1965 Stanley Cup Finals

1965 Stanley Cup Finals
Location(s)	Montreal: Montreal Forum (1, 2, 5, 7); Chicago: Chicago Stadium (3, 4, 6)
Coaches	Montreal: Toe Blake; Chicago: Billy Reay
Captains	Chicago: Pierre Pilote; Montreal: Jean Beliveau
Dates	April 17 – May 1
MVP	Jean Beliveau (Canadiens)
Series-winning goal	Jean Beliveau (0:14, first, G7)

The 1965 Stanley Cup Finals was played between the Chicago Black Hawks and the Montreal Canadiens. The Canadiens won the best-of-seven series four games to three to win the Stanley Cup.

Paths to the Finals

Montreal defeated the three-time defending champion Toronto Maple Leafs 4–2 to advance to the finals and Chicago defeated the Detroit Red Wings 4–3.

Game summaries

As in 1955, all games were won by the home team. This was the last final until 2003 that this happened.[1] Gump Worsley made his first Finals appearance after 12 years in the league and recorded two shutouts, including the one in game seven. Jean Beliveau was the inaugural winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, scoring eight goals and eight assists in thirteen games. Game seven was the first NHL game played in the month of May.

April 17	Chicago Black Hawks		2–3	Montreal Canadiens	Montreal Forum	Recap
No scoring		First period		No scoring
Camille Henry (1) - pp - 4:47		Second period		2:39 - Henri Richard (5) 5:26 - John Ferguson (2)
Matt Ravlich (1) - pp - 2:38		Third period		8:59 - pp - Yvan Cournoyer (2)
Glenn Hall		Goalie stats		Gump Worsley

April 20	Chicago Black Hawks		0–2	Montreal Canadiens	Montreal Forum	Recap
No scoring		First period		No scoring
No scoring		Second period		2:55 - pp - Jean Beliveau (4)
No scoring		Third period		8:07 - pp - Dick Duff (1)
Glenn Hall		Goalie stats		Gump Worsley

April 22	Montreal Canadiens		1–3	Chicago Black Hawks	Chicago Stadium	Recap
No scoring		First period		No scoring
John Ferguson (3) - 4:16		Second period		5:03 - Phil Esposito (3)
No scoring		Third period		2:08 - Kenny Wharram (2) 19:24 - Chico Maki (3)
Gump Worsley		Goalie stats		Glenn Hall

April 25	Montreal Canadiens		1–5	Chicago Black Hawks	Chicago Stadium	Recap
No scoring		First period		2:57 - Fred Stanfield (2)
Jean Beliveau (5) - pp - 6:29		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		00:26 - pp - Bobby Hull (9) 15:20 - pp - Bill Hay (3) 18:48 - Bobby Hull (10) 19:57 - Doug Jarrett (1)
Charlie Hodge		Goalie stats		Glenn Hall

April 27	Chicago Black Hawks		0–6	Montreal Canadiens	Montreal Forum	Recap
No scoring		First period		7:14 - pp - Jean Beliveau (6) 16:36 - pp - Dick Duff (2)
No scoring		Second period		2:38 - pp - Bobby Rousseau (5)
No scoring		Third period		4:29 - pp - Jean Beliveau (7) 6:46 - Henri Richard (6) 19:55 - sh - J.C. Tremblay (1)
Glenn Hall, Denis DeJordy		Goalie stats		Charlie Hodge

April 29	Montreal Canadiens		1–2	Chicago Black Hawks	Chicago Stadium	Recap
No scoring		First period		No scoring
Ralph Backstrom (2) - 16:57		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		6:06 - Moose Vasko (1) 8:15 - pp - Doug Mohns (3)
Charlie Hodge		Goalie stats		Glenn Hall

May 1	Chicago Black Hawks		0–4	Montreal Canadiens	Montreal Forum	Recap
No scoring		First period		00:14 - Jean Beliveau (8) 5:03 - Dick Duff (3) 16:27 - pp - Yvan Cournoyer (3) 18:45 - pp - Henri Richard (7)
No scoring		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		No scoring
Glenn Hall		Goalie stats		Gump Worsley

Montreal won series 4–3

Jean Béliveau wins first Conn Smythe Trophy

Montreal Canadiens 1965 Stanley Cup champions

Players

Centres

4 Jean Beliveau (Captain)
6 Ralph Backstrom
16 Henri Richard (A)
23 Red Berenson
23-24 Garry Peters^A

Wingers

Defencemen

2 Jacques Laperriere
3 Jean-Claude J. C. Tremblay
10 Edward Ted Harris
17 Jean-Guy Talbot (A)
18 Bryan Watson^B
19 Terry Harper
24 Jean Gauthier
24-25 Noel Picard

Goaltenders

1 Charlie Hodge
30 Lorne Gump Worsley
29 Ernie Wakely (spare/did not play)^C

Coaching and administrative staff

Hartland Molson (Chairman/owner)
J. David Molson (President), Maurice Rocket Richard (Asst to President)
Sam Pollock (Vice President/Manager), Toe Blake (Coach)
Andy Galley (Trainer), Larry Albut (Asst. Trainer)

Stanley Cup engraving

^A Garry Peters played 13 games. ^B Bryan Watson played 8 games. ^C Ernie Wakely was dressed, but did not play in the regular season. All three players spent most of season in the minors, but name was put on the Stanley Cup. None of the three players played in the playoff, or officially qualifies for Cup engraving.
*Gilles Tremblay played 25 games and missed the rest of the season injured.
When Toronto won the Stanley Cup in 1962, 1963, and 1964, they took up more room than was allowed for engraving their winning members' names on it. So when Montreal won this Stanley Cup, the ring was finished off with 32 members. Had the ring been engraved correctly in 1964–65, there would have been more than enough room to include all 27 members of the Montreal Canadiens 1965–66 roster with their full first and last names, and non-playing positions.

Notes

Allen, Kevin (June 10, 2003). "Devils down Ducks for third Cup". USA Today. p. 1C. This series marked the first time since 1965 that the home team has won all seven games of a Stanley Cup Finals.

References

"All-Time NHL Results".
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

Preceded by Toronto Maple Leafs 1964	Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup champions 1965	Succeeded by Montreal Canadiens 1966

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[1] Allen, Kevin (June 10, 2003). "Devils down Ducks for third Cup". USA Today. p. 1C. This series marked the first time since 1965 that the home team has won all seven games of a Stanley Cup Finals.