1944–45 New York Rangers season

The 1944–45 New York Rangers season was the franchise's 19th season. During the regular season, the Rangers posted an 11–29–10 record and finished with 32 points. The Rangers' last-place finish caused them to miss the NHL playoffs.^[1]

1944–45 New York Rangers
Division	6th NHL
1944–45 record	11–29–10
Goals for	154
Goals against	247
Team information
General manager	Lester Patrick
Coach	Frank Boucher
Captain	Ott Heller
Arena	Madison Square Garden
Team leaders
Goals	Ab DeMarco (24)
Assists	Ab DeMarco (30)
Points	Ab DeMarco (54)
Penalty minutes	Bob Dill (69)
Wins	Ken McAuley (11)
Goals against average	Ken McAuley (4.93)
← 1943–44 1945–46 →

Regular season

Final standings

National Hockey League^[2]

• v
• t
• e

		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	DIFF	Pts
1	Montreal Canadiens	50	38	8	4	228	121	+107	80
2	Detroit Red Wings	50	31	14	5	218	161	+57	67
3	Toronto Maple Leafs	50	24	22	4	183	161	+22	52
4	Boston Bruins	50	16	30	4	179	219	−40	36
5	Chicago Black Hawks	50	13	30	7	141	194	−53	33
6	New York Rangers	50	11	29	10	154	247	−93	32

Record vs. opponents

1944–45 NHL Records [3]
Team	BOS	CHI	DET	MTL	NYR	TOR
Boston	—	7–3	0–9–1	0–10	4–3–3	5–5
Chicago	5–5	—	5–5	0–8–2	7–1–2	5–4–1
Detroit	9–0–1	7–3	—	1–8–1	6–2–2	8–1–1
Montreal	10–0	7–1–2	8–1–1	—	9–1	4–5–1
New York	3–4–3	3–3–4	2–6–2	1–9	—	2–7–1
Toronto	5–5	6–3–1	1–8–1	5–4–1	7–2–1	—

Schedule and results

1944–45 Game Log
October: 0–1–0 (Home: 0-0-0; Road: 0–1–0) Game October Opponent Score Record 1 28 @ Toronto Maple Leafs 2–1 0–1–0
November: 2–5–3 (Home: 1–2–2; Road: 1–3–1) Game November Opponent Score Record 2 1 @ Chicago Black Hawks 8–3 0–2–0 3 2 @ Detroit Red Wings 10–3 0–3–0 4 9 Toronto Maple Leafs 6–3 0–4–0 5 11 Detroit Red Wings 5–2 1–4–0 6 12 Boston Bruins 5–5 1–4–1 7 18 Detroit Red Wings 2–2 1–4–2 8 19 Montreal Canadiens 6–2 1–5–2 9 23 @ Chicago Black Hawks 4–4 1–5–3 10 26 @ Boston Bruins 8–4 1–6–3 11 30 @ Montreal Canadiens 7–5 2–6–3
December: 2–7–2 (Home: 1–3–2; Road: 1–4–0) Game December Opponent Score Record 12 2 @ Toronto Maple Leafs 4–3 2–7–3 13 7 Detroit Red Wings 3–2 2–8–3 14 10 Chicago Black Hawks 1–1 2–8–4 15 12 @ Boston Bruins 7–5 2–9–4 16 17 Montreal Canadiens 4–1 2–10–4 17 20 @ Chicago Black Hawks 3–1 3–10–4 18 21 @ Detroit Red Wings 11–3 3–11–4 19 24 Chicago Black Hawks 3–3 3–11–5 20 27 Toronto Maple Leafs 8–2 3–12–5 21 30 @ Montreal Canadiens 4–1 3–13–5 22 31 Boston Bruins 3–2 4–13–5
January: 3–6–2 (Home: 1–2–2; Road: 2–4–0) Game January Opponent Score Record 23 4 Detroit Red Wings 4–4 4–13–6 24 7 Chicago Black Hawks 0–0 4–13–7 25 9 @ Toronto Maple Leafs 5–4 5–13–7 26 11 Boston Bruins 5–1 6–13–7 27 14 Montreal Canadiens 6–2 6–14–7 28 18 @ Detroit Red Wings 7–3 6–15–7 29 20 @ Montreal Canadiens 5–2 6–16–7 30 21 @ Boston Bruins 14–3 6–17–7 31 24 @ Chicago Black Hawks 4–3 7–17–7 32 27 @ Toronto Maple Leafs 3–0 7–18–7 33 28 Toronto Maple Leafs 7–0 7–19–7
February: 3–4–3 (Home: 3–1–1; Road: 0–3–2) Game February Opponent Score Record 34 4 @ Boston Bruins 3–3 7–19–8 35 8 @ Montreal Canadiens 9–4 7–20–8 36 11 Montreal Canadiens 4–3 7–21–8 37 14 @ Detroit Red Wings 4–2 7–22–8 38 15 Chicago Black Hawks 6–2 8–22–8 39 17 @ Boston Bruins 6–1 8–23–8 40 18 Boston Bruins 2–1 9–23–8 41 22 Detroit Red Wings 5–3 10–23–8 42 24 @ Toronto Maple Leafs 4–4 10–23–9 43 25 Boston Bruins 4–4 10–23–10
March: 1–6–0 (Home: 1–3–0; Road: 0–3–0) Game March Opponent Score Record 44 1 Chicago Black Hawks 5–3 10–24–10 45 4 Toronto Maple Leafs 6–3 10–25–10 46 7 @ Chicago Black Hawks 6–3 10–26–10 47 8 @ Detroit Red Wings 7–3 10–27–10 48 10 @ Montreal Canadiens 7–3 10–28–10 49 11 Montreal Canadiens 11–5 10–29–10 50 18 Toronto Maple Leafs 6–5 11–29–10

Playoffs

The Rangers finished the season in last place in the NHL for the third consecutive season and missed the 1945 Stanley Cup playoffs.^[1][4]

Player statistics

Skaters

Regular Season Player GP G A Pts PIM Ab DeMarco 50 24 30 54 10 Grant Warwick 42 20 22 42 25 Hank Goldup 48 17 25 42 25 Fred Thurier 50 16 19 35 14 Fred Hunt 44 13 9 22 6 Joe Shack 50 4 18 22 14 Walt Atanas 49 13 8 21 40 Phil Watson 45 11 8 19 24 Ehrhardt Heller 45 7 12 19 26 James MacDonald 36 9 6 15 12 Bob Dill 48 9 5 14 69 Wilfred McDonald 40 2 9 11 0 Jack Mann 6 3 4 7 0 Bill Moe 35 2 4 6 14 Chuck Scherza 22 2 3 5 18 Guy Labrie 27 2 2 4 14 Neil Colville 4 0 1 1 2 Len Wharton 1 0 0 0 0 Alex Ritson 1 0 0 0 0 Jim Drummond 2 0 0 0 0 Hal Cooper 8 0 0 0 2

Goaltenders

Regular Season

Player	GP	TOI	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Ken McAuley	46	2760	11	25	10	227	4.93	1
Doug Stevenson†	4	240	0	4	0	20	5.00	0

^†Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Rangers. Stats reflect time with Rangers only.
^‡Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Rangers only.

^[5]

Note:

Pos = Position; GPI = Games played in; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes; +/- = Plus/minus; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals

Min, TOI = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T,T/OT = Ties; OTL = Overtime losses; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts; SA = Shots against; SV = Shots saved; SV% = Save percentage;

Awards and records

Transactions

See also

• 1944–45 NHL season