Bob Gracie
Encyclopedia
Robert Joseph Gracie was a Canadian professional ice hockey
centreman
who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League
for the Toronto Maple Leafs
, Boston Bruins
, New York Americans
, Montreal Maroons
, Montreal Canadiens
and Chicago Blackhawks
.
Toronto Maple Leafs. Gracie made the jump from the OHA's
Toronto Marlboros
and appeared in eight games for the Leafs in the 1930-31 NHL season
registering four goals and two assists for six points. The following season Gracie appeared in all forty eight regular season games for the Maple Leafs and all seven post-season contests. Playing on a line with Frank Finnigan
and Harold Darragh
he helped Toronto win a Stanley Cup in their first season at Maple Leaf Gardens
, sweeping the New York Rangers
in the Stanley Cup Final three games to none in the best-of-five series. Gracie would once again appear in all forty eight regular season games the following year with the Leafs, helping them back to the Stanley Cup final in 1932-33
, where they faced off against New York once again, only to see the Rangers prevail in the final series three games to one.
for Hec Kilrea
before the start of the 1933-34 season
. Ottawa in turn, immediately dealt him the same day to the Boston Bruins
for Percy Galbraith
, Bud Cook
and Teddy Saunders
. Gracie played the first 24 games of the season for the Bruins before being traded again, this time to the New York Americans. He played the remaining 24 games for New York appearing in all 48 games of the regular season for the third consecutive year.
put him on a line with newly acquired Gus Marker
and sophomore left winger Herb Cain
, to form what would later be dubbed the "Green Line." Gracie won the second Stanley Cup of his career in his first season with the Maroons in 1934-35
.
Gracie was sold to the Canadiens but would only play seven games
that year for Montreal when the Chicago Blackhawks purchased his rights. He would split the remainder of the season with Chicago and the Cleveland Barons of the IAHL.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
centreman
Centre (ice hockey)
The centre in ice hockey is a forward position of a player whose primary zone of play is the middle of the ice, away from the side boards. Centres have more flexibility in their positioning and are expected to cover more ice surface than any other player...
who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
for the Toronto Maple Leafs
Toronto Maple Leafs
The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
, Boston Bruins
Boston Bruins
The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...
, New York Americans
New York Americans
The New York Americans were a professional ice hockey team based in New York, New York from 1925 to 1942. They were the third expansion team in the history of the National Hockey League and the second to play in the United States. The team never won the Stanley Cup, but reached the semifinals...
, Montreal Maroons
Montreal Maroons
The Montreal Maroons was a professional men's ice hockey team in the National Hockey League . They played in the NHL from 1924 to 1938, winning the Stanley Cup in 1926 and 1935...
, Montreal Canadiens
Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is officially known as ...
and Chicago Blackhawks
Chicago Blackhawks
The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They have won four Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926, most recently coming in 2009-10...
.
Toronto Maple Leafs
The North Bay, Ontario native came out of the Toronto junior hockey ranks, eventually signing on as a free agent with Conn Smythe'sConn Smythe
Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe MC was a Canadian businessman, soldier and sportsman in ice hockey and horse racing. He is best known as the principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League from 1927 to 1961 and as the builder of Maple Leaf Gardens...
Toronto Maple Leafs. Gracie made the jump from the OHA's
Ontario Hockey Association
The Ontario Hockey Association is the governing body for the majority of Junior and Senior level ice hockey teams in the Province of Ontario. The OHA is sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Federation along with the Northern Ontario Hockey Association. Other Ontario sanctioning bodies along with the...
Toronto Marlboros
Toronto Marlboros
The Toronto Marlborough Athletic Club, commonly known as the Toronto Marlboros, was founded in 1903. It operated a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey Association and Ontario Hockey League from 1904 to 1989...
and appeared in eight games for the Leafs in the 1930-31 NHL season
1930-31 NHL season
-NHL awards:Howie Morenz won the Hart Trophy for the second time in his career. Frank Boucher won the Lady Byng for the fourth consecutive year. Roy Worters won the Vezina Trophy for the one and only time in his career.-All-Star teams:...
registering four goals and two assists for six points. The following season Gracie appeared in all forty eight regular season games for the Maple Leafs and all seven post-season contests. Playing on a line with Frank Finnigan
Frank Finnigan
Francis Arthur Clarence "The Shawville Express" Finnigan was a Canadian ice hockey professional forward who played in the National Hockey League from 1923 to 1937. During this time, he played for the Ottawa Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs, and St...
and Harold Darragh
Harold Darragh
Harold "Howl" Darragh was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played eight seasons in the National Hockey League for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Quakers, Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada...
he helped Toronto win a Stanley Cup in their first season at Maple Leaf Gardens
Maple Leaf Gardens
Maple Leaf Gardens is an indoor arena that was converted into a Loblawssupermarket and Ryerson University athletic centre in Toronto, on the northwest corner of Carlton Street and Church Street in Toronto's Garden District.One of the temples of hockey, it was home to the Toronto Maple Leafs of the...
, sweeping the New York Rangers
New York Rangers
The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York, USA. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the...
in the Stanley Cup Final three games to none in the best-of-five series. Gracie would once again appear in all forty eight regular season games the following year with the Leafs, helping them back to the Stanley Cup final in 1932-33
1932-33 NHL season
-NHL awards:It was the first season that league president Frank Calder named the best rookie of the year. The first winner was Carl Voss of the Detroit Red Wings...
, where they faced off against New York once again, only to see the Rangers prevail in the final series three games to one.
Boston Bruins and New York Americans
Gracie's time with Toronto came to an end after being traded to the Ottawa SenatorsOttawa Senators (original)
The Ottawa Senators were an amateur, and later, professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a founding member of the National Hockey League and played in the NHL from 1917 until 1934...
for Hec Kilrea
Hec Kilrea
Hector Joseph "Hurricane" Kilrea was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward. He played for the Ottawa Senators, Detroit Falcons, Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League...
before the start of the 1933-34 season
1933-34 NHL season
-NHL awards:-All-Star teams:-Scoring leaders:Note: GP = Games played, G = Goals, A = Assists, PTS = Points, PIM = Penalties in minutes-Debuts:...
. Ottawa in turn, immediately dealt him the same day to the Boston Bruins
Boston Bruins
The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...
for Percy Galbraith
Percy Galbraith
Percival Walter "Perk" Galbraith was a Canadian ice hockey forward. He was born in Toronto, Ontario.Galbraith started his National Hockey League career with the Boston Bruins in 1926. He would also play for the Ottawa Senators. He would retire from hockey after the 1934 season. He won the Stanley...
, Bud Cook
Bud Cook
Alexander Leone Lally "Bud" Cook was a professional ice hockey Centreman who played three seasons in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins , Ottawa Senators , and St. Louis Eagles . In 51 total NHL games, he scored 5 goals and 9 points.- External links :...
and Teddy Saunders
Teddy Saunders
Clarence "Ted, Teddy" Saunders was a professional ice hockey player who played 19 games in the National Hockey League with the Ottawa Senators in their final season of 1933–34. He played for the Ottawa Commandos which won the 1943 Allan Cup...
. Gracie played the first 24 games of the season for the Bruins before being traded again, this time to the New York Americans. He played the remaining 24 games for New York appearing in all 48 games of the regular season for the third consecutive year.
Montreal Maroons
After stints in Boston and New York, Gracie found himself back in Canada after his rights were sold to the Montreal Maroons. Maroons' general manager and coach Tommy GormanTommy Gorman
Thomas Patrick "T. P." Gorman was a founder of the National Hockey League , a winner of seven Stanley Cups as a general manager with four teams, and an Olympic gold medal-winning lacrosse player for Canada....
put him on a line with newly acquired Gus Marker
Gus Marker
Augustus Solberg Marker was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Maple Leafs and Brooklyn Americans....
and sophomore left winger Herb Cain
Herb Cain
Herbert James Cain was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Maroons, Montreal Canadiens, and Boston Bruins.-Playing career:Herbert Cain grew up in Newmarket and played junior hockey for the Newmarket Redmen and the...
, to form what would later be dubbed the "Green Line." Gracie won the second Stanley Cup of his career in his first season with the Maroons in 1934-35
1934-35 NHL season
-NHL awards:Eddie Shore won the Hart Trophy for the second time in his career. Frank Boucher won the Lady Byng for the seventh and final time in his career, and his third consecutive time...
.
Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Blackhawks
Before the start of the 1938-39 NHL season1938-39 NHL season
The 1938–39 NHL season was the 22nd season of the National Hockey League . Seven teams each played 48 games. The Boston Bruins were the Stanley Cup winners as they beat the Toronto Maple Leafs four games to one in the final series.-League business:...
Gracie was sold to the Canadiens but would only play seven games
that year for Montreal when the Chicago Blackhawks purchased his rights. He would split the remainder of the season with Chicago and the Cleveland Barons of the IAHL.
Minor leagues
In 1944-45, while playing for the Pittsburgh Hornets, Gracie led the American Hockey League in scoring with 95 points, tying for the lead with teammate Bob Walton.Awards and achievements
- 1931-32 - Stanley Cup Champion - Toronto Maple Leafs
- 1934-35 - Stanley Cup Champion - Montreal Maroons
- 1944-45 - AHL Scoring Leader (tied with teammate Bob Walton) - Pittsburgh Hornets
Regular season and playoffs
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season Season (sports) In an organized sports league, a season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session. For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 through October 1; in Association football, it is generally from August until May In an... |
Team | League | GP | G Goal (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the team attacking the goal scored upon, regardless of which team the player who actually deflected the puck into the goal belongs to... |
A Assist (ice hockey) In ice hockey, an assist is attributed to up to two players of the scoring team who shot, passed or deflected the puck towards the scoring teammate, or touched it in any other way which enabled the goal, meaning that they were "assisting" in the goal. There can be a maximum of two assists per goal... |
Pts Point (ice hockey) Point in ice hockey has three official meanings:* A point is awarded to a player for each goal scored or assist earned. The total number of goals plus assists equals total points. In some European leagues, a goal counts as two points, and an assist counts as one... |
PIM Penalty (ice hockey) A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for inappropriate behavior. Most penalties are enforced by detaining the offending player within a penalty box for a set number of minutes, during which, the player can not participate in play. The offending team usually may not replace the player on the ice,... |
GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1930-31 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 8 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1931-32 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 48 | 13 | 8 | 21 | 29 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 1932-33 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 48 | 9 | 13 | 22 | 27 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 1933-34 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 24 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1933-34 | New York Americans | NHL | 24 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1934-35 | New York Americans | NHL | 14 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1934-35 | New Haven Eagles | CAHL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1934-35 | Montreal Maroons | NHL | 32 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1935-36 | Montreal Maroons | NHL | 46 | 11 | 14 | 25 | 31 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 1936-37 | Montreal Maroons | NHL | 48 | 11 | 25 | 36 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||
| 1937-38 | Montreal Maroons | NHL | 48 | 12 | 19 | 31 | 32 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1938-39 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1938-39 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 31 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 27 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1938-39 | Cleveland Barons | IAHL | 11 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | ||
| 1939-40 | Cleveland Barons | IAHL | 37 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1939-40 | Indianapolis Capitals | IAHL | 19 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 1940-41 | Buffalo Bisons | AHL | 56 | 22 | 26 | 48 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1941-42 | Buffalo Bisons | AHL | 35 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1941-42 | Hershey Bears | AHL | 17 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 1942-43 | Hershey Bears | AHL | 11 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1942-43 | Washington Lions | AHL | 46 | 27 | 32 | 59 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1943-44 | Pittsburgh Hornets | AHL | 41 | 13 | 21 | 34 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1944-45 | Pittsburgh Hornets | AHL | 58 | 40 | 55 | 95 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1945-46 | Pittsburgh Hornets | AHL | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1945-46 | Hollywood Wolves | PCHL | 16 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1946-47 | Hollywood Wolves | PCHL | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1947-48 | Fresno Falcons | PCHL | 8 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| NHL totals | 378 | 82 | 109 | 191 | 204 | 33 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 4 | ||||
Transactions
- Signed as a free agent by the Toronto Maple Leafs, February 27, 1931.
- Traded by the Toronto Maple Leafs to the Ottawa Senators for Hec Kilrea and cash, October 4, 1933.
- Traded by the Ottawa Senators to the Boston Bruins for Percy Galbraith, Bud Cook and Ted Saunders, October 4, 1933.
- Traded by the Boston Bruins with Art ChapmanArt ChapmanJohn Arthur Chapman was a Canadian ice hockey forward. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.Chapman started his National Hockey League career with the Boston Bruins in 1930. He would also play for the New York Americans and retire after the 1940 season...
to the New York Americans for Lloyd GrossLloyd GrossLloyd "Bomber" Gross was a professional ice hockey player who played 62 games in the National Hockey League. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings, and New York Americans. He was born in Kitchener, Ontario.-References:*...
and George Patterson, January 11, 1934. - Sold by the New York Americans to the Montreal Maroons, December 25, 1934.
- Sold by the Montreal Maroons to the Montreal Canadiens, September 14, 1938.
- Sold by the Montreal Canadiens to the Chicago Blackhawks, November 25, 1938.