Playoff Game 57
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 4
Thursday, April 14, 1966
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
It will long be remembered as the night they smashed most of the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup penalty records, but last night’s game at the Gardens may have had an even more significant meaning.
It may have been the end of an era.
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Playoff Game 56
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 2
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 3
Tuesday, April 12, 1966
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Maple Leafs today are faced with the humiliating possibility that they will be eliminated from this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs without winning a game.
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Playoff Game 55
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 0
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 2
Saturday, April 9, 1966
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Somebody once called hockey “Murder On The Rocks.” The ingredients are simple: just pour the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montréal Canadiens over ice.
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Playoff Game 54
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 3
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 1
Thursday, April 7, 1966
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Before last night’s hockey game at The Forum, George Imlach came out of dressing room number 7, grinned and pointed to a photographer’s badge he was wearing on his lapel.
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Game 497
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Wednesday, March 30, 1966
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens made a heartening discovery at Maple Leaf Gardens last night.
They discovered goalkeeper Johnny Bower was human, and they pounced on his human errors for the third-period goals that gave them a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League.
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Game 496
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 0
Thursday, March 24, 1966
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
There is more money for the team that finishes first in the National Hockey League, but this season there is also a drawback.
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Game 495
Canadiens 7, Maple Leafs 2
Wednesday, March 16, 1966
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens scored early and shed blood late in the process of humiliating the Toronto Maple Leafs 7-2 last night.
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Game 494
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 0
Thursday, March 3, 1966
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
King Clancy leaped to his feet last night in the Forum press box and yelled to all within earshot:
“You are looking at the world champions.”
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Game 493
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 3
Wednesday, March 2, 1966
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The guy who coined that old phrase about a tie being the same as kissing your sister should have been in Maple Leaf Gardens last night.
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Game 492
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, February 16, 1966
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
It doesn’t seem like so long ago that Ron Ellis sat with a bowed head in the Maple Leaf dressing room and said quietly that he had lost his confidence as a hockey player.
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Game 491
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 4
Thursday, February 3, 1966
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Considering the odds against them, the Maple Leafs almost pulled their biggest upset of the National Hockey League season here last night.
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Game 490
Maple Leafs 6, Canadiens 0
Thursday, January 13, 1966
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs ended a three-game losing streak last night by whipping the Montréal Canadiens 6-0 in the Forum.
It was the worst beating Toe Blake’s Habs have taken in two years.
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Game 489
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2
Wednesday, December 29, 1965
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
People keep asking why the Maple Leafs have kept George Armstrong around so long, and “The Chief” gave them part of the answer last night at the Gardens.
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Game 488
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2
Thursday, December 16, 1965
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Maple Leafs are starting to make sounds like a hockey team and the conductor of Punch Imlach’s brassy little band is a big guy named Frank Mahovlich.
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Game 487
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 1
Wednesday, November 24, 1965
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens are back on top of the National Hockey League standing today, thanks to a little guy named Henri Richard, who always seems to be around whenever they need important goals.
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Game 486
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Thursday, November 18, 1965
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
If the Maple Leafs ever consider sending Eddie Shack to Rochester again, they will have to contend not only with the fans in Toronto – but the fans in Montréal, too.
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Game 485
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 3
Wednesday, November 10, 1965
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Maple Leafs tied the Montréal Canadiens 3-3 last night, but the 14,723 faithful at Maple Leaf Gardens accepted it as a victory.
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Game 484
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, November 4, 1965
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
A lonely bugler sits in the Montréal Forum. At his signal to charge, the hockey fans react vociferously and the Montréal Canadiens pour down the ice in a red wave.
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Two Solitudes 