Game 234
Canadiens 1, Maple Leafs 0
Wednesday, February 26, 1947
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
A first period goal by hardworking Jimmy Peters, scored on a breakaway at a time when the Toronto Maple Leafs had the opposition backed into their own end of the rink, gave the defending world champion Montréal Canadiens a 1-0 victory in a close checking game before 14,280 fans at Maple Leaf Gardens last night.
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Game 233
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 2
Sunday, February 23, 1947
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
A goal by big Ken Reardon with exactly seven seconds to go gave the Montréal Canadiens a 2-2 draw with their bitter rivals, the Toronto Maple Leafs, here tonight, and sent a seasonal record crowd of 12,764 highly partisan fans into paroxysms of joy.
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Game 232
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 4
Saturday, February 15, 1947
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Fighting to the final whistle and favoured by a late period smile from Lady Luck, the Toronto Maple Leafs overcame a two goal deficit to tie the more experienced defending world champion Montréal Canadiens 4-4 at Maple Leaf Gardens Saturday night.
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Game 231
Canadiens 8, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, February 6, 1947
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Apparently angered by a first period injury to star centre player Elmer Lach, the high flying Montréal Canadiens set the Toronto Maple Leafs back on their heels 8-2 tonight before 12,341 screaming fans in the Montréal Forum.
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Game 230
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 0
Thursday, January 30, 1947
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Paced by the sensational performance of their renowned “Punch Line,” the defending world champion Montréal Canadiens defeated the league leading Toronto Maple Leafs 2-0 in a bitterly fought contest here tonight.
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Game 229
Canadiens 1, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, January 16, 1947
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Toronto’s weary but ever-fighting Maple Leafs battled the world champion Montréal Canadiens to a 1-1 stalemate before a roaring, record crowd for the season at the Forum tonight.
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Game 228
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, January 15, 1947
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The two teams considered most likely to clash in the final round of the postseason Stanley Cup playoff series will be hard put to provide more exciting action than their 60 minute preview of things to come at Maple Leaf Gardens last night, which ended in rousing fashion with the loop leading Toronto Maple Leafs edging the defending world champion Montréal Canadiens 2-1.
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Game 227
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, December 26, 1946
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens performed like the Flying Frenchmen of a decade ago, as they played brilliantly tonight to defeat the National League-leading Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 before 11,756 happy customers, the largest crowd of the season.
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Game 226
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, December 11, 1946
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The hockey wise Montréal Canadiens discarded their badman tactics at the end of a murderous first period last night, to come up with a fine exhibition of the professional puck pastime and defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2, before 13,815 cash customers at Maple Leaf Gardens.
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Game 225
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 0
Saturday, November 16, 1946
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Canada’s largest ever hockey crowd – 16,315 paid – jam packed Maple Leaf Gardens Saturday night, where the amazing Maple Leafs outfought their arch-rivals, the Montréal Canadiens, for a decided 3-0 decision under probably the most dramatic circumstances in the modern history of the National League.
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Game 224
Canadiens 1, Maple Leafs 1
Friday, November 1, 1946
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs and Montréal Canadiens fought to a 1-1 tie here tonight in a thrilling, bone cracking struggle.
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Game 223
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, March 14, 1946
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Toe Blake banged in a third period goal tonight to give the Montréal Canadiens a 2-2 tie with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the Leafs’ last appearance on Montréal ice.
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Game 222
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 1
Saturday, March 9, 1946
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Digging in as if elimination of the Toronto Leafs was the most important assignment of the 1945-46 campaign, the Montréal Canadiens accomplished the “blot-out” trick with a 2-1 victory at Maple Leaf Gardens Saturday night.
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Game 221
Canadiens 6, Maple Leafs 2
Sunday, February 24, 1946
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Breaking through for a four goal splurge in the third period, the pace-setting Montréal Canadiens turned back the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-2, before a capacity crowd of 13,581 fans here Sunday night, to leave the Leafs on the brink of elimination from the National Hockey League four-team playoffs.
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Game 220
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2
Saturday, February 16, 1946
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Three first period Habitant goals deprived Walter “Babe” Pratt of an opportunity to enact a Merriwell role Saturday night at the Gardens, as the Leafs dropped a 4-2 decision to the Canadiens, and lost further ground to the Detroit Red Wings, who garnered a point by virtue of their 3-3 tie with Chicago.
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Game 219
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 4
Thursday, January 10, 1946
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Paul Bibeault, back with his parent National Hockey League club, tonight saw the Montréal Canadiens come out on the short end of a 5-4 score against the Toronto Maple Leafs before 12,431 fans.
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Game 218
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, December 26, 1945
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
With a background provided by Bill Durnan’s brilliant goaltending, the Montréal Canadiens had a little bit too much of everything as they defeated the Toronto Leafs at the Gardens last night, 4-2. The crowd was 13,264.
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Game 217
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 3
Thursday, December 13, 1945
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Dave “Sweeney” Scrhiner continues to haunt the Montréal Canadiens and his former coach, Dick Irvin. It was Schriner’s third period goal off a rebound of Billy Taylor’s shot that gave the Toronto Leafs a 4-3 win over the league leading Habitants here tonight.
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Game 216
Canadiens 1, Maple Leafs 0
Saturday, December 8, 1945
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Leo Lamoureux, a strong armed marksman who moved into the National Hockey League as a wartime fugitive from the minors and stuck around to develop into a better than ordinary defenceman, fired the shot that broke up a sizzling hockey game at the Gardens Saturday night.
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Game 215
Canadiens 6, Maple Leafs 1
Wednesday, November 14, 1945
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
It’s come to the point where saliva tests and X-ray pictures seem to be necessary to get a scientific answer to “what’s wrong with the Leafs?”
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Game 214
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, November 1, 1945
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens displayed too much power and speed for the Toronto Maple Leafs here tonight, and turned back the Stanley Cup holders 4-2 before a capacity crowd of 12,763.
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Playoff Game 15
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 6
Saturday, March 31, 1945
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Toronto Maple Leafs hauled themselves into another Stanley Cup championship series by conquering the Montréal Canadiens 3-2 at Maple Leaf Gardens Saturday night in the sixth game of their see-saw playoff set.
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Playoff Game 14
Canadiens 10, Maple Leafs 3
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 5
Thursday, March 29, 1945
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Maurice Richard and Elmer Lach rolled the Montréal Canadiens back into the Stanley Cup playoff hunt before a crowd of 12,333 customers here tonight. The score, which should be whispered, was 10 to 3.
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Playoff Game 13
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 3 (OT)
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 4
Tuesday, March 27, 1945
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Gus Bodnar’s overtime goal – it defeated the Canadiens 4-3 – put the challengers up three games to one over the champions, sent a capacity crowd noisily off into the night.
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Playoff Game 12
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 3
Saturday, March 24, 1945
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
That first goal continues to be the solar plexus punch of Stanley Cup playoff hockey. Dick Irvin’s Montréal Canadiens proved it Saturday night at Maple Leaf Gardens, by riding to a decisive 4-1 win over the Leafs after Bill Durnan had provided his mates with just the spark they needed by beating off a sustained Toronto ganging attack early in the first period.
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Two Solitudes 