1939–40 Toronto Maple Leafs season

1939–40 Toronto Maple Leafs
1939–40 Toronto Maple Leafs
Division	3rd NHL
1939–40 record	25–17–6
Goals for	134
Goals against	110
Team information
General manager	Conn Smythe
Coach	Dick Irvin
Captain	Red Horner
Arena	Maple Leaf Gardens
Team leaders
Goals	Gordie Drillon (21)
Assists	Gordie Drillon (19)
Points	Gordie Drillon (40)
Penalty minutes	Red Horner (87)
Wins	Turk Broda (25)
Goals against average	Phil Stein (1.71)
	← 1938–39 1940–41 →

The 1939–40 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 23rd season of operation in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Maple Leafs again advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals, losing to the New York Rangers.

Offseason

Regular season

Final standings

National Hockey League
	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PIM	Pts
Boston Bruins	48	31	12	5	170	98	330	67
New York Rangers	48	27	11	10	136	77	520	64
Toronto Maple Leafs	48	25	17	6	134	110	485	56
Chicago Black Hawks	48	23	19	6	112	120	351	52
Detroit Red Wings	48	16	26	6	90	126	250	38
New York Americans	48	15	29	4	106	140	236	34
Montreal Canadiens	48	10	33	5	90	167	338	25

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Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, PIM = Penalty Minutes, Pts = Points
Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.

Record vs. opponents

1939–40 NHL Records ^[2]
Team	BOS	CHI	DET	MTL	NYA	NYR	TOR
Boston	—	6–1–1	5–3	6–1–1	7–1	2–4–2	5–2–1
Chicago	1–6–1	—	6–0–2	5–2–1	3–4–1	4–4	4–3–1
Detroit	3–5	0–6–2	—	5–3	5–3	2–3–2	1–6–1
Montreal	1–6–1	2–5–1	3–5	—	2–4–2	1–6–1	1–7
N.Y. Americans	1–7	4–3–1	3–5	4–2–2	—	1–6–1	2–6
N.Y. Rangers	4–2–2	4–4	3–2–2	6–1–1	6–1–1	—	4–1–3
Toronto	2–5–1	3–4–1	6–1–1	7–1	6–2	1–4–3	—

Schedule and results

No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	W	November 4, 1939	5–0	Boston Bruins (1939–40)	1–0–0
2	T	November 11, 1939	1–1 OT	New York Rangers (1939–40)	1–0–1
3	W	November 12, 1939	1–0	@ New York Rangers (1939–40)	2–0–1
4	W	November 18, 1939	3–0	Detroit Red Wings (1939–40)	3–0–1
5	W	November 19, 1939	7–1	@ Detroit Red Wings (1939–40)	4–0–1
6	W	November 25, 1939	4–3	New York Americans (1939–40)	5–0–1
7	L	November 26, 1939	1–2 OT	@ New York Americans (1939–40)	5–1–1
8	L	November 28, 1939	2–6	@ Boston Bruins (1939–40)	5–2–1
9	T	December 2, 1939	3–3 OT	Chicago Black Hawks (1939–40)	5–2–2
10	W	December 3, 1939	3–1 OT	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1939–40)	6–2–2
11	L	December 7, 1939	1–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1939–40)	6–3–2
12	W	December 9, 1939	3–0	Montreal Canadiens (1939–40)	7–3–2
13	T	December 14, 1939	1–1 OT	Boston Bruins (1939–40)	7–3–3
14	W	December 16, 1939	5–1	New York Americans (1939–40)	8–3–3
15	W	December 17, 1939	4–1	@ New York Americans (1939–40)	9–3–3
16	L	December 19, 1939	2–3 OT	@ Boston Bruins (1939–40)	9–4–3
17	L	December 21, 1939	1–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1939–40)	9–5–3
18	W	December 23, 1939	5–1	Detroit Red Wings (1939–40)	10–5–3
19	L	December 25, 1939	1–4	@ New York Rangers (1939–40)	10–6–3
20	W	December 28, 1939	6–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1939–40)	11–6–3
21	W	December 30, 1939	4–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1939–40)	12–6–3
22	W	December 31, 1939	3–2	@ Detroit Red Wings (1939–40)	13–6–3
23	L	January 4, 1940	1–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1939–40)	13–7–3
24	W	January 6, 1940	3–1	Montreal Canadiens (1939–40)	14–7–3
25	W	January 9, 1940	3–2	@ New York Americans (1939–40)	15–7–3
26	L	January 11, 1940	2–5	Boston Bruins (1939–40)	15–8–3
27	L	January 13, 1940	1–4	New York Rangers (1939–40)	15–9–3
28	T	January 18, 1940	2–2 OT	Detroit Red Wings (1939–40)	15–9–4
29	W	January 20, 1940	5–1	New York Americans (1939–40)	16–9–4
30	L	January 21, 1940	2–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (1939–40)	16–10–4
31	L	January 23, 1940	1–4	@ Boston Bruins (1939–40)	16–11–4
32	L	January 25, 1940	0–3	@ New York Rangers (1939–40)	16–12–4
33	W	January 27, 1940	3–1	Montreal Canadiens (1939–40)	17–12–4
34	L	February 3, 1940	2–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1939–40)	17–13–4
35	L	February 8, 1940	1–2	@ New York Rangers (1939–40)	17–14–4
36	T	February 10, 1940	4–4 OT	New York Rangers (1939–40)	17–14–5
37	W	February 17, 1940	3–1	Montreal Canadiens (1939–40)	18–14–5
38	W	February 18, 1940	2–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1939–40)	19–14–5
39	L	February 20, 1940	0–5	@ Boston Bruins (1939–40)	19–15–5
40	W	February 22, 1940	2–1	@ Detroit Red Wings (1939–40)	20–15–5
41	W	February 24, 1940	3–1	Boston Bruins (1939–40)	21–15–5
42	W	February 29, 1940	3–1	Detroit Red Wings (1939–40)	22–15–5
43	T	March 2, 1940	1–1 OT	New York Rangers (1939–40)	22–15–6
44	W	March 9, 1940	5–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1939–40)	23–15–6
45	L	March 10, 1940	1–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1939–40)	23–16–6
46	W	March 14, 1940	8–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1939–40)	24–16–6
47	W	March 16, 1940	8–6	New York Americans (1939–40)	25–16–6
48	L	March 17, 1940	2–5	@ New York Americans (1939–40)	25–17–6

Playoffs

The Maple Leafs played the Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Red Wings in the first two rounds of the playoffs in best of three series, and swept both. In the finals, they played the New York Rangers in a best of seven series and lost 4–2.

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Gordie Drillon	RW	43	21	19	40	13
Syl Apps	C	27	13	17	30	5
Sweeney Schriner	LW	39	11	15	26	10
Bob Davidson	LW	48	8	18	26	56
Red Heron	C	42	11	12	23	12
Murph Chamberlain	LW	40	5	17	22	63
Pete Langelle	C	39	7	14	21	2
Pep Kelly	RW	34	11	9	20	15
Gus Marker	RW	42	10	9	19	15
Bingo Kampman	D	39	6	9	15	59
Lex Chisholm	C/RW	28	6	8	14	11
Nick Metz	LW	31	6	5	11	2
Hank Goldup	LW	21	6	4	10	2
Billy Taylor	C	29	4	6	10	9
Red Horner	D	31	1	9	10	87
Wally Stanowski	D	27	2	7	9	11
Bucko McDonald	D	34	2	5	7	13
Jack Church	D	31	1	4	5	62
Reg Hamilton	D	23	2	2	4	23
Don Metz	RW	10	1	1	2	4
Turk Broda	G	47	0	0	0	0
Phil Stein	G	1	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Turk Broda	2900	47	25	17	5	108	2.23	4
Phil Stein	70	1	0	0	1	2	1.71	0
Team:	2970	48	25	17	6	110	2.22	4

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Syl Apps	C	10	5	2	7	2
Hank Goldup	LW	10	5	1	6	4
Gordie Drillon	RW	10	3	1	4	0
Gus Marker	RW	10	1	3	4	23
Nick Metz	LW	9	1	3	4	9
Sweeney Schriner	LW	9	1	3	4	4
Bob Davidson	LW	10	0	3	3	16
Pete Langelle	C	10	0	3	3	0
Red Heron	C	9	2	0	2	2
Jack Church	D	10	1	1	2	6
Red Horner	D	9	0	2	2	55
Wally Stanowski	D	10	1	0	1	2
Billy Taylor	C	2	1	0	1	0
Pep Kelly	RW	6	0	1	1	0
Turk Broda	G	10	0	0	0	0
Murph Chamberlain	LW	3	0	0	0	0
Reg Hamilton	D	10	0	0	0	0
Bingo Kampman	D	10	0	0	0	0
Bucko McDonald	D	1	0	0	0	0
Don Metz	RW	2	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Turk Broda	657	10	6	4	19	1.74	1
Team:	657	10	6	4	19	1.74	1

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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

Transactions

May 18, 1939: Acquired Sweeney Schriner from the New York Americans for Murray Armstrong, Buzz Boll, Busher Jackson and Doc Romnes
July 1, 1939: Charlie Conacher returned from the Detroit Red Wings after Detroit failed to renew contract
September 1, 1939: Signed Free Agent Clarence Drouillard
September 22, 1939: Traded Charlie Conacher to the New York Americans for Future Considerations
October 13, 1939: Traded Chuck Shannon to the New York Americans for cash
October 13, 1939: Traded Jack Howard to the St. Louis Flyers of the AHA for cash

References

^ 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.
^ "1939-40 Toronto Maple Leafs Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 11, 2009.