1939–40 Montreal Canadiens season

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 1935–36 season. The Canadiens would not finish a season in last place for another fifty-nine years.

Regular season

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.

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
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:

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;

Playoffs

They didn't qualify for the playoffs

References

↑ Standings: NHL Public Relations Department (2008). Dave McCarthy et al., eds. THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Official Guide & Record Book/2009. National Hockey League. p. 147. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0.
↑ "1939–40 Montreal Canadiens Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
↑ "1939-40 Montreal Canadiens Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-05-28.

Montreal Canadiens seasons

1900s	1909–10

1910s	1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20

1920s	1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30

1930s	1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40

1940s	1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50

1950s	1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60

1960s	1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70

1970s	1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80

1980s	1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90

1990s	1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00

2000s	2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10

2010s	2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15

Highlighted seasons indicate Stanley Cup championship

Montreal Canadiens

Founded in 1909
Based in Montreal, Quebec

Franchise

History

Personnel

Owners: Molson family (Geoff Molson, chairman)
General manager: Marc Bergevin
Head coach: Michel Therrien
Team captain: Vacant
Current roster

Arenas

Rivalries

Affiliates

AHL: Hamilton Bulldogs; St. John's IceCaps (beginning in 2015-16)

ECHL: Wheeling Nailers

General managers

Head coaches

Media

TV	City TV (English) Sportsnet East (English) Réseau des sports (French)

Radio	English TSN Radio 990 French 98,5 FM

Culture and lore

1939–40 NHL season

Teams	Boston Chicago Detroit Montreal Canadiens NY Americans NY Rangers Toronto

See also	Stanley Cup Finals

1939–40 Montreal Canadiens season

Regular season

Final standings

Schedule and results

Player statistics

Regular season

Playoffs

See also

References