1939–40 Montreal Canadiens season

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another 59 years, and would not finish last in the league for another 82 years
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Regular season

The Canadiens' first game saw them score what would be a season-high 8 goals as they defeated the Chicago Black Hawks 8–2 at the Montreal Forum on November 5, 1939. The Habs were undefeated over their first six games (4-0-2) and were 6-2-2 in their first ten. After that, however, long winless streaks were the rule. They went 3-8-0 in December, 1-10-1 in January, 1-8-1 in February and 1-5-1 in March. Their most lopsided loss happened on February 22, 1940 – 1–10 against the Chicago Black Hawks at Chicago.

Final standings

National Hockey League
GP W L T GF GA PIM Pts
Boston Bruins 48 31 12 5 170 98 330 67
New York Rangers 48 27 11 10 136 77 520 64
Toronto Maple Leafs 48 25 17 6 134 110 485 56
Chicago Black Hawks 48 23 19 6 112 120 351 52
Detroit Red Wings 48 16 26 6 90 126 250 38
New York Americans 48 15 29 4 106 140 236 34
Montreal Canadiens 48 10 33 5 90 167 338 25

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Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, PIM = Penalty Minutes, Pts = Points
       Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.

Record vs. opponents

1939–40 NHL Records [2]
Team BOS CHI DET MTL NYA NYR TOR
Boston — 6–1–1 5–3 6–1–1 7–1 2–4–2 5–2–1
Chicago 1–6–1 — 6–0–2 5–2–1 3–4–1 4–4 4–3–1
Detroit 3–5 0–6–2 — 5–3 5–3 2–3–2 1–6–1
Montreal 1–6–1 2–5–1 3–5 — 2–4–2 1–6–1 1–7
N.Y. Americans 1–7 4–3–1 3–5 4–2–2 — 1–6–1 2–6
N.Y. Rangers 4–2–2 4–4 3–2–2 6–1–1 6–1–1 — 4–1–3
Toronto 2–5–1 3–4–1 6–1–1 7–1 6–2 1–4–3 —


Schedule and results

Regular season results
No. R Date Score Opponent Record
1 W November 5, 1939 8–2 Chicago Black Hawks (1939–40) 1–0–0
2 W November 9, 1939 2–0 New York Americans (1939–40) 2–0–0
3 T November 16, 1939 3–3 OT Boston Bruins (1939–40) 2–0–1
4 W November 19, 1939 2–1 OT @ New York Rangers (1939–40) 3–0–1
5 W November 21, 1939 2–1 @ Boston Bruins (1939–40) 4–0–1
6 T November 23, 1939 1–1 OT New York Rangers (1939–40) 4–0–2
7 L November 25, 1939 4–6 Detroit Red Wings (1939–40) 4–1–2
8 L November 30, 1939 2–5 @ New York Americans (1939–40) 4–2–2
9 W December 3, 1939 3–1 @ Detroit Red Wings (1939–40) 5–2–2
10 W December 7, 1939 4–1 Toronto Maple Leafs (1939–40) 6–2–2
11 L December 9, 1939 0–3 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1939–40) 6–3–2
12 L December 10, 1939 2–3 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1939–40) 6–4–2
13 W December 14, 1939 5–3 OT New York Americans (1939–40) 7–4–2
14 L December 16, 1939 2–4 New York Rangers (1939–40) 7–5–2
15 L December 19, 1939 2–5 @ New York Rangers (1939–40) 7–6–2
16 L December 21, 1939 2–3 Boston Bruins (1939–40) 7–7–2
17 L December 25, 1939 1–3 @ Detroit Red Wings (1939–40) 7–8–2
18 L December 28, 1939 4–6 Toronto Maple Leafs (1939–40) 7–9–2
19 L December 31, 1939 1–6 @ Boston Bruins (1939–40) 7–10–2
20 L January 1, 1940 0–1 @ New York Americans (1939–40) 7–11–2
21 L January 4, 1940 2–3 Detroit Red Wings (1939–40) 7–12–2
22 L January 6, 1940 1–3 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1939–40) 7–13–2
23 W January 7, 1940 2–1 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1939–40) 8–13–2
24 L January 9, 1940 0–2 Chicago Black Hawks (1939–40) 8–14–2
25 L January 14, 1940 2–4 @ Boston Bruins (1939–40) 8–15–2
26 L January 16, 1940 1–6 Boston Bruins (1939–40) 8–16–2
27 L January 18, 1940 0–1 New York Rangers (1939–40) 8–17–2
28 T January 25, 1940 2–2 OT New York Americans (1939–40) 8–17–3
29 L January 27, 1940 1–3 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1939–40) 8–18–3
30 L January 28, 1940 1–8 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1939–40) 8–19–3
31 L January 30, 1940 1–4 @ New York Americans (1939–40) 8–20–3
32 L February 4, 1940 0–9 @ New York Rangers (1939–40) 8–21–3
33 L February 8, 1940 1–2 Detroit Red Wings (1939–40) 8–22–3
34 W February 11, 1940 3–2 OT @ Detroit Red Wings (1939–40) 9–22–3
35 T February 15, 1940 1–1 OT Chicago Black Hawks (1939–40) 9–22–4
36 L February 17, 1940 1–3 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1939–40) 9–23–4
37 L February 18, 1940 1–2 Toronto Maple Leafs (1939–40) 9–24–4
38 L February 22, 1940 1–10 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1939–40) 9–25–4
39 L February 24, 1940 0–2 New York Rangers (1939–40) 9–26–4
40 L February 25, 1940 2–6 @ New York Rangers (1939–40) 9–27–4
41 L February 29, 1940 2–4 Boston Bruins (1939–40) 9–28–4
42 T March 2, 1940 3–3 OT New York Americans (1939–40) 9–28–5
43 L March 3, 1940 0–3 @ New York Americans (1939–40) 9–29–5
44 L March 7, 1940 1–6 Chicago Black Hawks (1939–40) 9–30–5
45 W March 9, 1940 3–0 Detroit Red Wings (1939–40) 10–30–5
46 L March 10, 1940 2–5 @ Detroit Red Wings (1939–40) 10–31–5
47 L March 14, 1940 4–8 Toronto Maple Leafs (1939–40) 10–32–5
48 L March 17, 1940 2–7 @ Boston Bruins (1939–40) 10–33–5

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Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player Pos GP G A Pts PIM
Toe Blake LW 48 17 19 36 48
Charlie Sands C/RW 47 9 20 29 10
Ray Getliffe C/LW 46 11 12 23 29
Georges Mantha D/LW 42 9 11 20 6
Lou Trudel
 LW 47 12 7 19 24
Polly Drouin LW 42 4 11 15 51
Marty Barry C 30 4 10 14 2
Doug Young D 47 3 9 12 22
Red Goupille
 D 48 2 10 12 48
Paul Haynes C 23 2 8 10 8
Johnny Gagnon RW 10 4 5 9 0
Rod Lorrain RW 41 1 5 6 6
Bill Summerhill RW 13 3 2 5 24
Tony Demers RW 14 2 3 5 2
Earl Robinson RW/C 11 1 4 5 4
William Meronek C 7 2 2 4 0
Armand Mondou LW 21 2 2 4 0
Walt Buswell
 D 46 1 3 4 10
Cy Wentworth
 D 32 1 3 4 6
John Doran D 6 0 3 3 6
Armand Raymond D 11 0 1 1 0
Claude Bourque G 36 0 0 0 0
Wilf Cude G 7 0 0 0 0
Mike Karakas G 5 0 0 0 0
Gus Mancuso RW 2 0 0 0 0
Gordon Poirier C 10 0 0 0 0
Rhys Thomson D 7 0 0 0 16

Goaltending

Player MIN GP W L T GA GAA SO
Claude Bourque 2210 36 9 24 3 121 3.29 2
Wilf Cude 415 7 1 5 1 24 3.47 0
Mike Karakas 310 5 0 4 1 18 3.48 0
Charlie Sands 25 1 0 0 0 5 12.00 0
Team: 2960 48 10 33 5 168 3.41 2

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Note:
Pos = Position; GPI = Games played in; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes; +/- = Plus/minus; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals
Min, TOI = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T,T/OT = Ties; OTL = Overtime losses; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts; SA = Shots against; SV = Shots saved; SV% = Save percentage;

Awards and records

All-Star teams

First Team   Position  
Toe Blake LW

Transactions

May 15, 1939 To Montreal Canadiens
cash 		To
Chicago Black Hawks
Des Smith
 [5][6]
October 10, 1939 To Boston Bruins
Herb Cain 		To Montreal Canadiens
Ray Getliffe
Charlie Sands 		[5][7]
October 11, 1939 To Montreal Canadiens
Earl Robinson 		To
Chicago Black Hawks
cash 		[5][8]
November 29, 1939 To Boston Bruins
George Brown 		To Montreal Canadiens
cash 		[5][9]
January 4, 1940 To New York Americans
Johnny Gagnon 		To Montreal Canadiens
cash 		[5][10]
April 26, 1940 To Montreal Canadiens
Herb Gardiner
cash 		To New York Rangers
Claude Bourque 		[5][11]

Playoffs

They did not qualify for the playoffs

See also

Citations

  1. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0
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  2. ^ "All-Time NHL Results". NHL.com. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
  3. ^ "1939–40 Montreal Canadiens Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 4, 2009.
  4. ^ "1939-40 Montreal Canadiens Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved May 28, 2009.
  5. ^ a b c d e f "NHL trades for 1939-1940". NHL Trade Tracker. Retrieved July 22, 2021.
  6. ISBN 978-1-57243-604-6
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  7. ISBN 978-1-57243-604-6
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  8. ISBN 978-1-57243-604-6
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  9. ISBN 978-1-57243-604-6
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  10. ISBN 978-1-57243-604-6
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  11. ISBN 978-1-57243-604-6
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References
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