1931–32 Montreal Canadiens season

1931–32 Montreal Canadiens
1931–32 Montreal Canadiens
O'Brien Trophy winners
Division	1st Canadian
1931–32 record	25–16–7
Goals for	128
Goals against	111
Team information
General manager	Leo Dandurand
Coach	Cecil Hart
Captain	Sylvio Mantha
Arena	Montreal Forum
Team leaders
Goals	Howie Morenz (24)
Assists	Howie Morenz (25)
Points	Howie Morenz (49)
Wins	George Hainsworth (25)
Goals against average	George Hainsworth (2.32)
	← 1930–31 1932–33 →

The 1931–32 Montreal Canadiens season was the team's 23rd season. After winning two consecutive Stanley Cup championships, the Canadiens were favoured to repeat, winning the Canadian division, but lost to the New York Rangers in the semi-finals.

Regular season

Howie Morenz won the Hart Trophy for his outstanding play during the regular season.

Final standings

Canadian Division
	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Montreal Canadiens	48	25	16	7	128	111	57
Toronto Maple Leafs	48	23	18	7	155	127	53
Montreal Maroons	48	19	22	7	142	139	45
New York Americans	48	16	24	8	95	142	40

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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

1931–32 NHL records^[2]
Team	MTL	MTM	NYA	TOR	Total
M. Canadiens	—	5–2–1	4–4	4–2–2	13–8–3
M. Maroons	2–5–1	—	4–3–1	3–5	9–13–2
N.Y. Americans	4–4	3–4–1	—	1–4–3	8–12–4
Toronto	2–4–2	5–3	4–1–3	—	11–8–5

Vs. American Division

1931–32 NHL records
Team	BOS	CHI	DET	NYR	Total
M. Canadiens	2–3–1	4–1–1	3–2–1	3–2–1	12–8–4
M. Maroons	4–1–1	1–2–3	3–3	2–3–1	10–9–5
N.Y. Americans	3–2–1	1–4–1	2–2–2	2–4	8–12–4
Toronto	3–2–1	2–3–1	3–3	4–2	12–10–2

Schedule and results

Regular season results
No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	L	November 12, 1931	1–4	New York Rangers (1931–32)	0–1–0
2	T	November 14, 1931	1–1 OT	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1931–32)	0–1–1
3	W	November 17, 1931	5–2	Montreal Maroons (1931–32)	1–1–1
4	W	November 21, 1931	3–0	Boston Bruins (1931–32)	2–1–1
5	L	November 24, 1931	1–7	@ Boston Bruins (1931–32)	2–2–1
6	W	November 26, 1931	3–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1931–32)	3–2–1
7	L	November 29, 1931	2–3 OT	@ Detroit Falcons (1931–32)	3–3–1
8	L	December 2, 1931	1–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1931–32)	3–4–1
9	W	December 5, 1931	4–0	Detroit Falcons (1931–32)	4–4–1
10	T	December 8, 1931	1–1 OT	Chicago Black Hawks (1931–32)	4–4–2
11	W	December 10, 1931	3–0	@ New York Americans (1931–32)	5–4–2
12	L	December 12, 1931	1–7	@ Montreal Maroons (1931–32)	5–5–2
13	W	December 17, 1931	1–0	New York Americans (1931–32)	6–5–2
14	T	December 19, 1931	2–2 OT	New York Rangers (1931–32)	6–5–3
15	L	December 22, 1931	2–6	@ New York Rangers (1931–32)	6–6–3
16	L	December 24, 1931	1–2 OT	Toronto Maple Leafs (1931–32)	6–7–3
17	W	December 26, 1931	2–0 OT	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1931–32)	7–7–3
18	L	December 31, 1931	0–5	@ Boston Bruins (1931–32)	7–8–3
19	W	January 2, 1932	5–1	Montreal Maroons (1931–32)	8–8–3
20	L	January 5, 1932	1–2 OT	New York Americans (1931–32)	8–9–3
21	L	January 7, 1932	0–1	@ New York Americans (1931–32)	8–10–3
22	L	January 10, 1932	1–3	@ Detroit Falcons (1931–32)	8–11–3
23	W	January 13, 1932	2–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1931–32)	9–11–3
24	T	January 16, 1932	2–2 OT	Boston Bruins (1931–32)	9–11–4
25	W	January 19, 1932	5–3	@ New York Rangers (1931–32)	10–11–4
26	W	January 21, 1932	3–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1931–32)	11–11–4
27	L	January 23, 1932	0–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1931–32)	11–12–4
28	L	January 26, 1932	2–3	@ New York Americans (1931–32)	11–13–4
29	T	January 28, 1932	3–3 OT	@ Montreal Maroons (1931–32)	11–13–5
30	W	January 30, 1932	4–3	Detroit Falcons (1931–32)	12–13–5
31	W	February 2, 1932	4–1	@ New York Rangers (1931–32)	13–13–5
32	W	February 4, 1932	6–5 OT	Montreal Maroons (1931–32)	14–13–5
33	L	February 9, 1932	1–4	@ Montreal Maroons (1931–32)	14–14–5
34	W	February 11, 1932	4–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1931–32)	15–14–5
35	W	February 13, 1932	3–1	New York Rangers (1931–32)	16–14–5
36	W	February 17, 1932	3–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1931–32)	17–14–5
37	T	February 21, 1932	1–1 OT	@ Detroit Falcons (1931–32)	17–14–6
38	W	February 23, 1932	2–1	Detroit Falcons (1931–32)	18–14–6
39	W	February 27, 1932	4–2	Boston Bruins (1931–32)	19–14–6
40	L	March 1, 1932	6–7	@ Boston Bruins (1931–32)	19–15–6
41	W	March 3, 1932	2–1	Montreal Maroons (1931–32)	20–15–6
42	T	March 5, 1932	1–1 OT	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1931–32)	20–15–7
43	W	March 8, 1932	6–1	New York Americans (1931–32)	21–15–7
44	W	March 12, 1932	1–0	Chicago Black Hawks (1931–32)	22–15–7
45	L	March 15, 1932	2–5	@ New York Americans (1931–32)	22–16–7
46	W	March 17, 1932	10–4	New York Americans (1931–32)	23–16–7
47	W	March 19, 1932	6–4 OT	@ Montreal Maroons (1931–32)	24–16–7
48	W	March 22, 1932	4–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1931–32)	25–16–7

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Playoffs

The Canadiens, by placing first, received a bye to the semi-finals where they met the New York Rangers, who had won the American Division. The Canadiens, missing some regulars due to injury, lost the best-of-five series three games to one.

New York Rangers vs. Montreal Canadiens

Date	Visitor	Home	Score	Record
March 24	New York Rangers	Montreal Canadiens	4–3	1–0
March 26	New York Rangers	Montreal Canadiens	3–4	1–1
March 27	Montreal Canadiens	New York Rangers	0–1	1–2
March 29	Montreal Canadiens	New York Rangers	2–5	1–3

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Howie Morenz	C	48	24	25	49	46
Aurel Joliat	LW	48	15	24	39	46
Johnny Gagnon	RW	48	19	18	37	40
Pit Lepine	C	48	19	11	30	42
Wildor Larochelle	RW	48	18	8	26	16
Armand Mondou	LW	47	6	12	18	22
Nick Wasnie	RW	48	10	2	12	16
Sylvio Mantha	D	47	5	5	10	62
Marty Burke	D	48	3	6	9	50
Albert Leduc	D	41	5	3	8	60
Georges Mantha	D/LW	48	1	7	8	8
Art Lesieur	D	24	1	2	3	12
Dunc Munro	D	48	1	1	2	14
Art Alexandre	LW	10	0	2	2	8
Gus Rivers	RW	25	1	0	1	4
George Hainsworth	G	48	0	0	0	2
Jean Pusie	D	1	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
George Hainsworth	2998	48	25	16	7	110	2.20	6
Albert Leduc	2	1	0	0	0	1	30.00	0
Team:	3000	48	25	16	7	111	2.22	6

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Wildor Larochelle	RW	4	2	1	3	4
Armand Mondou	LW	4	1	2	3	2
Aurel Joliat	LW	4	2	0	2	4
Johnny Gagnon	RW	4	1	1	2	4
Albert Leduc	D	4	1	1	2	2
Pit Lepine	C	3	1	0	1	4
Howie Morenz	C	4	1	0	1	4
Georges Mantha	D/LW	4	0	1	1	8
Sylvio Mantha	D	4	0	1	1	8
Art Alexandre	LW	4	0	0	0	0
Marty Burke	D	4	0	0	0	12
George Hainsworth	G	4	0	0	0	0
Art Lesieur	D	4	0	0	0	0
Dunc Munro	D	4	0	0	0	2
Nick Wasnie	RW	4	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
George Hainsworth	300	4	1	3	13	2.60	0
Team:	300	4	1	3	13	2.60	0

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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 – winners of Canadian Division
Hart Trophy – Howie Morenz, most valuable player

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. 147. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0.
^ "All-Time NHL Results". NHL.com. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
^ "1931–32 Montreal Canadiens Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 4, 2009.
^ "1931-32 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.

[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. 147. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0.

[2] "All-Time NHL Results". NHL.com. Retrieved August 25, 2023.

[3] "1931–32 Montreal Canadiens Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 4, 2009.

[4] "1931-32 Montreal Canadiens Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 5, 2009.

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Highlighted seasons indicate Stanley Cup championship

v t e 1931–32 NHL season by team
Canadian	Mtl Canadiens Mtl Maroons NY Americans Toronto
American	Boston Chicago Detroit NY Rangers
See also	1932 Stanley Cup Finals Transactions

Regular season

Final standings

Record vs. opponents

Vs. Canadian Division

Vs. American Division

Schedule and results

Playoffs

New York Rangers vs. Montreal Canadiens

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Goaltending

Playoffs

Scoring

Goaltending

Awards and records

Transactions

See also

Citations

References