1927–28 Montreal Canadiens season

1927–28 Montreal Canadiens
1927–28 Montreal Canadiens
Canadian Division champions
Division	1st Canadian
1927–28 record	26–11–7
Goals for	116
Goals against	48
Team information
General manager	Leo Dandurand
Coach	Cecil Hart
Captain	Sylvio Mantha
Arena	Montreal Forum
Team leaders
Goals	Howie Morenz (33)
Assists	Howie Morenz (18)
Points	Howie Morenz (51)
Wins	George Hainsworth (26)
Goals against average	George Hainsworth (1.09)
	← 1926–27 1928–29 →

The 1927–28 Montreal Canadiens season was the team's 19th season, and 11th in the National Hockey League (NHL). The team improved from its second-place finish to place first in the Canadian Division and qualify for the playoffs. The Canadiens lost in a playoff rematch against the rival Maroons in a two-game total-goals series 3–2.

Regular season

Howie Morenz, the NHL's top drawing card, dominated the scoring race and was runaway winner of the Hart Trophy. He scored 33 goals and led the league in assists as well. The Canadiens, who were running away with the Canadian Division at mid-season, slumped after an injury to Pit Lepine but managed to hold on to first place at season's end.

Final standings

Canadian Division
	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PIM	Pts
Montreal Canadiens	44	26	11	7	116	48	496	59
Montreal Maroons	44	24	14	6	96	77	549	54
Ottawa Senators	44	20	14	10	78	57	483	50
Toronto Maple Leafs	44	18	18	8	89	88	436	44
New York Americans	44	11	27	6	63	128	563	28

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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

1927–28 NHL records^[2]
Team	MTL	MTM	NYA	OTT	TOR	Total
M. Canadiens	—	2–2–2	4–2	3–2–1	3–2–1	12–8–4
M. Maroons	2–2–2	—	4–1–1	3–2–1	5–0–1	14–5–5
N.Y. Americans	2–4	1–4–1	—	1–5	1–4–1	5–17–2
Ottawa	2–3–1	2–3–1	5–1	—	1–1–4	10–8–6
Toronto	2–3–1	0–5–1	4–1–1	1–1–4	—	7–10–7

Vs. American Division

1927–28 NHL records
Team	BOS	CHI	DET	NYR	PIT	Total
M. Canadiens	2–0–2	4–0	2–2	4–0	2–1–1	14–3–3
M. Maroons	2–2	3–1	1–3	2–1–1	2–2	10–9–1
N.Y. Americans	1–3	3–1	0–2–2	0–3–1	2–1–1	6–10–4
Ottawa	1–3	4–0	3–0–1	0–2–2	2–1–1	10–6–4
Toronto	2–1–1	4–0	2–2	2–2	1–3	11–8–1

Schedule and results

Regular season results
No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	W	November 15, 1927	6–1	@ New York Americans (1927–28)	1–0–0
2	T	November 19, 1927	1–1 OT	Montreal Maroons (1927–28)	1–0–1
3	W	November 22, 1927	4–0	Pittsburgh Pirates (1927–28)	2–0–1
4	L	November 27, 1927	0–2	@ Detroit Cougars (1927–28)	2–1–1
5	W	November 30, 1927	5–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1927–28)	3–1–1
6	W	December 3, 1927	4–0	New York Americans (1927–28)	4–1–1
7	T	December 6, 1927	1–1 OT	@ Boston Bruins (1927–28)	4–1–2
8	W	December 8, 1927	2–1 OT	Toronto Maple Leafs (1927–28)	5–1–2
9	W	December 11, 1927	2–0	@ New York Rangers (1927–28)	6–1–2
10	W	December 13, 1927	6–1	Detroit Cougars (1927–28)	7–1–2
11	W	December 15, 1927	2–1	@ Montreal Maroons (1927–28)	8–1–2
12	W	December 17, 1927	5–1	Boston Bruins (1927–28)	9–1–2
13	W	December 22, 1927	5–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1927–28)	10–1–2
14	T	December 24, 1927	2–2 OT	@ Pittsburgh Pirates (1927–28)	10–1–3
15	T	December 27, 1927	0–0 OT	@ Ottawa Senators (1927–28)	10–1–4
16	W	December 31, 1927	1–0	New York Rangers (1927–28)	11–1–4
17	W	January 4, 1928	3–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1927–28)	12–1–4
18	W	January 5, 1928	2–1	@ Detroit Cougars (1927–28)	13–1–4
19	W	January 7, 1928	9–1	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1927–28)	14–1–4
20	W	January 10, 1928	3–0	Ottawa Senators (1927–28)	15–1–4
21	W	January 15, 1928	3–1	@ New York Americans (1927–28)	16–1–4
22	W	January 17, 1928	3–1	@ Boston Bruins (1927–28)	17–1–4
23	L	January 21, 1928	0–1	Montreal Maroons (1927–28)	17–2–4
24	W	January 24, 1928	10–0	Chicago Black Hawks (1927–28)	18–2–4
25	L	January 28, 1928	1–2	Ottawa Senators (1927–28)	18–3–4
26	L	January 31, 1928	1–2	Pittsburgh Pirates (1927–28)	18–4–4
27	L	February 2, 1928	3–4	Toronto Maple Leafs (1927–28)	18–5–4
28	T	February 4, 1928	0–0 OT	@ Montreal Maroons (1927–28)	18–5–5
29	W	February 7, 1928	2–1	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1927–28)	19–5–5
30	T	February 11, 1928	1–1 OT	Boston Bruins (1927–28)	19–5–6
31	L	February 14, 1928	0–1	New York Americans (1927–28)	19–6–6
32	L	February 18, 1928	0–1	@ Ottawa Senators (1927–28)	19–7–6
33	T	February 21, 1928	0–0 OT	Toronto Maple Leafs (1927–28)	19–7–7
34	L	February 26, 1928	0–1	@ New York Americans (1927–28)	19–8–7
35	W	February 28, 1928	2–0	@ Ottawa Senators (1927–28)	20–8–7
36	L	March 3, 1928	2–3 OT	Montreal Maroons (1927–28)	20–9–7
37	W	March 6, 1928	2–1	@ Pittsburgh Pirates (1927–28)	21–9–7
38	W	March 8, 1928	4–3	New York Rangers (1927–28)	22–9–7
39	W	March 10, 1928	3–0	@ Montreal Maroons (1927–28)	23–9–7
40	W	March 13, 1928	4–1	@ New York Rangers (1927–28)	24–9–7
41	L	March 15, 1928	0–1	Detroit Cougars (1927–28)	24–10–7
42	L	March 17, 1928	3–5	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1927–28)	24–11–7
43	W	March 20, 1928	5–0	New York Americans (1927–28)	25–11–7
44	W	March 24, 1928	4–0	Ottawa Senators (1927–28)	26–11–7

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Playoffs

The Canadiens received a first-round bye and met the Maroons in the semi-finals. In a two-game, total goals series, the series was tied going into sudden-death overtime before Russell Oatman scored the winner at 8:20 to win the series 3–2 ( 2–2, 1–0) for the Maroons.

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Howie Morenz	C	43	33	18	51	66
Aurel Joliat	LW	44	28	11	39	105
Art Gagne	RW	44	20	10	30	75
Sylvio Mantha	D	43	4	11	15	61
Albert Leduc	D	42	8	5	13	73
Leo Gaudreault	LW/C	32	6	2	8	24
Herb Gardiner	D	44	4	3	7	26
Pit Lepine	C	20	4	1	5	6
Gizzy Hart	LW	44	3	2	5	4
Wildor Larochelle	RW	40	3	1	4	30
Leo Lafrance	LW	15	1	0	1	2
George Patterson	W	16	0	1	1	0
Marty Burke	D	11	0	0	0	10
George Hainsworth	G	44	0	0	0	0
Charlie Langlois	RW/D	32	0	0	0	14

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
George Hainsworth	2730	44	26	11	7	48	1.05	13
Team:	2730	44	26	11	7	48	1.05	13

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Art Gagne	RW	2	1	1	2	4
Albert Leduc	D	2	1	0	1	5
Herb Gardiner	D	2	0	1	1	4
George Hainsworth	G	2	0	0	0	0
Gizzy Hart	LW	2	0	0	0	0
Aurel Joliat	LW	2	0	0	0	4
Charlie Langlois	RW/D	2	0	0	0	0
Wildor Larochelle	RW	2	0	0	0	0
Pit Lepine	C	1	0	0	0	0
Sylvio Mantha	D	2	0	0	0	6
Howie Morenz	C	2	0	0	0	12

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
George Hainsworth	128	2	0	1	3	1.41	0
Team:	128	2	0	1	3	1.41	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

Hart Memorial Trophy – Howie Morenz

Transactions

References

Notes

^ 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.
^ "1927–28 Montreal Canadiens Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 4, 2009.
^ "1927-28 Montreal Canadiens Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 5, 2009.

Bibliography

Coleman, Charles L. (1969). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, vol.2 1927–1946 inc. National Hockey League. pp. 32–49.
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. 146. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0.

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

[3] "1927–28 Montreal Canadiens Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 4, 2009.

[4] "1927-28 Montreal Canadiens Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 5, 2009.

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See also	The S Line Stanley Cup Finals Transactions

Regular season

Final standings

Record vs. opponents

Vs. Canadian Division

Vs. American Division

Schedule and results

Playoffs

Player statistics

Regular season

Playoffs

Awards and records

Transactions

See also

References