Category: 1950-51

Playoff Game 26 – Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2 (OT)

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Playoff Game 26
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2 (OT)
Stanley Cup Finals, Game 5
Saturday, April 21, 1951
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Toronto’s hockey Leafs out-Ripleyed the believe-it-or-not script writers to carry the final scene of one of the most dramatic playoff productions in the history of Canadian sport at the Gardens Saturday night.

In unbelievable fashion, the Leafs powered from behind to tie the score with 32 seconds left and their goalie on the bench in favour of a sixth attacker. Then they went on to sweep a great Montréal team from the arena, 3-2, in the fifth consecutive sudden death overtime heart buster. Thus, the Stanley Cup returned to Toronto for the fourth time in five years, the Leafs taking the history making “sudden death series” four games to one.
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Playoff Game 25 – Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2 (OT)

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Playoff Game 25
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2 (OT)
Stanley Cup Finals, Game 4
Thursday, April 19, 1951
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

Major league hockey’s record smashing Stanley Cup final series needed another brief but dramatic session of sudden death overtime to declare a winner here tonight.
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Playoff Game 24 – Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1 (OT)

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Playoff Game 24
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1 (OT)
Stanley Cup Finals, Game 3
Tuesday, April 17, 1951
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

Captain “Teeder” Kennedy figuratively scooped the puck from his own net into the webbing of the enemy to turn almost certain defeat into a stunning 2-1 victory for the Toronto Maple Leafs against the Montréal Canadiens here tonight.
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Playoff Game 23 – Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2 (OT)

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Playoff Game 23
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2 (OT)
Stanley Cup Finals, Game 2
Saturday, April 14, 1951
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Hockey lightning in the human form of “Rocket” Richard struck at a playoff goalie for the third time in the 1951 Stanley Cup series at the Gardens Saturday night. And the deluge of cheers in far-off Montréal, heralding a 3-2 sudden death extra time victory for the Canadiens over the Toronto Maple Leafs, must have been thunderous.
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Playoff Game 22 – Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2 (OT)

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Playoff Game 22
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2 (OT)
Stanley Cup Finals, Game 1
Wednesday, April 11, 1951
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Sid Smith, the Toronto-born hockey player with an unrehearsed flair for the dramatic, pulled all the Hollywood stops as he poked home the payoff goal for his Maple Leafs against the Montréal Canadiens last night.
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Game 284 – Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1

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Game 284
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, February 7, 1951
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Ted Kennedy’s Maple Leaf line, apparently back in full point-getting bloom, potted the entire three goal output last night as the captain and his kids skated hard to a 3-1 nod over the once-infamous Montréal Canadiens.
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Game 280 – Maple Leafs 6, Canadiens 1

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Game 280
Maple Leafs 6, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, December 20, 1950
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

With heavyweights Harry Watson and Fern Flaman capably taking care of extra-curricular fistic activities, the Toronto Maple Leafs literally walloped the Montréal Canadiens at the Gardens last night. The score of the hockey game was 6-1.
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Game 277 – Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 1

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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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