1962 Stanley Cup Finals

1962 Stanley Cup Finals
1 2 3 4 5 6 Total Chicago Black Hawks 1 2 3 4 4 1 2 Toronto Maple Leafs 4 3 0 1 8 2 4
Location(s)	Toronto: Maple Leaf Gardens (1, 2, 5) Chicago: Chicago Stadium (3, 4, 6)
Coaches	Chicago: Rudy Pilous Toronto: Punch Imlach
Captains	Chicago: Pierre Pilote Toronto: George Armstrong
Dates	April 10–22, 1962
Series-winning goal	Dick Duff (14:14, third, G6)
Hall of Famers	Black Hawks: Glenn Hall (1975) Bill Hay (2015, builder) Bobby Hull (1983) Stan Mikita (1983) Pierre Pilote (1975) Maple Leafs: Al Arbour (1996, builder) George Armstrong (1975) Johnny Bower (1976) Dick Duff (2006) Tim Horton (1977) Red Kelly (1969) Dave Keon (1986) Frank Mahovlich (1981) Bert Olmstead (1985) Bob Pulford (1991) Allan Stanley (1981) Coaches: Punch Imlach (1984) Rudy Pilous (1985)
Stanley Cup Finals

The 1962 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1961–62 season, and the culmination of the 1962 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the defending champion Chicago Black Hawks and the Toronto Maple Leafs who had last appeared in the Final in 1960. The Maple Leafs won the best-of-seven series, four games to two, to win the Stanley Cup, their first since 1951.

Paths to the Finals

Toronto defeated the New York Rangers to advance to the finals and Chicago defeated the Montreal Canadiens.

Game summaries

Stan Mikita broke Gordie Howe's 1955 playoff record of 20 points, finishing with 21, but it was not enough as the Leafs would defeat the Black Hawks. Dave Keon, making his playoff debut, scored two goals and an assist in the Final.^[1]

April 10	Chicago Black Hawks		1–4		Toronto Maple Leafs	Maple Leaf Gardens	Recap
Bobby Hull (5) - pp - 3:35		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			1:32 - Dave Keon (4) 13:54 - pp - Frank Mahovlich (3)
No scoring		Third period			6:03 - George Armstrong (5) 14:32 - Tim Horton (3)
Glenn Hall		Goalie stats			Johnny Bower

April 12	Chicago Black Hawks		2–3		Toronto Maple Leafs	Maple Leaf Gardens	Recap
No scoring		First period			2:35 - pp - Billy Harris (1)
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
Stan Mikita (4) - 8:47 Stan Mikita (5) - 18:27		Third period			9:47 - Frank Mahovlich (4) 16:08 - George Armstrong (6)
Glenn Hall		Goalie stats			Johnny Bower

April 15	Toronto Maple Leafs		0–3		Chicago Black Hawks	Chicago Stadium	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			4:35 - Stan Mikita (6) 8:33 - pp - Ab McDonald (4)
No scoring		Third period			19:21 - Bronco Horvath (4)
Johnny Bower		Goalie stats			Glenn Hall

April 17	Toronto Maple Leafs		1–4		Chicago Black Hawks	Chicago Stadium	Recap
Red Kelly (4) - pp - 18:08		First period			10:35 - Bobby Hull (6) 15:41 - Reg Fleming (1)
No scoring		Second period			00:46 - pp - Bobby Hull (7) 7:31 - Reg Fleming (2)
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
Johnny Bower, Don Simmons		Goalie stats			Glenn Hall

April 19	Chicago Black Hawks		4–8		Toronto Maple Leafs	Maple Leaf Gardens	Recap
Murray Balfour (1) - 18:05		First period			00:17 - Bob Pulford (5) 17:45 - Bob Pulford (6)
Ab McDonald (5) - 00:59 Ab McDonald (6) - pp - 3:07		Second period			8:31 - Billy Harris (2) 9:50 - pp - Dave Keon (5) 13:24 - Frank Mahovlich (5)
Bob Turner (1) - sh - 10:31		Third period			4:41 - George Armstrong (7) 6:31 - Frank Mahovlich (6) 13:51 - pp - Bob Pulford (7)
Glenn Hall		Goalie stats			Don Simmons

April 22	Toronto Maple Leafs		2–1		Chicago Black Hawks	Chicago Stadium	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
Bob Nevin (2) - 10:29 Dick Duff (3) - pp - 14:14		Third period			8:56 - Bobby Hull (8)
Don Simmons		Goalie stats			Glenn Hall

Toronto won series 4–2

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1962 Stanley Cup was presented to Maple Leafs captain George Armstrong by NHL President Clarence Campbell following the Maple Leafs 2–1 win over the Black Hawks in game six.

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

1961–62 Toronto Maple Leafs

Players

  Centres

• 4 Leonard Red Kelly
• 14 Dave Keon
• 15 Billy Harris

  Wingers

• 8 John MacMillan
• 9 Dick Duff (A)
• 10 George Armstrong (Captain)
• 11 Bob Nevin
• 12 Ron Stewart
• 16 Bert Olmstead (A)
• 20 Bob Pulford
• 23 Eddie Shack
• 25 Ed Litzenberger
• 27 Frank Mahovlich

  Defencemen

• 2 Carl Brewer
• 3 Al Arbour
• 7 Miles Tim Horton
• 21 Bob Baun
• 22 Larry Hillman*
• 26 Allan Stanley

  Goaltenders

• 1 Johnny Bower
• 1-30 Don Simmons

Coaching and administrative staff

• Stafford Smythe (President/Owner), Conn Smythe (Chairman)
• Harold Ballard (Exe Vice President/Owner), John W. H. Bassett (Vice President/Owner)
• George Punch Imlach (Manager-Coach), Frank King Clancy (Asst. Manager-Coach)
• Bob Davidson (Chief Scout), Bob Haggart (Trainer)
• Tom Nayler (Asst. Trainer), Hugh Holton (Asst. Trainer)

Stanley Cup engraving

• *Larry Hillman played only 3 regular-season games, and spent most of the year in the minors. His name was still engraved on the Stanley Cup.
• *Harold Ballard won his first of 4 Stanley Cups as (Vice President/Owner). Ballard would later become the fifth person to get on his name on Stanley Cup & Grey Cup. In 1986 Ballard was President/Owner of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats when they won the Grey Cup. (See Joe Miller, Lionel Conacher, Carl Voss, Leo Dandurand, Norman Kwong & Wayne Gretzky other persons who won both the Grey Cup and Stanley Cup.)
• Dr. Karl Elieff (Physiotherapist), Dr. Jame Murphy, Dr. Hugh Smythe (Team Doctors) - left off^[1]

See also

• 1961–62 NHL season

Notes

1. Diamond, p. 51

References

• "All-Time NHL Results".
• Diamond, Dan, ed. (2008). Total Stanley Cup. Toronto: Dan Diamond and Associates.

• Podnieks, Andrew (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Publishing. ISBN 978-1-55168-261-7.

Preceded by Chicago Black Hawks 1961

Toronto Maple Leafs Stanley Cup Champions 1962

Succeeded by Toronto Maple Leafs 1963