1959–60 Boston Bruins season

The 1959–60 Boston Bruins season saw the Bruins finish in fifth place in the National Hockey League (NHL) with a record of 28 wins, 34 losses, and 8 ties for 64 points.

1959–60 Boston Bruins
Division	5th NHL
1959–60 record	28–34–8
Goals for	220
Goals against	241
Team information
General manager	Lynn Patrick
Coach	Milt Schmidt
Captain	Fernie Flaman
Alternate captains	None
Arena	Boston Garden
Team leaders
Goals	Bronco Horvath (39)
Assists	Don McKenney (49)
Points	Bronco Horvath (80)
Penalty minutes	Vic Stasiuk (121)
Wins	Harry Lumley (16)
Goals against average	Don Simmons (3.25)

Regular season

Final standings

National Hockey League[1]

		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	DIFF	Pts
1	Montreal Canadiens	70	40	18	12	255	178	+77	92
2	Toronto Maple Leafs	70	35	26	9	199	195	+4	79
3	Chicago Black Hawks	70	28	29	13	191	180	+11	69
4	Detroit Red Wings	70	26	29	15	186	197	−11	67
5	Boston Bruins	70	28	34	8	220	241	−21	64
6	New York Rangers	70	17	38	15	187	247	−60	49

Record vs. opponents

1959–60 NHL Records
Team	BOS	CHI	DET	MON	NYR	TOR
Boston	—	5–6–3	5–8–1	4–8	8–4–2	6–6–2
Chicago	6–5–3	—	4–8–2	3–7–4	11–1–2	4–8–2
Detroit	8–5–1	8–4–2	—	2–7–5	4–6–4	4–9–1
Montreal	8–4	7–3–4	7–2–5	—	6–6–2	10–3–1
New York	4–8–2	1–11–2	6–4–4	6–6–2	—	2–9–3
Toronto	6–6–2	8–4–2	9–4–1	3–10–1	9–2–3	—

Schedule and results

Regular season schedule

No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	L	October 8, 1959	1–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	0–1–0
2	W	October 10, 1959	6–4	New York Rangers (1959–60)	1–1–0
3	W	October 11, 1959	8–4	Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	2–1–0
4	W	October 14, 1959	4–3	@ New York Rangers (1959–60)	3–1–0
5	L	October 17, 1959	0–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	3–2–0
6	T	October 18, 1959	2–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	3–2–1
7	L	October 22, 1959	1–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (1959–60)	3–3–1
8	L	October 24, 1959	1–5	@ Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	3–4–1
9	W	October 29, 1959	2–1	Detroit Red Wings (1959–60)	4–4–1
10	L	October 31, 1959	3–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	4–5–1
11	W	November 1, 1959	6–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	5–5–1
12	W	November 3, 1959	6–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	6–5–1
13	W	November 5, 1959	8–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (1959–60)	7–5–1
14	W	November 8, 1959	5–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	8–5–1
15	L	November 11, 1959	3–6	@ New York Rangers (1959–60)	8–6–1
16	L	November 12, 1959	5–6	Detroit Red Wings (1959–60)	8–7–1
17	L	November 14, 1959	1–8	@ Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	8–8–1
18	L	November 15, 1959	1–4	Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	8–9–1
19	T	November 21, 1959	3–3	Detroit Red Wings (1959–60)	8–9–2
20	L	November 22, 1959	1–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	8–10–2
21	T	November 25, 1959	3–3	@ New York Rangers (1959–60)	8–10–3
22	W	November 26, 1959	4–3	New York Rangers (1959–60)	9–10–3
23	T	November 28, 1959	2–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	9–10–4
24	L	November 29, 1959	2–4	Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	9–11–4
25	T	December 2, 1959	2–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	9–11–5
26	L	December 5, 1959	3–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (1959–60)	9–12–5
27	L	December 6, 1959	3–6	Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	9–13–5
28	W	December 10, 1959	6–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	10–13–5
29	L	December 12, 1959	3–4	New York Rangers (1959–60)	10–14–5
30	L	December 13, 1959	3–4	@ New York Rangers (1959–60)	10–15–5
31	L	December 16, 1959	0–4	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	10–16–5
32	L	December 20, 1959	2–4	Detroit Red Wings (1959–60)	10–17–5
33	W	December 25, 1959	5–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	11–17–5
34	L	December 27, 1959	1–6	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	11–18–5
35	W	December 29, 1959	4–3	@ New York Rangers (1959–60)	12–18–5
36	W	January 1, 1960	7–3	New York Rangers (1959–60)	13–18–5
37	L	January 2, 1960	5–6	@ Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	13–19–5
38	L	January 3, 1960	3–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (1959–60)	13–20–5
39	W	January 7, 1960	5–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	14–20–5
40	W	January 9, 1960	3–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	15–20–5
41	W	January 10, 1960	4–0	Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	16–20–5
42	W	January 14, 1960	6–0	New York Rangers (1959–60)	17–20–5
43	L	January 16, 1960	2–8	@ Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	17–21–5
44	L	January 17, 1960	1–3	Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	17–22–5
45	L	January 20, 1960	1–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	17–23–5
46	L	January 21, 1960	2–5	@ Detroit Red Wings (1959–60)	17–24–5
47	T	January 23, 1960	3–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	17–24–6
48	W	January 24, 1960	6–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	18–24–6
49	W	January 30, 1960	3–2	Detroit Red Wings (1959–60)	19–24–6
50	W	January 31, 1960	6–5	Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	20–24–6
51	L	February 4, 1960	2–7	Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	20–25–6
52	L	February 6, 1960	3–5	@ Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	20–26–6
53	W	February 7, 1960	3–0	Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	21–26–6
54	W	February 11, 1960	3–2	Detroit Red Wings (1959–60)	22–26–6
55	W	February 13, 1960	7–6	Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	23–26–6
56	W	February 14, 1960	3–0	New York Rangers (1959–60)	24–26–6
57	L	February 17, 1960	1–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	24–27–6
58	L	February 20, 1960	1–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (1959–60)	24–28–6
59	L	February 21, 1960	2–7	@ New York Rangers (1959–60)	24–29–6
60	W	February 27, 1960	3–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	25–29–6
61	L	March 1, 1960	2–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (1959–60)	25–30–6
62	L	March 3, 1960	0–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	25–31–6
63	L	March 5, 1960	2–5	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	25–32–6
64	L	March 6, 1960	1–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	25–33–6
65	T	March 10, 1960	3–3	New York Rangers (1959–60)	25–33–7
66	W	March 12, 1960	5–1	Detroit Red Wings (1959–60)	26–33–7
67	W	March 13, 1960	3–2	Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	27–33–7
68	W	March 16, 1960	3–2	@ New York Rangers (1959–60)	28–33–7
69	L	March 19, 1960	1–5	@ Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	28–34–7
70	T	March 20, 1960	5–5	Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	28–34–8

Playoffs

Boston's fifth-place finish caused them to miss the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since the 1955–56 season.[2]

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Bronco Horvath	C	68	39	41	80	60
Don McKenney	C	70	20	49	69	28
Vic Stasiuk	LW	69	29	39	68	121
John Bucyk	LW	56	16	36	52	26
Doug Mohns	LW/D	65	20	25	45	62
Jerry Toppazzini	RW	69	12	33	45	26
Leo Labine	RW	63	16	28	44	58
Jean-Guy Gendron	LW	67	24	11	35	64
Charlie Burns	C	62	10	17	27	46
Leo Boivin	D	70	4	21	25	66
Fleming MacKell	C	47	7	15	22	19
Fern Flaman	D	60	2	18	20	112
Larry Leach	C	69	7	12	19	47
Bob Armstrong	D	69	5	14	19	96
Dick Meissner	RW	60	5	6	11	22
Aut Erickson	D	58	1	6	7	29
Lorne Davis	RW	10	1	1	2	10
Dallas Smith	D	5	1	1	2	0
Nick Mickoski	LW	18	1	0	1	2
Larry Hillman	D	2	0	1	1	2
Don Ward	D	31	0	1	1	16
Stan Baluik	C	7	0	0	0	2
Pierre Gagne	LW	2	0	0	0	0
Harry Lumley	G	42	0	0	0	12
Dale Rolfe	D	3	0	0	0	0
Don Simmons	G	28	0	0	0	4
Gord Turlick	LW/C	2	0	0	0	2

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Harry Lumley	2520	42	16	21	5	146	3.48	2
Don Simmons	1680	28	12	13	3	91	3.25	2
Team:	4200	70	28	34	8	237	3.39	4

[3]

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

• Bronco Horvath, Centre, NHL Second All-Star Team
• Don McKenney, Lady Byng Memorial Trophy

Transactions

Claim Aut Erikson from Chicago, Charlie Burns from Detroit and Bruce Gamble from New York.

Roster

Boston Bruins 1959–1960 Roster
Goaltenders 1 – Harry Lumley  1 – Don Simmons		Defensemen 4 – Bob Armstrong  8 – Dallas Smith  11 – Aut Erickson  12 – Don Ward  14 – Fern Flaman –C 20 – Léo Boivin  22 – Larry Hillman  25 – Dale Rolfe		Wingers 6 – Pierre Gagné  7 – Vic Stasiuk  9 – John Bucyk  12 – Nick Mickoski  12 – Gord Turlick  16 – Leo Labine  19 – Doug Mohns  21 – Jerry Toppazzini  22 – Dick Meissner  23 – Jean-Guy Gendron  25 – Lorne Davis		Centers 6 – Bronco Horvath  8 – Fleming MacKell  10 – Charlie Burns  17 – Don McKenney  24 – Larry Leach  GM: Lynn Patrick Coach: Milt Schmidt

References

1. "1959–1960 Division Standings Standings - NHL.com - Standings". National Hockey League.
2. Boston Bruins franchise index at Hockey Reference
3. "1959-60 Boston Bruins Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-06-09.