Game 574
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 2
Wednesday, March 9, 1977
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
For any other hockey team, a loss and tie would be no cause for alarm.
However, the Montréal Canadiens were reacting as though last night’s 2-2 tie with the Toronto Maple Leafs were a tragedy.
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Game 573
Canadiens 9, Maple Leafs 5
Sunday, November 21, 1976
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Since Wayne Thomas left the Montréal Canadiens with a lot of class when he was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs, it was only fitting that his former teammates were trying to win back his job.
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Game 572
Maple Leafs 1, Canadiens 0
Wednesday, November 17, 1976
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
While the Montréal Canadiens breeze through the rest of the National Hockey League, the Adams Division continues to play havoc with the defending Stanley Cup champions.
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Game 571
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 3
Thursday, October 21, 1976
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The wounded are falling by the wayside as the Toronto Maple Leafs continue to frolic in last place in the National Hockey League’s Adams Division.
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Preseason Game 11
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 3
Saturday, October 2, 1976
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
What is a distressing situation for several gifted hockey players has been a perennial blessing for Montréal Canadiens coach Scotty Bowman.
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Preseason Game 10
Canadiens 6, Maple Leafs 4
Friday, October 1, 1976
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The big difference in last night’s National Hockey League exhibition game at Maple Leaf Gardens, in which the Montréal Canadiens defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-4, was the attendance of 14,006.
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Game 570
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, March 24, 1976
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Beating a team the calibre of the Montréal Canadiens, especially on its home ice, usually takes a lot of luck.
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Game 569
Canadiens 7, Maple Leafs 5
Wednesday, February 18, 1976
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Goaltender Ken Dryden, the Montréal Canadiens’ dressing room prophet calls it a slump.
Coach Scotty Bowman calls it giving up a lot of goals and Toronto Maple Leafs coach Red Kelly tagged it coughing up the puck.
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Game 568
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 0
Sunday, January 11, 1976
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs, bolstered by young and untried minor leaguers, managed to out-daydream the Montréal Canadiens and wind up on the short end of a 2-0 score before 15,863 spectators at the Forum last night.
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Game 567
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 3
Wednesday, December 10, 1975
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs, responding to coach Red Kelly’s gentle prodding, played a whale of a hockey game for two periods last night at the Forum.
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Game 566
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2
Saturday, November 22, 1975
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
It wasn’t so much playing against his former teammates as the over-protective Toronto defence that hampered Maple Leafs goalie Wayne Thomas in Saturday night’s National Hockey League 4-2 loss to the Montréal Canadiens.
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Game 565
Maple Leafs 6, Canadiens 4
Saturday, March 22, 1975
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
It was no surprise that the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montréal Canadiens served up another of their old-time entertaining hockey battles at The Forum Saturday night.
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Game 564
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 3
Wednesday, March 12, 1975
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
There is a cliche that coach Red Kelly uses about hockey games being 60 minutes in duration. The Toronto Maple Leafs have been milking the hang out of that one lately.
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Game 563
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 2
Wednesday, February 12, 1975
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
“Black Aces” they have taken to calling themselves, the Toronto Maple Leafs’ roster of walking wounded, who shroud their equipment in black practice sweaters, and, with every game, their number grows.
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Game 562
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 3
Saturday, January 18, 1975
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The sight of Jim Gregory in ecstasy tells it like it was.
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Game 561
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, October 23, 1974
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Cheap goals. Rotten refereeing.
In the opinion of Toronto Maple Leaf coach Red Kelly and of many others at Maple Leaf Gardens last night, they were the cause of the Leafs’ 3-2 loss to the Montréal Canadiens.
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Game 560
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 3
Wednesday, April 3, 1974
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Scotty Bowman insisted it really wasn’t a rehearsal for the National Hockey League playoffs so he seemed unperturbed after his Montréal Canadiens dropped a 5-3 decision to the Toronto Maple Leafs here last night.
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Game 559
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 3
Wednesday, January 23, 1974
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Dave Gardner and Steve Shutt, two former Toronto Marlboros who have found breaking into the Canadien lineup about as difficult as getting invited to tea by royalty, last night carried the Montréal team to a 4-3 comeback win over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Game 558
Maple Leafs 9, Canadiens 2
Wednesday, December 26, 1973
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens left Maple Leaf Gardens last night looking much the same as they had through most of their 9-2 loss – shocked.
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Game 557
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Wednesday, November 7, 1973
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Wayne Thomas, a year ago the backup to Ken Dryden’s backup, continued last night as the Montréal Canadiens’ latest wunderkind goaltender, dominating in a 4-1 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Game 556
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 3
Wednesday, October 17, 1973
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Eddie Johnston should have looked wind-swept from the Canadiens speeding to his goalmouth, but instead he only looked relieved after the Toronto Maple Leafs’ come-from-behind 5-3 win last night.
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Game 555
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Wednesday, March 7, 1973
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Canadiens aren’t perfect after all. Last night, with a 4-1 lead over the Toronto Maple Leafs, Claude Larose wound up for a slap-shot from excellent range – and missed, and the 4-1 score was the final count.
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Game 554
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 1
Sunday, February 18, 1973
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Ken Dryden had a visitor yesterday, not long after the frantic finish of the Montréal Canadiens’ 2-1 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs, which ended with Darryl Sittler and assorted others whacking at the puck from close range in a futile leap for a tie.
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Game 553
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2
Saturday, January 27, 1973
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
John McLellan shook his head, still stunned by the numbers of Montréal Canadiens either flying or in the reserve corps in a 4-2 win over his Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Game 552
Canadiens 8, Maple Leafs 4
Wednesday, January 3, 1973
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Jacques Plante had the flu, Ron Low had brochitis and by the end of last night’s 8-4 loss to the Montréal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leaf coach John McLellan and general manger Jim Gregory had a rather sickly feeling themselves.
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Two Solitudes 