Game 120 – Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 2

Game 120
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 2
Saturday, February 10, 1934
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

The Maple Leafs registered their twentieth victory of the season at the expense of the Montréal Canadiens at the Gardens on Saturday night, and did it in a manner most pleasing to the largest crowd the Carlton Street hockey parlour has housed in two years.
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Game 119 – Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1

Game 119
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, January 4, 1934
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

Dazzling speed that the Maple Leafs could not match sent the Montréal Canadiens hustling to a 4 to 1 victory over the Toronto Leafs before 9,000 people here tonight. The Canadiens, secure in second place in the Canadian section of the National Hockey League, edged two points closer to the leading Leafs.
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Game 118 – Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1

Game 118
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Saturday, December 16, 1933
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Lorne Chabot’s shutout spell over his former teammates was shattered on Saturday night at Maple Leaf Gardens, when the Leafs defeated the Montréal Canadiens by 3 to 1, and extended their lead over the second place holders in the sectional standing of the National Hockey League.
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Game 116 – Canadiens 1, Maple Leafs 0

Game 116
Canadiens 1, Maple Leafs 0
Saturday, November 25, 1933
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

They call them the Flying Frenchmen, but they don’t live up to that title any more. By comparison with the Maple Leafs on Saturday night they were painfully slow, but speed isn’t much use if it doesn’t bring goals, and in spite of the fact that the Leafs outskated them, outshot them and outplayed them by a considerable margin, the Canadiens won the game 1 to 0.
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Game 115 – Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 3

Game 115
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 3
Thursday, March 2, 1933
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

The Canadiens downed the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 here tonight, in a wild and woolly National Hockey League battle, with 10,000 fans looking on. The Red Shirts’ victory tonight was their third in three starts against the Stanley Cup holders, giving them another two points in their race for a playoff berth, and a tie with the New York Americans for the vital third place position.
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Game 113 – Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 0

Game 113
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 0
Tuesday, February 7, 1933
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

The veterans of Les Canadiens, some of them fighting for their jobs, led the Flying Frenchmen to a 2-0 victory over the champion Toronto Maple Leafs in a National Hockey League game here tonight, before a near capacity crowd of 11,500.
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Game 112 – Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 2

Game 112
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 2
Saturday, January 28, 1933
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Lacking something of the old skim and skittishness of their prominent past, but still fully capable of making the opposition travel full out to beat them, the Montréal Canadiens, often referred to as those Flying Frenchmen or the Hurtling Habitants, were unable to prevent the Maple Leafs from beating them for the third time this season at Maple Leaf Gardens on Saturday night.
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Game 110 – Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 0

Game 110
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 0
Thursday, November 24, 1932
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Planting two shots in the cage behind George Hainsworth in the middle of a rousing second period, the Maple Leafs handed the Montréal Canadiens the short end of a 2 to 0 count in their first meeting of the present National Hockey League campaign at Maple Leaf Gardens last night.
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Game 108 – Maple Leafs 1, Canadiens 1

Game 108
Maple Leafs 1, Canadiens 1
Saturday, March 5, 1932
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Thwarted of victory by referee Mallinson’s decision in the first period and a goal by the great Howie Morenz in the third period, the Maple Leafs were forced to share the points with Les Canadiens at Maple Leaf Gardens on Saturday night before a record crowd of 14,450 fans. The game ended in a one all tie after ten minutes of overtime.
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Game 107 – Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 0

Game 107
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 0
Saturday, January 23, 1932
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Two goals, one scored close to the end of the first period when the Canadiens were a man short through a penalty, and the other within thirty seven seconds of the end of the game, served to give the Maple Leafs a shutout victory over the world’s professional hockey champions at Maple Leaf Gardens on Saturday night before 13,200 spectators.
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Game 106 – Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1

Game 106
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, January 21, 1932
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

In their eagerness to score a goal that would tie the score, the Toronto Maple Leafs took Lorne Chabot out of the goal cage and put six forwards on the ice with twelve seconds to go in their game with the Canadiens here tonight. Aurèle Joliat plugged a shot into the vacant cage and gave the Canadiens a 3-1 win.
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Game 105 – Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 0 (OT)

Game 105
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 0 (OT)
Saturday, December 26, 1931
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

On the race courses it is said that a thoroughbred generally “comes through.” In hockey it is just the same. After sixty two minutes of play on Saturday evening at Maple Leaf Gardens, during which the Canadiens and Maple Leafs battled desperately to break a goalless tie, Howie Morenz, a real thoroughbred of the hockey game took advantage of the shorthandedness of the locals and drilled a shot past Lorne Chabot to give the Canadiens the margin and the encouragement they needed, and, with the Leafs battling hard, every man up on the line in a desperate effort to score the equalizer, Joliat and Lépine broke away to again beat Chabot and take the decision 2 to 0.
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Game 104 – Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1 (OT)

Game 104
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1 (OT)
Thursday, December 24, 1931
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

A goal in the last minute of overtime broke a 1-1 tie and gave the Toronto Maple Leafs a 2-1 Christmas Eve victory over the Canadiens in a fast skating National Hockey League match here tonight. Harvey Jackson beat Hainsworth on a neat pass from Primeau, andthe Leafs edged out a win and cemented their hold on the top rung of the Canadian section ladder.
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Game 102 – Maple Leafs 1, Canadiens 1

Game 102
Maple Leafs 1, Canadiens 1
Saturday, November 14, 1931
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Two goals, one to each team, both coming in the second period, were the sum total of the efforts of the speedy Montréal Canadiens and their rivals, the no less speedy Maple Leafs, in Saturday night’s NHL fixture at Maple Leaf Gardens.
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Game 101 – Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 5

Game 101
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 5
Saturday, February 28, 1931
Arena Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

In one of the most tempestuous National League games of hockey the two teams have ever participated in here, the Maple Leafs and Canadiens played a 5-all overtime draw at the Arena Gardens on Saturday night, before a wildly exuberant capacity crowd.
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Game 099 – Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1

Game 099
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Saturday, January 17, 1931
Arena Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Gaining a two goal margin in the opening period and dominating the play practically throughout, the Maple Leafs inflicted a 3 to 1 defeat upon Les Canadiens at the Arena Gardens on Saturday night, while another capacity crowd looked on.
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Game 098 – Canadiens 6, Maple Leafs 1

Game 098
Canadiens 6, Maple Leafs 1
Saturday, January 10, 1931
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

Those Flying Frenchmen literally flew tonight to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6 to 1, and regain first place in the International section of the NHL. The Canadiens dazzled the Leafs with blinding speed, and gave one of the most brilliant performances they have shown this season.
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Game 097 – Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1

Game 097
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1
Saturday, January 3, 1931
Arena Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Before the largest crowd that ever packed its way into the Arena Gardens, the Maple Leafs entered into a second place tie with the Canadiens on Saturday night by defeating the Flying Frenchmen in a dazzling NHL fixture by 2 to 1. It was Toronto’s third straight victory.
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Game 096 – Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 1

Game 096
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 1
Tuesday, December 9, 1930
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

The Canadian section of the National Hockey League had a new leader tonight, the Montréal Canadiens, world champions, taking a 2 to 1 last period victory over the crippled Toronto Maple Leafs here to go into the top berth.
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