St. Patrick's Obliterate Bruins (12/22/24)

A few days ago the Boston Bruins made two trades, Art Ross sent the rights to Ernie Parkes to the Montreal Maroons for defenseman George Carroll. Ross knows this team has a huge problem on defense and has to improve it immediately or else the season will slip away. George has been playing in Moncton the last 10 years so he has experience. The other trade was yesterday Smokey Harris, one of the only guys that can score on this team was traded to the Vancouver Maroons for a bag of cash. Art Ross is sacrificing offense for defense, it better work.

                                                                     Bye bye Harris

                                                               Here to help the defense

Just like Billy Stuart, Carroll didn't do a damn thing to help the defense as the Bruins got hammered once again in tonight's game. This time it was the Toronto St. Patrick's led by Babe Dye that humiliated the Bruins so badly that Hec Fowler had enough and left the net. George Redding has to play the final two minutes in net to end the game. Why? Toronto scored TEN goals on the Bruins with Stuart and Carroll on the defensive side. Babe Dye scored FIVE goals by himself with Hap Day supplying two of his own. Bert McCaffrey, Alvin Fisher and Jack Adams all scored as well with Stan Jackson being the loan Bruin that scored. It all added up to the Bruins' sixth loss in a row 10-1 to the St. Patrick's at the Boston Arena.

                                                 Nobody in Boston wants to see this

Toronto basically ended the game in a four minute span in the first period to once again send fans to the exits early. Dye scored 4:29 into the period then Hap Day scored twice 30 seconds apart to ice the game immediately. Stan Jackson stopped the bleeding momentarily with his first goal as a Bruin assisted by George Redding 7:42 into the season but the St. Patrick's hit the dagger when Dye scored again with 26 seconds left in the period to give Toronto a 4-1 lead going into the break.

                                                  Day is all smiles in this one

The second period was an absolute drubbing by the St. Patrick's. Dye earned a hat trick with a goal 3:05 into the period then scored again seven minutes later set up by Jack Adams. Adams assisted on Bert McCaffrey's goal with 23 seconds left in the period to make it 7-1 going into intermission.

                                                       Dye is a one man wrecking crew

The third period was such a slaughter that Hec Fowler said enough was enough and left the net. Alvin Fisher scored his first goal of the season for Toronto 8:05 into the period before Adams scored just 66 seconds later. Dye scored his FIFTH goal of the game with 4:59 left in the game and that's when Fowler threw in the towel. George Redding manned the net the final two minutes and strangely Toronto didn't score to end the game with a 10-1 win.

                                                        "I quit!!!" - Fowler

Penalties:

Billy Stuart - 2 minutes

Reaction:

Talk about the season going down the drain early. That's six losses in a row and yet another route where the defense may as well just sit down and not move. Its one thing to be bad but its another to be THIS bad. Art Ross is doing everything he can by sending Bobby Rowe and Smokey Harris out of town for more defensemen but its not working. What Art needs is a difference maker but it may be too late this season to find one. Fowler is visibly frustrated in net and it may be time to find a different goalie if he can't handle it. Still, first year expansion teams are supposed to stink and they're doing a very good job at that. After taking a break to celebrate Christmas, the Bruins are back in action on the day after in Montreal to face the Canadiens. Mount Royal Arena may be the sight of yet another massacre, good thing Fowler won't be there to see it.