Game 323
Canadiens 7, Maple Leafs 3
Thursday, January 7, 1954
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The fabulous “Rocket” Richard hit for the hat trick tonight amid a 7-3 smashing of the Maple Leafs by the suddenly dazzling Montréal Canadiens.
“Boom Boom” Geoffrion added another two goals in the worst Leaf defeat of the NHL season that continued their winless jinx on Montréal ice.
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Game 322
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 2
Wednesday, December 30, 1953
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Maple Leafs spotted the Montréal Canadiens two goals last night, then surged to a 2-2 tie with the world champions on the tingling brilliance of a last period comeback.
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Game 321
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 0
Wednesday, December 9, 1953
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Amid a last minute shamble of penalties and bench clearing by the referee following a mass outbreak on the ice, the Maple Leafs trounced the Montréal Canadiens 3-0 at the Gardens last night.
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Game 320
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, December 3, 1953
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Tagged by coach Dick Irvin as “a nothing team” ripped apart by injuries, the Montréal Canadiens humiliated the crippled Maple Leafs with a 5-1 licking tonight. It was Toronto’s worst beating of the NHL season, and it came before 14,443 partisan fans who couldn’t have enjoyed the carnage more.
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Game 319
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Saturday, November 28, 1953
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Wrapping two early goals into a 60 second power play package, the Maple Leafs knocked off the world champion Montréal Canadiens 3-1 at the Gardens Saturday night.
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Game 318
Canadiens 1, Maple Leafs 0
Thursday, November 19, 1953
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Montréal’s “Boom Boom” Geoffrion shattered the Maple Leafs’ unbeaten string tonight with a second period snipe shot that lasted for a 1-0 victory.
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Game 317
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, November 11, 1953
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Backed up by some glittering guards who were two-way terrors, the Maple Leafs mauled the world champion Montréal Canadiens 4-1 last night – and were as superior as that.
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Game 316
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, October 29, 1953
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Montréal’s Elmer Lach stick-swung himself out of the game with a match penalty tonight, but the Canadiens still had enough power to whip the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1.
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Game 315
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 1
Thursday, March 19, 1953
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Tremendous Ted Kennedy battled into the NHL’s select 200 goal circle tonight, and the Maple Leafs fought closer to a possible playoff berth on a clever 4-1 triumph over the Montréal Canadiens.
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Game 314
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, February 26, 1953
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Toronto’s two game attempt to gain valuable ground in the National Hockey League fight for playoff positions ended in a dead loss here tonight.
The Leafs dropped their second decision in as many nights to the Montréal Canadiens, losing this one 4-1. The Habs won 2-1 in Toronto Wednesday.
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Game 313
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 1
Wednesday, February 25, 1953
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Those colourful Flying Frenchmen from Montréal, sinking two early goals within 36 seconds while the Maple Leafs were shorthanded, rode out the fury of a Leaf counter attack last night for a 2-1 decision.
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Game 312
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 2
Saturday, February 14, 1953
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The heads of 16 Montréal Canadiens popped up from lowered weariness when coach Dick Irvin fired a bitter blast at the Maple Leafs following a 2-2, fist-flailing draw here Saturday.
It had been a minor war of 66 minutes in penalties, with the locals escaping their fifth successive defeat only through brilliant blocking by goalie Harry Lumley.
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Game 311
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 0
Thursday, February 5, 1953
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Roaming “Rocket” Richard, not the superstar of other NHL seasons but still a tremendous cog in the Montréal Canadiens’ machine, smashed a goalless draw in the last period tonight, and the Habitants raced on to a 2-0 decision over the Maple Leafs.
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Game 310
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, January 22, 1953
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens used their newly devised defensive formula for a well merited 4-1 victory over the Maple Leafs tonight, and stormed to within one point of Detroit’s front-running Red Wings.
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Game 309
Canadiens 1, Maple Leafs 0
Wednesday, January 21, 1953
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Maple Leafs sweated out their individual ability into a strong team effort at the Gardens last night – but it wasn’t enough to combat a billiard-like manoeuvre of the Montréal Canadiens that preceded the greatest stick-checking display of the NHL season here.
The pool-hall trick and the defensive tactics parlayed into a 1-0 shutout for the second place Habitants.
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Game 308
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 0
Wednesday, December 24, 1952
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Maple Leafs broke open a Christmas package last night, a brilliant 2-0 triumph over the Montréal Canadiens, that handed goalie Harry Lumley a well earned shutout to deposit tenderly under his Christmas tree.
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Game 307
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 1
Wednesday, December 10, 1952
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
“Boom Boom” Geoffrion, who has had trouble locating the net without a seeing eye dog this NHL season, boom boomed a couple of smoking drives here last night, and thus triggered the initial road win for the Montréal Canadiens.
It was a 2-1 margin over the Maple Leafs, and the locals could just as easily have won, because they had slightly the better of the play.
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Game 306
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1
Thursday, December 4, 1952
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Harry Lumley came through with one of his sparkling road games tonight, and Harry Watson solidified two forwards into a potent attacking unit, as the Toronto Maple Leafs ended a seven game winless streak by edging the Montréal Canadiens 2-1.
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Game 305
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 2
Saturday, November 22, 1952
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Maurice Richard, who reacts to Toronto’s crowd voice as a firecracker does to a match, converted a kindly gesture by Red Storey into the two second period goals that gave the Montréal Canadiens a 2-2 tie with the Maple Leafs Saturday night.
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Game 304
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Thursday, November 13, 1952
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs bumped the Montréal Canadiens off the National Hockey League’s top rung and grabbed it themselves tonight on some solid thumping that produced a 3-1 triumph over the slowed-down Flying Frenchmen.
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Game 303
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, November 6, 1952
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Hockey’s magnificent “Rocket” Richard did everything but skate on his head tonight in an effort to score, but he couldn’t smash that goal scoring record while the Montréal Canadiens were outskating the Maple Leafs for a 3-1 triumph.
The result broke off a Toronto win skein at four games, and created a three-way tie for the NHL top between the Leaf,s Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks.
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Game 302
Maple Leafs 7, Canadiens 5
Wednesday, October 29, 1952
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Maurice Richard rocketed into a share of sports immortality last night ere those comeback Maple Leafs roared to a 7-5 triumph over the Montréal Canadiens.
It was a masterpiece of thrilling, hard hockey, and the largest crowd of the NHL season here – 14,069 – made like crazy most of the way.
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Game 301
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 0
Wednesday, March 19, 1952
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Stanley Cup hockey was flowing off the Montréal bench at Maple Leaf Gardens last night, and it showed clearly in a glittering 3-0 decision the Habitants posted over the Maple Leafs.
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Game 300
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, March 13, 1952
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Ides of March came a couple of days early for the Maple Leafs, but they can spend the extra time fitting themselves mentally for first round Stanley Cup jousting with the Detroit Red Wings.
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Game 299
Maple Leafs 6, Canadiens 2
Wednesday, March 5, 1952
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens were hit hard, right where their pride shows, last night as the Maple Leafs matched them rookie for rookie and thrashed the Habs into the ice with a 6-2 victory.
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