Boston Braves (AHL)

The Boston Braves were an American ice hockey franchise in the American Hockey League in Boston, Massachusetts. The Home of the Braves was the Boston Garden.

History

The Boston Braves were founded in 1971 as a franchise of the American Hockey League, in which they had the following three years active. The franchise originated as the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, a farm team in the same city and with the Boston Garden would have in the same arena due to the increasing popularity of hockey in New England. Equal in their first season in the AHL reached the Braves in the 1971/72 season as the winner of the East Division of the playoffs, where they failed with 0:4 in the second round of the Nova Scotia Voyageurs. Next year, the Braves once again reached the second playoff round, where they were subject to the Nova Scotia Voyageurs for the second time in a sweep.

After the Boston Braves in the season 1974/75 the playoffs for the Calder Cup had missed the first time and the audience numbers fell by the slowdown of the hockey boom in New England, the Boston Bruins lost their farm team to be inactive, and found in the Rochester Americans a new cooperation partners. Although the Bruins had a new farm team they left the Boston Braves and 1987 inactive, before they sold the rights to the franchise to the Winnipeg Jets, which to Moncton, New Brunswick, resettled, where it was active under the name Moncton Hawks in the AHL.

Season statistics

Note: GP = Games, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses by SOL = Shootout Losses by, Pts = Points, GF = Goals Scored, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalty minutes

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