| Position: | Right Wing |
| Shoots: | Right |
| Height Ft: | 5 |
| Height In: | 9 |
| Weight Lb: | 154 |
| Played For: | Montreal Canadiens |
| Birth Date: | 1916 7, mf=yes |
| Birth Place: | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Death Place: | Moraga, California, United States |
| Career Start: | 1936 |
| Career End: | 1946 |
Gerald Joseph Heffernan (July 24, 1916 – January 16, 2007) was a Canadian ice hockey player. He played 85 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens from 1941 to 1944. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1936 to 1946, was spent in the minor leagues. With Montreal, he won the Stanley Cup in 1944. After retiring from hockey Gerald Heffernan became an insurance salesman and lived the rest of his years in Moraga, California.
His son, Terence Heffernan, was a Canadian screenwriter.
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |||||
| 1934–35 | Montreal Junior Royals | QJAHA | 10 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 1935–36 | Montreal Junior Royals | QJAHA | 9 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 1934–36 | Montreal Royals | MTL Sr | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1936–37 | Montreal Royals | MTL Sr | 21 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1937–38 | Harringay Greyhounds | ENL | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1938–39 | Montreal Royals | QSHL | 21 | 12 | 10 | 22 | 35 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 8 | ||
| 1938–39 | Montreal Royals | Al-Cup | — | — | — | — | — | 15 | 9 | 13 | 22 | 14 | ||
| 1939–40 | Montreal Royals | QSHL | 29 | 11 | 19 | 30 | 38 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 2 | ||
| 1939–40 | Montreal Royals | Al-Cup | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 9 | ||
| 1940–41 | Montreal Royals | QSHL | 33 | 15 | 18 | 33 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 2 | ||
| 1940–41 | Montreal Royals | Al-Cup | — | — | — | — | — | 14 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | ||
| 1941–42 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 41 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 1941–42 | Montreal Royals | QSHL | 9 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1942–43 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1942–43 | Montreal Shamrocks | QSHL | 22 | 19 | 15 | 34 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 1943–44 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 43 | 28 | 20 | 48 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | ||
| 1944–45 | Montreal Royals | QSHL | 23 | 23 | 28 | 51 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 2 | ||
| 1945–46 | Montreal Royals | QSHL | 38 | 20 | 24 | 44 | 41 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 4 | ||
| QSHL totals | 175 | 102 | 118 | 220 | 186 | 43 | 21 | 28 | 49 | 20 | ||||
| NHL totals | 85 | 33 | 35 | 68 | 27 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | ||||