Playoff Game 53
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 3 (OT)
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 6
Tuesday, April 13, 1965
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Toronto Maple Leafs’ three year possession of the Stanley Cup ended last night after the defending champions had given their finest playoff performance.
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Playoff Game 52
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 5
Saturday, April 10, 1965
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs staggered to the last step from Stanley Cup elimination Saturday night, 3-1 victims of the Montréal Canadiens.
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Playoff Game 51
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 2
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 4
Thursday, April 8, 1965
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Toronto Maple Leafs jumped off Johnny Bower’s shoulders long enough to score three last-period goals and steal a 4-2 victory from the Montréal Canadiens last night that tied their Stanley Cup series 2-2.
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Playoff Game 50
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2 (OT)
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 3
Tuesday, April 6, 1965
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Dave Keon swept a backhander under goalie Gump Worsley after 4 minutes and 17 seconds of sudden-death overtime last night, to turn a routine icing infraction into a dramatic climax to the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 3-2 victory over the Montréal Canadiens.
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Playoff Game 49
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 2
Saturday, April 3, 1965
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Once again failure to produce a maximum effort in an important game has placed the Toronto Maple Leafs in jeopardy of abdicating their Stanley Cup reign.
It’s been a common story this season.
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Playoff Game 48
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 1
Thursday, April 1, 1965
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens outrode the storm of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ roughhouse tactics to win the opening game of their Stanley Cup semifinal, 3-2, here last night.
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Playoff Game 47
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 7
Thursday, April 9, 1964
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Dave Keon put them in and Johnny Bower kept them out, and between them they escorted the Toronto Maple Leafs into the Stanley Cup final round with a 3-1 victory over the Montréal Canadiens last night.
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Playoff Game 46
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 0
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 6
Tuesday, April 7, 1964
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Johnny Bower gave the back of his hand to adversity and nothing at all to the Montréal Canadiens last night, as he guided the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 3-0 win over the Habitants.
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Playoff Game 45
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 5
Saturday, April 4, 1964
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens used two soft goals and another into an empty net to hustle their way to a 4-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs Saturday night.
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Playoff Game 44
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 3
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 4
Thursday, April 2, 1964
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Frank Mahovlich, the hockey player who has all the skills to lead the Leafs to another Stanley Cup, is confounding to dietitians.
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Playoff Game 43
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 3
Tuesday, March 31, 1964
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Bob Pulford threw himself a birthday party last night but his friends gave the presents to his enemies.
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Playoff Game 42
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 1
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 2
Saturday, March 28, 1964
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Frank Mahovlich was “The Big M” again Saturday night.
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Playoff Game 41
Canadiens 2, Maple Leafs 0
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 1
Thursday, March 26, 1964
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens powered past the Toronto Maple Leafs last night for a 2-0 victory in the opening game of their Stanley Cup best-of-seven semifinal series.
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Playoff Game 40
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 0
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 5
Thursday, April 4, 1963
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Toronto Maple Leafs, launched once again by their brilliant young centre, Dave Keon, and sustained by their aging but agile goaltender John Bower, reached the Stanley Cup finals for the fourth time in five years, shutting out the Montréal Canadiens 5-0 last night in Maple Leaf Gardens.
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Playoff Game 39
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 4
Tuesday, April 2, 1963
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens emphatically ended their nine game winless skein against the Toronto Maple Leafs last night, out-checking, out-skating and out-hustling the Leafs for the 3-1 victory which prolonged the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup semifinal series.
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Playoff Game 38
Maple Leafs 2, Canadiens 0
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 3
Saturday, March 30, 1963
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs shattered three playoff jinxes here Saturday night and the winning parlay convinced the 14,773 in the Forum that, for this National Hockey League season anyway, the Leafs are masters of the Montréal Canadiens.
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Playoff Game 37
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 2
Thursday, March 28, 1963
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
A combination of masterful puck manipulation by the Toronto Maple Leafs’ Dave Keon, and an unsuccessful gamble by Montréal Canadiens goalie Jacques Plante, added up to the Leafs’ 3-2 victory in the second game of the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup semifinal series in Maple Leaf Gardens last night.
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Playoff Game 36
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 1
Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 1
Tuesday, March 26, 1963
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Toronto Maple Leafs, three goals ahead early in the second period, easily defeated the Montréal Canadiens 3-1 last night as the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup playoffs opened before the smallest crowd of the season in Maple Leaf Gardens, 13,800.
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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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Playoff Game 31
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 3
Stanley Cup Finals, Game 5
Saturday, April 18, 1959
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Montréal Canadiens won an unprecedented fourth successive Stanley Cup here Saturday night, by defeating the irreverent Toronto Maple Leafs 5-3 in the fifth game of the final round.
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Playoff Game 30
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2
Stanley Cup Finals, Game 4
Thursday, April 16, 1959
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Montréal Canadiens have been looking for a cure for Bernie Geoffrion’s tummy ache all season, and they may have found it in Maple Leaf Gardens last night – a potion composed of one goal and two assists.
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Playoff Game 29
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2 (OT)
Stanley Cup Finals, Game 3
Tuesday, April 14, 1959
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
One swift thrust by dynamic Dick Duff at 10:06 of sudden death overtime gave the Maple Leafs a dramatic 3-2 win over the Montréal Canadiens in the third game of the Stanley Cup final in the Gardens last night.
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Two Solitudes 