1936–37 Toronto Maple Leafs season

1936–37 Toronto Maple Leafs
Division	3rd Canadian
1936–37 record	22–21–5
Goals for	119
Goals against	115
Team information
General manager	Conn Smythe
Coach	Dick Irvin
Captain	Hap Day
Arena	Maple Leaf Gardens
Team leaders
Goals	Busher Jackson (21)
Assists	Syl Apps (29)
Points	Syl Apps (45)
Penalty minutes	Red Horner (124)
Wins	Turk Broda (22)
Goals against average	Turk Broda (2.30)

The 1936–37 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 20th season in the NHL. The Maple Leafs finished 3rd in the Canadian Division and lost in the Quarter-finals to the New York Rangers 2 games to 0.

Regular Season

Example of the Maple Leafs defensive style, December 22, 1936.

On November 17, 1936, Art Ross sent an open letter to the NHL's general managers encouraging them to play "open hockey" with an emphasis on speed and clean play. He offered to pay $1000 to any team if the Boston Bruins didn't play this style against them as long they agreed to the same penalty. Ross rival Conn Smythe refused the open hockey challenge and after the December 22 game against the Maple Leafs was marred by boring defensive hockey, in retaliation, Ross promised "if they want defensive hockey, we'll give them an overdose of it." Good to his word, the Bruins surrounded their own net and barely attacked during the December 26 re-match in Toronto and won 2-1.

Final Standings

Canadian Division

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Montreal Canadiens	48	24	18	6	115	111	54
Montreal Maroons	48	22	17	9	126	110	53
Toronto Maple Leafs	48	22	21	5	119	115	49
New York Americans	48	15	29	4	122	161	34

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 5, 1936	1–3	Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	0–1–0
2	L	November 7, 1936	2–3	New York Americans (1936–37)	0–2–0
3	W	November 14, 1936	6–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	1–2–0
4	T	November 15, 1936	1–1 OT	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	1–2–1
5	L	November 21, 1936	3–4	Boston Bruins (1936–37)	1–3–1
6	L	November 22, 1936	2–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	1–4–1
7	L	November 24, 1936	1–5	@ New York Rangers (1936–37)	1–5–1
8	W	November 26, 1936	4–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1936–37)	2–5–1
9	W	November 28, 1936	4–2	Montreal Canadiens (1936–37)	3–5–1
10	W	December 1, 1936	2–1	@ Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	4–5–1
11	L	December 5, 1936	1–3	Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	4–6–1
12	L	December 12, 1936	3–5 OT	New York Rangers (1936–37)	4–7–1
13	W	December 17, 1936	5–1	@ New York Americans (1936–37)	5–7–1
14	W	December 19, 1936	3–1	New York Americans (1936–37)	6–7–1
15	W	December 22, 1936	4–2	@ Boston Bruins (1936–37)	7–7–1
16	L	December 26, 1936	1–2	Boston Bruins (1936–37)	7–8–1
17	L	December 31, 1936	1–3 OT	@ Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	7–9–1
18	T	January 2, 1937	0–0 OT	Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	7–9–2
19	L	January 3, 1937	2–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	7–10–2
20	L	January 7, 1937	1–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1936–37)	7–11–2
21	W	January 9, 1937	2–1	Montreal Canadiens (1936–37)	8–11–2
22	L	January 10, 1937	1–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	8–12–2
23	W	January 16, 1937	3–2 OT	Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	9–12–2
24	W	January 19, 1937	6–2	@ Boston Bruins (1936–37)	10–12–2
25	L	January 21, 1937	3–6	@ New York Americans (1936–37)	10–13–2
26	W	January 23, 1937	4–0	New York Rangers (1936–37)	11–13–2
27	L	January 24, 1937	2–4	@ New York Rangers (1936–37)	11–14–2
28	L	January 26, 1937	1–3	Montreal Canadiens (1936–37)	11–15–2
29	W	January 30, 1937	7–4	Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	12–15–2
30	L	February 2, 1937	1–3	@ Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	12–16–2
31	W	February 4, 1937	2–1	@ New York Americans (1936–37)	13–16–2
32	W	February 6, 1937	5–0	New York Americans (1936–37)	14–16–2
33	L	February 9, 1937	1–5	New York Rangers (1936–37)	14–17–2
34	L	February 13, 1937	0–3	Boston Bruins (1936–37)	14–18–2
35	T	February 14, 1937	3–3 OT	@ Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	14–18–3
36	W	February 18, 1937	3–1	Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	15–18–3
37	W	February 20, 1937	4–3	New York Americans (1936–37)	16–18–3
38	L	February 21, 1937	1–3	@ New York Americans (1936–37)	16–19–3
39	L	February 23, 1937	1–2	@ New York Rangers (1936–37)	16–20–3
40	W	February 25, 1937	3–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1936–37)	17–20–3
41	W	February 27, 1937	3–2	Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	18–20–3
42	W	March 6, 1937	3–1 OT	Montreal Canadiens (1936–37)	19–20–3
43	T	March 7, 1937	2–2 OT	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	19–20–4
44	L	March 11, 1937	2–3	@ Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	19–21–4
45	W	March 13, 1937	3–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	20–21–4
46	T	March 16, 1937	1–1 OT	@ Boston Bruins (1936–37)	20–21–5
47	W	March 18, 1937	2–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1936–37)	21–21–5
48	W	March 20, 1937	3–2	Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	22–21–5

Playoffs

New York Rangers 2, Toronto Maple Leafs 0

#	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Record
1	March 23	New York Rangers	3-0	Toronto Maple Leafs	1-0
2	March 25	Toronto Maple Leafs	1-2 (OT)	New York Rangers	0-2

Player Stats

Regular Season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Apps, SylSyl Apps	C	48	16	29	45	10
Jackson, BusherBusher Jackson	LW	46	21	19	40	12
Drillon, GordieGordie Drillon	RW	41	16	17	33	2
Metz, NickNick Metz	LW	48	9	11	20	19
Thoms, BillBill Thoms	C	48	10	9	19	14
Fowler, JimmyJimmy Fowler	D	48	7	11	18	22
Davidson, BobBob Davidson	LW	46	8	7	15	43
Horner, RedRed Horner	D	48	3	9	12	124
Hamilton, RegReg Hamilton	D	39	3	7	10	32
Boll, BuzzBuzz Boll	LW	25	6	3	9	12
Finnigan, FrankFrank Finnigan	RW	48	2	7	9	4
Shill, JackJack Shill	C	32	4	4	8	26
Conacher, CharlieCharlie Conacher	RW	15	3	5	8	13
Day, HapHap Day	D	48	3	4	7	20
Kendall, BillBill Kendall	RW	15	2	4	6	4
Jackson, ArtArt Jackson	C	14	2	0	2	2
Kelly, PepPep Kelly	RW	16	2	0	2	8
Clancy, KingKing Clancy	D	6	1	0	1	4
Jarvis, JamesJames Jarvis	LW	24	1	0	1	0
Howard, JackJack Howard	D	2	0	0	0	0
Parsons, GeorgeGeorge Parsons	LW	5	0	0	0	0
Hainsworth, GeorgeGeorge Hainsworth	G	3	0	0	0	0
Broda, TurkTurk Broda	G	45	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Broda, TurkTurk Broda	2770	45	22	19	4	106	2.30	3
Hainsworth, GeorgeGeorge Hainsworth	190	3	0	2	1	9	2.84	0
Team:	2960	48	22	21	5	115	2.33	3

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Jackson, BusherBusher Jackson	LW	2	1	0	1	2
Apps, SylSyl Apps	C	2	0	1	1	0
Hamilton, RegReg Hamilton	D	2	0	1	1	2
Boll, BuzzBuzz Boll	LW	2	0	0	0	0
Broda, TurkTurk Broda	G	2	0	0	0	0
Conacher, CharlieCharlie Conacher	RW	2	0	0	0	5
Davidson, BobBob Davidson	LW	2	0	0	0	5
Day, HapHap Day	D	2	0	0	0	0
Drillon, GordieGordie Drillon	RW	2	0	0	0	0
Finnigan, FrankFrank Finnigan	RW	2	0	0	0	0
Fowler, JimmyJimmy Fowler	D	2	0	0	0	0
Horner, RedRed Horner	D	2	0	0	0	7
Metz, NickNick Metz	LW	2	0	0	0	0
Shill, JackJack Shill	C	2	0	0	0	0
Thoms, BillBill Thoms	C	2	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Broda, TurkTurk Broda	133	2	0	2	5	2.26	0
Team:	133	2	0	2	5	2.26	0

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

• Calder Memorial Trophy: Syl Apps
• Busher Jackson, Left Wing, NHL First Team All-Star

Gallery

Leafs-Americans melee, February 21, 1937.

Tiny Thompson save, March 16, 1937.

See Also

• 1936–37 NHL season

External Links

• 1936–37 Toronto Maple Leafs Games. Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved on 2009-05-07.