Game 278
Canadiens 0, Maple Leafs 0
Thursday, November 30, 1950
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs and Montréal Canadiens battled to a goalless deadlock here tonight that saw two rookie goalies steal most of the limelight.
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Game 277
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 1
Saturday, November 25, 1950
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
A combination of accurate targetry and sound netminding proved too much for the Montréal Canadiens, as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated them 4-1 Saturday night. And that, despite the fact the Habs outshot the Leafs 30-25.
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Game 276
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, November 16, 1950
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens out-bumped and out-hustled the Toronto Maple Leafs in the third period tonight for three goals and a 5-2 decision.
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Game 275
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1
Thursday, November 2, 1950
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Overcoming an early lead, the Toronto Maple Leafs continued their domination of the NHL with a 2-1 victory over the Montréal Canadiens here tonight.
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Game 274
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 3
Wednesday, November 1, 1950
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Maple Leafs utilized a power play and shortened lines after the first period last night to down the Montréal Canadiens 5-3 in the first NHL meeting of the two bitter rivals this season.
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Game 273
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 1
Wednesday, March 22, 1950
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The tiniest fellow on the ice broke up a drama packed display of terrific hockey with just 61 seconds remaining last night – and handed the Montréal Canadiens a 2-1 triumph over the Maple Leafs.
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Game 272
Canadiens 1, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, March 9, 1950
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Maple Leafs, plagued by penalties, battled the Montréal Canadiens to a 1-1 tie tonight, with the fierce playing Habitants gaining the draw with only two minutes and three seconds of the game remaining.
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Game 271
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 3
Thursday, February 16, 1950
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The crowd booed when Turk Broda stayed in his net after the final scene tonight for the benefit of a photographer who wanted an action shot. That was a sure sign in this partisan-minded Canadien town that the Turk had done another swell job in holding the Habitants to a 3-3 tie with his Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Game 270
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 0
Saturday, February 11, 1950
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Two quick goals took most of the starch out of the tough Montréal Canadiens Saturday night, and enabled the Toronto Maple Leafs to climb into sole possession of second place in the NHL chase.
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Game 269
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 2
Thursday, January 19, 1950
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Long John McCormack, an embryo pro who closed his law books in favour of a money hockey career, banged in two goals tonight to give the Maple Leafs a 4-2 triumph over their most bitter rivals, the Montréal Canadiens.
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Game 268
Canadiens 1, Maple Leafs 0
Wednesday, January 18, 1950
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Fabulous Bill Durnan returned to his old home town once again last night to frustrate the Maple Leafs almost single-handed, as his Canadiens won a tight fitting 1-0 hockey game.
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Game 267
Maple Leafs 1, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, December 28, 1949
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
A breathtaking scoring play by Harry Watson with less than four minutes remaining enabled the Maple Leafs to tie the Montréal Canadiens 1-1 last night and retain a piece of fourth place in the National League puck derby.
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Game 266
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, December 15, 1949
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
A goal by Flem MacKell with a minute to play saved the disorganized looking Leafs from a shutout tonight, as they absorbed a 4-1 trouncing from the Montréal Canadiens.
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Game 265
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 2
Wednesday, December 14, 1949
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Hockey’s invisible gremlins snuck up on old Turk Broda at the Gardens last night. They dealt the former fat boy a mean kick in the right ankle in the final minute of the game, just enough to force him to move ever so slightly out of position, and let the puck trickle into the net with the tying goal with only 35 seconds left in the game.
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Game 264
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 3
Thursday, November 24, 1949
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
A two goal Leaf lead at the halfway mark faded under Canadien pressure tonight, and the Flying Frenchmen sped to a 5-3 triumph. Two Habitant tallies in the final frame before an all-time Forum hockey record crowd of 13,805 vaulted the winners over the Leafs in second place.
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Game 263
Maple Leafs 1, Canadiens 0
Wednesday, November 16, 1949
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Leafs staged one of the greatest bodychecking displays of modern hockey in the first period last night, and crashed into second place with a 1-0 triumph over the Montréal Canadiens.
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Game 262
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, November 10, 1949
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Les Canadiens took the Maple Leafs on with skates, sticks and fists here tonight, and won on all counts. While a sellout crowd of 12,833 customers – only 117 short of an all time record crowd for hockey in this city – looked on, Dick Irvin’s flying red shirts outscored the Leafs 4-2 to climb into a second place tie with them.
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Game 261
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 0
Thursday, October 27, 1949
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Flem MacKell scored on a puck theft, and Harry Watson shot a 125 footer into an empty cage tonight as the Maple Leafs whitewashed the Montréal Canadiens 2-0.
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Game 260
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Wednesday, October 19, 1949
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Leafs made the game last night, but the Canadiens won it 3-1. Far superior in territorial play before a sellout Gardens gathering, the Stanley Cuppers did everything but score goals in absorbing their first loss of the young season.
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Game 259
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, March 17, 1949
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Gloom which hung in clouds over the Forum tonight, even as the Canadiens were whipping their intracity NHL enemies the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1, was dispelled at game’s end, when examination proved Elmer Lach had not suffered a fractured jaw.
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Game 258
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 0
Wednesday, March 2, 1949
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Montréal’s big Bill Durnan, as calm and calculating a netminder as there is in the major loop, was materially aided by a comedy of Toronto errors, as he recorded his seventh shutout of the season last night.
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Game 257
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 0
Thursday, February 17, 1949
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs suffered their first loss in seven games tonight, absorbing a 3-0 whitewashing from the Montréal Canadiens.
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Game 256
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 2
Wednesday, February 9, 1949
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The final minutes of a hockey game jinxed the Toronto Maple Leafs for the third consecutive time on home ice, as they were forced to a 2-2 draw with the Montréal Canadiens last night.
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Game 255
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 1
Thursday, February 3, 1949
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Max Bentley fired two quick first period goals tonight, and the Toronto Maple Leafs went on to a 4-1 triumph over the Montréal Canadiens. The battle, mightily rugged in spots, was enlivened by a middle frame free-for-all that began when Rocket Richard loosed a vicious right at Bill Ezinicki.
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Game 254
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Wednesday, January 19, 1949
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
A remarkable display of netminding and the polished playmaking of one forward line proved a potent combination, as the Montréal Canadiens defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 at the Gardens last night.
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