1936 Stanley Cup Finals

1936 Stanley Cup Finals
1 2 3 4 Total Detroit Red Wings 3 9 3* 3 3 Toronto Maple Leafs 1 4 4* 2 1
* – Denotes overtime period(s)
Location(s)	Detroit: Olympia Stadium (1, 2) Toronto: Maple Leaf Gardens (3, 4)
Format	best-of-five
Coaches	Detroit: Jack Adams Toronto: Dick Irvin
Captains	Detroit: Doug Young Toronto: Hap Day
Dates	April 5–11, 1936
Series-winning goal	Pete Kelly (9:45, third, G4)
Hall of Famers	Red Wings: Marty Barry (1965) Ebbie Goodfellow (1963) Syd Howe (1965) Herbie Lewis (1989) Maple Leafs: King Clancy (1958) Charlie Conacher (1961) Hap Day (1961) George Hainsworth (1961) Red Horner (1965) Busher Jackson (1971) Joe Primeau (1963) Coaches: Jack Adams (1936, player) Dick Irvin (1958, player)
Stanley Cup Finals

The 1936 Stanley Cup Finals was contested by the Detroit Red Wings and the Toronto Maple Leafs. This was Detroit's second appearance in the Finals and Toronto's sixth. Detroit would win the series 3–1 to win their first Stanley Cup. This marked the sixth consecutive season of a different winner, and the eighth of the first ten teams (excluding the New York Americans and the Pittsburgh Pirates/Philadelphia Quakers, who never won the Cup) to win in the ten seasons since the Stanley Cup became exclusive to the NHL.

Path to the Final

Detroit defeated the defending champion Montreal Maroons in a best-of-five 3–0 to advance to the Finals. The Leafs had to play a total-goals series; 8–6 against Boston Bruins, and win a best-of-three 2–1 against the New York Americans to advance to the Finals.

Game summaries

April 5	Toronto Maple Leafs		1–3		Detroit Red Wings	Olympia Stadium	Recap
Buzz Boll (5) - 12:15		First period			4:53 - sh - Bucko McDonald (1) 5:37 - Syd Howe (2) 12:05 - Wally Kilrea (1)
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
George Hainsworth		Goalie stats			Normie Smith

April 7	Toronto Maple Leafs		4–9		Detroit Red Wings	Olympia Stadium	Recap
Buzz Boll (6) - 12:35		First period			1:30 - Wally Kilrea (2) 4:25 - Marty Barry (1) 10:05 - pp - Herbie Lewis (2) 16:55 - Bucko McDonald (2)
Joe Primeau (1) - 14:00		Second period			7:15 - pp - John Sorrell (2) 9:10 - Gord Pettinger (1)
Bill Thoms (2) - 9:40 Bob Davidson (1) - 16:10		Third period			7:30 - John Sorrell (3) 12:05 - Gord Pettinger 17:15 - Bucko McDonald (3)
George Hainsworth		Goalie stats			Normie Smith

April 9	Detroit Red Wings		3–4	OT	Toronto Maple Leafs	Maple Leaf Gardens	Recap
Ralph Bowman (2) - 9:23		First period			No scoring
Mud Bruneteau (2) - 1:05		Second period			No scoring
Syd Howe (3) - 11:15		Third period			13:09 - Joe Primeau (2) 15:20 - Pep Kelly (1) 19:19 - Pep Kelly (2)
No scoring		First overtime period			00:30 - Buzz Boll (7)
Normie Smith		Goalie stats			George Hainsworth

April 11	Detroit Red Wings		3–2		Toronto Maple Leafs	Maple Leaf Gardens	Recap
No scoring		First period			15:10 - Joe Primeau (3)
Ebbie Goodfellow (1) - 9:55 Marty Barry (2) - 10:38		Second period			No scoring
Pete Kelly (1) - 9:45		Third period			10:57 - Bill Thoms (3)
Normie Smith		Goalie stats			George Hainsworth

Detroit won series 3–1

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1936 Stanley Cup was presented to Red Wings captain Doug Young by NHL President Frank Calder following the Red Wings 3–2 win over the Maple Leafs in game four.

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

1935–36 Detroit Red Wings

Players

  Centres

• 7 Marty Barry
• 9 Wally Kilrea
• 11 Gord Pettinger
• 14 Wilfie Starr†

  Wingers

• 4 Herbie Lewis
• 6 Larry Aurie
• 8 Syd Howe
• 10 John Sorrell
• 12 Hec Kilrea
• 14 Mordere Bruneteau
• 15 Pete Kelly
• 17 Art Giroux†

  Defencemen

• 2 Doug Young (Captain)
• 3 Wilfred Bucko McDonald
• 5 Ebbie Goodfellow
• 16 Ralph "Scotty" Bowman

  Goaltenders

• 1 Normie Smith
• Les Tooke† (Spare goalie; did not play)

Coaching and administrative staff

• James E. Norris Sr. (President/Owner), James D. Norris Jr. (Vice President/Owner)
• Arthur Wirtz Sr. (Secretary-Treasurer/Owner), Jack Adams (Manager-Coach)
• Frank "Honey" Walker (Trainer), John Gilles (Business Manager)
• Carl Mattson† (Ass't Trainer/qualified)

Stanley Cup engraving

• Four Red Wings were included on the team picture, but left off the Stanley Cup: Wilfie Starr, Art Giroux, Les Tooke, and assistant trainer Carl Mattson. Tooke, who spent the season with the Windsor Shamrocks of the Michigan-Ontario Hockey League, was the Wings' spare goaltender; he never played in the NHL.

Detroit: "City of Champions"

When the Red Wings won the 1936 Stanley Cup, the City of Detroit was mired in the Great Depression, which had hit Detroit and its industries particularly hard. But with the success of the Red Wings and other Detroit teams and athletes in the 1935/36 sports season, Detroit's luck appeared to be changing, as the city was dubbed the "City of Champions". The Detroit Tigers started the winning streak by winning the 1935 World Series, and the Detroit Lions continued the process by capturing the 1935 NFL Championship Game. When the Red Wings completed their own championship drive, the city had seen three major sporting league championships in less than a year.

See also

• 1935–36 NHL season

References

Bibliography

• NHL (2000). Total Stanley Cup. Dan Diamond & Associates.
• Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub. pp 12, 50. ISBN 978-1-55168-261-7