Tucson selects: LW Buzz Boll
Excellent pick! Right off my starting line-up plans: third line left wing
For his peak he led the Leafs to the Stanley Cup Finals with a team-best 7 goals and 10 points in 1936. Two years before, after his rookie season, he played in the first ever NHL all-star game (the Ace Bailey benefit).
That one great playoffs wasn't typical of Boll but boy was it distinctive. Look at the Leafs team scoring on their 1936 Stanley Cup finals run:
The numbers show AGE, GAMES PLAYED, GOALS, ASSiSTS, POINTS:
1 Buzz Boll LW 24 9 7 3 10
2 Bill Thoms C 25 9 3 5 8
3 Joe Primeau C 30 9 3 4 7
4 Charlie Conacher RW 26 9 3 2 5
6 Busher Jackson LW 25 9 3 2 5
7 King Clancy D 32 9 2 2 4
8 Bob Davidson LW 23 9 1 3 4
10 Art Jackson C 20 8 0 3 3
11 Red Horner D 26 9 1 2 3
12 Frank Finnigan RW 32 9 0 3 3
14 Hap Day D 34 9 0 0 0
15 Andy Blair C 27 9 0 0 0
All those guys were drafted in ATD10/MLD10/AAA10 and none got more than 3 goals that postseason but Boll got 7. An exceptional playoffs and indeed exception to his style. He probably saw more scoring line action than he was used to, but it at least shows he has the talent offensively to play with the best. That and his two great scoring regular seasons late in his career in his 10th and 11th seasons in Boston on a scoring line with Bill Cowley and Art Jackson..
Otherwise, of course, he's definitely
a consistent
secondary scorer with eight 10+ goal seasons and "a conscientious defensive player" who played on a checking line with Bill Thoms and Bob Davidson.
The speedy, hard-working Boll could easily have been a quality 3rd liner in the AAA and a decent 4th liner in the MLD. A solid role player.