Anderson Was A Loveable Loser

The Pas's Murray Anderson played the 1974-75 with the NHL's Washington Capitals, who were famously dubbed as the "Worst team in NHL History".

The Washington Capitals have had some good times over the years, notably when they won the Stanley Cup in 2018. They've also had some rough times, like when they first entered the NHL.

The Capitals came into the National Hockey League as an expansion team for the 1974-75 season and put up the worst record in NHL history during their inaugural season. Eight wins, 67 losses, 5 ties. The Capitals went 1-39 on the road that season. Yes, it was a very forgetful year from the Capitals point of view, but that less than memorable season will live on forever in the hockey record books and trivia lore as the worst season in NHL history.

Fittingly, I chatted with Murray Anderson, who played his lone NHL season (1974-75) with you guessed it, the Washington Capitals. Murray opens up and talks about his hockey career from the very beginning in The Pas, all the way to the NHL playing defense for the Capitals.

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I was born on August 28^th, 1949 in my hometown The Pas. Like most kids in a small community in the time I grew up, you played hockey. There was not artificial ice, so you did your hockey on the seasonal ice. There was ice from November to the first thaw, and that's how we all started as far as hockey went. Also, of course, after school you'd play on the street until the streetlights went on and you got hollered at by your parents to come inside.