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)
Penalty minutes	Ralph Bowman (64)
Wins	Bill Beveridge (13)
Goals against average	Bill Beveridge (2.86)
← 1932–33 1934–35 →

The 1933–34 Ottawa Senators season was the team's 16th season in the NHL and 48th season of play overall. It was the last season to be played by the NHL franchise under the Senators' banner, 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 two goals in nine 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 for Ottawa 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.

Schedule and results

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

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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.

Record vs. opponents

Schedule and results

1933–34 Ottawa Senators (13–29–6)
November: 3–7–0 (home: 3–3–0; road: 0–4–0) # Date Visitor Score Home OT Decision Attendance Arena Record Pts 1 November 11 Canadiens 0–2 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 1–0–0 2 2 November 14 Maroons 2–4 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 2–0–0 4 3 November 16 Chicago 2–1 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 2–1–0 4 4 November 18 Ottawa 1–4 Toronto Beveridge N/A Maple Leaf Gardens 2–2–0 4 5 November 19 Ottawa 1–2 Chicago Beveridge N/A Chicago Stadium 2–3–0 4 6 November 21 Detroit 3–2 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 2–4–0 4 7 November 23 Ottawa 0–1 Canadiens Beveridge N/A Montreal Forum 2–5–0 4 8 November 25 Americans 3–2 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 2–6–0 4 9 November 28 Ottawa 1–2 Boston Beveridge N/A Boston Garden 2–7–0 4 10 November 30 Boston 1–2 Ottawa OT Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 3–7–0 6
December: 3–2–4 (home: 1–1–2; road: 2–1–2) # Date Visitor Score Home OT Decision Attendance Arena Record Pts 11 December 7 Toronto 1–4 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 4–7–0 8 12 December 10 Ottawa 5–2 Americans Beveridge N/A Madison Square Garden 5–7–0 10 13 December 12 Canadiens 1–1 Ottawa OT Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 5–7–1 11 14 December 14 Rangers 4–3 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 5–8–1 11 15 December 16 Ottawa 2–3 Maroons Beveridge N/A Montreal Forum 5–9–1 11 16 December 19 Chicago 2–2 Ottawa OT Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 5–9–2 12 17 December 21 Ottawa 0–0 Rangers OT Beveridge N/A Madison Square Garden 5–9–3 13 18 December 25 Ottawa 6–3 Detroit Beveridge N/A Detroit Olympia 6–9–3 15 19 December 28 Ottawa 2–2 Chicago OT Beveridge N/A Chicago Stadium 6–9–4 16
January: 2–8–1 (home: 2–4–0; road: 0–4–1) # Date Visitor Score Home OT Decision Attendance Arena Record Pts 20 January 2 Ottawa 2–4 Americans Beveridge N/A Madison Square Garden 6–10–4 16 21 January 4 Boston 2–9 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 7–10–4 18 22 January 6 Ottawa 3–7 Toronto Beveridge N/A Maple Leaf Gardens 7–11–4 18 23 January 7 Ottawa 0–2 Detroit Beveridge N/A Detroit Olympia 7–12–4 18 24 January 11 Rangers 5–3 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 7–13–4 18 25 January 13 Ottawa 0–0 Canadiens OT Beveridge N/A Montreal Forum 7–13–5 19 26 January 16 Toronto 7–4 Ottawa OT Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 7–14–5 19 27 January 20 Detroit 4–5 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 8–14–5 21 28 January 23 Ottawa 2–5 Rangers Beveridge N/A Madison Square Garden 8–15–5 21 29 January 25 Rangers 6–3 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 8–16–5 21 30 January 30 Chicago 2–0 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 8–17–5 21
February: 3–8–0 (home: 2–4–0; road: 1–4–0) # Date Visitor Score Home OT Decision Attendance Arena Record Pts 31 February 1 Maroons 3–1 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 8–18–5 21 32 February 3 Ottawa 4–8 Toronto Beveridge N/A Maple Leaf Gardens 8–19–5 21 33 February 6 Ottawa 2–6 Maroons Beveridge N/A Montreal Forum 8–20–5 21 34 February 10 Detroit 3–0 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Detroit Olympia 8–21–5 21 35 February 13 Americans 2–3 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 9–21–5 23 36 February 15 Ottawa 2–5 Chicago Beveridge N/A Chicago Stadium 9–22–5 23 37 February 18 Ottawa 2–5 Detroit OT Beveridge N/A Detroit Olympia 9–23–5 23 38 February 20 Maroons 6–2 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 9–24–5 23 39 February 22 Ottawa 3–1 Boston OT Beveridge N/A Boston Garden 10–24–5 25 40 February 24 Boston 4–9 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 11–24–5 27 41 February 27 Canadiens 3–1 Ottawa OT Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 11–25–5 27
March: 2–4–1 (home: 1–1–0; road: 1–3–1) # Date Visitor Score Home OT Decision Attendance Arena Record Pts 42 March 4 Ottawa 0–3 Americans Beveridge N/A Madison Square Garden 11–26–5 25 43 March 6 Ottawa 5–4 Rangers OT Beveridge N/A Madison Square Garden 12–26–5 27 44 March 8 Toronto 1–3 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 13–26–5 31 45 March 10 Ottawa 2–3 Canadiens OT Beveridge N/A Montreal Forum 13–27–5 31 46 March 13 Ottawa 1–2 Boston Beveridge N/A Boston Garden 13–28–5 31 47 March 15 Americans 3–2 Ottawa Beveridge N/A Ottawa Auditorium 13–29–5 31 48 March 17 Ottawa 2–2 Maroons OT Beveridge N/A Montreal Forum 13–29–6 32
Legend:   Win (2 points)   Loss (0 points)   Tie (1 point)

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Earl Roche	LW	45	13	16	29	22
Gerry Shannon	LW	48	11	15	26	26
Max Kaminsky	C	38	9	17	26	14
Des Roche	RW	46	14	10	24	22
Carl Voss	C	40	7	16	23	10
Syd Howe	C/LW	42	13	7	20	18
Bill Touhey	LW	46	12	8	20	21
Frank Finnigan	RW	48	10	10	20	10
Nick Wasnie	RW	37	11	6	17	10
Flash Hollett	D	30	7	4	11	21
Al Shields	D	47	4	7	11	44
Albert Leduc	D	32	1	3	4	34
Ted Saunders	RW	18	1	3	4	4
Danny Cox	LW	29	0	4	4	0
Walter Kalbfleisch	D	22	0	4	4	20
Cooney Weiland	C	9	2	0	2	4
Ralph Bowman	D	46	0	2	2	64
Bud Cook	C	18	1	0	1	8
Bill Beveridge	G	48	0	0	0	0
Percy Galbraith	LW/D	2	0	0	0	0
Bert McInenly	LW/D	2	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	Min	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Bill Beveridge	3000	48	13	29	6	143	2.86	3
Team:	3000	48	13	29	6	143	2.86	3

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Awards and records

Milestones

• Frank Finnigan, 100th NHL goal

Transactions

The Senators were involved in the following transactions during the 1933–34 season.^[4]

Trades

July 1, 1933	To Ottawa Senators Carl Voss	To Detroit Red Wings Cooney Weiland
October 4, 1933	To Ottawa Senators Bob Gracie $10,000	To Toronto Maple Leafs Hec Kilrea
October 4, 1933	To Ottawa Senators Bud Cook Percy Galbraith Ted Saunders	To Boston Bruins Bob Gracie
October 22, 1933	To Ottawa Senators Albert Leduc	To Montreal Canadiens Cash
November 1, 1933	To Ottawa Senators Cash	To Boston Bruins Bert McInenly
December 1, 1933	To Ottawa Senators Cash	To Detroit Red Wings Ted Saunders
February 15, 1934	To Ottawa Senators Cash	To Detroit Red Wings Loan of Albert Leduc
April 9, 1934	To Ottawa Senators Cash	To Montreal Canadiens Albert Leduc

Free agents signed

May 10, 1933	From Niagara Falls Cataracts (OHA Sr.) Gerry Shannon
May 10, 1933	From Niagara Falls Cataracts (OHA Sr.) Walter Kalbfleisch
December 4, 1933	From Niagara Falls Cataracts (OHA Sr.) Max Kaminsky

Playoffs

They didn't qualify for the playoffs

See also

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

References