1947–48 Boston Bruins season

1947–48 Boston Bruins
1947–48 Boston Bruins
Division	3rd NHL
1947–48 record	23–24–13
Goals for	167
Goals against	168
Team information
General manager	Art Ross
Coach	Dit Clapper
Captain	Milt Schmidt
Team leaders
Goals	Pete Babando (23)
Assists	Woody Dumart (16)
Points	Woody Dumart (37)
Penalty minutes	Pat Egan (81)
Wins	Frank Brimsek (23)
Goals against average	Frank Brimsek (2.80)
	← 1946–47 1948–49 →

The 1947–48 Boston Bruins season was the Bruins' 24th season in the NHL.

Offseason

Regular season

Final standings

National Hockey League^[1]
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		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	DIFF	Pts
1	Toronto Maple Leafs	60	32	15	13	182	143	+39	77
2	Detroit Red Wings	60	30	18	12	187	148	+39	72
3	Boston Bruins	60	23	24	13	167	168	−1	59
4	New York Rangers	60	21	26	13	176	201	−25	55
5	Montreal Canadiens	60	20	29	11	147	169	−22	51
6	Chicago Black Hawks	60	20	34	6	195	225	−30	46

Record vs. opponents

1947–48 NHL Records ^[2]
Team	BOS	CHI	DET	MTL	NYR	TOR
Boston	—	3–7–2	4–6–2	6–2–4	7–3–2	3–7–2
Chicago	7–3–2	—	2–10	4–7–1	6–4–2	1–10–1
Detroit	6–4–2	10–2	—	7–2–3	5–4–3	2–6–4
Montreal	2–6–4	7–4–1	2–7–3	—	3–7–2	6–5–1
New York	3–7–2	4–6–2	4–5–3	7–3–2	—	3–5–4
Toronto	7–3–2	10–1–1	6–2–4	5–6–1	5–3–4	—

Schedule and results

Regular season schedule
No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	W	October 19, 1947	3–1	New York Rangers (1947–48)	1–0–0
2	W	October 22, 1947	3–1	Montreal Canadiens (1947–48)	2–0–0
4	W	October 26, 1947	3–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1947–48)	3–1–0
5	W	October 29, 1947	3–1	@ New York Rangers (1947–48)	4–1–0
6	T	November 1, 1947	1–1	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1947–48)	4–1–1
7	L	November 2, 1947	2–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (1947–48)	4–2–1
8	W	November 5, 1947	2–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1947–48)	5–2–1
9	W	November 12, 1947	8–2	@ New York Rangers (1947–48)	6–2–1
10	W	November 15, 1947	9–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1947–48)	7–2–1
11	L	November 16, 1947	1–2	Detroit Red Wings (1947–48)	7–3–1
12	W	November 19, 1947	7–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1947–48)	8–3–1
13	L	November 22, 1947	3–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1947–48)	8–4–1
14	T	November 23, 1947	2–2	Montreal Canadiens (1947–48)	8–4–2
15	L	November 26, 1947	3–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1947–48)	8–5–2
16	L	November 27, 1947	1–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (1947–48)	8–6–2
17	T	November 30, 1947	0–0	Toronto Maple Leafs (1947–48)	8–6–3
18	T	December 3, 1947	4–4	Chicago Black Hawks (1947–48)	8–6–4
19	T	December 6, 1947	5–5	New York Rangers (1947–48)	8–6–5
20	W	December 7, 1947	1–0	Montreal Canadiens (1947–48)	9–6–5
21	L	December 10, 1947	5–6	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1947–48)	9–7–5
22	T	December 14, 1947	1–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1947–48)	9–7–6
23	L	December 17, 1947	2–5	@ New York Rangers (1947–48)	9–8–6
24	W	December 20, 1947	4–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1947–48)	10–8–6
25	L	December 21, 1947	5–6	Detroit Red Wings (1947–48)	10–9–6
26	L	December 25, 1947	1–6	Chicago Black Hawks (1947–48)	10–10–6
27	L	December 27, 1947	1–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1947–48)	10–11–6
28	L	December 28, 1947	0–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (1947–48)	10–12–6
29	L	December 31, 1947	3–7	@ New York Rangers (1947–48)	10–13–6
30	W	January 1, 1948	4–1	New York Rangers (1947–48)	11–13–6
31	T	January 3, 1948	2–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1947–48)	11–13–7
32	W	January 10, 1948	4–1	@ Detroit Red Wings (1947–48)	12–13–7
33	L	January 11, 1948	1–4	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1947–48)	12–14–7
34	T	January 14, 1948	3–3	Detroit Red Wings (1947–48)	12–14–8
35	L	January 17, 1948	1–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1947–48)	12–15–8
36	T	January 18, 1948	1–1	Montreal Canadiens (1947–48)	12–15–9
37	W	January 21, 1948	2–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1947–48)	13–15–9
38	W	January 25, 1948	6–4	New York Rangers (1947–48)	14–15–9
39	L	January 28, 1948	2–4	Detroit Red Wings (1947–48)	14–16–9
40	L	January 31, 1948	4–7	Chicago Black Hawks (1947–48)	14–17–9
41	L	February 1, 1948	0–3	Montreal Canadiens (1947–48)	14–18–9
42	L	February 4, 1948	2–4	Toronto Maple Leafs (1947–48)	14–19–9
43	W	February 8, 1948	3–1	@ Detroit Red Wings (1947–48)	15–19–9
44	L	February 11, 1948	0–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1947–48)	15–20–9
45	T	February 14, 1948	4–4	New York Rangers (1947–48)	15–20–10
46	W	February 15, 1948	3–1	Detroit Red Wings (1947–48)	16–20–10
47	W	February 18, 1948	4–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1947–48)	17–20–10
48	W	February 21, 1948	3–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1947–48)	18–20–10
49	L	February 22, 1948	1–4	@ New York Rangers (1947–48)	18–21–10
50	L	February 25, 1948	2–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1947–48)	18–22–10
51	L	February 29, 1948	1–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1947–48)	18–23–10
52	T	March 3, 1948	4–4	Chicago Black Hawks (1947–48)	18–23–11
53	T	March 4, 1948	1–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1947–48)	18–23–12
54	W	March 7, 1948	3–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1947–48)	19–23–12
55	W	March 10, 1948	6–3	New York Rangers (1947–48)	20–23–12
56	L	March 13, 1948	2–5	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1947–48)	20–24–12
57	W	March 14, 1948	5–1	@ Detroit Red Wings (1947–48)	21–24–12
58	W	March 16, 1948	6–2	@ New York Rangers (1947–48)	22–24–12
59	T	March 17, 1948	0–0	Detroit Red Wings (1947–48)	22–24–13
60	W	March 21, 1948	4–3	Montreal Canadiens (1947–48)	23–24–13

Playoffs

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Woody Dumart	LW	59	21	16	37	14
Pete Babando	LW	60	23	11	34	52
Don Gallinger	C	54	10	21	31	37
Jimmy Peters	RW	37	12	15	27	38
Milt Schmidt	C/D	33	9	17	26	28
Ed Sandford	LW	59	10	15	25	25
Ken Smith	LW	60	11	12	23	14
Billy Taylor	C	39	4	16	20	25
Wally Wilson	C	53	11	8	19	18
Pat Egan	D	60	8	11	19	81
Clare Martin	D	59	5	13	18	34
Joe Carveth	RW	22	8	9	17	2
Murray Henderson	D	49	6	8	14	50
Jack Crawford	D	45	3	11	14	10
Paul Ronty	C	24	3	11	14	0
Ed Harrison	C/LW	52	6	7	13	8
Grant Warwick	RW	18	6	5	11	8
Fern Flaman	D	56	4	6	10	69
Johnny Peirson	RW	15	4	2	6	0
John Quilty	C	6	3	2	5	2
Frank Brimsek	G	60	0	0	0	0
Arnie Kullman	C	1	0	0	0	0
Ray Manson	LW	1	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Frank Brimsek	3600	60	23	24	13	168	2.80	3
Team:	3600	60	23	24	13	168	2.80	3

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Milt Schmidt	C/D	5	2	5	7	2
Johnny Peirson	RW	5	3	2	5	0
Ken Smith	LW	5	2	3	5	0
Paul Ronty	C	5	0	4	4	0
Jimmy Peters	RW	5	1	2	3	2
Grant Warwick	RW	5	0	3	3	4
Pete Babando	LW	5	1	1	2	2
Pat Egan	D	5	1	1	2	2
Ed Harrison	C/LW	5	1	0	1	2
Murray Henderson	D	3	1	0	1	5
Ed Sandford	LW	5	1	0	1	0
Jack Crawford	D	4	0	1	1	2
Frank Brimsek	G	5	0	0	0	0
Woody Dumart	LW	5	0	0	0	0
Fern Flaman	D	5	0	0	0	12
Pentti Lund	RW	2	0	0	0	0
Clare Martin	D	5	0	0	0	6
Wally Wilson	C	1	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Frank Brimsek	317	5	1	4	20	3.79	0
Team:	317	5	1	4	20	3.79	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

References

^ "1947–1948 Division Standings Standings - NHL.com - Standings". National Hockey League.
^ "All-Time NHL Results". NHL.com. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
^ "1947-48 Boston Bruins Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 11, 2009.

"1947–48 Boston Bruins Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved May 6, 2009.

External links

[standings-div-1] "1947–1948 Division Standings Standings - NHL.com - Standings". National Hockey League.

[2] "All-Time NHL Results". NHL.com. Retrieved August 25, 2023.

[3] "1947-48 Boston Bruins Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 11, 2009.

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Offseason

Regular season

Final standings

Record vs. opponents

Schedule and results

Playoffs

Player statistics

Regular season

Playoffs

Awards and records

Transactions

See also

References

External links