1941–42 Montreal Canadiens season

The 1941–42 Montreal Canadiens season was the 33rd season in franchise history. The team placed sixth in the regular season to qualify for the playoffs. The Canadiens lost in the quarter-finals against the Detroit Red Wings 2 games to 1.

1941–42 Montreal Canadiens
League	6th NHL
1941–42 record	18–27–3
Goals for	134
Goals against	173
Team information
General manager	Tommy Gorman
Coach	Dick Irvin
Captain	Toe Blake
Arena	Montreal Forum
Team leaders
Goals	Joe Benoit (20)
Assists	Toe Blake (28)
Points	Toe Blake (45)
Penalty minutes	Ken Reardon (93)
Wins	Paul Bibeault (17)
Goals against average	Paul Bibeault (3.30)
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Regular season

Final standings

National Hockey League

	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA
New York Rangers	48	29	17	2	60	177	143
Toronto Maple Leafs	48	27	18	3	57	158	136
Boston Bruins	48	25	17	6	56	160	118
Chicago Black Hawks	48	22	23	3	47	145	155
Detroit Red Wings	48	19	25	4	42	140	147
Montreal Canadiens	48	18	27	3	39	134	173
Brooklyn Americans	48	16	29	3	35	133	175

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

Record vs. opponents

1941–42 NHL Records ^[2]
Team	BOS	BRK	CHI	DET	MTL	NYR	TOR
Boston	—	4–4	3–3–2	4–2–2	6–1–1	4–4	4–3–1
Brooklyn	4–4	—	2–6	3–4–1	3–4–1	2–5–1	2–6
Chicago	3–3–2	6–2	—	3–5	4–3–1	2–6	4–4
Detroit	2–4–2	4–3–1	5–3	—	5–3	1–7	2–5–1
Montreal	1–6–1	4–3–1	3–4–1	3–5	—	4–4	3–5
New York	4–4	5–2–1	6–2	7–1	4–4	—	3–4–1
Toronto	3–4–1	6–2	4–4	5–2–1	5–3	4–3–1	—

Schedule and results

Regular season results
No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	L	November 1, 1941	2–3	Detroit Red Wings (1941–42)	0–1–0
2	T	November 8, 1941	2–2 OT	Chicago Black Hawks (1941–42)	0–1–1
3	L	November 13, 1941	2–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1941–42)	0–2–1
4	L	November 15, 1941	2–4 OT	Brooklyn Americans (1941–42)	0–3–1
5	L	November 16, 1941	2–3	@ Brooklyn Americans (1941–42)	0–4–1
6	L	November 22, 1941	2–7	New York Rangers (1941–42)	0–5–1
7	W	November 23, 1941	6–4	@ New York Rangers (1941–42)	1–5–1
8	L	November 29, 1941	1–3	Boston Bruins (1941–42)	1–6–1
9	L	November 30, 1941	2–3	@ Boston Bruins (1941–42)	1–7–1
10	L	December 4, 1941	2–9	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1941–42)	1–8–1
11	L	December 6, 1941	1–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1941–42)	1–9–1
12	L	December 7, 1941	2–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (1941–42)	1–10–1
13	W	December 11, 1941	2–1 OT	Toronto Maple Leafs (1941–42)	2–10–1
14	W	December 13, 1941	3–2 OT	Brooklyn Americans (1941–42)	3–10–1
15	W	December 14, 1941	4–2	@ Brooklyn Americans (1941–42)	4–10–1
16	L	December 16, 1941	0–4	@ Boston Bruins (1941–42)	4–11–1
17	L	December 20, 1941	2–4 OT	Boston Bruins (1941–42)	4–12–1
18	L	December 21, 1941	3–4 OT	@ New York Rangers (1941–42)	4–13–1
19	L	December 27, 1941	2–4	New York Rangers (1941–42)	4–14–1
20	W	December 30, 1941	5–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1941–42)	5–14–1
21	W	January 3, 1942	4–1	Detroit Red Wings (1941–42)	6–14–1
22	L	January 4, 1942	0–10	@ Detroit Red Wings (1941–42)	6–15–1
23	L	January 8, 1942	1–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1941–42)	6–16–1
24	L	January 10, 1942	0–2	Brooklyn Americans (1941–42)	6–17–1
25	W	January 11, 1942	2–0	@ Brooklyn Americans (1941–42)	7–17–1
26	L	January 15, 1942	2–3 OT	Toronto Maple Leafs (1941–42)	7–18–1
27	W	January 17, 1942	6–2	New York Rangers (1941–42)	8–18–1
28	L	January 18, 1942	4–5 OT	@ New York Rangers (1941–42)	8–19–1
29	T	January 24, 1942	2–2 OT	Boston Bruins (1941–42)	8–19–2
30	L	January 25, 1942	3–7	@ Boston Bruins (1941–42)	8–20–2
31	L	January 29, 1942	3–7	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1941–42)	8–21–2
32	W	February 1, 1942	3–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1941–42)	9–21–2
33	L	February 5, 1942	3–4	Chicago Black Hawks (1941–42)	9–22–2
34	W	February 7, 1942	3–1	Detroit Red Wings (1941–42)	10–22–2
35	L	February 10, 1942	1–8	@ Boston Bruins (1941–42)	10–23–2
36	L	February 12, 1942	4–6	Toronto Maple Leafs (1941–42)	10–24–2
37	W	February 14, 1942	5–3	New York Rangers (1941–42)	11–24–2
38	L	February 15, 1942	0–5	@ Detroit Red Wings (1941–42)	11–25–2
39	W	February 17, 1942	2–1 OT	@ New York Rangers (1941–42)	12–25–2
40	W	February 21, 1942	5–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1941–42)	13–25–2
41	L	February 26, 1942	4–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1941–42)	13–26–2
42	W	February 28, 1942	8–3	Brooklyn Americans (1941–42)	14–26–2
43	T	March 1, 1942	1–1 OT	@ Brooklyn Americans (1941–42)	14–26–3
44	W	March 5, 1942	5–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1941–42)	15–26–3
45	W	March 7, 1942	4–3 OT	Boston Bruins (1941–42)	16–26–3
46	W	March 14, 1942	4–3	Detroit Red Wings (1941–42)	17–26–3
47	L	March 15, 1942	1–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (1941–42)	17–27–3
48	W	March 19, 1942	7–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1941–42)	18–27–3

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Playoffs

They went against Detroit in the first round in a best of three series and lost in three games, or 1–2.

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Toe Blake	LW	48	17	28	45	19
Joe Benoit	RW	46	20	16	36	27
Terry Reardon	C/RW	33	17	17	34	14
Charlie Sands	C/RW	38	11	16	27	6
Ray Getliffe	C/LW	45	11	15	26	35
Buddy O'Connor	C	36	9	16	25	4
John Quilty	C	48	12	12	24	44
Pete Morin	LW	31	10	12	22	7
Gerry Heffernan	RW	40	5	15	20	15
Ken Reardon	D	41	3	12	15	93
Jack Portland	D	46	2	9	11	53
Murph Chamberlain	LW	26	6	3	9	30
Tony Demers	RW	7	3	4	7	4
Bunny Dame	LW	34	2	5	7	4
Tony Graboski	LW/D	23	2	5	7	8
Red Goupille	D	47	1	5	6	51
Emile Bouchard	D	44	0	6	6	38
Jim Haggarty	LW	5	1	1	2	0
Red Heron	C	12	1	1	2	12
Rod Lorrain	RW	4	1	0	1	0
Elmer Lach	C	1	0	1	1	0
Jim O'Neil	C/RW	4	0	1	1	4
Stu Smith	LW	1	0	1	1	0
Connie Tudin	C	4	0	1	1	4
Paul Bibeault	G	38	0	0	0	0
Bert Gardiner	G	10	0	0	0	0
Leo Lamoureux	C/D	1	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Paul Bibeault	2380	38	17	19	2	131	3.30	1
Bert Gardiner	620	10	1	8	1	42	4.06	0
Team:	3000	48	18	27	3	173	3.46	1

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Terry Reardon	C/RW	3	2	2	4	2
Jim Haggarty	LW	3	2	1	3	0
Gerry Heffernan	RW	2	2	1	3	0
Toe Blake	LW	3	0	3	3	2
Emile Bouchard	D	3	1	1	2	0
Joe Benoit	RW	3	1	0	1	5
Buddy O'Connor	C	3	0	1	1	0
John Quilty	C	3	0	1	1	0
Charlie Sands	C/RW	3	0	1	1	2
Paul Bibeault	G	3	0	0	0	0
Ray Getliffe	C/LW	3	0	0	0	0
Red Goupille	D	3	0	0	0	2
Red Heron	C	3	0	0	0	0
Pete Morin	LW	1	0	0	0	0
Jack Portland	D	3	0	0	0	0
Ken Reardon	D	3	0	0	0	4

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Paul Bibeault	180	3	1	2	8	2.67	1
Team:	180	3	1	2	8	2.67	1

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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

Transactions

See also

• 1941–42 NHL season

Citations

1. Standings: NHL Public Relations Department (2008). Dave McCarthy; et al. (eds.). THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Official Guide & Record Book/2009. National Hockey League. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0.
2. "All-Time NHL Results". NHL.com. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
3. "1941–42 Montreal Canadiens Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 4, 2009.
4. "1941-42 Montreal Canadiens Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved May 28, 2009.

References

• Canadiens on Hockey Database
• Canadiens on NHL Reference