1936–37 Montreal Canadiens season

1936–37 Montreal Canadiens
1936–37 Montreal Canadiens
O'Brien Trophy winners
Division	1st Canadian
1936–37 record	24–18–6
Goals for	115
Goals against	111
Team information
General manager	Cecil Hart
Coach	Cecil Hart
Captain	Babe Siebert
Arena	Montreal Forum
Team leaders
Goals	Johnny Gagnon (20)
Assists	Albert Siebert (20)
Points	Johnny Gagnon (36)
Wins	Wilf Cude (22)
Goals against average	Wilf Cude (2.24)
	← 1935–36 1937–38 →

The 1936–37 Montreal Canadiens season was the team's 28th season of play. After coach Cecil Hart and Howie Morenz returned to the club, the Canadiens placed first in the Canadian Division and qualified for the playoffs. Montreal met and lost to eventual Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings in the semi-finals.

Regular season

two men, one in suit, one in hockey uniform, look at the hockey equipment of a player in the dressing room. — Manager Hart and team-mate Aurele Joliat in the Canadiens' dressing room after learning of Morenz' death.

The Montreal Canadiens had hit the bottom in 1935–36, and Babe Siebert was obtained to shore up the defence. Cecil Hart was rehired as coach. Hart placed a condition on his returning to the club, that former star Howie Morenz would return to the club. After being traded to Chicago and from there to New York, Morenz had struggled and the Rangers were willing trade partners for Morenz. Goalie George Hainsworth also returned to the Canadiens, signed as a free agent.

The Canadiens went from last to first in the Canadian Division. Morenz was just hitting his stride in January 1937, when tragedy struck. On one of his hurtling rushes, he was being checked by Earl Seibert of Chicago when his left skate got caught in the dasher of the end boards, and Morenz suffered a badly fractured leg. After suffering a nervous breakdown worrying about if he would be able to come back, more bad luck occurred. On March 8, 1937, X-rays revealed that Morenz had blood clots in his healing leg. An operation was scheduled for the next day, but when Morenz ate a light supper and told the nurse he wanted to rest, in falling asleep his pallor suddenly changed and the nurse knew something was wrong. A blood clot had stopped his heart, and attempts to revive Morenz failed. News of Morenz's death shocked the hockey world, and thousands filed past his bier, many in tears, to pay their last respects.

Final standings

Canadian Division
	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Montreal Canadiens	48	24	18	6	115	111	54
Montreal Maroons	48	22	17	9	126	110	53
Toronto Maple Leafs	48	22	21	5	119	115	49
New York Americans	48	15	29	4	122	161	34

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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

1936–37 NHL records^[2]
Team	MTL	MTM	NYA	TOR	Total
M. Canadiens	—	2–3–3	6–2	2–6	10–11–3
M. Maroons	3–2–3	—	5–3	4–3–1	12–8–4
N.Y. Americans	2–6	3–5	—	3–5	8–16–0
Toronto	6–2	3–4–1	5–3	—	14–9–1

Vs. American Division

1936–37 NHL records
Team	BOS	CHI	DET	NYR	Total
M. Canadiens	3–2–1	4–2	4–1–1	3–2–1	14–7–3
M. Maroons	1–5	6–0	1–2–3	2–2–2	10–9–5
N.Y. Americans	1–4–1	1–3–2	3–2–1	2–4	7–13–4
Toronto	2–3–1	3–1–2	2–3–1	1–5	8–12–4

Playoffs

As champions of the Canadian division, the Canadiens proceeded directly to the semi-final against the Detroit Red Wings. Montreal lost the best-of-five series 3–2.

Schedule and results

Regular season

Regular season results
No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	W	November 7, 1936	2–0	Boston Bruins (1936–37)	1–0–0
2	W	November 12, 1936	2–1	Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	2–0–0
3	L	November 15, 1936	1–2	@ Boston Bruins (1936–37)	2–1–0
4	L	November 17, 1936	2–5	@ New York Americans (1936–37)	2–2–0
5	W	November 19, 1936	3–2	New York Americans (1936–37)	3–2–0
6	W	November 21, 1936	3–1 OT	New York Rangers (1936–37)	4–2–0
7	T	November 24, 1936	2–2 OT	@ Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	4–2–1
8	L	November 26, 1936	2–4	Toronto Maple Leafs (1936–37)	4–3–1
9	L	November 28, 1936	2–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1936–37)	4–4–1
10	W	November 29, 1936	2–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	5–4–1
11	W	December 5, 1936	4–3	Boston Bruins (1936–37)	6–4–1
12	L	December 10, 1936	1–2	@ Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	6–5–1
13	T	December 12, 1936	2–2 OT	@ Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	6–5–2
14	W	December 15, 1936	4–3	Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	7–5–2
15	W	December 19, 1936	4–2 OT	New York Rangers (1936–37)	8–5–2
16	L	December 20, 1936	3–5 OT	@ New York Rangers (1936–37)	8–6–2
17	W	December 22, 1936	4–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	9–6–2
18	W	December 27, 1936	5–2	@ Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	10–6–2
19	L	December 29, 1936	1–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	10–7–2
20	W	January 2, 1937	5–1	New York Americans (1936–37)	11–7–2
21	W	January 3, 1937	4–2	@ New York Americans (1936–37)	12–7–2
22	L	January 5, 1937	2–4	@ Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	12–8–2
23	W	January 7, 1937	4–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1936–37)	13–8–2
24	L	January 9, 1937	1–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1936–37)	13–9–2
25	W	January 12, 1937	4–1	Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	14–9–2
26	W	January 16, 1937	5–0	Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	15–9–2
27	T	January 19, 1937	1–1 OT	@ New York Rangers (1936–37)	15–9–3
28	W	January 24, 1937	4–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	16–9–3
29	W	January 26, 1937	3–1	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1936–37)	17–9–3
30	W	January 28, 1937	6–5	Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	18–9–3
31	L	January 30, 1937	0–4	New York Americans (1936–37)	18–10–3
32	W	January 31, 1937	3–2 OT	@ New York Americans (1936–37)	19–10–3
33	W	February 2, 1937	1–0	@ Boston Bruins (1936–37)	20–10–3
34	L	February 4, 1937	2–6	Boston Bruins (1936–37)	20–11–3
35	W	February 11, 1937	3–2	Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	21–11–3
36	L	February 13, 1937	1–5	Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	21–12–3
37	W	February 16, 1937	2–1	@ New York Americans (1936–37)	22–12–3
38	T	February 21, 1937	2–2 OT	@ Boston Bruins (1936–37)	22–12–4
39	L	February 25, 1937	1–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1936–37)	22–13–4
40	W	February 27, 1937	3–2 OT	New York Americans (1936–37)	23–13–4
41	T	February 28, 1937	0–0 OT	@ Detroit Red Wings (1936–37)	23–13–5
42	L	March 4, 1937	3–5	Chicago Black Hawks (1936–37)	23–14–5
43	L	March 6, 1937	1–3 OT	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1936–37)	23–15–5
44	L	March 9, 1937	1–4	Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	23–16–5
45	W	March 13, 1937	1–0	New York Rangers (1936–37)	24–16–5
46	T	March 16, 1937	1–1 OT	@ Montreal Maroons (1936–37)	24–16–6
47	L	March 18, 1937	1–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1936–37)	24–17–6
48	L	March 21, 1937	1–3	@ New York Rangers (1936–37)	24–18–6

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Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Johnny Gagnon	RW	48	20	16	36	38
Aurel Joliat	LW	47	17	15	32	30
Babe Siebert	LW/D	44	8	20	28	38
Georges Mantha	D/LW	47	13	14	27	17
Paul Haynes	C	47	8	18	26	24
Toe Blake	LW	43	10	12	22	12
Howie Morenz	C	30	4	16	20	12
Joffre Desilets	RW	48	7	12	19	17
Pit Lepine	C	34	7	8	15	15
George Brown	C	27	4	6	10	10
Rod Lorrain	RW	47	3	6	9	8
Jack McGill	LW	44	5	2	7	9
Bill MacKenzie	D	39	4	3	7	22
Bill Miller	C/D	48	3	1	4	12
Walt Buswell	D	44	0	4	4	30
Armand Mondou	LW	7	1	1	2	0
Paul Runge	C/LW	4	1	0	1	2
Wilf Cude	G	44	0	0	0	0
Polly Drouin	LW	4	0	0	0	0
Red Goupille	D	4	0	0	0	0
George Hainsworth	G	4	0	0	0	0
Roger Jenkins	RW/D	10	0	0	0	8

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Wilf Cude	2730	44	22	17	5	99	2.18	5
George Hainsworth	270	4	2	1	1	12	2.67	0
Team:	3000	48	24	18	6	111	2.22	5

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Paul Haynes	C	5	2	3	5	0
Johnny Gagnon	RW	5	2	1	3	9
Babe Siebert	LW/D	5	1	2	3	2
Aurel Joliat	LW	5	0	3	3	2
Toe Blake	LW	5	1	0	1	0
Joffre Desilets	RW	5	1	0	1	0
Bill MacKenzie	D	5	1	0	1	0
Pit Lepine	C	5	0	1	1	0
George Brown	C	4	0	0	0	0
Walt Buswell	D	5	0	0	0	2
Wilf Cude	G	5	0	0	0	0
Rod Lorrain	RW	5	0	0	0	0
Georges Mantha	D/LW	5	0	0	0	0
Jack McGill	LW	1	0	0	0	0
Bill Miller	C/D	5	0	0	0	0
Armand Mondou	LW	5	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Wilf Cude	352	5	2	3	13	2.22	0
Team:	352	5	2	3	13	2.22	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

Wilf Cude – NHL Second All-Star team
Babe Siebert – NHL First All-Star team, Hart Memorial Trophy
O'Brien Cup – First place in Canadian division.

Transactions

September 1, 1936 – Howie Morenz traded to Montreal by NY Rangers for cash.
September 10, 1936 – Traded Leroy Goldsworthy, Sammy McManus and $10,000 to Boston for Babe Siebert and Roger Jenkins.
November 24, 1936 – George Hainsworth signed as a free agent.

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.
^ "1936–37 Montreal Canadiens Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 4, 2009.
^ "1936-37 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. 263–265.
Jenish, D'Arcy (2008). The Montreal Canadiens: 100 years of glory. Doubleday Canada. ISBN 978-0-385-66324-3.
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] "1936–37 Montreal Canadiens Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 4, 2009.

[4] "1936-37 Montreal Canadiens Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 5, 2009.

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Regular season

Final standings

Record vs. opponents

Vs. Canadian Division

Vs. American Division

Playoffs

Schedule and results

Regular season

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Playoffs

Scoring

Goaltending

Awards and records

Transactions

See also

Citations

References