Playoff Game 35
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 0
Stanley Cup Finals, Game 4
Thursday, April 14, 1960
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens, who have not acquired the bad habit of losing playoff games, won their fifth successive Stanley Cup in the Gardens last night by blanking the outclassed Maple Leafs 4-0.
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Playoff Game 34
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 2
Stanley Cup Finals, Game 3
Tuesday, April 12, 1960
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens, moving inexorably toward their fifth successive Stanley Cup, stopped the energetic Maple Leafs 5-2 in the Gardens last night to move into a 3-0 lead in this best of seven final.
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Playoff Game 33
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 1
Stanley Cup Finals, Game 2
Saturday, April 9, 1960
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens employed a familiar formula for a 2-1 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs, and a 2-0 lead in the Stanley Cup final, in the Forum here Saturday night.
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Playoff Game 32
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2
Stanley Cup Finals, Game 1
Thursday, April 7, 1960
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens, despite a peculiar relapse in the last two periods, defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-2, in the first game of the Stanley Cup best of seven final in the Forum here tonight.
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Game 413
Maple Leafs 6, Canadiens 2
Thursday, March 17, 1960
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
It took them 68 games to do it, but the Toronto Maple Leafs finally won a game in the Montréal Forum, a jolting 6-2 defeat of the Montréal Canadiens, here tonight before a disbelieving crowd of 14,695.
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Game 412
Canadiens 9, Maple Leafs 4
Wednesday, March 9, 1960
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Those fanciful rumours that the Montréal Canadiens’ monopoly on the Stanley Cup might be in jeopardy seemed far fetched in the Gardens last night, when the consummate Canadiens demolished the Maple Leafs 9-4.
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Game 411
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, March 3, 1960
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens, barely wounded by a lethargic first period, recovered vigorously in the next 40 minutes to record a 5-1 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs in a pallid National Hockey League game here tonight.
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Game 410
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, February 24, 1960
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
There was no doubt about it last night – the Maple Leafs CAN beat the Montréal Canadiens.
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Game 409
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, February 10, 1960
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Rumours that Maurice “Rocket” Richard was in a state of shinny decrepitude appeared far fetched (also ridiculous) in the Gardens last night, as he supervised the Montréal Canadiens to a 4-2 win over the dejected Maple Leafs.
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Game 408
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, February 4, 1960
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens lengthened their National Hockey League lead to 19 points with an emphatic 4-2 win over the second place Toronto Maple Leafs tonight.
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Game 407
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, January 14, 1960
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens, although confronted by Johnny Bower’s outstanding goalkeeping, downed the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 in a loosely played National Hockey League game here tonight.
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Game 406
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, December 30, 1959
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Guess who outshot and slightly outplayed the Montréal Canadiens in the Gardens last night? The Maple Leafs.
Guess who won? The Canadiens, 3-2.
Who’s going to beat the top running Habitants out of another National Hockey League championship? Nobody, that’s who.
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Game 405
Canadiens 8, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, December 17, 1959
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Rumours that the Montréal Canadiens were floundering in a slump were not substantiated here tonight, as the skillful Canadiens overwhelmed the Toronto Maple Leafs 8-2 in a National Hockey League game.
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Game 404
Maple Leafs 1, Canadiens 0
Wednesday, December 2, 1959
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens, undefeated for 18 games, finally capitulated in the Gardens last night when the resourceful Maple Leafs whipped them 1-0 in a National Hockey League spectacular.
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Game 403
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Saturday, November 21, 1959
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Goalies Jacques Plante of the Montréal Canadiens and Johnny Bower of the Maple Leafs presented strong advertising for protective facial masks here Saturday night. Plante wore one and Bower should have.
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Game 402
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 0
Thursday, November 12, 1959
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens, who should be awarded first place by acclamation before many more National Hockey League games, blanked the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-0 in another exhibition of class here tonight.
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Game 401
Maple Leafs 1, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, October 28, 1959
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens, who were supposed to be reeling in fatigue with their fourth game in five nights, gambolled friskily to a 1-1 tie with the Maple Leafs in the Gardens last night.
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Game 400
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, October 15, 1959
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens, flaunting their class outrageously in the first period, defeated the determined Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2 in a National Hockey League game here tonight.
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Two Solitudes 