1930–31 Montreal Canadiens season

1930–31 Montreal Canadiens
Stanley Cup Champions
O'Brien Trophy Winners
Division	1st Canadian
1930–31 record	26-10-8
Goals for	129
Goals against	89
Team information
General Manager	Leo Dandurand
Coach	Cecil Hart
Captain	Sylvio Mantha
Arena	Montreal Forum
Team leaders
Goals	Howie Morenz (28)
Assists	Howie Morenz (23)
Points	Howie Morenz (54)
Wins	George Hainsworth (26)
Goals against average	George Hainsworth (2.02)
<1929–30	1931–32>

The 1930–31 Montreal Canadiens season was the team's 22nd season. The Montreal Canadiens beat the Chicago Black Hawks three games to two in a best-of-five Stanley Cup final for their second consecutive Cup win and fourth in team history.

Regular season

Howie Morenz led the league in scoring.

Final standings

Canadian Division

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Montreal Canadiens	44	26	10	8	129	89	60
Toronto Maple Leafs	44	22	13	9	118	99	53
Montreal Maroons	44	20	18	6	105	106	46
New York Americans	44	18	16	10	76	74	46
Ottawa Senators	44	10	30	4	91	142	24

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

Game log

Regular season results
No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	W	November 15, 1930	5–1	Ottawa Senators (1930–31)	1–0–0
2	L	November 18, 1930	2–5	@ Boston Bruins (1930–31)	1–1–0
3	W	November 20, 1930	7–1	Montreal Maroons (1930–31)	2–1–0
4	L	November 23, 1930	0–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1930–31)	2–2–0
5	L	November 27, 1930	2–3	@ Detroit Falcons (1930–31)	2–3–0
6	W	November 29, 1930	3–2	Boston Bruins (1930–31)	3–3–0
7	W	December 2, 1930	2–0	@ Philadelphia Quakers (1930–31)	4–3–0
8	W	December 4, 1930	5–4	New York Rangers (1930–31)	5–3–0
9	W	December 7, 1930	3–2	@ New York Americans (1930–31)	6–3–0
10	W	December 9, 1930	2–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1930–31)	7–3–0
11	W	December 11, 1930	5–4 OT	@ Ottawa Senators (1930–31)	8–3–0
12	T	December 13, 1930	1–1 OT	New York Americans (1930–31)	8–3–1
13	T	December 18, 1930	0–0 OT	Chicago Black Hawks (1930–31)	8–3–2
14	L	December 23, 1930	1–5	@ New York Rangers (1930–31)	8–4–2
15	W	December 27, 1930	8–5	Ottawa Senators (1930–31)	9–4–2
16	T	December 30, 1930	1–1 OT	@ Montreal Maroons (1930–31)	9–4–3
17	L	January 3, 1931	1–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1930–31)	9–5–3
18	L	January 6, 1931	2–6	Detroit Falcons (1930–31)	9–6–3
19	W	January 8, 1931	2–1	@ New York Americans (1930–31)	10–6–3
20	W	January 10, 1931	6–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1930–31)	11–6–3
21	W	January 13, 1931	2–1	@ Philadelphia Quakers (1930–31)	12–6–3
22	W	January 15, 1931	4–1	Montreal Maroons (1930–31)	13–6–3
23	L	January 17, 1931	1–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1930–31)	13–7–3
24	W	January 20, 1931	3–2 OT	@ New York Rangers (1930–31)	14–7–3
25	W	January 22, 1931	3–0	@ Ottawa Senators (1930–31)	15–7–3
26	W	January 24, 1931	6–1	New York Americans (1930–31)	16–7–3
27	W	January 29, 1931	7–1	Philadelphia Quakers (1930–31)	17–7–3
28	W	February 1, 1931	4–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1930–31)	18–7–3
29	W	February 3, 1931	2–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1930–31)	19–7–3
30	T	February 5, 1931	4–4 OT	@ Montreal Maroons (1930–31)	19–7–4
31	L	February 7, 1931	1–2	Boston Bruins (1930–31)	19–8–4
32	W	February 15, 1931	2–0	@ New York Americans (1930–31)	20–8–4
33	W	February 17, 1931	2–0	Montreal Maroons (1930–31)	21–8–4
34	T	February 19, 1931	1–1 OT	@ Boston Bruins (1930–31)	21–8–5
35	W	February 21, 1931	6–4	New York Americans (1930–31)	22–8–5
36	W	February 26, 1931	5–0	Detroit Falcons (1930–31)	23–8–5
37	T	February 28, 1931	5–5 OT	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1930–31)	23–8–6
38	W	March 3, 1931	1–0	@ Ottawa Senators (1930–31)	24–8–6
39	L	March 5, 1931	1–2	New York Rangers (1930–31)	24–9–6
40	W	March 8, 1931	2–0	@ Detroit Falcons (1930–31)	25–9–6
41	W	March 10, 1931	2–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1930–31)	26–9–6
42	L	March 12, 1931	0–3	@ Montreal Maroons (1930–31)	26–10–6
43	T	March 14, 1931	3–3 OT	Ottawa Senators (1930–31)	26–10–7
44	T	March 21, 1931	4–4 OT	Philadelphia Quakers (1930–31)	26–10–8

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Playoffs

The Canadiens, by placing first, received a bye to the semi-finals where they met the Boston Bruins, who had won the American Division. The Canadiens took the best-of-five series three games to two to advance to the final.

Finals

Montreal Canadiens vs. Chicago Black Hawks

Date	Away	Score	Home	Score	Notes
April 3	Montreal Canadiens	2	Chicago Black Hawks	1
April 5	Montreal Canadiens	1	Chicago Black Hawks	2	2OT
April 9	Chicago Black Hawks	3	Montreal Canadiens	2	3OT
April 11	Chicago Black Hawks	1	Montreal Canadiens	2
April 14	Chicago Black Hawks	1	Montreal Canadiens	2

Montreal wins best-of-five series 3–2.

Player stats

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Morenz, HowieHowie Morenz	C	39	28	23	51	49
Joliat, AurelAurel Joliat	LW	43	13	22	35	73
Gagnon, JohnnyJohnny Gagnon	RW	41	18	7	25	43
Lepine, PitPit Lepine	C	44	17	7	24	63
Mantha, GeorgesGeorges Mantha	D/LW	44	11	6	17	25
Leduc, AlbertAlbert Leduc	D	44	8	6	14	82
Larochelle, WildorWildor Larochelle	RW	40	8	5	13	35
Wasnie, NickNick Wasnie	RW	44	9	2	11	26
Mantha, SylvioSylvio Mantha	D	44	4	7	11	75
Mondou, ArmandArmand Mondou	LW	40	5	4	9	10
Burke, MartyMarty Burke	D	44	2	5	7	91
Rivers, GusGus Rivers	RW	44	2	5	7	6
McCaffrey, BertBert McCaffrey	RW/D	22	2	1	3	10
Lesieur, ArtArt Lesieur	D	21	2	0	2	14
Hainsworth, GeorgeGeorge Hainsworth	G	44	0	0	0	0
Pusie, JeanJean Pusie	D	6	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Hainsworth, GeorgeGeorge Hainsworth	2740	44	26	10	8	89	1.95	8
Team:	2740	44	26	10	8	89	1.95	8

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Gagnon, JohnnyJohnny Gagnon	RW	10	6	2	8	8
Mantha, GeorgesGeorges Mantha	D/LW	10	5	1	6	4
Lepine, PitPit Lepine	C	10	4	2	6	6
Wasnie, NickNick Wasnie	RW	10	4	1	5	8
Morenz, HowieHowie Morenz	C	10	1	4	5	10
Joliat, AurelAurel Joliat	LW	10	0	4	4	12
Mantha, SylvioSylvio Mantha	D	10	2	1	3	26
Burke, MartyMarty Burke	D	10	1	2	3	10
Larochelle, WildorWildor Larochelle	RW	10	1	2	3	8
Leduc, AlbertAlbert Leduc	D	7	0	2	2	9
Rivers, GusGus Rivers	RW	10	1	0	1	0
Hainsworth, GeorgeGeorge Hainsworth	G	10	0	0	0	0
Lesieur, ArtArt Lesieur	D	10	0	0	0	4
Mondou, ArmandArmand Mondou	LW	8	0	0	0	0
Pusie, JeanJean Pusie	D	3	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Hainsworth, GeorgeGeorge Hainsworth	722	10	6	4	21	1.75	2
Team:	722	10	6	4	21	1.75	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

• O'Brien Cup - winner of Canadian division

Transactions

Montreal Canadiens 1931 Stanley Cup champions

Roster

† Left off the cup, but qualified to be on it. ^A Played 3 games in Finals. ^B Played 22 of 44 regular season games

Stanley Cup engraving

• Officially, owner Leo Dandurand was the General Manager of the Montreal Canadiens from 1921–22 to 1934–35. However, Cecil Hart was engraved on the Stanley Cup in 1930, 1931, and he is listed on every team picture for those seasons as Manager, not Coach.

Sources:

• Mouton, p. 157
• "Players". NHL. http://www.nhl.com/ice/playersearch.htm?season=19301931&tm=MTL. Retrieved 2008-10-22. 
• Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books. ISBN 1-55168-261-3. 

See also

• 1930–31 NHL season

References

• Coleman, Charles L. (1969). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, vol.2 1927–1946 inc.. National Hockey League. pp. 109–134. 
• Mouton, Claude (1987). The Montreal Canadiens. Toronto, Ontario: Key Porter Books. ISBN 155013051X. 

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