What’s the highest number of defensemen among the top 5 scorers on an NHL team?
3 of the 5 top scorers on the 1924-25 Ottawa Senators were defencemen. Buck Boucher, King Clancy, and Ed Gorman.
Boucher and Clancy are both Hall of Famers and well known for their contributions to those great Ottawa teams.
Ed Gorman was an NHL rookie who had been a top amateur player in the Ottawa City League. He was one of several prominent amateur to professional signings that offseason, along with Hooley Smith, Dunc Munro, Carson Cooper, and Jimmy Herberts. The Senators had offered Gorman pro contracts for several years, as had some Western teams, and he had turned them all down.
Gorman was one of the biggest players in the league at six feet tall and 178 pounds, and some rated him as the hardest hitter. His regular job was as a surveyor for the Department of the Interior, and he was all bone and muscle thanks to his treks through the Canadian wilderness for the Department. He was also considered a great stickhandler and a good skater. Gorman's rookie year of 24-25 was the only one where he reached a prominent place in the scoring table, likely because he was an old rookie at 32 years old.
Hockeydb has Boucher, Clancy, and Gorman in the top 4 scorers for the Senators, behind only Cy Denneny.
The roster, scoring and goaltender statistics for the 1924-25 Ottawa Senators playing in the NHL.
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Hockey-reference has Hooley Smith with an extra 11 assists compared to hockeydb, and lists the 3 defencemen as #3, 4, and 5 in scoring behind wingers Denneny and Smith.
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Ottawa's starting centre Frank Nighbor played a very defensive style of play at this point in his career, to the point that the team's blueliners frequently outscored him.
