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1930–31 Montreal Maroons season

national Hockey League team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ4562769 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1930–31 Montreal Maroons season was the seventh season for the National Hockey League (NHL) franchise.

Regular season

Final standings

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

Playoffs

They went against the New York Rangers in the first round and lost 8 goals to 1, or 1–8.

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“1930–31 Montreal Maroons season” enters the record as national Hockey League team season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Montreal, Maroons and season can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1930–31 Montreal Maroons 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.