1950–51 New York Rangers season

1950–51 New York Rangers
Division	5th NHL
1950–51 record	20–29–21
Goals for	169
Goals against	201
Team information
General manager	Frank Boucher
Coach	Neil Colville
Captain	Frank Eddolls
Arena	Madison Square Garden
Team leaders
Goals	Nick Mickoski (20)
Assists	Don Raleigh (24)
Points	Don Raleigh Reg Sinclair (39)
Penalty minutes	Tony Leswick (112)
Wins	Chuck Rayner (19)
Goals against average	Chuck Raynor (2.85)

The 1950–51 New York Rangers season was the 25th season for the team in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Rangers finished 5th in the league and did not qualify for the playoffs.

Regular Season

Final Standings

National Hockey League

	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA
Detroit Red Wings	70	44	13	13	101	236	139
Toronto Maple Leafs	70	41	16	13	95	212	138
Montreal Canadiens	70	25	30	15	65	173	184
Boston Bruins	70	22	30	18	62	178	197
New York Rangers	70	20	29	21	61	169	201
Chicago Black Hawks	70	13	47	10	36	171	280

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	October 11, 1950	2–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	0–1–0
2	W	October 15, 1950	3–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	1–1–0
3	L	October 19, 1950	0–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	1–2–0
4	L	October 21, 1950	0–5	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	1–3–0
5	T	October 22, 1950	0–0	@ Boston Bruins (1950–51)	1–3–1
6	T	October 25, 1950	1–1	Boston Bruins (1950–51)	1–3–2
10	T	November 4, 1950	2–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	1–4–5
11	L	November 5, 1950	1–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	1–5–5
12	L	November 8, 1950	3–5	Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	1–6–5
13	T	November 11, 1950	1–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	1–6–6
14	L	November 12, 1950	1–4	Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	1–7–6
15	L	November 15, 1950	3–4	Boston Bruins (1950–51)	1–8–6
16	L	November 18, 1950	4–5	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	1–9–6
17	T	November 19, 1950	3–3	Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	1–9–7
18	W	November 22, 1950	3–2	Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	2–9–7
19	T	November 25, 1950	3–3	@ Boston Bruins (1950–51)	2–9–8
20	L	November 26, 1950	2–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	2–10–8
21	T	November 29, 1950	1–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	2–10–9
22	W	December 2, 1950	3–2	@ Boston Bruins (1950–51)	3–10–9
23	L	December 3, 1950	3–5	Boston Bruins (1950–51)	3–11–9
24	L	December 6, 1950	0–9	Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	3–12–9
25	L	December 9, 1950	0–5	@ Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	3–13–9
26	T	December 10, 1950	3–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	3–13–10
27	W	December 13, 1950	3–2	Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	4–13–10
28	T	December 16, 1950	1–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	4–13–11
29	T	December 17, 1950	3–3	Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	4–13–12
30	T	December 20, 1950	4–4	Boston Bruins (1950–51)	4–13–13
31	W	December 24, 1950	6–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	5–13–13
32	L	December 25, 1950	1–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	5–14–13
33	W	December 27, 1950	3–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	6–14–13
34	W	December 31, 1950	3–0	Boston Bruins (1950–51)	7–14–13
35	L	January 1, 1951	2–3	@ Boston Bruins (1950–51)	7–15–13
36	W	January 3, 1951	5–3	Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	8–15–13
37	W	January 6, 1951	4–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	9–15–13
38	W	January 7, 1951	3–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	10–15–13
39	L	January 10, 1951	0–3	Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	10–16–13
40	L	January 13, 1951	2–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	10–17–13
41	W	January 14, 1951	2–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	11–17–13
42	T	January 17, 1951	3–3	Boston Bruins (1950–51)	11–17–14
43	T	January 20, 1951	2–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	11–17–15
44	L	January 21, 1951	1–5	@ Boston Bruins (1950–51)	11–18–15
45	W	January 25, 1951	2–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	12–18–15
46	L	January 27, 1951	1–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	12–19–15
47	W	January 28, 1951	5–3	Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	13–19–15
48	L	February 1, 1951	2–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	13–20–15
49	T	February 4, 1951	4–4	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	13–20–16
50	T	February 7, 1951	2–2	@ Boston Bruins (1950–51)	13–20–17
51	W	February 11, 1951	3–1	Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	14–20–17
52	W	February 14, 1951	5–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	15–20–17
53	W	February 15, 1951	7–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	16–20–17
54	L	February 17, 1951	0–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	16–21–17
55	L	February 18, 1951	2–5	Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	16–22–17
56	T	February 21, 1951	2–2	Boston Bruins (1950–51)	16–22–18
57	L	February 24, 1951	2–6	@ Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	16–23–18
58	W	February 25, 1951	6–2	Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	17–23–18
59	W	March 1, 1951	4–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	18–23–18
60	T	March 3, 1951	3–3	@ Boston Bruins (1950–51)	18–23–19
61	T	March 4, 1951	2–2	Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	18–23–20
62	W	March 7, 1951	3–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	19–23–20
63	L	March 10, 1951	2–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	19–24–20
64	T	March 11, 1951	5–5	Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	19–24–21
65	L	March 14, 1951	1–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	19–25–21
66	L	March 15, 1951	3–5	@ Montreal Canadiens (1950–51)	19–26–21
67	L	March 17, 1951	1–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	19–27–21
68	L	March 18, 1951	1–4	Toronto Maple Leafs (1950–51)	19–28–21
69	L	March 21, 1951	1–4	Detroit Red Wings (1950–51)	19–29–21
70	W	March 25, 1951	5–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1950–51)	20–29–21

Playoffs

• The Rangers did not qualify for the post season.

Player Stats

Regular Season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Sinclair, RegReg Sinclair	RW/C	70	18	21	39	70
Raleigh, DonDon Raleigh	C	64	15	24	39	18
O'Connor, BuddyBuddy O'Connor	C	66	16	20	36	0
Mickoski, NickNick Mickoski	LW	64	20	15	35	12
Kullman, EddieEddie Kullman	RW	70	14	18	32	88
Slowinski, EdEd Slowinski	RW	69	14	18	32	15
Toppazzini, ZellioZellio Toppazzini	RW	55	14	14	28	27
Leswick, TonyTony Leswick	W	70	15	11	26	112
Laprade, EdgarEdgar Laprade	C	42	10	13	23	0
Stanley, AllanAllan Stanley	D	70	7	14	21	75
Lund, PenttiPentti Lund	RW	59	4	16	20	6
Egan, PatPat Egan	D	70	5	10	15	70
McLeod, JackieJackie McLeod	RW	41	5	10	15	2
Eddolls, FrankFrank Eddolls	D	68	3	8	11	24
Kaleta, AlexAlex Kaleta	LW	58	3	4	7	26
Stanowski, WallyWally Stanowski	D	49	1	5	6	28
Kyle, GusGus Kyle	D	64	2	3	5	92
Kyle, BillBill Kyle	C	1	0	3	3	0
Howe, VicVic Howe	RW	3	1	0	1	0
Harrison, EdEd Harrison	C/LW	4	1	0	1	2
Evans, JackJack Evans	D	49	1	0	1	95
Gordon, JackJack Gordon	C	4	0	1	1	0
Lancien, JackJack Lancien	D	19	0	1	1	8
Kotanen, DickDick Kotanen	D	1	0	0	0	0
Wood, BobBob Wood	D	1	0	0	0	0
Wylie, BillBill Wylie	C	1	0	0	0	0
Fisher, DuncDunc Fisher	RW	12	0	0	0	0
Francis, EmileEmile Francis	G	5	0	0	0	0
Rayner, ChuckChuck Rayner	G	66	0	0	0	6

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Rayner, ChuckChuck Rayner	3940	66	19	28	19	187	2.85	2
Francis, EmileEmile Francis	260	5	1	1	2	14	3.23	0
Team:	4200	70	20	29	21	201	2.87	2

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

• Chuck Rayner, Goaltender, Second Team All-Star

Farm Teams

The following were junior farm teams of the Rangers:

Guelph Biltmores

Lethbridge Native Sons

Prince Albert Mintos

Quebec Citadelles

Gallery

Leafs Sid Smith scores over sprawled Rangers Buddy O'Connor and Chuck Rayner, November 8, 1950.

Pre-season @ Montreal

Pre-season @ Quebec City

See Also

• 1950–51 NHL season

References

• 1950–51 New York Rangers Games. Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved on 2009-05-06.

New York Rangers
Team	Franchise • Players • Coaches • GMs • Seasons • Records • Draft Picks • History Madison Square Garden
Stanley Cups	1928, 1933, 1940, 1994
Affiliates	Hartford Wolf Pack (AHL), Maine Mariners (ECHL)