1930 Stanley Cup Finals

1930 Stanley Cup Finals
1 2 Total Boston Bruins 0 3 0 Montreal Canadiens 3 4 2
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)
Stanley Cup Finals

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.

Paths to the Finals

The 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

The 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

The 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

  Centres

• 7 Howie Morenz
• 9 Alfred Pit Lepine

  Wingers

• 4 Aurel Joliat
• 5 Armand Mondou
• 6 Nick Wasnie
• 10 Wildor Larochelle
• 11 Bert McCaffrey
• 16 Gus Rivers

  Defencemen

• 2 Sylvio Mantha (captain)
• 3 Marty Burke
• 8 Albert Leduc
• 12 Georges Mantha
• 14 Gerald Carson

  Goaltenders

• 1 George Hainsworth

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

• 1929–30 NHL season

References

• 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.