1930–31 Montreal Canadiens season

1930–31 Montreal Canadiens
1930–31 Montreal Canadiens
Stanley Cup champions
O'Brien Trophy winners
Division	1st Canadian
1930–31 record	26–10–8
Home record	15–13–4
Road record	11–17–4
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 (51)
Penalty minutes	Marty Burke (104)
Wins	George Hainsworth (26)
Goals against average	George Hainsworth (1.95)
	← 1929–30 1931–32 →

The 1930–31 Montreal Canadiens season was the team's 22nd season. The Montreal Canadiens defeated the Chicago Black Hawks three games to two in a best-of-five Stanley Cup Finals 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.

Record vs. opponents

Vs. Canadian Division

1930–31 NHL records^[2]
Team	MTL	MTM	NYA	OTT	TOR	Total
M. Canadiens	—	3–1–2	5–0–1	5–0–1	3–2–1	16–3–5
M. Maroons	1–3–2	—	1–5	4–1–1	2–3–1	8–13–4
N.Y. Americans	0–5–1	5–1	—	4–2	1–2–3	10–10–4
Ottawa	0–5–1	1–4–1	2–4	—	1–4–1	4–17–3
Toronto	2–3–1	3–2–1	2–1–3	4–1–1	—	11–7–6

Vs. American Division

1930–31 NHL records
Team	BOS	CHI	DET	NYR	PHI	Total
M. Canadiens	2–1–1	3–0–1	2–2	2–2	3–0–1	12–5–3
M. Maroons	1–3	4–0	3–0–1	1–2–1	3–1	12–6–2
N.Y. Americans	2–2	1–3	2–0–2	0–1–3	3–0–1	8–6–6
Ottawa	0–4	0–4	2–2	1–3	3–0–1	6–13–1
Toronto	1–2–1	4–0	1–2–1	2–1–1	3–1	11–6–3

Schedule and results

1930–31 regular season^[3]

November

Game	Result	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

December

Game	Result	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
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

January

Game	Result	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
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

February

Game	Result	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
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

March

Game	Result	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
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

Legend: Win (2 points) Loss (0 points) Tie (1 point)

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 won the best-of-five series 3–2.

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Howie Morenz	C	39	28	23	51	49
Aurel Joliat	LW	43	13	22	35	73
Johnny Gagnon	RW	41	18	7	25	43
Pit Lepine	C	44	17	7	24	63
Georges Mantha	D/LW	44	11	6	17	25
Albert Leduc	D	44	8	6	14	82
Wildor Larochelle	RW	40	8	5	13	35
Nick Wasnie	RW	44	9	2	11	26
Sylvio Mantha	D	44	4	7	11	75
Armand Mondou	LW	40	5	4	9	10
Marty Burke	D	44	2	5	7	91
Gus Rivers	RW	44	2	5	7	6
Bert McCaffrey	RW/D	22	2	1	3	10
Art Lesieur	D	21	2	0	2	14
George Hainsworth	G	44	0	0	0	0
Jean Pusie	D	6	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
George 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
Johnny Gagnon	RW	10	6	2	8	8
Georges Mantha	D/LW	10	5	1	6	4
Pit Lepine	C	10	4	2	6	6
Nick Wasnie	RW	10	4	1	5	8
Howie Morenz	C	10	1	4	5	10
Aurel Joliat	LW	10	0	4	4	12
Sylvio Mantha	D	10	2	1	3	26
Marty Burke	D	10	1	2	3	10
Wildor Larochelle	RW	10	1	2	3	8
Albert Leduc	D	7	0	2	2	9
Gus Rivers	RW	10	1	0	1	0
George Hainsworth	G	10	0	0	0	0
Art Lesieur	D	10	0	0	0	4
Armand Mondou	LW	8	0	0	0	0
Jean Pusie	D	3	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
George 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

Citations

^ Standings: NHL Public Relations Department (2008). Dave McCarthy; et al. (eds.). THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Official Guide & Record Book/2009. National Hockey League. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0.
^ "All-Time NHL Results". NHL.com. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
^ "1930-31 Montreal Canadiens Schedule". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved April 8, 2025.
^ "1930-31 Montreal Canadiens Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 5, 2009.

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 1-55013-051-X.