36	14	13	27	23
7	Lamb, JoeJoe Lamb	RW	31	11	12	23	19
18	Kelly, PetePete Kelly	RW	25	3	10	13	14
15	Cowley, BillBill Cowley	C	41	5	7	12	10
14	Asmundson, OscarOscar Asmundson	C	11	4	7	11	2
6	Jerwa, FrankFrank Jerwa	LW/D	16	4	7	11	14
8	Finnigan, FrankFrank Finnigan	RW	34	5	5	10	10
12	Roche, EarlEarl Roche	LW	19	3	3	6	2
17	Ripley, VicVic Ripley	LW	31	1	5	6	10
16	Wasnie, NickNick Wasnie	RW	13	3	1	4	2
4	Ayres, VernonVernon Ayres	D	47	2	2	4	60
2	Bowman, RalphRalph Bowman	D	31	2	2	4	51
6	Shannon, GerryGerry Shannon	LW	25	2	2	4	11
16	Purpur, FidoFido Purpur	RW	25	1	2	3	8
12	Blake, MickeyMickey Blake	LW/D	8	1	1	2	2
11	Finnigan, EdEd Finnigan	LW	12	1	1	2	2
5	Frew, IrvIrv Frew	D	48	0	2	2	89
6	Carrigan, GeneGene Carrigan	C	4	0	1	1	0
18	Patterson, GeorgeGeorge Patterson	W	21	0	1	1	2
16	Kalbfleisch, WalterWalter Kalbfleisch	D	3	0	0	0	6
17	Cook, BudBud Cook	C	4	0	0	0	0
12	Roche, DesDes Roche	RW	7	0	0	0	0
3	Wilcox, ArchieArchie Wilcox	RW/D	8	0	0	0	0
3	Williams, BurrBurr Williams	D	9	0	0	0	6
7	Kaminsky, MaxMax Kaminsky	C	12	0	0	0	0
2	Graham, TedTed Graham	D	13	0	0	0	2
1	Beveridge, BillBill Beveridge	G	48	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Beveridge, BillBill Beveridge	2990	48	11	31	6	144	2.89	3
Team:	2990	48	11	31	6	144	2.89	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

• The Eagles did not win any awards this season.

Gallery

Ad for Eagles first game, Nov 8, 1934.

St. Louis Eagles program cover.

Eagles' Program lineup.

Eagles' program schedule.

Eagles' program schedule 2.

1934-35 St. Louis Eagles team photo-inside St. Louis Arena.

Eagles uniform at the Hockey Hall of Fame.

See Also

• 1934–35 NHL season

References

• SHRP Sports
• The Internet Hockey Database
• NHL (2007). National Hockey League Guide & Record Book 2007. NHL.