Game 397
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, March 5, 1959
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens moved to within one point of winning their second successive National Hockey League championship, when they edged the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-1 in a listless game here tonight.
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Game 396
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2
Wednesday, February 25, 1959
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Maple Leafs executed one of their most stirring comebacks of the National Hockey League season in the Gardens last night, as they hurdled from behind to defeat the Montréal Canadiens 3-2.
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Game 395
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, February 11, 1959
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Maple Leafs’ delusions of grandeur gave way to bleak reality in the Gardens last night, when the Montréal Canadiens, impersonating themselves at their best, demolished the Leafs 5-2.
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Game 394
Maple Leafs 6, Canadiens 3
Thursday, February 5, 1959
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
A power play that was considered a liability for most of the National Hockey League season produced three goals for the Toronto Maple Leafs here tonight, as they jolted the first place Montréal Canadiens 6-3.
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Game 393
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, January 21, 1959
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Maybe they aren’t discouraged, but the Maple Leafs must be almost convinced that escaping from last place in the National Hockey League is about as easy as escaping Devil’s Island in a leaky rowboat.
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Game 392
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 0
Thursday, January 8, 1959
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Goalkeeper Jacques Plante collected his sixth shutout of the National Hockey League season here tonight, as the Montréal Canadiens blanked the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-0 in a neighbourly, peaceful tussle.
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Game 391
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 0
Wednesday, December 31, 1958
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Ed Chadwick, who only resumed regular employment as a goalkeeper one week ago, collected his third shutout of the National Hockey League season in the Gardens last night, as the Maple Leafs blanked the Montréal Canadiens 2-0.
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Game 390
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, December 18, 1958
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens lengthened their unbeaten streak to nine games here tonight when they jolted the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 in a National Hockey League game that had only occasional flurries of sustained action.
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Game 389
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, December 4, 1958
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs, inspired by the fantastic goaltending of Johnny Bower, held the mighty Montréal Canadiens to a 2-2 tie in a National Hockey League game here tonight.
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Game 388
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Wednesday, November 12, 1958
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens, after a brief slumming expedition into second place, returned to their own posh neighbourhood with a 4-1 win over the Maple Leafs in the Gardens last night.
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Game 387
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 0
Wednesday, October 29, 1958
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens, who might have even a more powerful team than in the preceding three years, manhandled the disorganized Maple Leafs 5-0 in a National Hockey League debacle at the Gardens last night.
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Game 386
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 3
Thursday, October 16, 1958
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Dickie Moore’s second goal of the game, with fewer than three minutes of playing time remaining, gave the Montréal Canadiens a 4-3 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs in a bitterly fought National Hockey League game here tonight.
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Game 385
Canadiens 7, Maple Leafs 4
Thursday, March 20, 1958
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens splurged for four goals in the third period here tonight to turn back the Toronto Maple Leafs 7-4 in a free-skating National Hockey League game.
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Game 384
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 3
Wednesday, March 12, 1958
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Maurice Richard, who has lost none of his flair for the dramatic, produced two goals in the Gardens last night, as the merciless Montréal Canadiens rapped the Maple Leafs 5-3 in a brash, boisterous NHL game.
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Game 383
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, February 27, 1958
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens relieved nervous tension in hockey hamlets from coast to coast here tonight by defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 in a calm National Hockey League game.
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Game 382
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, February 12, 1958
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens, callously uncharitable despite their surplus of points, thrashed the destitute Maple Leafs 5-2 before a derisive crowd of 13,605 in the Gardens last night.
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Game 381
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 0
Wednesday, January 22, 1958
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Dickie Moore and Jean Béliveau, two of Montréal’s cloud skimming Canadiens, broke up a goalless rip-snorter of a game at the Gardens last night. Their spectacular productions, little more than three minutes apart late in the period, downed the Maple Leafs 2-0.
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Game 380
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, January 16, 1958
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens, fully recovered from a shocking experience in Chicago last weekend where they lost 7-1, scored a 5-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs in a decorous National Hockey League game here last night.
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Game 379
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, January 2, 1958
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Dickie Moore, who is making a career out of tormenting the Toronto Maple Leafs, scored two goals here tonight as the Montréal Canadiens downed the Leafs 5-2 in a National Hockey League game.
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Game 378
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 4
Wednesday, December 25, 1957
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Maple Leaf Frank Mahovlich looks like such an overwhelming choice to win the NHL’s rookie of the year election that his opponents are in danger of losing their deposits.
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Game 377
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 3
Thursday, December 5, 1957
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Two goals in the last 3½ minutes salvaged a 4-3 win for the Montréal Canadiens over the scrappy Toronto Maple Leafs here tonight.
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Game 376
Maple Leafs 0, Canadiens 0
Wednesday, December 4, 1957
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The upstart Maple Leafs and the “Rocket”-less Montréal Canadiens seesawed to a 0-0 draw at the Gardens last night, adding to Leafian distinction in more ways than one. As might be expected, the goaltenders were most conspicuous by their brilliance.
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Game 375
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, November 13, 1957
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens won from the Maple Leafs 4-2 at the Gardens last night, but they lost their scoring sensation, Maurice Richard, for possibly six weeks – maybe longer.
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Game 374
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Thursday, October 31, 1957
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
A three goal splurge in the second period carried the Toronto Maple Leafs to a surprising 3-1 win over the Montréal Canadiens here tonight. It was the Leafs’ first road win in five attempts, and also the Canadiens’ first loss at home.
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Game 373
Canadiens 6, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, October 30, 1957
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The real life episode of a boyish dream came true on the shiny ice of Maple Leaf Gardens last night.
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Two Solitudes 