1927–28 Chicago Black Hawks season
NHL ice hockey team season
The 1927–28 Chicago Black Hawks season was the team's second season of play.
Regular season
The team was coming off a 19–22–3 expansion season, however, team owner Frederic McLaughlin saw it as a disappointment, and fired head coach Pete Muldoon. He was replaced by Barney Stanley. The team would score only 68 goals, 3rd fewest in the league, and allow a league high 134, and finish with a 7–34–3 record, dead last in the NHL. Midway through the season, the Hawks fired Stanley and named Hugh Lehman, who was the backup goaltender, as the team's head coach.
Injuries played a big part in the Hawks horrible season, as Babe Dye, who scored a team high 25 goals the previous year, would suit up for only 9 games and get no points. Team captain and scoring leader from 1926 to 1927, Dick Irvin, would miss 30 games due to injuries, and as a result, goals were hard to come by. Mickey MacKay would lead the Hawks with 17 goals, while Duke Keats would have a team best 22 points and 55 penalty minutes.
In goal, rookie Chuck Gardiner would get the majority of action, playing in 40 games, winning 6 of them and posting a 2.83 GAA, along with 3 shutouts.
Chicago would miss the playoffs for the first time in the club's short history, finishing 29 points behind the Pittsburgh Pirates for the final playoff spot in the American Division.
November
The Black Hawks opened the 1927–28 season on the road against the Boston Bruins on November 15.
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