The 1930 Stanley Cup Finals was played between the Boston Bruins and the Montreal Canadiens. In a best of three series, Montreal won 4–3 and 3–0 to win the team's third Stanley Cup title.
| 1930 Stanley Cup Finals | |||||||||||||
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| Location(s) | Boston: Boston Garden (1) Montreal: Montreal Forum (2) | ||||||||||||
| Format | best-of-three | ||||||||||||
| Coaches | Boston: Art Ross Montreal: Cecil Hart | ||||||||||||
| Captains | Boston: Lionel Hitchman Montreal: Sylvio Mantha | ||||||||||||
| Dates | April 1–3, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| Series-winning goal | Howie Morenz (1:00, second) | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Famers | Bruins: Marty Barry (1965) Dit Clapper (1947) Mickey MacKay (1952) Harry Oliver (1967) Eddie Shore (1947) Tiny Thompson (1959) Cooney Weiland (1971) Canadiens: George Hainsworth (1961) Aurele Joliat (1947) Sylvio Mantha (1960) Howie Morenz (1945) Coaches: Art Ross (1949, player) | ||||||||||||
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Paths to the Finals
editThe defending champion Boston Bruins had an outstanding season. Their final record of 38–5–1 translates to an .875 winning percentage, the best in NHL history. The team did not lose two games in a row all season, until being swept by the Canadiens. This prompted the change for the following year in the Finals format to a best-of-five format.
Game summaries
editThe Finals was a best-of-three series. The Canadiens had lost all four of their regular-season meetings with the Bruins. Captain Sylvio Mantha was the leader, scoring in both final games.
Game one saw the Bruins play way below their usual form and George Hainsworth picked up a shutout. In game two, Howie Morenz scored what proved to be the winning goal at 17:50 of the second period and the Canadiens won the Stanley Cup. It was the first time all year that the Bruins lost two games in a row.
| April 1 | Montreal Canadiens | 3–0 | Boston Bruins | Boston Madison Square Garden | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| Albert Leduc (1) - 8:43 Sylvio Mantha (1) - 13:17 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| Pit Lepine (2) - 6:27 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| George Hainsworth | Goalie stats | Tiny Thompson | ||||||
| April 3 | Boston Bruins | 3–4 | Montreal Canadiens | Montreal Forum | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 9:10 - Bert McCaffrey (1) 17:36 - Nick Wasnie (2) | ||||||
| Eddie Shore (1) - 10:42 | Second period | 1:33 - Sylvio Mantha (2) 15:43 - Howie Morenz (3) | ||||||
| Percy Galbraith (1) - 8:47 Dit Clapper (4) - 10:59 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Tiny Thompson | Goalie stats | George Hainsworth | ||||||
| Montreal won series 2–0 | |
Stanley Cup engraving
editThe 1930 Stanley Cup was presented to Canadiens captain Sylvio Mantha by NHL President Frank Calder following the Canadiens 4–3 win over the Bruins in game two.
The following Canadiens players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup
1929–30 Montreal Canadiens
Players
- 7 Howie Morenz
- 9 Alfred Pit Lepine
- 4 Aurel Joliat
- 5 Armand Mondou
- 6 Nick Wasnie
- 10 Wildor Larochelle
- 11 Bert McCaffrey
- 16 Gus Rivers
- 2 Sylvio Mantha (captain)
- 3 Marty Burke
- 8 Albert Leduc
- 12 Georges Mantha
- 14 Gerald Carson
Coaching and administrative staff
- Louis Athanase David (President), Fernand Rinfeet (Director)
- Joseph Cattarinich (Vice President/Owner), Edouard St. Pere (Vice President)
- Joseph Viateur "Leo" Dandurand (Secretary-Treasurer/Owner), Henry Gray (Director)
- Cecil Hart (Manager-Coach), Georges Richer (Director)
- Hilarion A. "Louis" Letourneau (Director/Owner), Dr. J. A. Corrigan* (Team Physician)
- Amerdee Monet (Director)
- Edward Dulfour (Trainer), Jim McKenna (Asst. Trainer),
- J. P. Lepetite* (Asst. Trainer/left off cup-on team picture).
Stanley Cup engraving
- Mistake – Georges Richer was engraved as a physician, but his official title was a member of the board directors.
- *-The Team Physician and one Asst. trainers first names are unknown.
- Montreal included the date, day, game number, location, and score for each playoff game on the Stanley Cup. In 1930, 1931, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939 each playoff game, date and score by the winning team were included on the Stanley Cup.
See also
editReferences
edit- Diamond, Dan (2000). Total Stanley Cup. Total Sports Canada. pp. 51. ISBN 1-892129-07-8.
- Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books, 12, 57. ISBN 1-55168-261-3.