Word: brimsek
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...Bruins are tops this season because of: 1) remarkable defense play; 2) the three most spectacular first-year players in the league-Goalie Frankie Brimsek, Defenseman Jack Crawford and Wing Roy Conacher; 3) canny Manager Art Ross; and 4) gnarled, battling Eddie Shore, the Babe Ruth of Hockey, the mightiest Bruin of them...
When Manager Ross sold ailing veteran Goalie Cecil ("Tiny") Thompson to Detroit (TIME, Dec. 12) and put Rookie Brimsek in the nets, Boston fans raised the Garden roof. But Eddie Shore, who had been an early holdout, came to work, gave Rookie Crawford many a pointer, all season gave Rookie Brimsek the stoutest defense any goalie ever got. Upshot of that was that Brimsek was this season's No. 1 goalie. Art Ross's other prize performer was 22-year-old Roy Conacher, brother of famed Pucksters Charley and Lionel. Throughout the season Roy has pounded home...
Rookie Frankie Brimsek, a native American (that in itself a rarity among predominantly Canadian players), had chalked up one of the most remarkable records in modern hockey. Within three weeks he had shattered mighty Tiny Thompson's record of 224 minutes, 47 seconds of play without a score being charged against his team. In ten games with the Bruins, nine of which they won, Rookie Brimsek had permitted only seven goals. But the latest addition to the Bruins was not inflated over his feat of two sets of triple shutouts. To reporters, taciturn Frankie Brimsek announced that the triples...