1935-36 NHL season

The 1935-36 NHL season was the 19th season of the National Hockey League. Eight teams each played 48 games. The Detroit Red Wings were the Stanley Cup winners as they beat the Toronto Maple Leafs three games to one in the final series.

League Business

The previous season, 1934-35, had seen the Ottawa Senators (1917–34) franchise attempt to become profitable by moving to St. Louis and play as the St. Louis Eagles. Prior to the '35-36 season, the franchise owners would ask the league to suspend operations for a year, and the league would decline the request. On October 15, 1935, the NHL bought back the franchise and players contracts for $40,000 and suspended operations. Chicago would not participate in the dispersal draft.

During the season, the New York Americans were reported in financial trouble and were up for sale. Leo Dandurand, who had sold his interest in the Montreal Canadiens, was interested as was Joseph Cattarinich. Cattarinich said he would buy the team if the price was right. Later it was announced there would be no deal.

Pre-season

Training Camps

• Boston Bruins: Saint John, New Brunswick
• Chicago Black Hawks: Champaign, Illinois
• Detroit Red Wings: Detroit
• Montreal Canadiens: Quebec City
• Montreal Maroons: Winnipeg
• New York Americans: Oshawa, Ontario
• New York Rangers: Winnipeg
• Toronto Maple Leafs: Kitchener, Ontario

Exhibitions

The Rangers played three games against a local all-star team in Calgary.

Boston and the Canadiens played a five game series in the Maritme Provinces of Canada.

Regular season

Howie Morenz played badly for Chicago and incurred the wrath of Chicago owner Frederic McLaughlin. He was subsequently traded to the New York Rangers.

This was the year of Detroit. They finished first in the American Division. The Montreal Maroons finished first in the Canadian Division, but fans were starting to stay away from games they played, which worried now team president, manager and coach Tommy Gorman. At one point, Lionel Conacher had to run the team when Gorman experienced health and nervous problems. At .500 at mid-season, they traded Toe Blake for Lorne Chabot, owned by the Canadiens after being suspended by Chicago and refusing demotion to the minors, and the team began to win with Chabot in the net.

Final standings

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes
Note: Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold

Canadian Division	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA	PIM
Montreal Maroons	48	22	16	10	54	114	106	504
Toronto Maple Leafs	48	23	19	6	52	126	106	579
New York Americans	48	16	25	7	39	109	122	392
Montreal Canadiens	48	11	26	11	33	82	123	317

American Division	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA	PIM
Detroit Red Wings	48	24	16	8	56	124	103	384
Boston Bruins	48	22	20	6	50	92	83	397
Chicago Black Hawks	48	21	19	8	50	93	92	411
New York Rangers	48	19	17	12	50	91	96	381

Scoring leaders

Note: GP = Games played, G = Goals, A = Assists, PTS = Points, PIM = Penalties in minutes

Player	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	PIM
Sweeney Schriner	New York Americans	48	19	26	45	8
Marty Barry	Detroit Red Wings	48	21	19	40	46
Paul Thompson	Chicago Black Hawks	45	17	23	40	19
Bill Thoms	Toronto Maple Leafs	48	23	15	38	29
Charlie Conacher	Toronto Maple Leafs	44	23	15	38	74
Hooley Smith	Montreal Maroons	47	19	19	38	75
Doc Romnes	Chicago Black Hawks	48	13	25	38	6
Art Chapman	New York Americans	47	10	28	38	14
Herbie Lewis	Detroit Red Wings	45	14	23	37	25
Baldy Northcott	Montreal Maroons	48	15	21	36	41

Stanley Cup playoffs

In one of the most evenly matched series, the first game of the Maroons-Red Wings series set a record for the longest game in Stanley Cup playoff history. The game began at 8:30 p.m. at the Forum in Montreal, and ended at 2:25 a.m. The game was scoreless until in the sixth overtime, when Mud Bruneteau scored on Maroon goaltender Lorne Chabot to win the game. Normie Smith shut out the Maroons in the next game, and the Red Wings then beat the Maroons to win the series.

This was the last NHL playoff series to feature a "two-game total-goals" series.

see 1936 Stanley Cup Finals

Playoff bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

C1

Montreal Maroons

0

A1

Detroit Red Wings

3

A1

Detroit Red Wings

3

C2

Toronto Maple Leafs

1

C2

Toronto Maple Leafs

8G

A2

Boston Bruins

6G

C2

Toronto Maple Leafs

2

C3

New York Americans

1

C3

New York Americans

7G

A3

Chicago Black Hawks

5G

NHL awards

1935-36 NHL awards
O'Brien Trophy:	Montreal Maroons
Prince of Wales Trophy:	Detroit Red Wings
Calder Memorial Trophy:	Mike Karakas, Chicago Black Hawks
Hart Memorial Trophy:	Eddie Shore, Boston Bruins
Lady Byng Memorial Trophy:	Doc Romnes, Chicago Black Hawks
Vezina Trophy:	Tiny Thompson, Boston Bruins

All-Star teams

First Team	Position	Second Team
Tiny Thompson, Boston Bruins	G	Wilf Cude, Montreal Canadiens
Eddie Shore, Boston Bruins	D	Earl Seibert, Chicago Black Hawks
Babe Siebert, Boston Bruins	D	Ebbie Goodfellow, Detroit Red Wings
Hooley Smith, Montreal Maroons	C	Bill Thoms, Toronto Maple Leafs
Charlie Conacher, Toronto Maple Leafs	RW	Cecil Dillon, New York Rangers
Sweeney Schriner, New York Americans	LW	Paul Thompson, Chicago Black Hawks
Lester Patrick, New York Rangers	Coach	Tommy Gorman, Montreal Maroons

Debuts

The following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1935-36 (listed with their first team, asterisk(*) marks debut in playoffs):

• Ray Getliffe, Boston Bruins
• Woody Dumart, Boston Bruins
• Mike Karakas, Chicago Black Hawks
• Mud Bruneteau, Detroit Red Wings
• Alex Shibicky, New York Rangers
• Babe Pratt, New York Rangers
• Neil Colville, New York Rangers
• Phil Watson, New York Rangers
• Reg Hamilton, Toronto Maple Leafs

Last games

The following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 1935-36 (listed with their last team):

• Joe Primeau, Toronto Maple Leafs

Radio

All across Canada, there were radio broadcasts of NHL games. This ad is from Regina.

See also

• List of Stanley Cup champions

References

• Hockey Database
• NHL.com