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1930–31 Detroit Falcons season

sports season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ16242965 ↗
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The 1930–31 Detroit Falcons season was the Detroit National Hockey League (NHL) franchise's fifth season of play and the first known as the Detroit Falcons. The Falcons missed the playoffs for the first time since the 1926–27 season and the 1927–28 season.

Regular season

Final standings

Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against

Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.

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The public source identifies “1930–31 Detroit Falcons season” as sports season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Detroit, Falcons and season.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1930, 1926, 1927—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Detroit, Falcons and season providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16242965. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1930, 1926 and 1927.

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This entry incorporates text from “1930–31 Detroit Falcons season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.