Game 496
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 0
Thursday, March 24, 1966
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
There is more money for the team that finishes first in the National Hockey League, but this season there is also a drawback.
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Game 495
Canadiens 7, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, March 16, 1966
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens scored early and shed blood late in the process of humiliating the Toronto Maple Leafs 7-2 last night.
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Game 494
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 0
Thursday, March 3, 1966
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
King Clancy leaped to his feet last night in the Forum press box and yelled to all within earshot:
“You are looking at the world champions.”
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Game 493
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 3
Wednesday, March 2, 1966
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The guy who coined that old phrase about a tie being the same as kissing your sister should have been in Maple Leaf Gardens last night.
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Game 492
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, February 16, 1966
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
It doesn’t seem like so long ago that Ron Ellis sat with a bowed head in the Maple Leaf dressing room and said quietly that he had lost his confidence as a hockey player.
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Game 491
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 4
Thursday, February 3, 1966
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Considering the odds against them, the Maple Leafs almost pulled their biggest upset of the National Hockey League season here last night.
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Game 490
Maple Leafs 6, Canadiens 0
Thursday, January 13, 1966
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs ended a three-game losing streak last night by whipping the Montréal Canadiens 6-0 in the Forum.
It was the worst beating Toe Blake’s Habs have taken in two years.
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Game 489
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2
Wednesday, December 29, 1965
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
People keep asking why the Maple Leafs have kept George Armstrong around so long, and “The Chief” gave them part of the answer last night at the Gardens.
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Game 488
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2
Thursday, December 16, 1965
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Maple Leafs are starting to make sounds like a hockey team and the conductor of Punch Imlach’s brassy little band is a big guy named Frank Mahovlich.
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Game 487
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 1
Wednesday, November 24, 1965
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens are back on top of the National Hockey League standing today, thanks to a little guy named Henri Richard, who always seems to be around whenever they need important goals.
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Game 486
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Thursday, November 18, 1965
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
If the Maple Leafs ever consider sending Eddie Shack to Rochester again, they will have to contend not only with the fans in Toronto – but the fans in Montréal, too.
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Game 485
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 3
Wednesday, November 10, 1965
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Maple Leafs tied the Montréal Canadiens 3-3 last night, but the 14,723 faithful at Maple Leaf Gardens accepted it as a victory.
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Game 484
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, November 4, 1965
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
A lonely bugler sits in the Montréal Forum. At his signal to charge, the hockey fans react vociferously and the Montréal Canadiens pour down the ice in a red wave.
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Playoff Game 53
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 3 (OT)
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 6
Tuesday, April 13, 1965
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Toronto Maple Leafs’ three year possession of the Stanley Cup ended last night after the defending champions had given their finest playoff performance.
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Playoff Game 52
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 5
Saturday, April 10, 1965
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs staggered to the last step from Stanley Cup elimination Saturday night, 3-1 victims of the Montréal Canadiens.
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Playoff Game 51
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 2
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 4
Thursday, April 8, 1965
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Toronto Maple Leafs jumped off Johnny Bower’s shoulders long enough to score three last-period goals and steal a 4-2 victory from the Montréal Canadiens last night that tied their Stanley Cup series 2-2.
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Playoff Game 50
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2 (OT)
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 3
Tuesday, April 6, 1965
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Dave Keon swept a backhander under goalie Gump Worsley after 4 minutes and 17 seconds of sudden-death overtime last night, to turn a routine icing infraction into a dramatic climax to the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 3-2 victory over the Montréal Canadiens.
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Playoff Game 49
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 2
Saturday, April 3, 1965
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Once again failure to produce a maximum effort in an important game has placed the Toronto Maple Leafs in jeopardy of abdicating their Stanley Cup reign.
It’s been a common story this season.
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Playoff Game 48
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 1
Thursday, April 1, 1965
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens outrode the storm of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ roughhouse tactics to win the opening game of their Stanley Cup semifinal, 3-2, here last night.
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Game 483
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2
Wednesday, March 24, 1965
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Johnny Bower stopped Montréal Canadiens’ rookie Yvan Cournoyer on a third period penalty shot last night to preserve a 3-2 victory for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The save also pushed the Canadiens one game away from elimination in the National Hockey League pennant race.
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Game 482
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, March 18, 1965
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The unusually aggressive Montréal Canadiens sped away from the Toronto Maple Leafs in the third period last night, scoring three goals to obtain a 4-1 victory, before the largest crowd of the season at the Forum, 15,683.
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Game 481
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, March 4, 1965
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs settled for a 2-2 tie with the Montréal Canadiens last night, thanks to Gump Worsley’s alert goaltending and their own inability to capitalize on some excellent scoring opportunities.
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Game 480
Maple Leafs 6, Canadiens 2
Wednesday, February 10, 1965
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Toronto Maple Leafs overwhelmed Montréal’s staggering Canadiens 6-2 last night in a wild National Hockey League game at the Gardens.
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Game 479
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 2
Thursday, February 4, 1965
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Employing muscles they normally save for use only against the Chicago Black Hawks, the Toronto Maple Leafs flattened the Montréal Canadiens 5-2 last night.
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Game 478
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 1
Wednesday, January 20, 1965
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens scored both their goals during a second period slump last night, and that was all they needed for a 2-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Two Solitudes 