1954 Stanley Cup Finals

1954 Stanley Cup Finals
Teams12345*67*Games
Detroit Red Wings 31520124
Montreal Canadiens  1 3 20 1 4 1 3

* indicates periods of overtime.

Location:Detroit, Michigan (Detroit Olympia) (1,2,5,7)
Montreal, QC (Montreal Forum) (3,4,6)
Format:Best-of-seven
Coaches:Detroit: Tommy Ivan
Montreal: Dick Irvin
Captains:Detroit: Ted Lindsay
Montreal: Emile Bouchard
Dates:April 4 to April 16, 1954
Series-winning
goal:
Tony Leswick (4:29, OT)
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The 1954 Stanley Cup Final NHL championship series was contested by the Detroit Red Wings and the defending champion Montreal Canadiens, in their fourth-straight Finals. It was the third Detroit–Montreal Final series of the 1950s. The Wings would win the series 4–3 to win their first Stanley Cup since 1952, and sixth overall.

Paths to the Final

Montreal defeated the Boston Bruins 4–0 to reach the final. Detroit defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4–1 to reach the final.

The series

Tony Leswick scored the series-winning goal at 4:29 of overtime in the seventh game. In fact, Leswick's goal was one of the strangest Stanley Cup-winning goals in history, as Leswick's shot was deflected off the glove of Montreal's Doug Harvey and into the net.[1] The Canadiens immediately skated off the ice without shaking hands with the Red Wings.[2] This was the second time in NHL history that a Stanley Cup Final Game Seven was decided in overtime; the previous time it happened, in 1950, Detroit had beat the New York Rangers in the Finals. As of 2015, it is the most recent time that the Cup Final Game Seven has gone to overtime.

Detroit Red Wings vs. Montreal Canadiens

Date Away Score Home Score Notes
April 4 Montreal 1 Detroit 3
April 6 Montreal 3 Detroit 1
April 8 Detroit 5 Montreal 2
April 10 Detroit 2 Montreal 0
April 11 Montreal 1 Detroit 0 OT
April 13 Detroit 1 Montreal 4
April 16 Montreal 1 Detroit 2 OT

Detroit wins best-of-seven series 4 games to 3

Detroit Red Wings 1954 Stanley Cup champions

Roster

  Centres
  Wingers
  Defencemen
  Goaltenders


  Coaching and administrative staff

Stanley Cup engraving

&-Name was left off the Stanley Cup.

See also

Notes

  1. "Top 10 Game 7 Stanley Cup Final matches". Archived from the original on 2009-06-15. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
  2. Weekes, Don & Banks, Kerry, The Unofficial Guide to Even More of Hockey’s Most Unusual Records, Greystone Books, 2004

References

Preceded by
Montreal Canadiens
1953
Detroit Red Wings
Stanley Cup Champions

1954
Succeeded by
Detroit Red Wings
1955
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