Boston Braves

This article describes the American ice hockey team. For the American football team founded in 1932, see Washington Redskins

Boston Braves
founding	1971
resolution	1974
history	Boston Braves 1971–1974 Moncton Hawks 1987–1994
Stadion	Boston Garden
Location	Boston , Massachusetts
Team colors	brown, white, black
league	American Hockey League
Cooperations	Boston Bruins
Calder cups	no

The Boston Braves were an American ice hockey franchise of the American Hockey League based in Boston , Massachusetts . The Braves' venue was the Boston Garden .

history

The Boston Braves were founded in 1971 as a franchise of the American Hockey League , in which they were active for the following three years. The franchise came about because the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League wanted a farm team in the same city and in the same arena as the Boston Garden due to the rising popularity of ice hockey in New England . In their first season in the AHL, the Braves reached the playoffs as winners of the East Division in the 1971/72 season, in which they failed only in the second round 4-0 to the Nova Scotia Voyageurs . In the next year, the Braves again reached the second playoff round, in which they were subject to the Nova Scotia Voyageurs in a sweep for the second time .

After the Boston Braves had missed the playoffs for the Calder Cup for the first time in the 1974/75 season and the audience numbers dropped significantly due to the waning of the hockey boom in New England, the Boston Bruins left their farm team inactive and found a new one in the Rochester Americans Cooperation partner. Although the Bruins had a new farm team, the Boston Braves left the Boston Braves inactive until 1987 when they sold the rights to the franchise to the Winnipeg Jets , who relocated it to Moncton , New Brunswick , where it operated in the AHL under the Moncton Hawks name .

Season statistics

Abbreviations: GP = games, W = wins, L = defeats, T = draws, OTL = defeats after overtime, SOL = defeats after shootout , Pts = points, GF = goals scored, GA = goals against, PIM = penalty minutes

season	GP	W.	L.	T	OTL	SOL	Pts	GF	GA	space	Playoffs
1971-72	76	41	21st	14th	-	-	96	260	191	1st, East	Defeat in the second round
1972-73	76	34	20th	13	-	-	81	248	256	2nd, East	Defeat in the second round
1974-75	76	23	30th	13	-	-	59	239	297	5th, North	not qualified

Team records

Career records

Games: 214 Neil Murphy

Goals: 68 Bob Gryp

Assists: 80 Rich LeDuc

Points: 144 Rich LeDuc

Penalty minutes: 227 Rich LeDuc

Web links

• The Internet Hockey Database Statistics Boston Braves
• The Internet Hockey Database - Player List Boston Braves