The 1955 Stanley Cup Finals was the
championship series of the
National Hockey League
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's (NHL)
1954–55 season, and the culmination of the
1955 Stanley Cup playoffs
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. It was contested between the
Montreal Canadiens
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, appearing in their fifth of ten straight Finals, and the defending champion
Detroit Red Wings
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, in the third Detroit-Montreal Finals series of the 1950s and the second consecutively. The Red Wings won the series, four games to three, for their second consecutive
Stanley Cup
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championship, fourth in six seasons, and seventh overall. Detroit did not win the Stanley Cup again until .
Paths to the Finals
Montreal defeated the
Boston Bruins
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in five games to reach the Finals. Detroit defeated the
Toronto Maple Leafs
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in four games to reach the Finals.
Game summaries
Prior to the playoffs, Montreal's
Maurice Richard
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was suspended and would be missed by the Canadiens.
In the second game,
Ted Lindsay scored four goals to set a NHL record for most goals in one game in a Finals series. The win was also the Wings' fifteenth consecutive, another NHL record.
Gordie Howe
Gordon Howe (March 31, 1928 – June 10, 2016) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. From 1946 to 1980, he played 26 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and six seasons in the World Hockey Association (WHA); his first 25 seaso ...
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 Finals 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 (Montreal defeated the
Chicago Black Hawks
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) and (the
New Jersey Devils
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beat the
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).
Stanley Cup engraving
The 1955 Stanley Cup was presented to Red Wings captain Ted Lindsay by
NHL President Clarence Campbell
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following the Red Wings 3–1 win over the Canadiens in game seven.
The following Red Wings players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup
1954–55 Detroit Red Wings
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).
See also
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1954–55 NHL season
The 1954–55 NHL season was the 38th season of the National Hockey League. The Detroit Red Wings were the Stanley Cup champions as they defeated the Montreal Canadiens four games to three in the best-of-seven final series. The Canadiens were wit ...
Notes
References
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* Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). ''Lord Stanley's Cup''. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub. pp 12, 50.
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