1973 Stanley Cup Finals

1973 Stanley Cup Finals
1973 Stanley Cup Finals
Location(s)	Montreal: Montreal Forum (1, 2, 5); Chicago: Chicago Stadium (3, 4, 6)
Coaches	Montreal: Scotty Bowman; Chicago: Bill Reay
Captains	Montreal: Henri Richard; Chicago: Vacant
Dates	April 29 – May 10
MVP	Yvan Cournoyer (Canadiens)
Series-winning goal	Yvan Cournoyer (8:13, third, G6)
	← 1972; Stanley Cup Finals; 1974 →;

The 1973 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1972–73 season, and the culmination of the 1973 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the Chicago Black Hawks and the Montreal Canadiens, a rematch of the 1971 Final. The Canadiens won the best-of-seven series, four games to two.

Paths to the Finals[]

Chicago defeated the St. Louis Blues 4–1 and the New York Rangers 4–1 to advance to the final.

Montreal defeated the Buffalo Sabres 4–2 and the Philadelphia Flyers 4–1 to set up an "Original Six" final.

Game summaries[]

Yvan Cournoyer and Jacques Lemaire would both have 12 points in the finals for the Canadiens. The Conn Smythe Trophy went to Cournoyer, who had six goals. It was Henri Richard's eleventh win of the Stanley Cup and Scotty Bowman's first.

April 29	Chicago Blackhawks		3–8	Montreal Canadiens	Montreal Forum	Recap
Pit Martin (6) - 00:35 Ralph Backstrom (5) - 1:02 Pit Martin (7) - 12:07		First period		2:28 - Jacques Laperriere (1) 8:07 - Marc Tardif (7)
No scoring		Second period		3:01 - Chuck Lefley (1) 16:23 - pp - Jacques Lemaire (5)
No scoring		Third period		8:38 - pp - Jacques Lemaire (6) 12:36 - sh Peter Mahovlich (2) 13:34 - Frank Mahovlich (5) 14:35 - Chuck Lefley (2)
Tony Esposito, Gary Smith		Goalie stats		Ken Dryden

May 1	Chicago Blackhawks		1–4	Montreal Canadiens	Montreal Forum	Recap
No scoring		First period		5:36 - Pierre Bouchard (1)
Cliff Koroll (4) - 7:28		Second period		12:08 - Yvan Cournoyer (10)
No scoring		Third period		5:01 - pp Yvan Cournoyer (11) 19:26 - Frank Mahovlich (6)
Tony Esposito		Goalie stats		Ken Dryden

May 3	Montreal Canadiens		4–7	Chicago Blackhawks	Chicago Stadium	Recap
No scoring		First period		1:59 - pp - Dennis Hull (7) 11:44 - pp - J.P. Bordeleau (1) 13:20 - sh - Bill White (1) 14:20 - sh - Stan Mikita (5)
Frank Mahovlich (7) - 10:25		Second period		2:08 - pp - John Marks (1)
Yvan Cournoyer (12) - 1:20 Guy Lapointe (6) - 7:15 Jacques Lemaire (7) - 8:01		Third period		19:29 - Dennis Hull (8) 19:49 - Jim Pappin (6)
Ken Dryden		Goalie stats		Tony Esposito

May 6	Montreal Canadiens		4–0	Chicago Blackhawks	Chicago Stadium	Recap
Marc Tardif (5) - 1:08		First period		No scoring
Yvan Cournoyer (13) - 14:13 Chuck Lefley (3) - 15:43		Second period		No scoring
Claude Larose (1) - 3:45		Third period		No scoring
Ken Dryden		Goalie stats		Tony Esposito

May 8	Chicago Blackhawks		8–7	Montreal Canadiens	Montreal Forum	Recap
Dennis Hull (9) - 9:34 Stan Mikita (6) - 11:24		First period		2:47 - Frank Mahovlich (8) 14:52 - pp - Peter Mahovlich (3)
Dave Kryskow (1) - 3:10 Stan Mikita (7) - 6:21 Jim Pappin (7) - 11:24 Len Frig (1) - pp - 16:21 Jim Pappin (8) - 19:03		Second period		00:37 - Claude Larose (2) 4:23 - Claude Larose (3) 7:09 - Yvan Cournoyer (14)
Lou Angotti (3) - 4:06		Third period		1:15 - Serge Savard (3) 11:43 - Henri Richard (5)
Tony Esposito		Goalie stats		Ken Dryden

May 10	Montreal Canadiens		6–4	Chicago Blackhawks	Chicago Stadium	Recap
Henri Richard (6) - 19:48		First period		10:35 - Pit Martin (8) 11:31 - pp - Pit Martin (9)
Peter Mahovlich (4) - 5:05 Rejean Houle (3) - 6:37 Frank Mahovlich (9) - pp - 10:54		Second period		8:32 - Dave Kryskow (2) 17:05 - pp - Pit Martin (2)
Yvan Cournoyer (15) - 8:13 Marc Tardif (6) - pp - 12:42		Third period		No scoring
Ken Dryden		Goalie stats		Tony Esposito

Montreal won series 4–2

Stanley Cup engraving[]

The 1973 Stanley Cup was presented to Canadiens captain Henri Richard by NHL President Clarence Campbell following the Canadiens 6–4 win over the Black Hawks in game six.

The following Canadiens players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup

1972–73 Montreal Canadiens

Players

Centres

14 Rejean Houle
16 Henri Richard (Captain)
20 Peter Mahovlich
25 Jacques Lemaire

Wingers

6 Jim Roberts
10 Guy Lafleur
11 Marc Tardif
12 Yvan Cournoyer (A)
15 Claude Larose
17 Murray Wilson
22 Steve Shutt
24 Chuck Lefley
27 Frank Mahovlich (A)

Defencemen

2 Jacques Laperriere
5 Guy Lapointe
18 Serge Savard
19 Larry Robinson
23 Bob Murdoch
26 Pierre Bouchard

Goaltenders

29 Ken Dryden
1 Michel Plasse

Coaching and administrative staff

Jacques Courtois (President), Jean Beliveau (Vice President – Director of Cooperate Relations)
Peter Bronfman (Chairman/owner), Sam Pollock (Vice President/General Manager)
Edward Bronfman (Executive Director/owner), Scotty Bowman (Head Coach)
Bob Williams (Trainer), Eddy Palchak (Asst. Trainer)
Floyd Curry (Asst. General Manager)^, Ron Caron, (Asst. General Managers)^

Stanley Cup engraving

Murray Wilson's name was misspelled in 1973, 1976, 1977 as MURRY WILSON missing an "A". Murray Wilson was spelled correctly on the Stanley Cup in 1978. Wilson's name was also spelled correctly all 4 times on the Replica Cup.
^ Assistant Manager were not included on the Stanley Cup, but qualified to be on it.
On the Replica Stanley Cup created in 1992–93 Bob Murdoch's name was spelled BOB MURDOCK with a "K" instead of a "H". His name was correct on the original engraving in 1973.
#30 Wayne Thomas (G), #3 Dale Hodgson (D) – were included on the team picture, but did not play enough games to get their name on the Stanley Cup.

Notes[]

References[]

Diamond, Dan, ed. (2000). Total Stanley Cup. NHL.
Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books. ISBN 978-1-55168-261-7.

Preceded by Boston Bruins 1972	Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup champions 1973	Succeeded by Philadelphia Flyers 1974