Game 301
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 0
Wednesday, March 19, 1952
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Stanley Cup hockey was flowing off the Montréal bench at Maple Leaf Gardens last night, and it showed clearly in a glittering 3-0 decision the Habitants posted over the Maple Leafs.
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Game 300
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, March 13, 1952
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Ides of March came a couple of days early for the Maple Leafs, but they can spend the extra time fitting themselves mentally for first round Stanley Cup jousting with the Detroit Red Wings.
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Game 299
Maple Leafs 6, Canadiens 2
Wednesday, March 5, 1952
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens were hit hard, right where their pride shows, last night as the Maple Leafs matched them rookie for rookie and thrashed the Habs into the ice with a 6-2 victory.
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Game 298
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, February 14, 1952
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Three Montréal candidates for the Calder Trophy didn’t lose a vote in the Forum tonight as they each fired a scoring shot, as the Canadiens subdued the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 in a game that left the Montréalers only one point behind their second place victims.
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Game 297
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2
Saturday, February 9, 1952
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
When that Florida commuting hockey oracle, Conn Smythe, laid down the articles on rookie procedure some time ago, he stressed the fact that it was quite easy to select the pure quill from the run of the mill. “The real thing,” orated the oracle, “will do something big in his first game. He will make a key play, he will save a sure goal, or he may even score a winning goal.”
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Game 296
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, January 23, 1952
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The “Rocket”-less Montréal Canadiens fired a youth-charged burst of goals Torontoward to defeat the Maple Leafs 4-2 before 13,329 fans at Maple Leaf Gardens last night. It was the fifth win for the Habs in the last six games between the two teams.
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Game 295
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, January 17, 1952
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Dick Irvin, who was badly mauled in a recent battle of words with Frank Boucher, got up off the floor to level another Kitty-Bar-the-Door blast at the Toronto Maple Leafs today. He may have a little trouble making the charge stick after tonight’s 2-2 tie between the Leafs and Canadiens.
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Game 294
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, January 3, 1952
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Revealing smarter and faster legs, the Montréal Canadiens kicked the Toronto Maple Leafs into third position tonight on a 3-1 decision that broke an NHL second place deadlock between the two bitter rivals.
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Game 293
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, December 26, 1951
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Appearing slightly overstuffed, the Maple Leafs scrambled through one of their poorer efforts last night and dropped a 3-2 nod to “The Rocket”-less, rebuilding Montréal Canadiens.
The Gardens game, sometimes rugged and sometimes dull, had plenty more rule infractions than suggested by the only two penalties imposed.
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Game 292
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, December 20, 1951
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
A last period penalty to Tod Sloan opened the scoring dikes for the Montréal Canadiens tonight, and they rifled in three fast goals to submerge the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1.
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Game 291
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, November 29, 1951
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Maple Leafs absorbed their worst trouncing of the season tonight – a 5-1 defeat by the Montréal Canadiens – and lost the services of their promising rookie rearguard, Hugh Bolton, in doing it.
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Game 290
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 2
Saturday, November 24, 1951
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Those colourful Westerners aren’t toting the Grey Cup on the long ride home, but they’re fairly certain to be carrying some good words for big time hockey.
There were scores of the big-hatted ones among the season’s largest crowd – 14,580 – at Maple Leaf Gardens Saturday night, and most stared wide-eyed as the Leafs bounced both a hometown jinx and the Montréal Canadiens on a 4-2 decision.
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Game 289
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 2
Thursday, November 1, 1951
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The slow burning fuse that was ignited at Maple Leaf Gardens 24 hours earlier reached the gunpowder chamber tonight.
The explosion left in the rubble a few items like a 4-2 win for Toronto over Montréal, game misconducts and automatic $50 fines to “Rocket” Richard and Fern Flaman, and assorted other majors for inflicting wounds on assorted bodies.
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Game 288
Maple Leafs 1, Canadiens 0
Wednesday, October 31, 1951
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The great “Rocket” Richard deliberately swung his stick at a couple of rail seat spectators last night amid a hard fought 1-0 Maple Leaf triumph over the Montréal Canadiens.
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Two Solitudes 