Game 551
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, November 8, 1972
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Canadiens didn’t find their 5-2 win last night satisfying, and naturally the Toronto Maple Leafs felt worse.
It was a game only a winning gambler could love.
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Game 550
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 2
Wednesday, October 11, 1972
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
It wasn’t the Montréal Canadiens who gave the Maple Leafs their major headaches at the Gardens last night.
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Preseason Game 09
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 4
Wednesday, October 4, 1972
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Exhibition hockey games rarely show anything to management of which they are not already aware and last night’s encounter between the Montréal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs at the Forum was no different.
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Preseason Game 08
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 0
Saturday, September 23, 1972
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Toronto Maple Leafs carefully camouflaged their National Hockey League intentions in two games at the Gardens on the weekend.
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Game 549
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 3
Wednesday, March 22, 1972
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Spotting the Montréal Canadiens a 3-0 lead in the Forum is like turning a swarm of hornets loose in a nudist colony.
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Game 548
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, March 15, 1972
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens had the knockout blow, cocked and ready to deliver from the opening whistle, but they withheld it until the third period.
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Game 547
Canadiens 1, Maple Leafs 0
Wednesday, January 19, 1972
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Almost.
The Toronto Maple Leafs last night came within two seconds of a goalless tie with the Montréal Canadiens, within two seconds of a technically near-perfect game, within two seconds of a moment of deserved satisfaction for goaltender Bernie Parent.
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Game 546
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 2
Saturday, January 1, 1972
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Toronto Maple Leafs had this party planned, a New Year’s team get-together for Saturday night, but the preparations weren’t really completed until an hour or so before it was scheduled to start.
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Game 545
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, December 22, 1971
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Ken Dryden faces an important law examination today at McGill University, as important as the one he wrote Tuesday, but he took time out last night for his usual role, goaltending with the Montréal Canadiens.
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Game 544
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, November 10, 1971
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Scotty Bowman smiled, the angle of the original Big Pete Mahovlich’s big cigar was jaunty and Toronto Maple Leaf coach John McLellan talked about making mistakes against the Montréal Canadiens.
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Preseason Game 07
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 3
Tuesday, September 28, 1971
Halifax Forum, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Montréal Canadiens ran their unbeaten streak to five games in National Hockey League preseason play last night, defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-3.
It was the first loss for the Leafs in six exhibition games.
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Preseason Game 06
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 2
Saturday, September 25, 1971
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Bernie Parent missed the first week of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ training camp with high intensity contract haggling, but through it all his lawyer insisted the goaltender was “in the best shape he has ever been in.”
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Game 543
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, March 18, 1971
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs were beaten 4-1 last night in a game which could serve as evidence that the National Hockey League schedule is too long.
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Game 542
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, March 10, 1971
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The mighty Montréal Canadien machine last night encountered serious starting difficulties and by the end of a 2-1 defeat by the Toronto Maple Leafs the so-called hottest team in hockey was hot only under the collar.
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Game 541
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 4
Saturday, January 30, 1971
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs’ 5-4 win over the Montréal Canadiens Saturday night strengthened coach John McLellan’s belief that the final National Hockey League standing will show Toronto third and Montréal fourth in the Eastern Division.
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Game 540
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 0
Wednesday, December 9, 1970
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Toronto Maple Leafs last night beat the Montréal Canadiens 4-0 in a fight-filled game that cost the players of both clubs at least $3,100 in fines.
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Game 539
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, November 19, 1970
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Murray McLachlan’s first experience in the National Hockey League as a starting goaltender came last night, and it was terrible.
It was also brief.
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Game 538
Maple Leafs 6, Canadiens 2
Wednesday, October 28, 1970
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Ron Ellis and the Maple Leafs each doubled their production for the National Hockey League season at the Gardens last night.
There may be a moral in there somewhere.
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Preseason Game 05
Canadiens 1, Maple Leafs 1
Friday, October 2, 1970
Halifax Forum, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Toronto Maple Leafs and Montréal Canadiens traded a pair of third period goals to finish in a 1-1 stalemate before 6,000 fans at the Halifax Forum last night.
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Preseason Game 04
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 3
Wednesday, September 30, 1970
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens scored three goals in less than seven minutes last night but had to hang on for a 4-3 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs in their exhibition game.
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Game 537
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, March 25, 1970
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The mass anxiety neurosis which has infected the greater Montréal area recently was partially received here last night.
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Game 536
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 3
Sunday, March 15, 1970
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Leafs may be all but mathematically out of the playoffs, but if they continue to play out their schedule as they did over the weekend they could be the spoilers in determining the finish of the close NHL championship race.
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Game 535
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 3
Wednesday, February 18, 1970
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
George Armstrong wasn’t fussy about playing this National Hockey League season but the Maple Leafs lured him out of his second retirement with a lucrative salary.
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Game 534
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 3
Wednesday, February 11, 1970
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Mike Walton’s last-minute score last night gave the Toronto Maple Leafs a 3-3 tie with the Montréal Canadiens.
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Game 533
Canadiens 6, Maple Leafs 3
Wednesday, December 10, 1969
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
For the longest while it seemed that Toronto Maple Leaf coach John McLellan’s hunch was going to work.
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Two Solitudes 