for Charlie Sands and Ray Getliffe. Cain played his first game for the Bruins in Toronto on November 4, without ever practicing with his new team. The Bruins lost that first game of their season 5-0 but finished first in the league on the season. That year Schmidt and Dumart led the Bruins goal scoring with 22 goals each. Cain was third in Bruins goal scoring with 21, tied with Bobby Bauer and Cain fired seven game winners, Cain's 21 goals in 1939–40, also tied him with Hall of Fame inductee Gordie Drillon for 4th place in goal scoring in the entire league. Remarkably, that year only 5 players scored 20 goals or more. Four wore bold Bs on their sweaters. Clearly, Cain had joined a winning organization, crafted by Art Ross who has hammered together America's first team, the Boston Bruins in 1924. With the Second World War continuing into 1941, Canadian authorities threatened to prohibit single men between the ages of 21 and 25 from working in the US; nearly all hockey players in the US were Canadian. Cain turned 29 in 1941 and he was married so he was free to make his living in the USA but the younger Milt Schmidt and Woody Dumart enlisted with the Canadian air force, potentially breaking up the Bruins' famous Kraut Line of Schmidt, Dumart and Bauer. These three, all from Kitchener, Ontario, had been friends since adolescence, and were fan favorites, leading Stanley Cup victories in 1939 and 1941 and finishing one-two-three in NHL scoring in 1939–40: Schmidt with 52 points and Bauer and Dumart tied with 43 points. In spite of their initial military call-up, the Krauts played the entire 1940–41 season but their future with the Bruins and even the Bruins future was uncertain. Cain who was injured, missed nine games and finished the 1940–41 season with just 8 goals and 10 assists. In the playoffs, however, with 2 goals and 3 assists, he was 6th in Bruin scoring and helped to win the Stanley Cup in 1941. In 1941–42, Cain again notched 8 goals and 10 assists when he missed 15 games due to injuries. In 1942, more hockey players were joining the war effort. In all 10 eventual Hall of Fame forwards from Herb Cain's era, players Cain faced-off against, served in WWII. Boston lost its entire first line when the Krauts enlisted. On February