As the General Manager of the Barons, I've elected to keep the team together without any major changes for the first year.
Pre Season Opener vs Chicago Black Hawks
The Cleveland Barons open up the season at home and get their first-ever win over the Black Hawks! Unfortunately, That would be the Baron's only win in the preseason with a record of 1-4-1.
Regular Season Home Opener vs Chicago Black Hawks
The Baron's win their first-ever regular-season game in front of a sold-out crowd at Cleveland Arena, A 1-0 Shutout with Johnny Bower making a shutout in his NHL debut!
Regular Season Results
As expected the Barons finish last, with a record of 17-43-10. Who knew that filling a roster up with EX-NHL players and AHL players wouldn't yield great results. However, as far as bad opening seasons go we did not do terrible, we were only 8 points back of 6th place
No notable trades happened but multiple league records were broken. Doug Bentley moved into 1st all-time in point leaders, Maurice Richard moved into 1st all-time goals scored
In the playoffs, the Leafs took the dominant Red Wings all the way to 7 games just falling short of the upset. Habs beat the Bruins. And the Canadiens upset the Red Wings in just 5 games to win their 7th Stanley Cup.
Cleveland Barons 1951-1952 MVP. Johnny Bower puts up great numbers on a terrible team. He went 12-21-4 despite the poor record he still recorded 4 shutouts and a sv% of .919. Hopefully we can field a better team in front of him next year.