1957 Stanley Cup Finals

1957 Stanley Cup Finals
1 2 3 4 5 Total Montreal Canadiens 5 1 4 0 5 4 Boston Bruins 1 0 2 2 1 1
Location(s)	Montreal: Montreal Forum (1, 2, 5) Boston: Boston Garden (3, 4)
Coaches	Montreal: Toe Blake Boston: Milt Schmidt
Captains	Montreal: Maurice Richard Boston: Fernie Flaman
Dates	April 6–16, 1957
Series-winning goal	Dickie Moore (0:14, second)
Hall of Famers	Canadiens: Jean Beliveau (1972) Bernie Geoffrion (1972) Doug Harvey (1973) Tom Johnson (1970) Dickie Moore (1974) Bert Olmstead (1985) Jacques Plante (1978) Henri Richard (1979) Maurice Richard (1961) Bruins: Leo Boivin (1986) Fernie Flaman (1990) Allan Stanley (1981; did not play) Terry Sawchuk (1971) Coaches: Toe Blake (1966, player) Milt Schmidt (1961, player)
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The 1957 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1956–57 season, and the culmination of the 1957 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the defending champion Montreal Canadiens and the Boston Bruins. The Canadiens were making their seventh consecutive Final appearance, while Boston was making their first appearance since their 1953 loss to Montreal. The Canadiens won the series, four games to one, for their second straight Cup victory.

Paths to the Finals

Montreal defeated the New York Rangers 4–1 to reach the final. Boston defeated the Detroit Red Wings 4–1 to reach the final.

Game summaries

Rocket Richard scored four times in game one, including three in the second period, to tie Ted Lindsay's record, set in 1955 for a winning Detroit team. Jacques Plante held the Bruins to just six goals in the five games, four of which were scored by Fleming Mackell.

April 6	Boston Bruins		1–5		Montreal Canadiens	Montreal Forum	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
Fleming MacKell (2) - pp - 7:27		Second period			10:39 - Maurice Richard (5) 13:29 - pp - Maurice Richard (6) 15:35 - pp - Bernie Geoffrion (8) 17:00 - Maurice Richard (7)
No scoring		Third period			18:17 - Maurice Richard (8)
Don Simmons		Goalie stats			Jacques Plante

April 9	Boston Bruins		0–1		Montreal Canadiens	Montreal Forum	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			2:27 - Jean Beliveau (6)
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
Don Simmons		Goalie stats			Jacques Plante

April 11	Montreal Canadiens		4–2		Boston Bruins	Boston Garden	Recap
Bernie Geoffrion (9) - 1:30 Floyd Curry (2) - 14:39 Bernie Geoffrion (10) - pp - 19:54		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			6:16 - Don McKenney (1)
Phil Goyette (2) - 7:31		Third period			19:16 - Fleming MacKell (3)
Jacques Plante		Goalie stats			Don Simmons

April 14	Montreal Canadiens		0–2		Boston Bruins	Boston Garden	Recap
No scoring		First period			2:56 - pp - Fleming MacKell (4)
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			19:40 - Fleming MacKell (5)
Jacques Plante		Goalie stats			Don Simmons

April 16	Boston Bruins		1–5		Montreal Canadiens	Montreal Forum	Recap
No scoring		First period			18:11 - Andre Pronovost (1)
No scoring		Second period			00:14 - pp - Dickie Moore (3) 15:12 - Bernie Geoffrion (11)
Leo Labine (3) - 13:43		Third period			17:39 - Donnie Marshall (1) 18:31 - Floyd Curry (3)
Don Simmons		Goalie stats			Jacques Plante

Montreal won series 4–1

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1957 Stanley Cup was presented to Canadiens captain Maurice Richard by NHL President Clarence Campbell following the Canadiens 5–1 win over the Bruins in game five.

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

1956–57 Montreal Canadiens

Players

See also

• 1956–57 NHL season

Notes

References

• Diamond, Dan (2000). Total Stanley Cup. Toronto: Total Sports Canada. ISBN 978-1-892129-07-9.
• "All-Time NHL Results".
• Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub. pp 12, 50. ISBN 978-1-55168-261-7

Preceded by Montreal Canadiens 1956

Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup Champions 1957

Succeeded by Montreal Canadiens 1958