During the season, Maple Leaf Gardens was the first arena in the NHL to have Plexiglas inserted in the end zones of the rink.
[1] Frank Selke was involved in the wrong end of a power struggle with Conn Smythe and the club's board of directors.
The team brought in several rookies: Bill Barilko, Garth Boesch, Howie Meeker and Sid Smith.
[3] Despite having a large number of rookies, the team won twenty of their first thirty-one games, led by the play of Meeker.
Meeker set a rookie record, scoring five goals in a 10–4 win over Chicago on January 8, 1947.