1958–59 Boston Bruins season

1958–59 Boston Bruins
Division	2nd NHL
1958–59 record	32–29–9
Goals for	205
Goals against	215
Team information
General Manager	Lynn Patrick
Coach	Milt Schmidt
Captain	Fernie Flaman
Team leaders
<1957–58	1959–60>

Offseason

Claimed Jen-Guy Gendron and Gord Redahl from the New York Rangers, Earl Reibel from Chicago. Traded Allan Stanley to Toronto for Jim Morrison.

Regular season

Final standings

National Hockey League

	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA
Montreal Canadiens	70	39	18	13	91	258	158
Boston Bruins	70	32	29	9	73	205	215
Chicago Black Hawks	70	28	29	13	69	197	208
Toronto Maple Leafs	70	27	32	11	65	189	201
New York Rangers	70	26	32	12	64	201	217
Detroit Red Wings	70	25	37	8	58	167	218

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Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against
Teams that qualify for the playoffs are indicated in bold.

Game log

Regular season schedule

No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	L	October 9, 1958	2–3	@ Montreal Canadiens (1958–59)	0–1–0
2	T	October 11, 1958	4–4	New York Rangers (1958–59)	0–1–1
3	W	October 12, 1958	4–2	Montreal Canadiens (1958–59)	1–1–1
4	T	October 15, 1958	4–4	@ New York Rangers (1958–59)	1–1–2
5	L	October 18, 1958	2–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1958–59)	1–2–2
6	W	October 19, 1958	4–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1958–59)	2–2–2
7	L	October 23, 1958	1–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (1958–59)	2–3–2
8	W	October 25, 1958	5–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1958–59)	3–3–2
9	T	October 29, 1958	2–2	@ New York Rangers (1958–59)	3–3–3
10	W	October 30, 1958	5–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1958–59)	4–3–3
11	W	November 1, 1958	3–1	Detroit Red Wings (1958–59)	5–3–3
12	W	November 2, 1958	2–0	Toronto Maple Leafs (1958–59)	6–3–3
13	L	November 8, 1958	3–5	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1958–59)	6–4–3
14	L	November 9, 1958	1–5	New York Rangers (1958–59)	6–5–3
15	W	November 11, 1958	8–4	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1958–59)	7–5–3
16	L	November 13, 1958	1–3	Detroit Red Wings (1958–59)	7–6–3
17	L	November 15, 1958	2–4	@ New York Rangers (1958–59)	7–7–3
18	T	November 16, 1958	4–4	Toronto Maple Leafs (1958–59)	7–7–4
19	L	November 18, 1958	0–6	@ Detroit Red Wings (1958–59)	7–8–4
20	L	November 19, 1958	2–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1958–59)	7–9–4
21	W	November 22, 1958	2–1	Detroit Red Wings (1958–59)	8–9–4
22	W	November 23, 1958	2–0	Montreal Canadiens (1958–59)	9–9–4
23	W	November 27, 1958	3–1	New York Rangers (1958–59)	10–9–4
24	W	November 29, 1958	3–1	@ New York Rangers (1958–59)	11–9–4
25	L	November 30, 1958	1–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1958–59)	11–10–4
26	L	December 4, 1958	0–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (1958–59)	11–11–4
27	L	December 6, 1958	1–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1958–59)	11–12–4
28	L	December 7, 1958	1–4	Montreal Canadiens (1958–59)	11–13–4
29	W	December 13, 1958	4–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1958–59)	12–13–4
30	W	December 14, 1958	6–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1958–59)	13–13–4
31	L	December 17, 1958	2–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1958–59)	13–14–4
32	T	December 20, 1958	2–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1958–59)	13–14–5
33	L	December 21, 1958	0–5	Montreal Canadiens (1958–59)	13–15–5
34	W	December 25, 1958	4–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1958–59)	14–15–5
35	L	December 27, 1958	1–6	@ Montreal Canadiens (1958–59)	14–16–5
36	L	December 28, 1958	3–5	@ Detroit Red Wings (1958–59)	14–17–5
37	L	December 31, 1958	3–4	@ New York Rangers (1958–59)	14–18–5
38	L	January 1, 1959	2–5	New York Rangers (1958–59)	14–19–5
39	W	January 3, 1959	8–2	@ Detroit Red Wings (1958–59)	15–19–5
40	L	January 4, 1959	3–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1958–59)	15–20–5
41	L	January 8, 1959	2–4	Chicago Black Hawks (1958–59)	15–21–5
42	L	January 10, 1959	1–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1958–59)	15–22–5
43	T	January 11, 1959	3–3	Montreal Canadiens (1958–59)	15–22–6
44	W	January 15, 1959	3–0	Detroit Red Wings (1958–59)	16–22–6
45	T	January 17, 1959	3–3	@ Montreal Canadiens (1958–59)	16–22–7
46	W	January 18, 1959	4–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1958–59)	17–22–7
47	W	January 24, 1959	3–1	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1958–59)	18–22–7
48	L	January 25, 1959	3–8	New York Rangers (1958–59)	18–23–7
49	W	January 31, 1959	5–4	Detroit Red Wings (1958–59)	19–23–7
50	W	February 1, 1959	6–4	Toronto Maple Leafs (1958–59)	20–23–7
51	L	February 5, 1959	1–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1958–59)	20–24–7
52	W	February 7, 1959	3–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1958–59)	21–24–7
53	W	February 8, 1959	4–1	New York Rangers (1958–59)	22–24–7
54	W	February 11, 1959	5–3	@ New York Rangers (1958–59)	23–24–7
55	W	February 12, 1959	5–4	Chicago Black Hawks (1958–59)	24–24–7
56	L	February 14, 1959	1–2	Montreal Canadiens (1958–59)	24–25–7
57	T	February 15, 1959	3–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1958–59)	24–25–8
58	L	February 21, 1959	0–6	@ Montreal Canadiens (1958–59)	24–26–8
59	W	February 22, 1959	4–1	@ Detroit Red Wings (1958–59)	25–26–8
60	L	February 28, 1959	2–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1958–59)	25–27–8
61	T	March 3, 1959	2–2	@ Detroit Red Wings (1958–59)	25–27–9
62	W	March 5, 1959	3–0	Detroit Red Wings (1958–59)	26–27–9
63	L	March 7, 1959	1–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1958–59)	26–28–9
64	W	March 8, 1959	4–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1958–59)	27–28–9
65	W	March 12, 1959	5–4	New York Rangers (1958–59)	28–28–9
66	W	March 14, 1959	4–2	Detroit Red Wings (1958–59)	29–28–9
67	W	March 15, 1959	5–3	Montreal Canadiens (1958–59)	30–28–9
68	W	March 18, 1959	5–3	@ New York Rangers (1958–59)	31–28–9
69	W	March 21, 1959	4–3	@ Montreal Canadiens (1958–59)	32–28–9
70	L	March 22, 1959	1–4	Chicago Black Hawks (1958–59)	32–29–9

Playoffs

This would be the last playoff appearance for the Bruins for the next seven seasons; the team would next make the playoffs in 1968. The Bruins lost a very close seven game semi-final series to Toronto.

After the playoffs were concluded, the Bruins and the New York Rangers embarked on a 23-game European exhibition tour which saw them play in ten European cities. Andy Bathgate of the Rangers could not make the tour so his place was taken by Bobby Hull of the Chicago Blackhawks. Hull scored 50 goals in the 23 exhibition games and blossomed into a star in the next NHL season.

Player stats

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
McKenney, DonDon McKenney	C	70	32	30	62	20
Stasiuk, VicVic Stasiuk	LW	70	27	33	60	63
Bucyk, JohnJohn Bucyk	LW	69	24	36	60	36
Toppazzini, JerryJerry Toppazzini	RW	70	21	23	44	61
MacKell, FlemingFleming MacKell	C	57	17	23	40	28
Horvath, BroncoBronco Horvath	C	45	19	20	39	58
Labine, LeoLeo Labine	RW	70	9	23	32	74
Mohns, DougDoug Mohns	LW/D	47	6	24	30	40
Morrison, JimJim Morrison	D	70	8	17	25	42
Gendron, Jean-GuyJean-Guy Gendron	LW	60	15	9	24	57
Boivin, LeoLeo Boivin	D	70	5	16	21	94
Flaman, FernFern Flaman	D	70	0	21	21	101
Johnson, NormNorm Johnson	C	39	2	17	19	25
Leach, LarryLarry Leach	C	29	4	12	16	26
Reibel, DutchDutch Reibel	C	63	6	8	14	16
Hillman, LarryLarry Hillman	D	55	3	10	13	19
Regan, LarryLarry Regan	RW	36	5	6	11	10
Armstrong, BobBob Armstrong	D	60	1	9	10	50
Chevrefils, RealReal Chevrefils	LW	30	1	5	6	8
Bionda, JackJack Bionda	D	3	0	1	1	2
Redahl, GordGord Redahl	RW	18	0	1	1	2
Keenan, DonDon Keenan	G	1	0	0	0	0
Lumley, HarryHarry Lumley	G	11	0	0	0	0
Poliziani, DanDan Poliziani	RW	1	0	0	0	0
Simmons, DonDon Simmons	G	58	0	0	0	4
Yackel, KenKen Yackel	RW	6	0	0	0	2

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Simmons, DonDon Simmons	3480	58	24	26	8	183	3.16	3
Lumley, HarryHarry Lumley	660	11	8	2	1	27	2.45	1
Keenan, DonDon Keenan	60	1	0	1	0	4	4.00	0
Team:	4200	70	32	29	9	214	3.06	4

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
MacKell, FlemingFleming MacKell	C	7	2	6	8	8
McKenney, DonDon McKenney	C	7	2	5	7	0
Stasiuk, VicVic Stasiuk	LW	7	4	2	6	11
Toppazzini, JerryJerry Toppazzini	RW	7	4	2	6	0
Bucyk, JohnJohn Bucyk	LW	7	2	4	6	6
Morrison, JimJim Morrison	D	6	0	6	6	16
Horvath, BroncoBronco Horvath	C	7	2	3	5	0
Labine, LeoLeo Labine	RW	7	2	1	3	12
Boivin, LeoLeo Boivin	D	7	1	2	3	4
Leach, LarryLarry Leach	C	7	1	1	2	8
Armstrong, BobBob Armstrong	D	7	0	2	2	4
Mohns, DougDoug Mohns	LW/D	4	0	2	2	12
Gendron, Jean-GuyJean-Guy Gendron	LW	7	1	0	1	18
Hillman, LarryLarry Hillman	D	7	0	1	1	0
Bionda, JackJack Bionda	D	1	0	0	0	0
Flaman, FernFern Flaman	D	7	0	0	0	8
Lumley, HarryHarry Lumley	G	7	0	0	0	4
Poliziani, DanDan Poliziani	RW	3	0	0	0	0
Reibel, DutchDutch Reibel	C	4	0	0	0	0
Yackel, KenKen Yackel	RW	2	0	0	0	2

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Lumley, HarryHarry Lumley	436	7	3	4	20	2.75	0
Team:	436	7	3	4	20	2.75	0

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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

Transactions

Farm teams

• Providence Reds
• Victoria Cougars
• Quebec Aces

See also

• 1958–59 NHL season

References

• "1958–59 Boston Bruins Games". Hockey-reference.com. http://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/BOS/1959_games.html. Retrieved 2009-05-06. 

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