1953-54 NHL Regular Season
Maurice Richard got injured early this year. 10 games in, he strains his posterior cruciate ligament that will sideline him for a month. The 32 year old had a goal and 2 assists. On December 1st, without realistically any contributions from their best player, the
Rangers sit 2-19-1. BLOW IT UP!
Wow, the
Leafs are stupid!!
This is a terrible deal for
Toronto. I don’t get it. They traded
Tim Horton, a legit #1 for
Pronovost. They developed
Pronovost, who right now, is upto a 3.5/4 player, and is doing well. Now they trade him to
Boston for a 35 year old
Sid Abel who is coming off his worst season and has had age catch up on him. Horrendous deal.
Boston now has
Harvey, Horton and
Pronovost on defense. If they can score at all, they gonna beat you. This
Toronto team has made some franchise destroying trades since winning the cup a few years ago.
The
Bruins have 39 goals for in their first 21 games. So no, they still can’t score, and unless they can figure out some competence on offense, they can’t beat teams with
Ted Lindsay, Jean Beliveau and
Gordie Howe.
Boom Boom Geoffrion is the only Bruin scoring at all!
At new years, scoring is at a 25 year low. Teams are scoring just 4.25 goals per game this season. That’s down almost a full goal from two season’s ago.
Jean Beliveau currently has 52 points in 37 games. In this environment, where scoring is at a premium, that’s incredible!
Huge blow to the
Blackhawks. 2 weeks into the new year,
Jean Beliveau breaks his pelvis. He will be sidelined somewhere around 2 months, which means he’s out for the rest of the regular season. The Playoffs are scheduled to begin 2 months to the day of this injury…..A week later,
Montreal loses
Red Kelly after he suffers radial nerve compression. He’s gone for four months. The leagues two best teams just lost 2 great players!
Kelly is out for the year, could Beliveau return though?
Amazing.
Ted Lindsay tore a back muscle on the final day of February. His season is now over.
Montreal will go into the playoffs without
Lindsay and
Red Kelly now. I’m not sure if any team is capable of winning a series losing players of that caliber.
Lindsay sidelined for the playoffs
Final Standings
Boston ends up scoring enough goals to make the playoffs. With the injuries late in the year, I feel like they have a great chance to win their 2nd cup.
Toronto's horrible season is their own fault. They have destroyed what could have been a dynasty. The
Rangers held onto hopes of extending a dynasty way to long, and now are bottom feeders.
Jean Beliveau returned to play the final game of the season for
Chicago, he gets a point, and despite missing 2 months, is 2nd in league scoring. His teammate
Bert Olmstead takes his first scoring title.
Gump Worsley’s amazing performance took the starting job from
Terry Sawchuk.
Worsley is a good goalie, and needs to play, but I can’t see him holding onto that starting job. The game sometimes is a little too extreme in letting hot goalies play.
Sawchuk should not be sitting.
With a league leading 40 assists,
Doug Harvey looks like the favourite to win the first Norris trophy later this year…