1955-56 Boston Bruins Roster and Statistics

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Record: 23-34-13 (59 points), Finished 5th in NHL (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Milt Schmidt (23-34-13)

Captain: Fern Flaman

Primary Arena: Boston Garden

Goals For: 147 (6th of 6), Goals Against: 185 (4th of 6)
SRS: -0.45 (5th of 6), SOS: 0.09 (2nd of 6)

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Recent Game Results

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Team Statistics

Team Statistics Table
Team	GP	W	L	T	PTS	PTS%	GF	GA	SRS	SOS	GF/G	GA/G	PP	PPO	PP%	PPA	PPOA	PK%	SH	SHA	S	S%	SA	SV%	PDO	SO
Boston Bruins	70	23	34	13	59	.421	147	185	-0.45	0.09	2.10	2.64	38			42			12	2						10
League Average	70	29	29	12	70	.500	177	177					42			42			5	5		106400.0				7

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5)

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5) Table
Team	S%	SV%	PDO	CF	CA	CF%	xGF	xGA	aGF	aGA	axDiff	SCF	SCA	SCF%	HDF	HDA	HDF%	HDGF	HDC%	HDGA	HDCO%
Boston Bruins
League Average

Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

Roster Table
No.	Player	Flag	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date	Summary
4	Bob Armstrong	ca	D	24	6-1	190	R/-	4	April 7, 1931	0 G, 12 A, 12 P
20	Leo Boivin	ca	D	24	5-8	183	L/-	4	August 2, 1931	4 G, 16 A, 20 P
18-23	Marcel Bonin	ca	RW/LW	23	5-10	170	L/-	3	September 12, 1932	9 G, 9 A, 18 P
12	Real Chevrefils	ca	LW	23	5-10	180	L/-	4	May 2, 1932	11 G, 8 A, 19 P
21	Murray Costello	ca	C	21	6-3	190	R/-	2	February 24, 1934	6 G, 6 A, 12 P
24	Lorne Davis	ca	RW	25	5-11	190	R/-	3	July 20, 1930	0 G, 1 A, 1 P
12	Lorne Ferguson	ca	LW	25	6-0	175	L/-	4	May 26, 1930	7 G, 5 A, 12 P
14	Fern Flaman (C)	ca	D	29	5-10	190	R/-	11	January 25, 1927	4 G, 17 A, 21 P
9	Cal Gardner	ca	C	31	6-1	172	L/-	10	October 30, 1924	15 G, 21 A, 36 P
6	Lionel Heinrich	ca	LW	21	5-10	180	L/-	R	April 20, 1934	1 G, 1 A, 2 P
1	John Henderson	ca	G	22	6-1	174	-/L	1	March 25, 1933	0-1-0, 4.00 GAA
16	Leo Labine	ca	RW	24	5-10	170	R/-	4	July 22, 1931	16 G, 18 A, 34 P
10	Hal Laycoe	ca	D	33	6-2	185	L/-	10	June 23, 1922	5 G, 5 A, 10 P
8	Fleming Mackell	ca	C	26	5-7	156	L/-	8	April 30, 1929	7 G, 9 A, 16 P
17	Don McKenney	ca	C	21	6-0	160	L/-	1	April 30, 1934	10 G, 24 A, 34 P
19	Doug Mohns	ca	LW	22	6-0	185	L/-	2	December 13, 1933	10 G, 8 A, 18 P
25	Al Nicholson	ca	LW	19	6-1	180	L/-	R	April 26, 1936	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
25	Ellard O'Brien	ca	LW	25	6-3	183	L/-	R	May 27, 1930	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
22	Ed Panagabko	ca	LW	21	5-8	170	L/-	R	May 17, 1934	0 G, 3 A, 3 P
23	Johnny Peirson	ca	RW	30	5-11	170	R/-	8	July 21, 1925	11 G, 14 A, 25 P
1	Claude Pronovost	ca	G	20	5-9	190	-/L	R	July 22, 1935	1-0-0, 0.00 GAA
11	Bill Quackenbush	ca	D	33	5-11	190	L/-	13	March 2, 1922	3 G, 22 A, 25 P
1	Terry Sawchuk	ca	G	26	5-11	195	-/L	6	December 28, 1929	22-33-13, 2.60 GAA
7	Vic Stasiuk	ca	RW	26	6-0	185	L/-	6	May 23, 1929	19 G, 18 A, 37 P
18	Orval Tessier	ca	C	22	5-8	160	L/-	1	June 30, 1933	2 G, 3 A, 5 P
21	Jerry Toppazzini	ca	RW	24	6-0	180	R/-	3	July 29, 1931	7 G, 7 A, 14 P

Scoring Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Scoring Regular Season Table
					Scoring					Goals				Assists					Ice Time		Point Shares
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	EV	PP	SH	GW	EV	PP	SH	S	S%	TOI	ATOI	OPS	DPS	PS
1	Vic Stasiuk	26	RW	59	19	18	37		118	13	5	1	1	14	3	1					3.5	0.8	4.3
2	Cal Gardner	31	C	70	15	21	36		59	10	5	0	4	17	4	0					2.5	1.0	3.4
3	Leo Labine	24	RW	68	16	18	34		104	8	8	0	4	13	5	0					2.5	0.9	3.4
4	Don McKenney	21	C	65	10	24	34		18	7	3	0	3	17	7	0					1.9	0.9	2.8
5	Johnny Peirson	30	RW	33	11	14	25		10	7	3	1	1	11	2	1					2.5	0.5	3.0
6	Bill Quackenbush*	33	D	70	3	22	25		4	2	0	1	1	12	7	3					1.7	3.9	5.6
7	Fern Flaman*	29	D	62	4	17	21		70	1	2	1	0	14	2	1					1.5	3.4	5.0
8	Leo Boivin*	24	D	68	4	16	20		80	3	0	1	1	12	3	1					1.3	3.8	5.1
9	Real Chevrefils	23	LW	25	11	8	19		10	11	0	0	2	4	4	0					2.2	0.3	2.5
10	Doug Mohns	22	LW	64	10	8	18		48	7	3	0	1	3	5	0					0.2	0.9	1.1
11	Marcel Bonin	23	RW	67	9	9	18		49	6	3	0	0	6	3	0					-0.1	0.9	0.9
12	Fleming Mackell	26	C	53	7	9	16		59	5	0	2	0	5	4	0					0.1	0.7	0.9
13	Jerry Toppazzini	24	RW	28	7	7	14		20	2	3	2	1	4	2	1					1.1	0.4	1.4
14	Lorne Ferguson	25	LW	35	7	5	12		18	5	1	1	1	4	0	1					0.5	0.5	1.0
15	Murray Costello*	21	C	41	6	6	12		19	4	1	1	0	5	0	1					0.1	0.6	0.7
16	Bob Armstrong	24	D	68	0	12	12		122	0	0	0	0	6	5	1					0.0	3.8	3.7
17	Hal Laycoe	33	D	65	5	5	10		16	4	0	1	2	3	1	1					0.4	3.6	4.0
18	Orval Tessier	22	C	23	2	3	5		6	1	1	0	1	3	0	0					-0.3	0.3	0.0
19	Ed Panagabko	21	LW	28	0	3	3		38	0	0	0	0	2	0	1					-0.9	0.4	-0.6
20	Lionel Heinrich	21	LW	35	1	1	2		33	1	0	0	0	1	0	0					-1.3	0.5	-0.8
21	Lorne Davis	25	RW	15	0	1	1		0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0					-0.6	0.2	-0.4
22	John Henderson	22	G	1	0	0	0		0					0					60	60:00	0.0	0.0	0.0
23	Al Nicholson	19	LW	14	0	0	0		2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					-0.6	0.2	-0.4
24	Ellard O'Brien	25	LW	2	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					-0.1	0.0	-0.1
25	Claude Pronovost	20	G	1	0	0	0		2					0					60	60:00	0.0	0.0	0.4
26	Terry Sawchuk*	26	G	68	0	0	0		20					0					4078	59:59	0.0	0.0	10.3
	Team Total			70	147	227	374		925	97	38	12	23	157	57	13					18.0	28.5	57.3

Goalies Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Goalies Regular Season Table
			Goalie Stats
Rk	Player	Age	GP	GS	W	L	T/O	GA	SA	SV	SV%	GAA	SO	MIN	QS	QS%	RBS	GA%-	GSAA	adjGAA	GPS
1	Terry Sawchuk*	26	68		22	33	13	177	2098	1921	.916	2.60	9	4078				104	-7.3	3.16	10.3
2	Claude Pronovost	20	1		1	0	0	0	31	31	1.000	0.00	1	60						0.00	0.4
3	John Henderson	22	1		0	1	0	4	28	24	.857	4.00	0	60						5.00	0.0
	Team Total				23	34	13	181	2157	1976	.916	2.59	10	4198				104	-6.9	3.14	10.7