1936–37 New York Americans season

1936–37 New York Americans
Division	4th Canadian
1936–37 record	15–29–4
Goals for	122
Goals against	161
Team information
General manager	Red Dutton
Coach	Red Dutton
Captain	Sweeney Schriner
Arena	Madison Square Garden
Team leaders
Goals	Sweeney Schriner (21)
Assists	Sweeney Schriner (25)
Points	Sweeney Schriner (46)
Penalty minutes	Allan Shields (79)
Wins	Alfie Moore (7)
Goals against average	Alex Wood (2.57)

The 1936–37 New York Americans season was the Americans' 12th season of play. After qualifying for the playoffs in 1936, the Americans again placed last in the Canadian Division and missed the playoffs for the tenth time in twelve seasons.

Regular Season

Lorne Carr scores the winner, November 15, 1936.

The Americans had started in first place, but then their players came down with influenza and the team sagged. Scorer Nels Stewart was acquired from the Boston Bruins and despite scoring a point a game, the Americans continued to slide and won only once in December. On December 29, 1936, defenseman Gord Reid played his only NHL game in the 5-1 loss to the New York Rangers.

Disaster struck during the 7-1 loss on January 5, 1937 to the Rangers when goalie Roy Worters suffered a hernia and had to retire. Tony Hemmerling played his first NHL game during the 4-0 win over the Montreal Canadiens on January 30, 1937. The next night, goalie Alex Wood played his only NHL game and lost to the Canadiens 3-2. During the 3-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings on February 9, 1937, Frank Beisler played his first NHL game. Beisler would play one more, during the 1939–40 New York Americans season.

Alfie Moore stops the Bruins, February 23, 1937.

Former All-Star goalie Lorne Chabot replaced Worters but after a poor six game performance (his last in the NHL) he was replaced by Alfie Moore.

The Americans best game of the season was on March 18, 1937 against the Chicago Black Hawks. Wilf Field and Pete Leswick both played their first NHL games with Leswick scoring. Sweeney Schriner and Nels Stewart both had a hat trick (as did Chicago's Paul Thompson) as the Americans won 9-4. Field went on to a 215 game NHL career while Leswick would have to wait eight more seasons before playing two games for the 1944–45 Boston Bruins.

Despite the win, the Amerks finished last in the Canadian Division.

Final Standings

Canadian Division

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Montreal Canadiens	48	24	18	6	115	111	54
Montreal Maroons	48	22	17	9	126	110	53
Toronto Maple Leafs	48	22	21	5	119	115	49
New York Americans	48	15	29	4	122	161	34

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.

Game Log

Regular Season Results
No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	T	November 5, 1936	1–1 OT	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	0–0–1
2	W	November 7, 1936	3–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1936–37)	1–0–1
3	T	November 12, 1936	0–0 OT	Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	1–0–2
4	W	November 15, 1936	2–1	@ New York Rangers (1936–37)	2–0–2
5	W	November 17, 1936	5–2	Montreal Canadiens (1936–37)	3–0–2
6	L	November 19, 1936	2–3	@ Montreal Canadiens (1936–37)	3–1–2
7	W	November 22, 1936	3–2	Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	4–1–2
8	L	November 26, 1936	1–3	New York Rangers (1936–37)	4–2–2
9	L	November 28, 1936	2–3	@ Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	4–3–2
10	W	November 29, 1936	2–0	@ Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	5–3–2
11	T	December 6, 1936	3–3 OT	Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	5–3–3
12	L	December 13, 1936	3–4	Boston Bruins (1936–37)	5–4–3
13	L	December 15, 1936	3–5 OT	@ Boston Bruins (1936–37)	5–5–3
14	L	December 17, 1936	1–5	Toronto Maple Leafs (1936–37)	5–6–3
15	L	December 19, 1936	1–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1936–37)	5–7–3
16	L	December 20, 1936	1–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	5–8–3
17	W	December 22, 1936	3–1	Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	6–8–3
18	L	December 26, 1936	3–4 OT	@ Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	6–9–3
19	L	December 29, 1936	1–5	New York Rangers (1936–37)	6–10–3
20	L	December 31, 1936	2–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	6–11–3
21	L	January 2, 1937	1–5	@ Montreal Canadiens (1936–37)	6–12–3
22	L	January 3, 1937	2–4	Montreal Canadiens (1936–37)	6–13–3
23	L	January 5, 1937	1–7	@ New York Rangers (1936–37)	6–14–3
24	L	January 7, 1937	2–4	Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	6–15–3
25	W	January 12, 1937	4–0	Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	7–15–3
26	L	January 17, 1937	0–3	Boston Bruins (1936–37)	7–16–3
27	W	January 21, 1937	6–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1936–37)	8–16–3
28	T	January 23, 1937	6–6 OT	@ Boston Bruins (1936–37)	8–16–4
29	L	January 26, 1937	0–9	Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	8–17–4
30	W	January 30, 1937	4–0	@ Montreal Canadiens (1936–37)	9–17–4
31	L	January 31, 1937	2–3 OT	Montreal Canadiens (1936–37)	9–18–4
32	L	February 4, 1937	1–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1936–37)	9–19–4
33	L	February 6, 1937	0–5	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1936–37)	9–20–4
34	L	February 7, 1937	1–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	9–21–4
35	W	February 9, 1937	3–2	Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	10–21–4
36	W	February 14, 1937	5–4	@ New York Rangers (1936–37)	11–21–4
37	L	February 16, 1937	1–2	Montreal Canadiens (1936–37)	11–22–4
38	L	February 20, 1937	3–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1936–37)	11–23–4
39	W	February 21, 1937	3–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1936–37)	12–23–4
40	L	February 23, 1937	2–5	@ Boston Bruins (1936–37)	12–24–4
41	W	February 25, 1937	3–1	Boston Bruins (1936–37)	13–24–4
42	L	February 27, 1937	2–3 OT	@ Montreal Canadiens (1936–37)	13–25–4
43	L	March 6, 1937	3–4	@ Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	13–26–4
44	W	March 7, 1937	3–1	@ Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	14–26–4
45	L	March 9, 1937	5–7 OT	New York Rangers (1936–37)	14–27–4
46	L	March 14, 1937	4–6	Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	14–28–4
47	W	March 18, 1937	9–4	Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	15–28–4
48	L	March 20, 1937	4–8	@ Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	15–29–4

Playoffs

• The Americans did not qualify for the post season.

Player Stats

Regular Season

Scoring

#	Player	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
11	Sweeney Schriner	48	21	25	46	17
9	Lorne Carr	48	18	16	34	22
12	Eddie Wiseman	44	14	19	33	12
7	Art Chapman	43	8	23	31	36
5	Nels Stewart	32	20	10	30	31
16	Tommy Anderson	45	10	15	25	24
2	Joe Jerwa	20	6	8	14	27
15	Hap Emms	46	4	8	12	48
14	Joe Lamb	48	3	9	12	53
8	Les Cunningham	23	1	8	9	19
6	Tony Hemmerling	19	3	3	6	4
10	Roger Jenkins	26	1	4	5	6
2	Al Shields	27	3	0	3	79
4	Ted Graham	31	2	1	3	30
8	Lloyd Klein	14	2	1	3	2
10	Harry Oliver	20	2	1	3	2
6	Baldy Cotton	29	2	0	2	23
8	Lloyd Jackson	14	1	1	2	0
3	Al Murray	40	0	2	2	22
17	Pete Leswick	1	1	0	1	0
17	John Doran	21	0	1	1	10
17	Oscar Asmundson	1	0	0	0	0
17	Frank Beisler	1	0	0	0	0
3	Gord Reid	1	0	0	0	2
18	Wilf Field	2	0	0	0	0
4	Walter Kalbfleisch	6	0	0	0	4
4	John Gallagher	9	0	0	0	8
1	Alex Wood	1	0	0	0	0
1	Lorne Chabot	6	0	0	0	0
1	Alfie Moore	18	0	0	0	0
1	Roy Worters	23	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SA	SV	SO
Alfie Moore	1110	18	7	11	0	64	3.46			1
Roy Worters	1430	23	6	14	3	69	2.90			2
Lorne Chabot	370	6	2	3	1	25	4.05			1
Alex Wood	70	1	0	1	0	3	2.57			0
Team:	2980	48	15	29	4	161	3.24			4

Awards and Records

• NHL Scoring Leader: Sweeney Schriner
• Sweeney Schriner, Left Wing, NHL Second Team All-Star

Transactions

• Trade Carl Voss to the Montreal Maroons for Joe Lamb on September 6, 1936.
• Purchase the loan of Allan Shields from the Maroons on September 15, 1936.
• Purchase John Gallagher from the Detroit Red Wings on October 7, 1936.
• Purchase Lorne Chabot from the Maroons on October 22, 1936.
• Sell John Gallagher to Detroit on November 29, 1936.
• Trade Walter Kalbfleisch to the Boston Bruins for Ted Graham on December 19, 1936.
• Purchase Nels Stewart from Boston on December 19, 1936.
• Trade Tom Cooper, rights to Terry Reardon and loan of Allan Shields to Boston for Joe Jerwa on January 25, 1937.

Trivia

• Americans who recorded a hat trick this season include:
  • Sweeney Schriner during the 9-4 win over the Chicago Black Hawks on March 18, 1937.
  • Nels Stewart during the 9-4 win over Chicago on March 18, 1937.

Gallery

Hooley Smith's game winner, January 17, 1937.

Eddie Shore after being high-sticked by Sweeney Schriner, January 23, 1937.

Leafs-Americans melee, February 21, 1937.

See Also

• 1936–37 NHL season

External Links

• 1936–37 New York Americans Games. Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved on 2009-05-07.