1941–42 Detroit Red Wings season

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1941–42 Detroit Red Wings
Division	5th NHL
1941–42 record	19–25–4
Goals for	140
Goals against	147
Team information
General manager	Jack Adams
Coach	Jack Adams
Captain	Ebbie Goodfellow
Team leaders
Goals	Don Grosso (23)
Assists	Sid Abel (31)
Points	Don Grosso (53)
Penalty minutes	Jimmy Orlando (111)
Wins	Johnny Mowers (19)
Goals against average	Joe Turners (2.57)
← 1940–41 1942–43 →

The 1941–42 Detroit Red Wings season was the 16th season for the Detroit NHL franchise, tenth as the Red Wings.

Offseason

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Regular season

Final standings

National Hockey League
	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA
New York Rangers	48	29	17	2	60	177	143
Toronto Maple Leafs	48	27	18	3	57	158	136
Boston Bruins	48	25	17	6	56	160	118
Chicago Black Hawks	48	22	23	3	47	145	155
Detroit Red Wings	48	19	25	4	42	140	147
Montreal Canadiens	48	18	27	3	39	134	173
Brooklyn Americans	48	16	29	3	35	133	175

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.

Record vs. opponents

1941–42 NHL Records
Team	BOS	BRK	CHI	DET	MTL	NYR	TOR
Boston	—	4–4	3–3–2	4–2–2	6–1–1	4–4	4–3–1
Brooklyn	4–4	—	2–6	3–4–1	3–4–1	2–5–1	2–6
Chicago	3–3–2	6–2	—	3–5	4–3–1	2–6	4–4
Detroit	2–4–2	4–3–1	5–3	—	5–3	1–7	2–5–1
Montreal	1–6–1	4–3–1	3–4–1	3–5	—	4–4	3–5
New York	4–4	5–2–1	6–2	7–1	4–4	—	3–4–1
Toronto	3–4–1	6–2	4–4	5–2–1	5–3	4–3–1	—

Schedule and results

No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	W	November 1, 1941	3–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1941–42)	1–0–0
2	T	November 2, 1941	3–3 OT	Brooklyn Americans (1941–42)	1–0–1
3	L	November 9, 1941	1–3	New York Rangers (1941–42)	1–1–1
4	L	November 15, 1941	1–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1941–42)	1–2–1
5	L	November 16, 1941	2–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1941–42)	1–3–1
6	L	November 20, 1941	3–4 OT	Toronto Maple Leafs (1941–42)	1–4–1
7	W	November 22, 1941	2–1	@ Brooklyn Americans (1941–42)	2–4–1
8	L	November 23, 1941	2–4	Boston Bruins (1941–42)	2–5–1
9	L	November 25, 1941	1–7	@ Boston Bruins (1941–42)	2–6–1
10	W	November 27, 1941	4–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1941–42)	3–6–1
11	L	November 29, 1941	1–4	@ New York Rangers (1941–42)	3–7–1
12	W	December 4, 1941	4–3	Brooklyn Americans (1941–42)	4–7–1
13	W	December 7, 1941	3–2	Montreal Canadiens (1941–42)	5–7–1
14	L	December 14, 1941	0–4	Toronto Maple Leafs (1941–42)	5–8–1
15	L	December 18, 1941	3–4 OT	@ Brooklyn Americans (1941–42)	5–9–1
16	T	December 21, 1941	2–2 OT	Boston Bruins (1941–42)	5–9–2
17	W	December 25, 1941	3–2 OT	Brooklyn Americans (1941–42)	6–9–2
18	L	December 27, 1941	3–5	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1941–42)	6–10–2
19	L	December 28, 1941	1–3	New York Rangers (1941–42)	6–11–2
20	W	January 1, 1942	3–0	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1941–42)	7–11–2
21	L	January 3, 1942	1–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1941–42)	7–12–2
22	W	January 4, 1942	10–0	Montreal Canadiens (1941–42)	8–12–2
23	L	January 6, 1942	2–3	@ New York Rangers (1941–42)	8–13–2
24	L	January 9, 1942	4–5	@ Brooklyn Americans (1941–42)	8–14–2
25	W	January 10, 1942	6–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1941–42)	9–14–2
26	L	January 11, 1942	5–6	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1941–42)	9–15–2
27	L	January 13, 1942	1–2	@ Boston Bruins (1941–42)	9–16–2
28	L	January 18, 1942	3–5	Brooklyn Americans (1941–42)	9–17–2
29	W	January 22, 1942	4–3	Boston Bruins (1941–42)	10–17–2
30	L	January 24, 1942	2–3	New York Rangers (1941–42)	10–18–2
31	L	January 25, 1942	2–11	@ New York Rangers (1941–42)	10–19–2
32	W	January 29, 1942	2–0	Chicago Black Hawks (1941–42)	11–19–2
33	T	February 5, 1942	3–3 OT	Toronto Maple Leafs (1941–42)	11–19–3
34	L	February 7, 1942	1–3	@ Montreal Canadiens (1941–42)	11–20–3
35	L	February 8, 1942	0–3	@ Boston Bruins (1941–42)	11–21–3
36	L	February 12, 1942	2–4	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1941–42)	11–22–3
37	L	February 14, 1942	2–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1941–42)	11–23–3
38	W	February 15, 1942	5–0	Montreal Canadiens (1941–42)	12–23–3
39	W	February 19, 1942	6–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1941–42)	13–23–3
40	W	February 22, 1942	3–0	Toronto Maple Leafs (1941–42)	14–23–3
41	W	February 24, 1942	3–2	@ Brooklyn Americans (1941–42)	15–23–3
42	L	February 26, 1942	4–7	@ New York Rangers (1941–42)	15–24–3
43	T	March 1, 1942	3–3 OT	@ Boston Bruins (1941–42)	15–24–4
44	W	March 5, 1942	5–2	New York Rangers (1941–42)	16–24–4
45	W	March 8, 1942	3–1	Boston Bruins (1941–42)	17–24–4
46	L	March 14, 1942	3–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1941–42)	17–25–4
47	W	March 15, 1942	4–1	Montreal Canadiens (1941–42)	18–25–4
48	W	March 19, 1942	6–4	Chicago Black Hawks (1941–42)	19–25–4

Playoffs

(5) Detroit Red Wings vs. (6) Montreal Canadiens

**Montreal Canadiens vs Detroit Red Wings**
Date	Visitors	Score	Home	Score
Mar 22	Montreal C.	1	Detroit	2
Mar 24	Detroit	0	Montreal C.	5
Mar 26	Montreal C.	2	Detroit	6

Detroit wins best-of-three series 2–1.

(3) Boston Bruins vs. (5) Detroit Red Wings

**Detroit Red Wings vs Boston Bruins**
Date	Visitors	Score	Home	Score
Mar 29	Detroit	6	Boston	4
Mar 31	Boston	1	Detroit	3

Detroit wins best-of-three series 2–0.

(2) Toronto Maple Leafs vs. (5) Detroit Red Wings

**Detroit Red Wings vs Toronto Maple Leafs**
Date	Visitors	Score	Home	Score
Apr 4	Detroit	3	Toronto	2
Apr 7	Detroit	4	Toronto	2
Apr 9	Toronto	2	Detroit	5
Apr 12	Toronto	4	Detroit	3
Apr 14	Detroit	3	Toronto	9
Apr 16	Toronto	3	Detroit	0
Apr 18	Detroit	1	Toronto	3

Toronto wins the Stanley Cup 4–3.

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Don Grosso	LW/C	48	23	30	53	13
Sid Abel	C/LW	48	18	31	49	45
Eddie Wares	D/RW	43	9	29	38	31
Syd Howe	C/LW	48	16	19	35	6
Mud Bruneteau	RW	48	14	19	33	8
Carl Liscombe	LW	47	13	17	30	14
Gus Giesebrecht	C	34	6	16	22	2
Joe Carveth	RW	29	6	11	17	2
Adam Brown	LW	28	6	9	15	15
Ken Kilrea	LW	21	3	12	15	4
Pat McReavy	C	34	5	8	13	0
Jack Stewart	D	44	4	7	11	93
Eddie Bush	D	18	4	6	10	40
Gerry Brown	LW	13	4	4	8	0
Jimmy Orlando	D	48	1	7	8	111
Alex Motter	C	19	2	4	6	20
Ebbie Goodfellow	C/D	9	2	2	4	2
Bill Jennings	RW	16	2	1	3	6
Buck Jones	D	21	2	1	3	8
Connie Brown	C	9	0	3	3	4
Doug McCaig	D	9	0	1	1	6
Johnny Mowers	G	47	0	1	1	0
Joe Fisher	RW	3	0	0	0	0
Dutch Hiller	LW	7	0	0	0	0
Joe Turner	G	1	0	0	0	0
Bob Whitelaw	D	9	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Johnny Mowers	2880	47	19	25	3	144	3.00	5
Joe Turner	70	1	0	0	1	3	2.57	0
Team:	2950	48	19	25	4	147	2.99	5

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Don Grosso	LW/C	12	8	6	14	29
Carl Liscombe	LW	12	6	6	12	2
Syd Howe	C/LW	12	3	5	8	0
Eddie Bush	D	11	1	6	7	23
Mud Bruneteau	RW	12	5	1	6	6
Sid Abel	C/LW	12	4	2	6	8
Joe Carveth	RW	9	4	0	4	0
Alex Motter	C	12	1	3	4	20
Eddie Wares	D/RW	12	1	3	4	22
Jimmy Orlando	D	12	0	4	4	45
Gerry Brown	LW	12	2	1	3	4
Pat McReavy	C	11	1	1	2	4
Adam Brown	LW	10	0	2	2	4
Jack Stewart	D	12	0	1	1	12
Joe Fisher	RW	1	0	0	0	0
Gus Giesebrecht	C	2	0	0	0	0
Doug McCaig	D	2	0	0	0	6
Johnny Mowers	G	12	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Johnny Mowers	720	12	7	5	38	3.17	0
Team:	720	12	7	5	38	3.17	0

Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus-minus PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals;
MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;

Awards and records

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Transactions

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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. 148. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0.
"All-Time NHL Results". NHL.com. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
^ Diamond 2000, p. 35.
"1941-42 Detroit Red Wings Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved June 4, 2009.

Bibliography

Diamond, Dan, ed. (2000). Total Hockey. Total Sports. ISBN 1-892129-85-X.

External links

"1941–42 Detroit Red Wings Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved May 7, 2009.

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Categories:

Offseason

Regular season

Final standings

Record vs. opponents

Schedule and results

Playoffs

(5) Detroit Red Wings vs. (6) Montreal Canadiens

(3) Boston Bruins vs. (5) Detroit Red Wings

(2) Toronto Maple Leafs vs. (5) Detroit Red Wings

Player statistics

Regular season

Playoffs

Awards and records

Transactions

See also

References

External links