1939 Stanley Cup Finals

1939 Stanley Cup Finals
1 2 3 4 5 Total Boston Bruins 2 2* 3 2 3 4 Toronto Maple Leafs 1 3* 1 0 1 1
* indicates periods of overtime
Location(s)	Boston: Boston Garden (1, 2, 5) Toronto: Maple Leaf Gardens (3, 4)
Coaches	Boston: Art Ross Toronto: Dick Irvin
Captains	Boston: Cooney Weiland Toronto: Charlie Conacher
Dates	April 6–16, 1939
Series-winning goal	Roy Conacher (17:54, second)
Hall of Famers	Bruins: Bobby Bauer (1996) Frank Brimsek (1966) Dit Clapper (1947) Roy Conacher (1998) Bill Cowley (1968) Woody Dumart (1992) Milt Schmidt (1961) Eddie Shore (1947) Cooney Weiland (1971) Maple Leafs: Syl Apps (1961) Turk Broda (1967) Gordie Drillon (1975) Red Horner (1965) Busher Jackson (1971) Coaches: Dick Irvin (1958, player) Art Ross (1949, player)
Stanley Cup Finals

The 1939 Stanley Cup Finals was contested by the Boston Bruins and the Toronto Maple Leafs. It was Boston's first appearance in the Finals since 1930; Toronto had appeared in the previous year. Boston won the series 4–1 to win their second Stanley Cup. This was the first Stanley Cup Finals to be contested as a best-of-seven series, and every subsequent Stanley Cup Finals have been contested as such.

Paths to the Finals

Boston defeated New York Rangers in a best-of-seven 4–3 to advance to the Finals. The Maple Leafs had to play two best-of three series; winning 2–0 against New York Americans, and 2–1 against the Detroit Red Wings to advance to the Finals.

Game summaries

Frank Brimsek held Toronto to just six goals in the 5 games.

April 6	Toronto Maple Leafs		1–2		Boston Bruins	Boston Garden	Recap
No scoring		First period			16:04 - Woody Dumart (1)
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
Red Horner (1) - 13:54		Third period			16:31 - Bobby Bauer (2)
Turk Broda		Goalie stats			Frank Brimsek

April 9	Toronto Maple Leafs		3–2	OT	Boston Bruins	Boston Garden	Recap
Murph Chamberlain (2) - 8:55 Syl Apps (2) - 9:29		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			15:05 - Roy Conacher (2) 16:18 - Mel Hill (5)
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
Doc Romnes (1)		First overtime period			No scoring
Turk Broda		Goalie stats			Frank Brimsek

April 11	Boston Bruins		3–1		Toronto Maple Leafs	Maple Leaf Gardens	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
Bobby Bauer (3) - 1:28 Roy Conacher (3) - 8:12 Jack Crawford (1) - 13:03		Third period			19:11 - Gus Marker (2)
Frank Brimsek		Goalie stats			Turk Broda

April 13	Boston Bruins		2–0		Toronto Maple Leafs	Maple Leaf Gardens	Recap
Roy Conacher (4) - pp - 2:20		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
Roy Conacher (5) - 12:55		Third period			No scoring
Frank Brimsek		Goalie stats			Turk Broda

April 16	Toronto Maple Leafs		1–3		Boston Bruins	Boston Garden	Recap
Bingo Kampman (1) - 18:40		First period			11:40 - Mel Hill (6)
No scoring		Second period			17:54 - Roy Conacher (6)
No scoring		Third period			19:23 - Flash Hollett (1)
Turk Broda		Goalie stats			Frank Brimsek

Boston won series 4–1

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1939 Stanley Cup was presented to Bruins captain Cooney Weiland by NHL President Frank Calder following the Bruins 3–1 win over the Maple Leafs in game five.

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

1938–39 Boston Bruins

Players

  Centres

• 5 Ralph Cooney Weiland (Captain)
• 10 Bill Cowley
• 11 Gord Pettinger
• 15 Milt Schmidt
• 16 Pat McReavy

  Wingers

• 4 Charlie Sands
• 6 Ray Getliffe
• 6-16 Robert Red Hamill
• 9 Roy Conacher
• 14 Woody Dumart
• 16-4 Harry Frost
• 17 Bobby Bauer
• 18 Mel Hill

  Defencemen

• 2 Eddie Shore
• 3 Bill Flash Hollett
• 4 Terry Reardon
• 5 Aubrey Dit Clapper
• 5 Jack Shewchuk
• 8 Jack Portland
• 19 Jack Crawford

  Goaltenders

• 1 Frank Brimsek

Coaching and administrative staff

• Weston Adams Sr. (President/Owner), Art Ross (Vice President/Manager-Coach)
• Ralph Burkard (Treasurer)
• Frank Ryan (Publicity Director)^
• Win Green (Trainer)&^
• & Missing from the Stanley Cup, but qualified to be on it.
• ^-Win Green(Trainer), Frank Ryan (Publicity Director) were included on one of the two team pictures but left off the Stanley Cup.

Stanley Cup engraving

• From 1930 to 1939, except for the 1933 New York Rangers, 1934 Chicago Black Hawks and 1935 Montreal Maroons every team included their playoff games scores on the Stanley Cup. In 1939, the Boston Bruins were the last team to do this. When the Cup was redone during 1957–58 season all playoff game scores were left off the new ring for the cup winners from 1928 to 1940.
• Three players were included on the Stanley Cup, but did not qualify Pat McReavy (6 games played), Terry Reardon (4 games played), Jack Shewchuk (3 games played). Not one of the three players played in the playoffs. Every player who played for Boston that season was included on the Stanley Cup.

See also

• 1938–39 NHL season

References & notes

• 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