1930–31_Philadelphia_Quakers_season

1930–31 Philadelphia Quakers season

1930–31 Philadelphia Quakers season

National Hockey League team season


The 1930–31 Philadelphia Quakers season was the Quakers' sole season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The team moved from Pittsburgh, where they had played as the Pittsburgh Pirates since 1925.

Quick Facts Philadelphia Quakers, Division ...

Offseason

The team relocated to Philadelphia and was in the charge of Benny Leonard, the prizefighter who held the world lightweight title from 1917 to 1925.

On October 18, 1930, 13 players, including player-coach Frank Fredrickson, were transferred to the Quakers from Pittsburgh.[1] But Fredrickson was released two days later and replaced by Cooper Smeaton, who resigned his position as the league’s referee-in-chief to become the Quakers head coach.[1][2]

Regular season

The team finished with 12 points for the season, the worst performance in the six-year history of the Pirate/Quaker franchise. The team lost $100,000 on its operations and folded after the season.[3] As a result, Philadelphia was left without an NHL franchise until the Flyers arrived in 1967.

Season standings

More information GP, W ...

[4]

Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against
Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.

Record vs. opponents

More information NHL records, Team ...

Schedule and results

Regular season

More information Game, Date ...

Player statistics

Scoring

  • Position abbreviations: C = Center; D = Defense; F = Forward; G = Goaltender; LW = Left wing; RW = Right wing
  • = Joined team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, signing) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Quakers only.
  • = Left team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, release) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Quakers only.
The 1930–31 Philadelphia Quakers.
More information Regular season, No. ...

Goaltending

More information Regular season, No. ...

Awards and records

Records

The 1930–31 Quakers are tied with the 1919–20 Quebec Bulldogs for the fewest wins in a season with four, though Quebec played 20 fewer games.[7] The Quakers .136 points percentage on the season held the NHL record low for 44 years until being surpassed by the expansion 1974–75 Washington Capitals’ .131.[8]

Transactions

Syd Howe, seen here in a Quakers uniform during the 1930–31 season, was acquired on loan from Ottawa a few days prior to the start of the regular season.

The Quakers were involved in the following transactions before, during, and after the 1930–31 season.[9]

Trades

More information Date, Details ...

Players acquired

More information Date, Player ...

Players lost

More information Date, Player ...

Signings

More information Date, Player ...

Notes

  1. Manners wore number 16 in his second game.
  2. Fredrickson signed with Detroit on November 23, 1930.[10]
  3. Date approximated
  4. Manners played for Niagara Falls for the rest of the 1930–31 season.
  5. Cude was signed by the league to serve as utility back-up goaltender. His NHL rights were retained by the Quakers franchise.

References

General
  • "Philadelphia Quakers 1930-31 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com". hockeyDB.com. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  • "1930-31 Philadelphia Quakers Roster and Statistics". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  • "Flyers History - Philadelphia Quakers". quakers.flyershistory.net. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  • McFarlane, Brian (1989). One hundred years of hockey. Toronto, Ontario: Deneau Publishers. ISBN 0-88879-216-6.
Specific
  1. Christman, Paul. "1930-31 Pittsburgh Pirates convert to Quakers". PittsburghHockey.net. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
  2. Stubbs, Dave (February 22, 2019). "Quakers made wrong kind of history in Philadelphia decades before Flyers". NHL.com. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
  3. McFarlane, p. 28
  4. Standings: NHL Public Relations Department (2008). Dave McCarthy; et al. (eds.). THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Official Guide & Record Book/2009. National Hockey League. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0.
  5. "All-Time NHL Results". NHL.com. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
  6. "1930-31 Philadelphia Quakers Schedule and Results". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  7. "Team Records: Fewest Wins, Season". records.nhl.com. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  8. "Team Records: Lowest Points Percentage, Season". records.nhl.com. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  9. "Hockey Transactions Search Results". Pro Sports Transactions. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  10. Frank Fredrickson at Hockey-Reference.com, retrieved August 25, 2022

Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 1930–31_Philadelphia_Quakers_season, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.