Year-By-Year Highlights, Scores and Rosters

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1949-1940   1939-1930   1929-1920   1919-1910   1909-1900   1899-1893

1939   1938   1937   1936   1935   1934   1933   1932   1931   1930  

1939

The NHL expanded the Stanley Cup Final to a best-of-seven format, though it took the Bruins only five games to defeat the Maple Leafs.

Boston goaltender Frank Brimsek held Toronto to just six goals in five games as the Bruins took the Cup for the first time in 10 seasons.

Mel Hill of Boston, who earlier set an NHL record with three overtime goals in the first round of the playoffs, scored twice in the series, and Bill Cowley led all playoff scorers with 11 assists and 14 points, setting modern-era playoff records in both categories.

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1938-39 – Boston Bruins – Bobby Bauer, Mel Hill, Flash Hollett, Roy Conacher, Gord Pettinger, Charlie Sands, Milt Schmidt, Woody Dumart, Jack Crawford, Ray Getliffe, Frank Brimsek, Eddie Shore, Dit Clapper, Bill Cowley, Jack Portland, Red Hamill, Harry Frost, Cooney Weiland (Captain), Art Ross (Manager/Coach), Win Green (Trainer).

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1938

The Black Hawks faced the start of the Stanley Cup Final without goaltender Mike Karakas, who had played every game during the season but broke his big toe on April 3. Chicago was forced to sign journeyman netminder Alfie Moore, who played game one and posted a win in his only Stanley Cup Final appearance.

Following the victory, NHL President Frank Calder ruled Moore ineligible for further play, and Chicago had to call on minor-league goalie Paul Goodman, who lost his first NHL start in game two.

Karakas finally returned with a steel-capped boot to protect his toe and won both starts, while teammate Doc Romnes wore a football helmet to guard a broken nose and scored the winning goal in game three before a record crowd of 18,497.

Eight American-born players — Karakas, Romnes, Alex Levinsky, Carl Voss, Cully Dahlstrom, Roger Jenkins, Lou Trudel and Virgil Johnson — skated for the Black Hawks to set a record (not broken until 1995) for U.S. talent on a Cup winner.

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1937-38 – Chicago Black Hawks – Art Wiebe, Carl Voss, Harold Jackson, Mike Karakas, Mush March, Jack Shill, Earl Seibert, Cully Dahlstrom, Alex Levinsky, Johnny Gottselig (Captain), Lou Trudel, Pete Palangio, Bill MacKenzie, Doc Romnes, Paul Thompson, Roger Jenkins, Alfie Moore, Bert Connelly, Virgil Johnson, Paul Goodman, Bill Stewart (Manager/Coach), Eddie Froelich (Trainer).

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1937

The Rangers, turned away from Madison Square Garden once again by the incoming circus after game one, agreed to play the remainder of the series on Detroit’s home ice.

First-year goaltender Earl Robertson, who would never play a regular-season game for the Red Wings during his career, became the first rookie netminder to post two shutouts in the Final, blanking the Rangers in the last two games of the series.

With their second straight Stanley Cup title, Detroit became the first U.S.-based squad to repeat as champions.

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1936-37 – Detroit Red Wings – Normie Smith, Pete Kelly, Larry Aurie, Herbie Lewis, Hec Kilrea, Mud Bruneteau, Syd Howe, Wally Kilrea, Jimmy Franks, Bucko McDonald, Gord Pettinger, Ebbie Goodfellow, John Gallagher, Ralph Bowman, John Sorrell, Marty Barry, Earl Robertson, John Sherf, Howie Mackie, Rolly Roulston, Doug Young (Captain), Jack Adams (Manager/Coach), Honey Walker (Trainer).

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1936

Under the coaching guidance of Jack Adams, the Detroit Red Wings captured their first Stanley Cup championship after 10 NHL seasons.

The series marked Frank “King” Clancy’s sixth and final appearance as a player in the Final. However, it would not be his last Stanley Cup series, for Clancy went on to earn prominence as an NHL referee, working 20 Stanley Cup games in that capacity.

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1935-36 – Detroit Red Wings – John Sorrell, Syd Howe, Marty Barry, Herbie Lewis, Mud Bruneteau, Wally Kilrea, Hec Kilrea, Gord Pettinger, Bucko McDonald, Ralph Bowman, Pete Kelly, Doug Young (Captain), Ebbie Goodfellow, Normie Smith, Larry Aurie, Jack Adams (Manager/Coach), Honey Walker (Trainer).

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1935

In the first all-Canadian final since they beat the Victoria Cougars in 1926, the Montreal Maroons battled to their second Stanley Cup championship with a three-game sweep of Toronto. Maroons netminder Alec Connell allowed just four goals in three games.

Winning coach Tommy Gorman became the first and only coach to win successive Stanley Cup titles with two different teams. He had directed the Chicago Black Hawks to the championship a year earlier. Gorman currently ranks as one of three NHL coaches (Dick Irvin and Scotty Bowman are the others) to have led more than one team to the Stanley Cup.

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1934-35 – Montreal Maroons – Lionel Conacher, Cy Wentworth, Alec Connell, Toe Blake, Stewart Evans, Earl Robinson, Bill Miller, Dave Trottier, Jimmy Ward, Baldy Northcott, Hooley Smith (Captain), Russ Blinco, Al Shields, Sammy McManus, Gus Marker, Bob Gracie, Herb Cain, Dutch Gainor, Tommy Gorman (Manager/Coach), Bill O’Brien (Trainer).

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1934

For the second year in a row, the Stanley Cup-winning goal was scored in overtime. When Chicago’s Harold “Mush” March netted the series-winner at 30:05 of overtime, the Black Hawks captured their first Stanley Cup.

Chicago’s Charlie Gardiner limited Detroit to two goals in his club’s three victories, while Detroit goaltender Wilf Cude led the Red Wings to their only win of the series in game three despite suffering a broken nose midway through the contest. Cude stopped 53 of 53 Chicago shots in the deciding game, while Gardiner turned aside all 40 Red Wings blasts. Gardiner had been plagued by severe headaches all year. Two months after the Stanley Cup series he died of a brain hemorrhage.

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1933-34 – Chicago Black Hawks – Clarence Abel, Rosie Couture, Lou Trudel, Lionel Conacher, Paul Thompson, Leroy Goldsworthy, Art Coulter, Roger Jenkins, Don McFadyen, Tom Cook, Doc Romnes, Johnny Gottselig, Mush March, Johnny Sheppard, Charlie Gardiner (Captain), Bill Kendall, Jack Leswick, Tommy Gorman (Manager/Coach), Eddie Froelich (Trainer).

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1933

Again the circus forced the Rangers out of New York, with all but game one contested on Toronto’s home ice. However, this year the Rangers would not be denied

In the final match, New York’s Bill Cook became the first of 15 NHL players to register a Stanley Cup-winning goal in overtime when he snapped a scoreless tie at 7:33 of the fourth period. Goalie Andy Aitkenhead posted the fourth shutout by an NHL rookie in the Final.

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1932-33 – New York Rangers – Ching Johnson, Butch Keeling, Frank Boucher, Art Somers, Babe Siebert, Bun Cook, Andy Aitkenhead, Ott Heller, Oscar Asmundson, Gord Pettinger, Doug Brennan, Cecil Dillon, Bill Cook (Captain), Murray Murdoch, Earl Seibert, Lester Patrick (Manager/Coach), Harry Westerby (Trainer).

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1932

After losing to Toronto in game one, the Rangers also lost the home-ice advantage because the circus had once again invaded Madison Square Garden. Game two, originally set for New York, was moved to Boston.

Toronto’s famed Kid Line of Harvey “Busher” Jackson, Charlie Conacher and Joe Primeau made its Stanley Cup debut, combining for eight goals in the three-game sweep.

The Leafs’ Dick Irvin, who lost in the 1931 Final with the Chicago Black Hawks, earned his first title as a coach.

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1931-32 – Toronto Maple Leafs – Charlie Conacher, Busher Jackson, King Clancy, Andy Blair, Red Horner, Lorne Chabot, Alex Levinsky, Joe Primeau, Harold Darragh, Baldy Cotton, Frank Finnigan, Hap Day (Captain), Ace Bailey, Bob Gracie, Fred Robertson, Earl Miller, Conn Smythe (Manager), Dick Irvin (Coach), Tim Daly (Trainer).

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1931

The Montreal Canadiens became the second NHL team to repeat as Stanley Cup champions, duplicating the feat accomplished by the Ottawa Senators in 1920 and 1921. Chicago’s Dick Irvin made his coaching debut in the Final against the team which he would later lead to three Stanley Cup titles.

Over 18,000 fans packed Chicago Stadium for game two to set a new record for the largest attendance in hockey history.

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1930-31 – Montreal Canadiens – George Hainsworth, Wildor Larochelle, Marty Burke, Sylvio Mantha (Captain), Howie Morenz, Johnny Gagnon, Aurel Joliat, Armand Mondou, Pit Lepine, Albert Leduc, Georges Mantha, Art Lesieur, Nick Wasnie, Bert McCaffrey, Gus Rivers, Jean Pusie, Léo Dandurand (Manager), Cecil Hart (Coach), Ed Dufour (Trainer).

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1930

The defending champion Boston Bruins had skated to the NHL’s top regular-season record in 1929–30. The Bruins’ 38–5–1 record translates into an .875 winning percentage that is still the best in NHL history. The team did not lose back-to-back games all season until being swept by the Canadiens in the best-of-three Stanley Cup Final. Boston’s surprising defeat prompted the NHL to lengthen the Final to a best-of-five in the future.

The Canadiens, who had lost all four of their regular-season meetings with the Bruins, were led by captain Sylvio Mantha who tallied a goal in both final series games.

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1929-30 – Montreal Canadiens – George Hainsworth, Marty Burke, Sylvio Mantha (Captain), Howie Morenz, Bert McCaffrey, Aurel Joliat, Albert Leduc, Pit Lepine, Wildor Larochelle, Nick Wasnie, Gerry Carson, Armand Mondou, Georges Mantha, Gus Rivers, Léo Dandurand (Manager), Cecil Hart (Coach), Ed Dufour (Trainer).

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