2 3 Champion Detroit Red Wings | 2 1 | |
Location(s) Detroit, Michigan (Detroit Olympia) (1,2,5,7)
Montreal, QC (Montreal Forum) (3,4,6) Coaches Detroit: Jimmy Skinner
Montreal: Dick Irvin Captains Detroit: Ted Lindsay
Montreal: Emile Bouchard Dates April 3 to April 14, 1955 Similar 1959 Stanley Cup Finals, 1960 Stanley Cup Finals, 1969 Stanley Cup Finals, 1964 Stanley Cup Finals, 1973 Stanley Cup Finals | ||
The 1955 Stanley Cup Final NHL championship series was contested by the Montreal Canadiens, appearing in their fifth of ten straight Finals and the defending champion Detroit Red Wings, in the third Detroit-Montreal Final series of the 1950s and the second consecutively. The Wings won the series 4–3 to win their second consecutive Stanley Cup, fourth in six seasons, and seventh overall. Detroit, however, would not win the Cup again until 1997.
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Paths to the Final
Montreal defeated the Boston Bruins in five games to reach the final. Detroit defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in four games to reach the final.
The series
Prior to the playoffs, Montreal's Maurice Richard was suspended and would be missed by the Canadiens.
In the second game, Ted Lindsay would score four goals to set a NHL record for most goals in one game in a Final series. The win was also the Wings' fifteenth consecutive, another NHL record.
Gordie Howe set two NHL records, amassing 12 points in this round, and surpassing former Canadiens player (and soon-to-be-coach) Toe Blake's point mark for the playoffs with 20 points in 11 games.
This was also the first final in which the home team won all seven games of the series, a feat that would be repeated only twice in the next 50 years, in 1965 (Montreal defeated the Chicago Black Hawks) and 2003 (the New Jersey Devils beat the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim).
Detroit Red Wings vs. Montreal Canadiens
Detroit wins best-of-seven series 4 games to 3
Stanley Cup engraving
Members of Detroit Red Wings Dynasty 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955
Gordie Howe, Red Kelly, Ted Lindsay, Marty Pavelich, Marcel Pronovost, John Wilson (6 Players), Jack Adams, Carl Mattson, Fred Hubert Jr. (3 Non-players).