When was the leafs last cup

The Maple Leafs were the clear underdogs, yet after dropping the first game of the series at Chicago Stadium, Toronto won four out of five to advance to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since three-peating from Montreal swept the New York Rangers in the other semifinal series to set up an all-Canadian Stanley Cup for the first time since This Maple Leafs team was a veteran group with an average age of nearly There was nothing particularly remarkable about this Maple Leafs team for much of the season, but as Keon, who was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy, said in a interview, he and his teammates peaked at the right time.

Some people are asked to do a little bit more and they have to do that, too. But everybody has to sacrifice and discipline themselves. You have to understand the difference between winning and losing is tiny. Bower earned a shutout in Game 2 and Pulford scored in double overtime of Game 3 to put the Leafs ahead in the series. Toronto was lit up in Game 4 and Bower was injured, but Toronto took a pivotal Game 5 at the Montreal Forum to set up an opportunity to become champs in front of the home crowd at Maple Leaf Gardens.

The Leafs finished the season in third place and under the strange rules of the six-team National Hockey League , this meant that they would play the first-place Chicago Black Hawks in the first round of the playoffs.

The fourth-place team played the second-place team. In one of his controlling antics, Imlach flew the team to Peterborough , Ontario , and put them through a boot camp that made the players resent him even more. The Black Hawks were heavily favoured. The exhausted Leafs suffered a 5—2 thrashing in the opener and flew back to Peterborough.

This time Imlach eased up and the Leafs shocked the Hawks 3—1 in game two. Back in Toronto on 11 April, the Leafs won 3—1 again, but on 13 April, Chicago got back on track, winning 4—3.

In the most dramatic moment of the series, Leafs goalie Terry Sawchuk was felled by a blast from Bobby Hull during the critical game five in Chicago.

He lay inert on the ice for a minute but stayed in the game and the Leafs prevailed 4—2. Another pattern had established itself now, as the line of Stemkowski, Pappin and Pulford which Clancy had assembled became the scoring leaders, and journeyman Larry Hillman and ex-Red Wing Marcel Pronovost became the standout defensive pair.

The Leafs' opponent in the final was the Montreal Canadiens. The Canadiens had swept them the year before in the playoffs and had just gone straight games without losing 12 wins and 3 ties , including a sweep of the Rangers in the other semifinal. The psychology had no effect in the first game, however, which Montreal won 6—2. Bower was back in net and played brilliantly. In Toronto for game three, the Leafs' fate hung in the balance through two overtime periods before Bob Pulford scored what he always considered the most important goal of his career.

Following the Chicago pattern, however, the Leafs lost another Thursday game on 27 April, losing 6—2. Game five was the critical game. Dick Duff. Ralph Backstrom. John Ferguson. Leon Rochefort. Dave Balon. Jimmy Roberts. Ted Harris.

Claude Larose. Gilles Tremblay. Terry Harper. Jacques Laperriere. Claude Provost. Jean-Guy Talbot. Rogie Vachon. Gump Worsley. Jim Pappin. Bob Pulford. Pete Stemkowski. Tim Horton. Mike Walton. Red Kelly. Dave Keon. Brian Conacher. Ron Ellis. Larry Hillman.

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