1940–41 NHL season

The 1940–41 NHL season was the 24th season of the National Hockey League. Seven teams each played 48 games. The Boston Bruins were the Stanley Cup winners as they beat the Detroit Red Wings four games to none in the final series.

Regular season

Final standings

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

National Hockey League	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA	PIM
Boston Bruins	48	27	8	13	67	168	102	246
Toronto Maple Leafs	48	28	14	6	62	145	99	306
Detroit Red Wings	48	21	16	11	53	112	102	337
New York Rangers	48	21	19	8	50	143	125	356
Chicago Black Hawks	48	16	25	7	39	112	139	335
Montreal Canadiens	48	16	26	6	38	121	147	435
New York Americans	48	8	29	11	27	99	186	231

Scoring leaders

Note: GP = Games played, G = Goals, A = Assists, PTS = Points, PIM = Penalties in minutes

PLAYER	TEAM	GP	G	A	PTS	PIM
Bill Cowley	Boston Bruins	46	17	45	62	16
Syl Apps	Toronto Maple Leafs	41	20	24	44	6
Gord Drillon	Toronto Maple Leafs	42	23	21	44	2
Bryan Hextall	New York Rangers	48	26	18	44	16
Syd Howe	Detroit Red Wings	48	20	24	44	8
Lynn Patrick	New York Rangers	48	20	24	44	12

Stanley Cup playoffs

Playoff bracket

Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Finals


			1	Boston Bruins	4

			2	Toronto Maple Leafs	3



						1	Boston Bruins	4
						3	Detroit Red Wings	0
3	Detroit Red Wings	2
4	New York Rangers	1
			3	Detroit Red Wings	2

			5	Chicago Black Hawks	0
5	Chicago Black Hawks	2

6	Montreal Canadiens	1

NHL awards

O'Brien Trophy:	Detroit Red Wings
Prince of Wales Trophy:	Boston Bruins
Calder Memorial Trophy:	Johnny Quilty, Montreal Canadiens
Hart Memorial Trophy:	Bill Cowley, Boston Bruins
Lady Byng Memorial Trophy:	Bobby Bauer, Boston Bruins
Vezina Trophy:	Turk Broda, Toronto Maple Leafs

All-Star teams

First Team	Position	Second Team
Turk Broda, Toronto Maple Leafs	G	Frank Brimsek, Boston Bruins
Dit Clapper, Boston Bruins	D	Earl Seibert, Chicago Black Hawks
Wally Stanowski, Toronto Maple Leafs	D	Ott Heller, New York Rangers
Bill Cowley, Boston Bruins	C	Syl Apps, Toronto Maple Leafs
Bryan Hextall, New York Rangers	RW	Bobby Bauer, Boston Bruins
Sweeney Schriner, Toronto Maple Leafs	LW	Woody Dumart, Boston Bruins
Cooney Weiland, Boston Bruins	Coach	Dick Irvin, Montreal Canadiens

First games

The following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1940–41 (listed with their first team, stars(*) mark start in playoffs):

Max Bentley, Chicago Black Hawks
John Mariucci, Chicago Black Hawks
Joe Carveth, Detroit Red Wings
Elmer Lach, Montreal Canadiens
Ken Reardon, Montreal Canadiens
John Quilty, Montreal Canadiens
Chuck Rayner, New York Americans
Bill Juzda, New York Rangers

Last games

The following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 1940–41 (listed with their last team):

Paul Haynes, Montreal Canadiens
Georges Mantha, Montreal Canadiens
Hooley Smith, New York Americans
Charlie Conacher, New York Americans
Dave Kerr, New York Rangers