1929–30 Ottawa Senators season

1929–30 Ottawa Senators
Division	3rd Canadian
1929–30 record	21–15–8
Home record	13–6–3
Road record	8–9–5
Goals for	138
Goals against	118
Team information
General Manager	Dave Gill
Coach	Newsy Lalonde
Captain	King Clancy
Arena	Ottawa Auditorium
Team leaders
Goals	Hec Kilrea (36)
Assists	King Clancy (23)
Points	Hec Kilrea (58)
Penalties in minutes	Joe Lamb (119)
Wins	Alec Connell (21)
Goals against average	Alec Connell (2.55)
<1928–29 1930–31>

The 1929–30 Ottawa Senators season was the club's 13th season in the NHL, 45th overall. The Senators finished third in the Canadian Division, making the playoffs, losing in the first round to the New York Rangers. It would be the original Senators last playoff appearance.

Team business

The Senators made a modification to their jerseys, adding an "O" logo to the chest of their jerseys. The club had last wore an "O" back in 1901 when they shared jerseys with the Ottawa Football Club.

According to Frank Ahearn, the Senators lost $CDN 32,000 ($433 thousand in 2015 dollars)^[1] on the season. As told to King Clancy, this was the prime reason for the trade of Clancy before the next season.^[2] It was part of a pattern of Ottawa selling players off to cover losses.

Regular season

The Senators would continue to have some financial difficulties, and due to poor attendance against US-based teams, the Senators moved 2 home games to Atlantic City against the New York Americans and New York Rangers, along with two to Detroit, and a game to Boston.

Hec Kilrea would lead the club with 36 goals and 58 points, while King Clancy would add 40 points (17 goals and 23 assists) from the blue line. Joe Lamb would provide toughness, leading the NHL with 119 penalty minutes, and would have a very good offensive season, finishing with 29 goals and 49 points.

Alec Connell would once again be steady in the Senators net, winning 21 games, earning three shutouts and be among the league leaders in GAA at 2.55.

Final standings

Canadian Division

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Montreal Maroons	44	23	16	5	141	114	51
Montreal Canadiens	44	21	14	9	142	114	51
Ottawa Senators	44	21	15	8	138	118	50
Toronto Maple Leafs	44	17	21	6	116	124	40
New York Americans	44	14	25	5	113	161	33

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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
1	T	November 14, 1929	3–3 OT	Montreal Canadiens (1929–30)	0–0–1
2	W	November 16, 1929	4–3	New York Americans (1929–30)	1–0–1
3	W	November 19, 1929	6–4	@ Detroit Cougars (1929–30)	2–0–1
4	W	November 21, 1929	6–5 OT	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1929–30)	3–0–1
5	W	November 23, 1929	6–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1929–30)	4–0–1
6	W	November 26, 1929	4–3 OT	Detroit Cougars (1929–30)	5–0–1
7	L	November 28, 1929	3–4 OT	@ New York Americans (1929–30)	5–1–1
8	L	November 30, 1929	2–3	Montreal Maroons (1929–30)	5–2–1
9	W	December 5, 1929	9–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1929–30)	6–2–1
10	T	December 7, 1929	3–3 OT	@ Montreal Maroons (1929–30)	6–2–2
11	L	December 12, 1929	2–3	Boston Bruins (1929–30)	6–3–2
12	L	December 14, 1929	4–6	@ Montreal Canadiens (1929–30)	6–4–2
13	L	December 17, 1929	2–6	@ Boston Bruins (1929–30)	6–5–2
14	T	December 21, 1929	1–1 OT	Montreal Canadiens (1929–30)	6–5–3
15	L	December 24, 1929	1–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1929–30)	6–6–3
16A	L	December 28, 1929	1–3	New York Rangers (1929–30)	6–7–3
17	T	December 31, 1929	1–1 OT	@ New York Rangers (1929–30)	6–7–4
18	L	January 2, 1930	1–3	@ Pittsburgh Pirates (1929–30)	6–8–4
19	W	January 4, 1930	4–1	New York Americans (1929–30)	7–8–4
20	L	January 9, 1930	0–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1929–30)	7–9–4
21	W	January 11, 1930	2–1 OT	@ Montreal Canadiens (1929–30)	8–9–4
22	L	January 14, 1930	1–5	@ Boston Bruins (1929–30)	8–10–4
23	W	January 16, 1930	2–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1929–30)	9–10–4
24	L	January 18, 1930	1–2	@ Montreal Maroons (1929–30)	9–11–4
25	W	January 21, 1930	7–4	Pittsburgh Pirates (1929–30)	10–11–4
26	L	January 23, 1930	3–6	@ New York Rangers (1929–30)	10–12–4
27	W	January 25, 1930	4–0	Montreal Maroons (1929–30)	11–12–4
28	L	January 28, 1930	1–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1929–30)	11–13–4
29	W	February 1, 1930	4–1	Montreal Canadiens (1929–30)	12–13–4
30	W	February 4, 1930	5–1	@ Pittsburgh Pirates (1929–30)	13–13–4
31	T	February 8, 1930	2–2 OT	New York Rangers (1929–30)	13–13–5
32	T	February 13, 1930	4–4 OT	@ Montreal Canadiens (1929–30)	13–13–6
33	T	February 16, 1930	2–2 OT	@ New York Americans (1929–30)	13–13–7
34	W	February 18, 1930	3–2	Pittsburgh Pirates (1929–30)	14–13–7
35	W	February 20, 1930	5–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1929–30)	15–13–7
36	W	February 22, 1930	1–0	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1929–30)	16–13–7
37	W	February 25, 1930	2–0 OT	Toronto Maple Leafs (1929–30)	17–13–7
38	T	February 27, 1930	3–3 OT	@ Detroit Cougars (1929–30)	17–13–8
39	L	March 1, 1930	1–2	Boston Bruins (1929–30)	17–14–8
40	W	March 4, 1930	6–2	Montreal Maroons (1929–30)	18–14–8
41	W	March 8, 1930	3–2	Detroit Cougars (1929–30)	19–14–8
42	W	March 11, 1930	4–2	@ Montreal Maroons (1929–30)	20–14–8
43	L	March 13, 1930	1–2 OT	@ New York Americans (1929–30)	20–15–8
44A	W	March 15, 1930	8–7	New York Americans (1929–30)	21–15–8

A – Played in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Playoffs

The Senators went against the Rangers and lost 6 goals to 3, or 3–6.

New York Rangers 6, Ottawa Senators 3

#	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Record
1	March 20	New York Rangers	1–1	Ottawa Senators	0–0–1
2	March 22	Ottawa Senators	2–5	New York Rangers	0–1–1

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Kilrea, HecHec Kilrea	LW	44	36	22	58	72
Lamb, JoeJoe Lamb	RW	44	29	20	49	119
Clancy, KingKing Clancy	D	44	17	23	40	83
Finnigan, FrankFrank Finnigan	RW	43	21	15	36	46
Touhey, BillBill Touhey	LW	44	10	3	13	24
Gagne, ArtArt Gagne	RW	33	6	4	10	32
Shields, AlAl Shields	D	44	6	3	9	32
Smith, AlexAlex Smith	D	43	2	6	8	91
Kilrea, WallyWally Kilrea	RW/C	38	4	2	6	4
Cox, DannyDanny Cox	LW	24	3	2	5	20
Starr, HaroldHarold Starr	D	28	2	1	3	12
Connor, HarryHarry Connor	LW	25	1	2	3	22
Grosvenor, LenLen Grosvenor	C/RW	15	0	3	3	19
Howe, SydSyd Howe	C/LW	12	1	1	2	0
Hutton, BillBill Hutton	D/RW	18	0	1	1	0
Connell, AlecAlec Connell	G	44	0	0	0	0
Nighbor, FrankFrank Nighbor	C	19	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Connell, AlecAlec Connell	2780	44	21	15	8	118	2.55	3
Team:	2780	44	21	15	8	118	2.55	3

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Gagne, ArtArt Gagne	RW	2	1	0	1	4
Starr, HaroldHarold Starr	D	2	1	0	1	0
Touhey, BillBill Touhey	LW	2	1	0	1	0
Clancy, KingKing Clancy	D	2	0	1	1	2
Connell, AlecAlec Connell	G	2	0	0	0	0
Cox, DannyDanny Cox	LW	2	0	0	0	0
Finnigan, FrankFrank Finnigan	RW	1	0	0	0	4
Howe, SydSyd Howe	C/LW	2	0	0	0	0
Hutton, BillBill Hutton	D/RW	2	0	0	0	0
Kilrea, HecHec Kilrea	LW	2	0	0	0	4
Kilrea, WallyWally Kilrea	RW/C	2	0	0	0	0
Lamb, JoeJoe Lamb	RW	2	0	0	0	11
Shields, AlAl Shields	D	2	0	0	0	0
Smith, AlexAlex Smith	D	2	0	0	0	4

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Connell, AlecAlec Connell	120	2	0	1	1	6	3.00	0
Team:	120	2	0	1	1	6	3.00	0

^[4]

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;

Transactions

Trades

Date	From Senators	To Senators
November 1, 1929	To Buffalo (IHL) Sammy Godin	cash
November 7, 1929	To Hamilton (IHL) Jack Duggan	cash
November 7, 1929	To Hamilton (IHL) Milt Halliday	cash
November 27, 1929	To Detroit Cougars Bill Beveridge (loan)	cash
December 21, 1929	To Boston Bruins cash	Art Gagne
December 26, 1929	To London (IHL) Len Grosvenor (loan)	cash
January 30, 1930	To Boston Bruins Harry Connor	Bill Hutton
January 31, 1930	To Toronto Maple Leafs Frank Nighbor	Danny Cox, cash

Waivers

November 18, 1929

To Ottawa Senators Harry Connor

From New York Americans

Source: "Hockey Transactions Search Results". prosportstransactions.com. Retrieved 2009-05-19. 

See also

• 1929–30 NHL season

References

• McFarlane, Brian (1997). Clancy: The King's Story. ECW Press. ISBN 1-55022-332-1. 
• "1929–30 Ottawa Senators Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-05-06. 
• SHRP Sports
• The Internet Hockey Database
• National Hockey League Guide & Record Book 2007

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