# 1930–31 Montreal Canadiens season

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 |
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
## Schedule and results

Regular season results :
| No. | R | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |

## 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 |
    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