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1948–49 Montreal Canadiens season

NHL hockey team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ3465020 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1948–49 Montreal Canadiens season was the 40th season in club history. The Montreal Canadiens were eliminated in the semi-finals against the Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 3.

Regular season

Bill Durnan set a long-standing modern NHL record between February 26 and March 6, 1949, when he amassed four consecutive shutouts, not allowing a goal over a span of 309 minutes, 21 seconds. This record was not surpassed until 2003–04, when Brian Boucher, then of the Phoenix Coyotes, broke it.

Final standings

Record vs. opponents

Schedule and results

Playoffs

The Canadiens would meet the Detroit Red Wings in the first round of the playoffs.

Detroit won the best-of-seven series 4 games to 3.

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This entry incorporates text from “1948–49 Montreal Canadiens 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.