1926–27 Ottawa Senators season

1926–27 Ottawa Senators
Stanley Cup champions
Prince of Wales Trophy winners
O'Brien Cup winners
Canadian Division champions
Division 1st Canadian
1926–27 record 30–10–4
Home record 16–5–1
Road record 14–5–3
Goals for 86
Goals against 69
 Team information
General Manager Dave Gill
Coach Dave Gill
Captain Buck Boucher
Arena Ottawa Auditorium
Team leaders
Goals Cy Denneny (17)
Assists King Clancy (10)
Points Cy Denneny (23)
Penalties in minutes Hooley Smith (125)
Wins Alec Connell (30)
Goals against average Alec Connell (1.49)
<1925–26 1927–28>

The 1926–27 Ottawa Senators season was the club's tenth season of play in the NHL, 42nd overall. The Senators would win the Stanley Cup for the fourth time in seven years, and eleventh overall including the pre-NHL years.

Pre-season

Prior to the start of the season, the Senators relieved head coach Alex Currie from his duties. General Manager Dave Gill would step behind the bench and become the head coach. Buck Boucher would take over the team captaincy from Cy Denneny.

Regular season

The league would expand by three teams, as the Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Cougars and New York Rangers would all join the league to make it a ten-team league. The NHL also would divide the ten teams into two divisions, and the Senators found themselves in the Canadian Division. This was also the first season that the Stanley Cup was awarded to the champion of the NHL.

The Senators would win 30 games and earn 64 points, both the highest in the NHL and capture the Prince of Wales Trophy, win the Canadian Division title, and earn a bye in the opening round of the playoffs. Also,

Denneny would go on to lead the club once again offensively, scoring 17 goals and 23 points, while Hooley Smith would have a team record 125 penalty minutes. Alec Connell would lead the NHL in wins (30) and be among the league leaders in GAA (1.49) and shutouts (13).

Final standings

Canadian Division
GP W L T GF GA Pts
Ottawa Senators 44 30 10 4 86 69 64
Montreal Canadiens 44 28 14 2 99 67 58
Montreal Maroons 44 20 20 4 71 68 44
New York Americans 44 17 25 2 82 91 36
Toronto St. Patricks/Maple Leafs 44 15 24 5 79 94 35

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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.

Schedule and results

No. R Date Score Opponent Record
1WNovember 18, 19262–1 @ Montreal Maroons (1926–27) 1–0–0
2WNovember 20, 19262–1 OT New York Americans (1926–27) 2–0–0
3TNovember 25, 19262–2 OT @ Toronto St. Patricks (1926–27) 2–0–1
4WNovember 27, 19261–0 OT Montreal Maroons (1926–27) 3–0–1
5WNovember 30, 19262–1 @ Boston Bruins (1926–27) 4–0–1
6WDecember 4, 19264–1 Montreal Canadiens (1926–27) 5–0–1
7WDecember 7, 19263–2 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1926–27) 6–0–1
8WDecember 9, 19263–1 @ Detroit Cougars (1926–27) 7–0–1
9WDecember 11, 19262–1 Toronto St. Patricks (1926–27) 8–0–1
10WDecember 14, 19262–0 @ New York Americans (1926–27) 9–0–1
11LDecember 16, 19260–5 Detroit Cougars (1926–27) 9–1–1
12TDecember 18, 19260–0 OT @ Montreal Maroons (1926–27) 9–1–2
13WDecember 23, 19261–0 New York Rangers (1926–27) 10–1–2
14WDecember 28, 19263–2 OT @ New York Rangers (1926–27) 11–1–2
15WJanuary 1, 19272–1 Montreal Canadiens (1926–27) 12–1–2
16LJanuary 4, 19271–2 OT @ Boston Bruins (1926–27) 12–2–2
17WJanuary 8, 19272–0 @ Montreal Canadiens (1926–27) 13–2–2
18WJanuary 11, 19274–1 Toronto St. Patricks (1926–27) 14–2–2
19WJanuary 13, 19273–1 @ Pittsburgh Pirates (1926–27) 15–2–2
20WJanuary 15, 19275–4 Boston Bruins (1926–27) 16–2–2
21LJanuary 18, 19271–6 Pittsburgh Pirates (1926–27) 16–3–2
22WJanuary 22, 19271–0 Montreal Maroons (1926–27) 17–3–2
23LJanuary 25, 19271–6 @ New York Americans (1926–27) 17–4–2
24WJanuary 27, 19273–1 Detroit Cougars (1926–27) 18–4–2
25TJanuary 29, 19270–0 OT @ Montreal Maroons (1926–27) 18–4–3
26LFebruary 1, 19272–4 New York Americans (1926–27) 18–5–3
27WFebruary 5, 19272–1 Chicago Black Hawks (1926–27) 19–5–3
28LFebruary 9, 19273–5 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1926–27) 19–6–3
29WFebruary 12, 19271–0 @ Toronto St. Patricks (1926–27) 20–6–3
30TFebruary 15, 19272–2 OT New York Rangers (1926–27) 20–6–4
31WFebruary 17, 19272–1 @ Detroit Cougars (1926–27) 21–6–4
32WFebruary 19, 19271–0 Pittsburgh Pirates (1926–27) 22–6–4
33WFebruary 22, 19272–1 OT Montreal Canadiens (1926–27) 23–6–4
34WFebruary 24, 19271–0 @ New York Rangers (1926–27) 24–6–4
35LFebruary 26, 19272–3 OT @ New York Americans (1926–27) 24–7–4
36WMarch 3, 19272–1 @ Pittsburgh Pirates (1926–27) 25–7–4
37LMarch 5, 19271–2 OT Chicago Black Hawks (1926–27) 25–8–4
38LMarch 10, 19270–1 Montreal Maroons (1926–27) 25–9–4
39WMarch 12, 19274–3 New York Americans (1926–27) 26–9–4
40LMarch 15, 19271–4 @ Montreal Canadiens (1926–27) 26–10–4
41WMarch 17, 19271–0 Boston Bruins (1926–27) 27–10–4
42WMarch 19, 19272–0 @ Toronto St. Patricks (1926–27) 28–10–4
43WMarch 24, 19274–0 Toronto St. Patricks (1926–27) 29–10–4
44WMarch 26, 19273–2 @ Montreal Maroons (1926–27) 30–10–4

Playoffs

The Montreal Canadiens would defeat their cross town rivals, the Montreal Maroons and face the Senators in a two-game total-goal series, and Ottawa would win it by a score of 5–1, and match up against the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Final.

Ottawa Senators 5, Montreal Canadiens 1
# Date Visitor Score Home Record
1 April 2 Ottawa Senators 4–0 Montreal Canadiens 1–0
2 April 4 Montreal Canadiens 1–1 Ottawa Senators 1–0–1

Led by Cy Denneny and Alec Connell, the Senators would win a tough four game series over the Bruins, winning the Stanley Cup for the fourth time in seven years.

For more details on this topic, see 1927 Stanley Cup Finals.
Ottawa Senators 2, Boston Bruins 0
# Date Visitor Score Home Record
1 April 7 Ottawa Senators 0–0 Boston Bruins 0–0–1
2 April 9 Ottawa Senators 3–1 Boston Bruins 1–0–1
3 April 11 Boston Bruins 1–1 Ottawa Senators 1–0–2
4 April 13 Boston Bruins 1–3 Ottawa Senators 2–0–2

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring
Player GP G A Pts PIM
Cy Denneny 42 17 6 23 16
King Clancy 43 9 10 19 78
Hec Kilrea 42 11 7 18 48
Frank Finnigan 36 15 1 16 52
Hooley Smith 43 9 6 15 125
Frank Nighbor 38 6 6 12 26
Georges Boucher 40 8 3 11 115
Jack Adams 40 5 1 6 66
Alex Smith 42 4 1 5 58
Ed Gorman 41 1 0 1 17
Milt Halliday 38 1 0 1 2
Alec Connell 44 0 0 0 2
Stan Jackson 8 0 0 0 2
Goaltending
Player MIN GP W L T GA GAA SA SV SV% SO
Alec Connell 2782 44 30 10 4 69 1.49 13
Team: 2782 44 30 10 4 69 1.49 13

Playoffs

Scoring
Player GP G A Pts PIM
Cy Denneny 6 5 0 5 0
Frank Finnigan 6 3 0 3 0
King Clancy 6 1 1 2 14
Hec Kilrea 6 1 1 2 4
Frank Nighbor 6 1 1 2 0
Hooley Smith 6 1 0 1 16
Jack Adams 6 0 0 0 0
Georges Boucher 6 0 0 0 43
Alec Connell 6 0 0 0 0
Ed Gorman 6 0 0 0 0
Milt Halliday 6 0 0 0 0
Alex Smith 6 0 0 0 8
Goaltending
Player MIN GP W L T GA GAA SA SV SV% SO
Alec Connell 400 6 3 0 3 4 0.60 2
Team: 400 6 3 0 3 4 0.60 2

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Note:

Pos = Position; GPI = Games played in; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes; +/- = Plus/minus; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals
Min, TOI = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T,T/OT = Ties; OTL = Overtime losses; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts; SA = Shots against; SV = Shots saved; SV% = Save percentage;

Awards and records

Ottawa Senators 1927 Stanley Cup champions

Team photograph. Trophies won: Stanley Cup, O'Brien Cup, Prince of Wales Trophy.

Roster

  Centres
  Wingers
  Defencemen
  Goaltenders


  Coaching and administrative staff
  • Frank Ahearn (President)
  • Major T.W. McDonald (Vice President)
  • Dave Gill (Manager-Coach/Secretary-Treasurer)
  • Ed Gleeson (Trainer), Don Hughes (Ass't Trainer)

Stanley Cup engraving

Eddie Gerard's name was misspelled when the ring was engraved as F. GERAD (MGR) instead of E. GERARD (MGR)on the 2nd version of the ring created in 1969. The mistake was repeated on the Replica Cup created in 1992–93.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Standings: NHL Public Relations Department (2008). Dave McCarthy; et al., eds. THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Official Guide & Record Book/2009. National Hockey League. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0.
  2. ↑ "1926-27 Ottawa Senators Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-05-26.
  3. ↑ See the team picture.
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