Playoff Game 71
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 4 (OT)
Stanley Cup Quarterfinals, Game 4
Sunday, April 22, 1979
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Larry Robinson scored the winning goal at 4:14 of overtime while the Toronto Maple Leafs’ David “Tiger” Williams was in the penalty box last night and the Montréal Canadiens beat the Leafs 5-4 to sweep the Stanley Cup best-of-seven quarter final in four games.
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Playoff Game 70
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 3 (2OT)
Stanley Cup Quarterfinals, Game 3
Saturday, April 21, 1979
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
They remade Cinderella last night at Maple Leaf Gardens and cast the unlikeliest actor they could find in the starting role.
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Playoff Game 69
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 1
Stanley Cup Quarterfinals, Game 2
Wednesday, April 18, 1979
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Guy Lafleur recorded his second four-point night in two games as the Montréal Canadiens defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-1 last night to lead their Stanley Cup best-of-seven quarter-final playoff series 2-0.
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Playoff Game 68
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 2
Stanley Cup Quarterfinals, Game 1
Monday, April 16, 1979
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Guy Lafleur and Jacques Lemaire, two of the main men Toronto Maple Leaf coach Roger Neilson said his club had to control if it hoped to drink from the National Hockey League Stanley Cup, last night showed why their potentially vast contributions to the Montréal Canadiens must be neutralized.
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Game 584
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 1
Thursday, March 1, 1979
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
When Jacques Lemaire scored with 1:25 left in the game to cap a two-goal Montréal comeback in the third period last night, it meant more than a 2-1 National Hockey League loss for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Game 583
Canadiens 6, Maple Leafs 3
Saturday, February 3, 1979
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
At weddings, they throw rice. That’s tradition.
At the end of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 6-3 loss to the Montréal Canadiens Saturday night, a fan threw a roll of toilet paper. That, in the fan’s mind, might also become tradition.
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Game 582
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2
Saturday, November 11, 1978
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Coach Scotty Bowman thought his Montréal Canadiens won because of their success at killing penalties. Toronto Maple Leaf coach Roger Neilson felt it was because of the penalties that were being assessed.
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Game 581
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 4
Wednesday, October 25, 1978
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Toronto Maple Leaf captain Darryl Sittler was more in a mood to ask questions than answer them after the Montréal Canadiens tied the Leafs 4-4 last night.
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Preseason Game 15
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 2
Saturday, October 7, 1978
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
It took until the end of the National Hockey League exhibition schedule, but the Toronto Maple Leafs finally have their act together.
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Preseason Game 14
Canadiens 9, Maple Leafs 3
Wednesday, September 27, 1978
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens are such a complete hockey machine that coach Scotty Bowman will have trouble deciding which players are the spare parts before the National Hockey League waiver draft early in October.
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Two Solitudes 