1939–40 Montreal Canadiens season

1939–40 Montreal Canadiens · NHL
1939–40 record	10-33-5
Goals for	90
Goals against	168
General Manager	Jules Dugal
Coach	Pit Lepine
Captain	Walter Buswell
Arena	Montreal Forum
Team leaders
Goals	Toe Blake (17)
Assists	Charlie Sands (20)
Points	Toe Blake (36)
Penalties in minutes	Polly Drouin (51)
Wins	Claude Bourque (9)
Goals against average	Claude Bourque (3.29)

The 1939–40 Montreal Canadiens season was the 31st season in franchise history. The team placed seventh in the regular season and did not qualify for the playoffs for the first time since the 1935-56 season.

Regular seasonEdit

Final standingsEdit

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

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.

Game logEdit

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 statsEdit

Regular seasonEdit

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Blake, ToeToe Blake	LW	48	17	19	36	48
Sands, CharlieCharlie Sands	C/RW	47	9	20	29	10
Getliffe, RayRay Getliffe	C/LW	46	11	12	23	29
Mantha, GeorgesGeorges Mantha	D/LW	42	9	11	20	6
Trudel, LouLou Trudel	LW	47	12	7	19	24
Drouin, PollyPolly Drouin	LW	42	4	11	15	51
Barry, MartyMarty Barry	C	30	4	10	14	2
Young, DougDoug Young	D	47	3	9	12	22
Goupille, RedRed Goupille	D	48	2	10	12	48
Haynes, PaulPaul Haynes	C	23	2	8	10	8
Gagnon, JohnnyJohnny Gagnon	RW	10	4	5	9	0
Lorrain, RodRod Lorrain	RW	41	1	5	6	6
Summerhill, BillBill Summerhill	RW	13	3	2	5	24
Demers, TonyTony Demers	RW	14	2	3	5	2
Robinson, EarlEarl Robinson	RW/C	11	1	4	5	4
Meronek, BillBill Meronek	C	7	2	2	4	0
Mondou, ArmandArmand Mondou	LW	21	2	2	4	0
Buswell, WaltWalt Buswell	D	46	1	3	4	10
Wentworth, CyCy Wentworth	D	32	1	3	4	6
Doran, JohnJohn Doran	D	6	0	3	3	6
Raymond, ArmandArmand Raymond	D	11	0	1	1	0
Bourque, ClaudeClaude Bourque	G	36	0	0	0	0
Cude, WilfWilf Cude	G	7	0	0	0	0
Karakas, MikeMike Karakas	G	5	0	0	0	0
Mancuso, GusGus Mancuso	RW	2	0	0	0	0
Poirier, GordieGordie Poirier	C	10	0	0	0	0
Thomson, RhysRhys Thomson	D	7	0	0	0	16

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Bourque, ClaudeClaude Bourque	2210	36	9	24	3	121	3.29	2
Cude, WilfWilf Cude	415	7	1	5	1	24	3.47	0
Karakas, MikeMike Karakas	310	5	0	4	1	18	3.48	0
Sands, CharlieCharlie 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: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalty Minutes; PPG=Power-play goals; SHG=Short-handed goals; GWG=Game-winning goals
      MIN=Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; SO = Shutouts;

Training CampEdit

Game AdsEdit

See alsoEdit

• 1939–40 NHL season

ReferencesEdit

• Canadiens on Hockey Database
• Canadiens on NHL Reference

1. ↑ 1939–40 Montreal Canadiens Games. Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved on 2009-06-04.
2. ↑ 1939-40 Montreal Canadiens Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com. hockey-reference.com. Retrieved on 2009-05-28.

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Montreal Canadiens
Franchise	Franchise • Original Six • Players • Coaches • General managers • Seasons • Records • Draft picks • Award winners
Arenas	Jubilee Arena • Montreal Arena • Mount Royal Arena • Montreal Forum • Bell Centre
Affiliates	Hamilton Bulldogs (AHL)

1939–40 NHL season by team
Teams	Boston · Chicago · Detroit · Montreal Canadiens · NY Americans · NY Rangers · Toronto
See also	1940 Stanley Cup Finals

Montreal Canadiens seasons (100)
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