Author: Master Of This Domain

Game 145
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 3
Saturday, December 4, 1937
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Workmen at Maple Leaf Gardens this morning probably are inspecting and repairing the side boards or the dasher, as some United States hockey scribes term it.

A lot of hockey players’ bodies were dashed into the dasher Saturday night, when Les Canadiens of Montréal held the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 3 to 3 tie in an overtime battle that was featured by a wild and woolly second period.
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Game 144
Canadiens 6, Maple Leafs 6
Thursday, November 18, 1937
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

SOS calls went out from the hockey ship Toronto Leafs this morning, as the crew came home skipper-less after a disastrous voyage through the treacherous ice floes of the Canadiens’ sea in Montréal last night.
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Game 143
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1
Thursday, March 18, 1937
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

Gordon Drillon’s third period goal gave the Toronto Maple Leafs a 2-1 victory over the Canadiens here tonight. The win gave the Leafs the necessary points to finish the season with a better record than the New York Rangers, whom they will meet in the playoffs.
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Game 142
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1 (OT)
Saturday, March 6, 1937
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Throw up the caution signals – here comes the Maple Leafs’ NHL playoff special.

Dick Irvin and his puck engineers roared along to their third straight victory – the longest run of the season – as they vanquished the sectional leading Canadiens by 3 to 1 in overtime Saturday night.
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Game 141
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Thursday, February 25, 1937
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

Two first period goals provided the Toronto Leafs enough margin for a 3-1 National Hockey League triumph tonight over the section leading Montréal Canadiens. The victory brought the Leafs within three points of second place.
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Game 140
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Tuesday, January 26, 1937
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Les Canadiens increased their lead in the international section of the NHL here tonight by registering their first victory of the season on local ice. The score was three to one in a cleanly played contest before about 11,167 fans, who saw play veer from wide open to strictly defensive tactics by the Habitants.
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Game 139
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1
Saturday, January 9, 1937
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Sixty minutes of speed and action. That’s what some 13,000 thrilled fans witnessed at Maple Leaf Gardens on Saturday night, as Toronto’s aroused Leafs turned back the high Flying Frenchmen from Montréal 2 to 1.
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Game 138
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, January 7, 1937
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

Montréal’s high riding Canadiens opened up a six point lead on the National Hockey League’s Canadian section tonight by defeating the third place Toronto Leafs 4 to 1 in a hard checking game before 6,500 fans.
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Game 137
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 2
Saturday, November 28, 1936
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

The Maple Leafs had a little too much “English” on their shots for the Flying Frenchmen here Saturday night and, as a result, the Montréalers bowed for the second time in three nights by a 4 to 3 tally.
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Game 136
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 2
Thursday, November 26, 1936
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

The Toronto Leafs came home this morning only half convinced that their jinx had been finally banished.
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Game 135
Maple Leafs 6, Canadiens 3
Thursday, March 12, 1936
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

The Toronto Maple Leafs, with curly haired Bill Thoms playing the star role, staged a six goal scoring outburst in the third period here tonight to defeat the Montréal Canadiens 6 to 3, and end virtually all hopes of the French team entering the National Hockey League playoffs.
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Game 134
Maple Leafs 8, Canadiens 1
Saturday, March 7, 1936
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Spotting the Canadiens the first goal of the contest, the Leafs on Saturday night went on to win by 8 goals to 1, probably the most lopsided score of the whole NHL season.
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Game 133
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1
Thursday, February 20, 1936
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

It was “Shareholders’ Night” at Maple Leaf Gardens last evening, and Conn Smythe’s hired help gladdened the hearts of 8,727 “pew holders” by handing the Montréal Canadiens and their fond playoff hopes to a 2 to 1 setback.
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Game 132
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 0
Thursday, January 30, 1936
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

The bid of the Toronto Maple Leafs for first place in the National Hockey League’s Canadian section was shattered by the brilliance of slim Wilf Cude tonight, as the Canadiens protected him faultlessly to give the Welshman his fifth shutout victory of the season – a 3-0 triumph that enabled the Habitants to keep pace with the New York Americans in the battle for third place.
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Game 131
Canadiens 7, Maple Leafs 3
Saturday, January 11, 1936
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Can you picture the famous Flying Frenchmen of yesteryear – when the great Howie Morenz was at his best and Les Canadiens were perennial pace-setters in professional hockey?
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Game 130
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 0
Thursday, December 26, 1935
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

A brilliant exhibition by George Hainsworth in goal carried the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 2-0 shutout victory over the Canadiens tonight in a turbulent National Hockey League game that saw an uproarious demonstration by the rush-end crowd, which held up play for more than twenty minutes in the third period, as the ice was littered with coppers, half a dozen empty bottles, and papers.
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Game 129
Maple Leafs 8, Canadiens 3
Saturday, November 30, 1935
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Outplaying the Habitants in every department, the Toronto Maple Leafs Saturday night defeated “Les Canadiens” 8 to 3, and were full value and more for their margin.
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Game 128
Maple Leafs 7, Canadiens 2
Tuesday, November 19, 1935
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

A four goal scoring splurge in the second period was the finishing blow as the Toronto Maple Leafs sped to a 7 to 2 triumph over the Canadiens here tonight in their first National Hockey League meeting of the season, in a game that was fast and wide open most of the way.
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Game 127
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 3
Saturday, March 16, 1935
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

The evening was not officially dedicated to him, but Charlie Conacher, the Maple Leafs’ brilliant right winger, convinced the crowd of over 10,000 spectators, including 9,540 cash customers, that it was his night when he and his teammates beat the Montréal Canadiens at the Gardens on Saturday evening by 5 to 3.
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Game 126
Maple Leafs 10, Canadiens 3
Tuesday, March 5, 1935
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

The Toronto Maple Leafs turned on all their power tonight to swap the Montréal Canadiens under a 10-3 score for the highest total in the National Hockey League since Detroit scored 11 goals against St. Louis’ 2 on December 13.
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Game 125
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 3
Thursday, January 17, 1935
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

In a high speed encounter, the Montréal Canadiens nosed out the Toronto Maple Leafs 4 to 3 at the Forum here tonight, before a crowd of approximately 7,500 wildly excited spectators in a regular National Hockey League game.
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Game 124
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Saturday, January 5, 1935
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

With all the scoring confined to the third period, the Maple Leafs registered their sixteenth victory of the season at Maple Leaf Gardens on Saturday night, when they inflicted a 3 to 1 defeat on the Montréal Canadiens. The official attendance was 8,742.
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Game 123
Maple Leafs 6, Canadiens 2
Tuesday, December 25, 1934
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

The Toronto Maple Leafs rammed a 6-2 defeat down the Montréal Canadiens’ Christmas stocking here tonight, and gave a holiday crowd a smart demonstration of why they are the leading team in the National Hockey League today.
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Game 122
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1 (OT)
Saturday, November 10, 1934
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

The Montréal Canadiens were within ten seconds of a victory over the Maple Leafs at the Gardens on Saturday evening, but that great little opportunist, Ken Doraty, scored the tying counter and forced the game into overtime.
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Game 121
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2 (OT)
Tuesday, February 20, 1934
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

The old firm of Aurèle Joliat and Howie Morenz kept the Montréal Canadiens in third place of the Canadian Section standing of the National Hockey League with an overtime goal that gave the Flying Frenchmen a 3-2 win over the league leading Toronto Maple Leafs before 9,000 excited fans here tonight.
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