Game 372
Canadiens 9, Maple Leafs 3
Thursday, October 17, 1957
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Henri Richard scored three goals and his venerable brother Maurice fired two, as the Montréal Canadiens overpowered the Toronto Maple Leafs 9-3 here tonight.
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Game 371
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 1
Wednesday, March 20, 1957
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Bernie Geoffrion’s 18th goal of the season, with only 30 seconds remaining in the game, gave the Montréal Canadiens a 2-1 win over the relaxed Maple Leafs in the Gardens last night.
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Game 370
Canadiens 8, Maple Leafs 4
Thursday, March 14, 1957
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs’ final mathematical hope of reaching the Stanley Cup playoffs flickered out here tonight, when they were overwhelmed by the Montréal Canadiens 8-4 in a National Hockey League game.
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Game 369
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, March 6, 1957
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Ted Kennedy scored two goals and assisted on a third in the Gardens last night to give the Maple Leafs an important 3-1 win over the disbelieving Montréal Canadiens.
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Game 368
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1
Thursday, February 14, 1957
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs, with their first win in their last 10 starts, moved back into fourth place in the National Hockey League here tonight by defeating the disillusioned Montréal Canadiens 2-1.
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Game 367
Maple Leafs 1, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, February 6, 1957
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
In any other circumstances, it might have been considered a moral victory when the Maple Leafs tied the Canadiens 1-1 at the Gardens last night.
After all, the Flying Frenchmen had won seven and lost a mere two of the nine previous games between the teams.
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Game 366
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, January 16, 1957
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens, skating inexorably to their second consecutive National Hockey League championship, scored a 3-2 win over the Maple Leafs in the Gardens last night.
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Game 365
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, January 10, 1957
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Don Marshall scored with six seconds of playing time remaining here tonight, to give the Montréal Canadiens a 2-1 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs, in a turbulent National Hockey League game that threatened to overflow with nastiness in the final few minutes.
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Game 364
Maple Leafs 1, Canadiens 0
Wednesday, December 26, 1956
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
A goal by Al MacNeil, his first in the National Hockey League, gave the energetic Maple Leafs an exciting 1-0 win over the Montréal Canadiens in the Gardens last night.
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Game 363
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, December 20, 1956
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The venerable Maurice Richard, who can’t get out of his customary rut of scoring goals, popped in another pair here tonight to lead the poised Montréal Canadiens to a 4-2 win over Toronto’s helter-skelter Maple Leafs.
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Game 362
Canadiens 6, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, December 13, 1956
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens, at full strength for the first time this National Hockey League season, overpowered the Toronto Maple Leafs with four third period goals for a 6-2 win here tonight.
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Game 361
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Wednesday, December 5, 1956
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Dickie Moore, who makes a living out of beating the Toronto Maple Leafs, did it again last night.
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Game 360
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, November 29, 1956
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Dickie Moore, the National Hockey League’s leading goal scorer, fired his 12th and 13th of the season here tonight to lead the Montréal Canadiens to a 4-2 win over the decrepit Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Game 359
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 3
Wednesday, November 7, 1956
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Winger Dickie Moore, with the Maple Leafs shorthanded through a penalty each time, shot the three goal hat trick last night in a 4-3 edge by the Montréal Canadiens. Such deadly proof of penalties’ punitive power pulled down the Leafs into the National Hockey League’s fourth slot.
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Game 358
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2
Thursday, October 25, 1956
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs came from behind with two goals in the third period here tonight to defeat the Montréal Canadiens 3-2, and thus maintained their undefeated record in games away from home this season.
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Game 357
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 3
Thursday, March 8, 1956
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Two goals by Maurice Richard, his 37th and 38th of the season, gave the prosperous Montréal Canadiens a 4-3 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs here tonight.
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Game 356
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, February 29, 1956
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Rudy Migay, more renowned as a defensive specialist, scored two goals and narrowly missed a third last night as the Maple Leafs delighted a capacity Gardens crowd of 14,343 by defeating the Montréal Canadiens 4-1.
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Game 355
Canadiens 8, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, February 16, 1956
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The return of Harry Lumley to his goaltending duties failed to inspire the Toronto Maple Leafs here tonight, as the Montréal Canadiens walloped them 8-1 in a National Hockey League game.
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Game 354
Maple Leafs 1, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, February 8, 1956
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Ed Chadwick played the leading role in a hometown-boy-makes-good offering on the icy stage at Maple Leaf Gardens last night.
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Game 353
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, January 19, 1956
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Jean Béliveau, breaking out of a scoring drought, shot the Montréal Canadiens into a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on a two goal splurge tonight.
The win, the second in as many nights over the fourth place Leafs, lifted the Canadiens into a 10 point margin atop the National Hockey League.
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Game 352
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, January 18, 1956
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens, supposedly in the throes of a grievous slump, looked surprisingly vigorous in the Gardens last night, as they turned on the power in the third period to defeat the Maple Leafs 3-2.
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Game 351
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, December 29, 1955
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Despite the fact that he was overshadowed by the brilliant performance of his younger brother Henri, Maurice Richard scored the 500th goal of his NHL career here tonight, as the Montréal Canadiens downed the Maple Leafs 5-2.
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Game 350
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 0
Wednesday, December 28, 1955
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Outdazzling the majestic opposition, the uninhibited Maple Leafs threw the Montréal Canadiens for a 2-0 loss in a National Hockey League sizzler here last night.
The victory marked the season’s second shutout for a splendid Harry Lumley in the nets, and lifted the Leafs into a fourth place tie with the idle Chicago Black Hawks.
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Game 349
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, December 8, 1955
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Richard frères, the best shooting combination since the James boys (Gerry excepted), united in the third period here tonight to give the Montréal Canadiens a 3-1 win over the Maple Leafs in a turbulent NHL game.
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Game 348
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Saturday, December 3, 1955
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Glamorizing hard labour as the surest success story, the Montréal Canadiens swept the Maple Leafs into a 3-1 National Hockey League defeat Saturday night.
But for Harry Lumley in the Toronto cage, the humiliation could have been far greater.
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Two Solitudes 