1 – The Kansas City Scouts and Washington Capitals played their
inaugural season in the National Hockey League. The Capitals stayed put and are
a threat in the NHL today. The Scouts didn’t last long in Kansas City, moving
first to Denver to become the Colorado Rockies then to the east coast to become
the present day New Jersey Devils.
12 – Bernie Parent recorded twelve shutouts
while leading the Philadelphia Flyers to the lowest goals against total in the
NHL. The next best goaltender in the league had six shutouts. Parent earned the
Vezina Trophy and won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Stanley Cup playoffs MVP.
51 – The Philadelphia Flyers were the only team
to achieve the 50 win plateau in 1974-75. Their 113 points tied put them in a
three-way tie for first overall with the Buffalo Sabres and
Montreal Canadiens. The Los Angeles Kings
were the only other team to cross the 100-point threshold with 105.
Philadelphia was the top team in the Clarence Campbell Conference and the
Patrick Division.
67 – The upstart Washington Capitals lost 67 of 80 games
in 1974-75. The Capitals won just eight, the lowest total ever recorded since
the league moved to a 70 game schedule for the 1949-50 season. Expansion
cousins, the Kansas City Scouts, fared a little better, winning 15, losing 54
and tying 11.
135 – Bobby Orr won the second Art Ross
Trophy of his career with 135 points. Orr finished eight points ahead of
teammate Phil Esposito and fourteen ahead of Marcel Dionne of the Detroit Red
Wings. Orr won his first Art Ross in 1969-70 and is the only defenseman to win
the award.
374 – The Montreal Canadiens led the NHL with 374
goals. Guy Lafleur was tops on the team with 53. Ten Montreal players had 20 or
more goals and five scored 30 or more. The league leader in goals was Phil
Esposito of the Boston Bruins with 61.
1,047 – Eddie Shack, ‘The Entertainer’,
played his 1,047th and final game in the National Hockey League.
Shack played 26 games for the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1974-75 before retiring.
Eddie started in the NHL way back in 1958-59 with the New York Rangers. Along
the way, he also played for the Boston Bruins, Los Angeles Kings, Buffalo
Sabres and Pittsburgh Penguins.
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