Game 298
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, February 14, 1952
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Three Montréal candidates for the Calder Trophy didn’t lose a vote in the Forum tonight as they each fired a scoring shot, as the Canadiens subdued the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 in a game that left the Montréalers only one point behind their second place victims.
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Game 297
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2
Saturday, February 9, 1952
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
When that Florida commuting hockey oracle, Conn Smythe, laid down the articles on rookie procedure some time ago, he stressed the fact that it was quite easy to select the pure quill from the run of the mill. “The real thing,” orated the oracle, “will do something big in his first game. He will make a key play, he will save a sure goal, or he may even score a winning goal.”
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Game 296
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, January 23, 1952
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The “Rocket”-less Montréal Canadiens fired a youth-charged burst of goals Torontoward to defeat the Maple Leafs 4-2 before 13,329 fans at Maple Leaf Gardens last night. It was the fifth win for the Habs in the last six games between the two teams.
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Game 295
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, January 17, 1952
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Dick Irvin, who was badly mauled in a recent battle of words with Frank Boucher, got up off the floor to level another Kitty-Bar-the-Door blast at the Toronto Maple Leafs today. He may have a little trouble making the charge stick after tonight’s 2-2 tie between the Leafs and Canadiens.
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Game 294
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, January 3, 1952
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Revealing smarter and faster legs, the Montréal Canadiens kicked the Toronto Maple Leafs into third position tonight on a 3-1 decision that broke an NHL second place deadlock between the two bitter rivals.
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Game 293
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, December 26, 1951
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Appearing slightly overstuffed, the Maple Leafs scrambled through one of their poorer efforts last night and dropped a 3-2 nod to “The Rocket”-less, rebuilding Montréal Canadiens.
The Gardens game, sometimes rugged and sometimes dull, had plenty more rule infractions than suggested by the only two penalties imposed.
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Game 292
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, December 20, 1951
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
A last period penalty to Tod Sloan opened the scoring dikes for the Montréal Canadiens tonight, and they rifled in three fast goals to submerge the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1.
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Game 291
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, November 29, 1951
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Maple Leafs absorbed their worst trouncing of the season tonight – a 5-1 defeat by the Montréal Canadiens – and lost the services of their promising rookie rearguard, Hugh Bolton, in doing it.
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Game 290
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 2
Saturday, November 24, 1951
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Those colourful Westerners aren’t toting the Grey Cup on the long ride home, but they’re fairly certain to be carrying some good words for big time hockey.
There were scores of the big-hatted ones among the season’s largest crowd – 14,580 – at Maple Leaf Gardens Saturday night, and most stared wide-eyed as the Leafs bounced both a hometown jinx and the Montréal Canadiens on a 4-2 decision.
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Game 289
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 2
Thursday, November 1, 1951
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The slow burning fuse that was ignited at Maple Leaf Gardens 24 hours earlier reached the gunpowder chamber tonight.
The explosion left in the rubble a few items like a 4-2 win for Toronto over Montréal, game misconducts and automatic $50 fines to “Rocket” Richard and Fern Flaman, and assorted other majors for inflicting wounds on assorted bodies.
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Game 288
Maple Leafs 1, Canadiens 0
Wednesday, October 31, 1951
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The great “Rocket” Richard deliberately swung his stick at a couple of rail seat spectators last night amid a hard fought 1-0 Maple Leaf triumph over the Montréal Canadiens.
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Playoff Game 26
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2 (OT)
Stanley Cup Finals, Game 5
Saturday, April 21, 1951
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Toronto’s hockey Leafs out-Ripleyed the believe-it-or-not script writers to carry the final scene of one of the most dramatic playoff productions in the history of Canadian sport at the Gardens Saturday night.
In unbelievable fashion, the Leafs powered from behind to tie the score with 32 seconds left and their goalie on the bench in favour of a sixth attacker. Then they went on to sweep a great Montréal team from the arena, 3-2, in the fifth consecutive sudden death overtime heart buster. Thus, the Stanley Cup returned to Toronto for the fourth time in five years, the Leafs taking the history making “sudden death series” four games to one.
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Playoff Game 25
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2 (OT)
Stanley Cup Finals, Game 4
Thursday, April 19, 1951
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Major league hockey’s record smashing Stanley Cup final series needed another brief but dramatic session of sudden death overtime to declare a winner here tonight.
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Playoff Game 24
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1 (OT)
Stanley Cup Finals, Game 3
Tuesday, April 17, 1951
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Captain “Teeder” Kennedy figuratively scooped the puck from his own net into the webbing of the enemy to turn almost certain defeat into a stunning 2-1 victory for the Toronto Maple Leafs against the Montréal Canadiens here tonight.
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Playoff Game 23
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2 (OT)
Stanley Cup Finals, Game 2
Saturday, April 14, 1951
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Hockey lightning in the human form of “Rocket” Richard struck at a playoff goalie for the third time in the 1951 Stanley Cup series at the Gardens Saturday night. And the deluge of cheers in far-off Montréal, heralding a 3-2 sudden death extra time victory for the Canadiens over the Toronto Maple Leafs, must have been thunderous.
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Playoff Game 22
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2 (OT)
Stanley Cup Finals, Game 1
Wednesday, April 11, 1951
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Sid Smith, the Toronto-born hockey player with an unrehearsed flair for the dramatic, pulled all the Hollywood stops as he poked home the payoff goal for his Maple Leafs against the Montréal Canadiens last night.
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Game 287
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 0
Wednesday, March 21, 1951
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Vézina Trophy came into its own at Maple Leaf Gardens last night after years of being taken for granted, as far as the fans were concerned.
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Game 286
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, March 1, 1951
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Some may call it the law of averages, but it was nothing more than good hockey that enabled the Montréal Canadiens to defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 here tonight.
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Game 285
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, February 15, 1951
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Bill Barilko, in his top all-round display of the season, sank a long shot early in the final period tonight to allow his Maple Leafs to tie the Montréal Canadiens 2-2.
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Game 284
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, February 7, 1951
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Ted Kennedy’s Maple Leaf line, apparently back in full point-getting bloom, potted the entire three goal output last night as the captain and his kids skated hard to a 3-1 nod over the once-infamous Montréal Canadiens.
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Game 283
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Thursday, February 1, 1951
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Skating like mad in the first period, the Maple Leafs rapped all their goals in the initial seven minutes tonight and went on to a 3-1 triumph over the “Rocket”-less Montréal Canadiens.
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Game 282
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 3
Wednesday, January 24, 1951
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Toronto Maple Leafs edged the Montréal Canadiens 4-3 in an exciting NHL test that thrilled 13,240 fans, but was the despair of a couple of coaches at Maple Leaf Gardens last night.
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Game 281
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 2
Thursday, January 18, 1951
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Captain Kennedy rekindled the spluttering fuse in the Toronto hockey powder keg to lead his Maple Leaf teammates to an impressive 5-2 win over the Montréal Canadiens here tonight.
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Game 280
Maple Leafs 6, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, December 20, 1950
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
With heavyweights Harry Watson and Fern Flaman capably taking care of extra-curricular fistic activities, the Toronto Maple Leafs literally walloped the Montréal Canadiens at the Gardens last night. The score of the hockey game was 6-1.
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Game 279
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, December 6, 1950
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Toronto Maple Leafs outplayed the Montréal Canadiens by a wide margin last night, but found rookie goalie Gerry McNeil such a formidable barrier that they only won the game 3-1.
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Two Solitudes 