The 1964 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1963–64 season, and the culmination of the 1964 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the defending champion Toronto Maple Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings for the second straight year. The Maple Leafs won the best-of-seven series, four games to three, to win the Stanley Cup, their third-straight championship. As of 2023, this was the last time the Stanley Cup Finals had ended before the month of May. There would not be another game seven at Maple Leaf Gardens for almost three decades.
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| Location(s) | Toronto: Maple Leaf Gardens (1, 2, 5, 7) Detroit: Olympia Stadium (3, 4, 6) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coaches | Detroit: Sid Abel Toronto: Punch Imlach | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Captains | Detroit: Alex Delvecchio Toronto: George Armstrong | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dates | April 11–25, 1964 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Series-winning goal | Andy Bathgate (3:04, first, G7) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hall of Famers | Red Wings: Alex Delvecchio (1977) Bill Gadsby (1970) Gordie Howe (1972) Marcel Pronovost (1978) Terry Sawchuk (1971) Norm Ullman (1982) Maple Leafs: Al Arbour (1996, builder) George Armstrong (1975) Andy Bathgate (1978) Johnny Bower (1976) Tim Horton (1977) Red Kelly (1969) Dave Keon (1986) Frank Mahovlich (1981) Bob Pulford (1991) Allan Stanley (1981) Coaches: Sid Abel (1969, player) Punch Imlach (1984) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paths to the Finals
editToronto defeated the Montreal Canadiens 4–3 to advance to the finals and Detroit defeated the Chicago Black Hawks 4–3.
Game summaries
editThis series is famous for the courageous play of Bob Baun. In game six of the Final, he took a Gordie Howe slapshot on his ankle and had to leave play. He returned in overtime and scored the winning goal. He also played in game seven despite the pain and only after the series was over, was it revealed that he had played on a fractured ankle.[1]
Until the 2008–09 Final, John MacMillan was the only player to play in back-to-back Finals with different teams in successive series that pitted the same teams against each other. MacMillan won the Cup with the 1963 Toronto Maple Leafs in a five-game decision over Detroit and then lost the 1964 Cup Final to the Leafs as a member of the Red Wings.[citation needed]
| April 11 | Detroit Red Wings | 2–3 | Toronto Maple Leafs | Maple Leaf Gardens | Recap | |||
| Bruce MacGregor (3) - 4:31 Gordie Howe (6) - pp - 10:25 | First period | 4:44 - George Armstrong (2) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 4:02 - pp - George Armstrong (3) 19:58 - sh - Bob Pulford (3) | ||||||
| Terry Sawchuck | Goalie stats | Johnny Bower | ||||||
| April 14 | Detroit Red Wings | 4–3 | OT | Toronto Maple Leafs | Maple Leaf Gardens | Recap | ||
| Norm Ullman (7) - 12:43 | First period | 4:41 - Allan Stanley (1) | ||||||
| Eddie Joyal (1) - 3:19 Floyd Smith (2) - pp - 16:15 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 11:57 - Red Kelly (3) 19:17 - Gerry Ehman (1) | ||||||
| Larry Jeffrey (1) - 7:52 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| Terry Sawchuck | Goalie stats | Johnny Bower | ||||||
| April 16 | Toronto Maple Leafs | 3–4 | Detroit Red Wings | Olympia Stadium | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 2:40 - Floyd Smith (3) 3:38 - Bruce MacGregor (4) 14:47 - pp - Floyd Smith (4) | ||||||
| Andy Bathgate (3) - pp - 4:16 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| Dave Keon (4) - 7:34 Don McKenney (4) - 18:47 | Third period | 19:43 - Alex Delvecchio (3) | ||||||
| Johnny Bower | Goalie stats | Terry Sawchuck | ||||||
| April 18 | Toronto Maple Leafs | 4–2 | Detroit Red Wings | Olympia Stadium | Recap | |||
| Dave Keon (5) - 5:45 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| Dave Keon (6) - pp - 16:09 | Second period | 5:57 - Bruce MacGregor (5) 13:05 - pp - Gordie Howe (7) | ||||||
| Andy Bathgate (4) - 10:55 Frank Mahovlich (4) - 18:09 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Johnny Bower | Goalie stats | Terry Sawchuck | ||||||
| April 21 | Detroit Red Wings | 2–1 | Toronto Maple Leafs | Maple Leaf Gardens | Recap | |||
| Gordie Howe (8) - 10:52 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| Eddie Joyal (2) - 7:50 | Third period | 14:57 - pp - George Armstrong (4) | ||||||
| Terry Sawchuck | Goalie stats | Johnny Bower | ||||||
| April 23 | Toronto Maple Leafs | 4–3 | OT | Detroit Red Wings | Olympia Stadium | Recap | ||
| Bob Pulford (4) - sh - 17:01 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| Bob Pulford (5) - 14:36 Billy Harris (1) - 17:48 | Second period | 4:20 - Paul Henderson (2) 10:56 - pp - Pit Martin (1) 15:56 - Gordie Howe (9) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Bob Baun (2) - 1:43 | First overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| Johnny Bower | Goalie stats | Terry Sawchuck | ||||||
| April 25 | Detroit Red Wings | 0–4 | Toronto Maple Leafs | Maple Leaf Gardens | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 3:04 - Andy Bathgate (5) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 4:26 - Dave Keon (7) 5:53 - Red Kelly (4) 15:26 - George Armstrong (5) | ||||||
| Terry Sawchuck | Goalie stats | Johnny Bower | ||||||
| Toronto won series 4–3 | |
Stanley Cup engraving
editThe 1964 Stanley Cup was presented to Maple Leafs captain George Armstrong by NHL President Clarence Campbell following the Maple Leafs 4–0 win over the Red Wings in game seven.
The following Maple Leafs players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup
1963–64 Toronto Maple Leafs
Players
- 4 Leonard Red Kelly
- 14 Dave Keon
- 15 Billy Harris
- 17 Don McKenney
- 8 Gerry Ehman
- 10 George Armstrong (Captain)
- 18 Jim Pappin
- 20 Bob Pulford (A)
- 23 Eddie Shack
- 25 Ed Litzenberger†
- 12 Ron Stewart
- 27 Frank Mahovlich
- 9 Andy Bathgate
- 2 Carl Brewer
- 3 Al Arbour†
- 7 Miles Tim Horton
- 21 Bob Baun
- 16 Larry Hillman
- 26 Allan Stanley (A)
Coaching and administrative staff
- Stafford Smythe (President/Owner), Harold Ballard (Exe. Vice President/Owner)
- John Bassett (Chairman/Owner)
- George Punch Imlach (Manager-Coach), Frank King Clancy (Asst. Manager-Coach)
- Bob Haggert (Trainer)
- Tom Nayler (Asst. Trainer)
- Hugh Hoult (Stickboy/Asst. Trainer)
Stanley Cup engraving
- Frank "King" Clancy name was misspelled on the Stanley Cup as FRANK KING CLANCE ASST COACH GEN MAN. In 1992–93 the mistake was corrected on the newly created Replica Cup.
- † Played in the Stanley Cup Finals qualifying to be on the cup, but name was left off the Stanley Cup. Players spent most of season in the minors.
- †† #19 Kent Douglas played 43 games for Toronto. He name was left off the Stanley Cup, because he played in the minors during the playoffs.
- Bob Davidson (Chief Scout), Dr. Karl Elieff (Physiotherapist), Dr. Jame Murphy, Dr. Hugh Smythe (Team Doctors) - left off
- (Also see 1965 Montreal about Toronto 1962-63-64 engravings).
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ Fischler, Stan (May 22, 2018). "Baun was unlikely hero of Maple Leafs' run to Cup in 1964". nhl.com. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
References
edit- Diamond, Dan (2000). Total Stanley Cup. Toronto: Total Sports Canada. ISBN 978-1-892129-07-9.
- Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub. pp 12, 50. ISBN 978-1-55168-261-7
- "All-Time NHL Results".