Playoff Game 11
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 2
Thursday, March 22, 1945
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The old champion shook tousled locks, heaved a sigh, looked at the troubled faces of his handlers, and sank dismayedly into his corner, beaten but unafraid.
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Playoff Game 10
Maple Leafs 1, Canadiens 0
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 1
Tuesday, March 20, 1945
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Ted Kennedy swung the most potent early spring golf shot of the 1945 season as the Toronto Leafs stepped into a one game lead in the Stanley Cup playoff series against the Montréal Canadiens here tonight.
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Game 213
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2
Saturday, March 3, 1945
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Operating from a script that had “You Can’t Fence Me In” as the theme, the Toronto Leafs put on their greatest puck chasing show of the season to conquer the Montréal Canadiens 3-2 at Maple Leaf Gardens Saturday night.
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Game 212
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 2
Sunday, February 25, 1945
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens defeated a rejuvenated Maple Leaf team 5 to 2 here Sunday night, and Maurice Richard set an all time professional scoring record before a hysterical crowd in a roaring, brawling game.
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Game 211
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 3
Saturday, February 17, 1945
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Getting the full benefit of an unusual sequence of hockey situations, the Montréal Canadiens finally pinned the jinx of Maple Leaf Gardens here Saturday night before 14,922 eyewitnesses.
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Game 210
Canadiens 7, Maple Leafs 4
Thursday, January 11, 1945
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens did an effective smashing job on the jinx the Toronto Maple Leafs have held over them most of this season when they whipped the Leafs 7-4 tonight before a capacity 13,071 fans.
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Game 209
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 2
Thursday, January 4, 1945
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
An inspired dozen blue shirted Toronto Leafs chewed to ribbons the manuscript prepared by Maurice Richard’s press agents, and left the Rocket floundering along the side boards at Maple Leaf Gardens last night.
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Game 208
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, December 14, 1944
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
With three of their stars missing, the Toronto Maple Leafs showed enough power in all departments Thursday night to hold the Montréal Canadiens to a 2-2 deadlock before a capacity crowd at the Forum.
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Game 207
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Sunday, November 26, 1944
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens made their fourth game of the season against the Toronto Maple Leafs a winning one Sunday night, when they came through with a 4-1 victory for a capacity crowd of more than 12,000.
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Game 206
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 0
Saturday, November 25, 1944
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Short on manpower but strong on quality all along a 12 man front, the Toronto Leafs hauled themselves back into the leadership spot in the National Hockey League Saturday night at the Gardens.
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Game 205
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Saturday, November 11, 1944
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Toronto Leafs were monarchs of all they surveyed, as they bowled over the Stanley Cup champion Montréal Canadiens at Maple Leaf Gardens Saturday night by a 3-1 count.
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Game 204
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 1
Thursday, November 2, 1944
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs, who pinned the only home ice defeat of the season on the Canadiens last spring, gave the Canucks their first whipping of the young National Hockey League season tonight by a 4-1 count.
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Playoff Game 09
Canadiens 11, Maple Leafs 0
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 5
Thursday, March 30, 1944
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Dick Irvin and his Montréal Canadiens finally got to freewheeling in the 1943-44 Stanley Cup playoff competition. They rolled their way into the final round of the National Hockey League’s trophy classic tonight by swamping the Toronto Maple Leafs 11-0 before a roaring crowd at the Montréal Forum.
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Playoff Game 08
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 4
Tuesday, March 28, 1944
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Hap Day’s solid phalanx of “Little Davids” gave a dramatic demonstration of embarrassing Dick Irvin’s “Goliaths” for the better part of two periods at Maple Leaf Gardens last night. But at the finish, they had neither stones nor the strength to lay low the mighty giant.
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Playoff Game 07
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 1
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 3
Saturday, March 25, 1944
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Still short on a scoring punch but long on spirit, the Toronto Leafs are one game down to the Montréal Canadiens in a Stanley Cup playoff series that has already produced some of the wildest incidents in a couple decades of postseason competition.
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Playoff Game 06
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 1
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 2
Thursday, March 23, 1944
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Maurice Richard, a hockey will-o-the-wisp who has been haunting the Toronto Maple Leafs all winter, stepped out at the Forum here Thursday night with a five goal charge to give the Canadiens a 5-1 decision in the second game of the latest of Stanley Cup playoff panics.
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Playoff Game 05
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 1
Tuesday, March 21, 1944
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Hap Day and his Toronto Maple Leafs swung wide the widest playoff gates in modern Stanley Cup playoff history here Tuesday night by defeating the Montréal Canadiens 3 to 1.
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Game 203
Canadiens 8, Maple Leafs 3
Sunday, March 5, 1944
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens chalked up their second victory in as many nights against the Toronto Maple Leafs Sunday night with an 8-3 decision that dealt a heavy blow to the Leafs’ hopes of finishing higher than fourth in the National Hockey League.
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Game 202
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 2
Saturday, March 4, 1944
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Twice in the first period, Hap Day’s Toronto Leafs rode with a one goal edge on the Montréal Canadiens to a rough and ready puck contest at Maple Leaf Gardens Saturday night. But at the finish, the heavier, older and more experienced Montréalers had a 5-2 decision to their credit.
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Game 201
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, February 24, 1944
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Les Habitants sent their Gallic supporters home happy tonight. The Canadiens smacked the Leafs 3-1 while a crowd of 12,192 cash customers screamed until their tonsils were hanging by slender threads.
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Game 200
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2
Saturday, February 12, 1944
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Pressure hockey, the kind of a modern puck chasing machine pours out while the opposition is shorthanded, was the dominating factor as the Montréal Canadiens edged the Toronto Leafs 3-2 at the Gardens Saturday night.
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Game 199
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, January 27, 1944
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs won a moral victory here tonight by earning a draw with the league leading Habitants 2-2, before the largest crowd of paying customers in the history of the Forum.
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Game 198
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 0
Tuesday, January 11, 1944
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Three major issues stood out as the second place Toronto Leafs squared off with the front running Montréal Canadiens at Maple Leaf Gardens last night. A crowd of 12,641, one of the largest of the season, wanted to know:
1. How good are the Canadiens?
2. How tough are the Canadiens?
3. How good is Bill Durnan?
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Game 197
Canadiens 6, Maple Leafs 3
Tuesday, January 4, 1944
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Leafs put on a rugged, tight checking exhibition against the Canadiens here tonight, but came out on the short end of the score, 6-3.
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Game 196
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 2
Saturday, December 11, 1943
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
“Teeder” Kennedy, a 17 year old youngster from Port Colborne, was a prolific scoring figure as the Toronto Leafs raided the lion’s den to throttle the Montréal Canadiens 4-2 at Maple Leaf Gardens Saturday night.
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Two Solitudes 