Boston Braves (AHL)

Boston Braves (AHL)

Pro hockey team
text_color = white
bg_color = maroon
team = Boston Braves

logosize = 120px
city = Boston, Massachusetts
league = American Hockey League
operated = 1971 to 1974
arena = Boston Garden
colors = Maroon, white and black
owner = Storer Communications
affiliates = Boston Bruins
name1 = Boston Braves
dates1 = 1971 to 1974
name2 = Moncton Hawks
dates2 = 1987 to 1994
division_titles = one
(1971-72)

The Boston Braves were a professional ice hockey team in Boston, Massachusetts. They were a member of the American Hockey League from 1971 to 1974.

The early 1970s saw an unprecedented boom in the popularity of hockey in the greater Boston area, fuelled by the success of the Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito-led Boston Bruins. The Bruins had sold out all of their home games at the Boston Garden for years, and the team owners thought that placing their minor-league affiliate in the same arena, made sense on several levels. Previously, the Bruins affiliate was the Oklahoma City Blazers of the Central Hockey League.

Naming the team after the eponymous National League baseball team that had played in Boston until the 1950s, the first season of the Braves was wildly successful. Behind a powerful club led by future big league stars Dan Bouchard and Rich Leduc, and with other veteran minor-leaguers and future NHL players such as Doug Roberts, Ross Brooks, Nick Beverley, Garry Peters and Dan Tannahill, the club tied for first place in its division with the powerful Nova Scotia Voyageurs with a 41-21-14 mark, while proving popular enough in Boston to set league records for single-game and single-season attendance that survived for decades.

In its second season, however, competition from the WHA's New England Whalers served to saturate the market. Furthermore, NHL expansion cost the team its best player, Bouchard, who had been picked by the Atlanta Flames, while WHA defections caused the recall of Brooks to the parent club and Roberts and Peters to the rival league. While scoring declined only slightly, the defense was notably poorer. The team still finished second in the division with a 34-29-13 mark, but attendance had nearly halved.

In the Braves' third and final season, the defense collapsed to the point where the team finished out of the playoffs after a 23-40-13 record. With attendance dwindling further and the ebbing of the hockey boom itself in New England, Bruins' management decided to suspend the team; the next season saw the Bruins affiliating with the Rochester Americans.

The Bruins maintained the franchise's existence for many years, paying a nominal fee to the league to keep it dormant, finally selling its rights to the Winnipeg Jets in 1987 so that the Jets could move it to the Maritimes to become the Moncton Hawks.

Team records

;Single Season
* Goals: Ron Anderson, 41, 1973
* Assists: Doug Gibson, 51, 1974
* Points: Gibson, 82, 1974
* Penalty Minutes: Fred O'Donnell, 161, 1972;Career
* Career Games: Neil Murphy, 214
* Career Goals: Bob Gryp, 68
* Career Assists: Rich Leduc, 80
* Career Points: Leduc, 144
* Career Penalty Minutes: Leduc, 227

eason-by-season results

;Regular Season

;Playoffs

External links

* [http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/teamseasons.php?tid=182 Boston Braves at hockeydb.com]


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