1965 Stanley Cup Finals

1965 Stanley Cup Finals
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total Chicago Black Hawks 2 0 3 5 0 2 0 3 Montreal Canadiens 3 2 1 1 6 1 4 4
Location(s)	Montreal: Forum de Montréal (1, 2, 5, 7) Chicago: Chicago Stadium (3, 4, 6)
Coaches	Chicago: Billy Reay Montreal: Toe Blake
Captains	Chicago: Pierre Pilote Montreal: Jean Beliveau
Dates	April 17 – May 1, 1965
MVP	Jean Beliveau (Canadiens)
Series-winning goal	Jean Beliveau (0:14, first, G7)
Hall of Famers	Black Hawks: Phil Esposito (1984) Glenn Hall (1975) Bill Hay (2015, builder) Bobby Hull (1983) Stan Mikita (1983) Pierre Pilote (1975) Canadiens: Jean Beliveau (1972) Yvan Cournoyer (1982) Dick Duff (2006) Jacques Laperriere (1987; did not play) Henri Richard (1979) Gump Worsley (1980) Coaches: Toe Blake (1966, player)
Stanley Cup Finals

The 1965 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1964–65 season, and the culmination of the 1965 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the Chicago Black Hawks and the Montreal Canadiens. The Canadiens won the best-of-seven series, four games to three, to win the Stanley Cup. Significantly, Game 7 marked the first time that any NHL competition had taken place during the month of May.

Paths to the Finals

Montreal defeated the three-time defending champion Toronto Maple Leafs 4–2 to advance to the finals and Chicago defeated the Detroit Red Wings 4–3.

Game summaries

As in 1955, all games were won by the home team. This was the last final until 2003 that this happened. Gump Worsley made his first Finals appearance after 12 years in the league and recorded two shutouts, including the one in game seven. Jean Beliveau was the inaugural winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, scoring eight goals and eight assists in thirteen games.

April 17	Chicago Black Hawks		2–3		Montreal Canadiens	Forum de Montréal	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
Camille Henry (1) - pp - 4:47		Second period			2:39 - Henri Richard (5) 5:26 - John Ferguson (2)
Matt Ravlich (1) - pp - 2:38		Third period			8:59 - pp - Yvan Cournoyer (2)
Glenn Hall 28 saves / 31 shots		Goalie stats			Gump Worsley 22 saves / 24 shots

April 20	Chicago Black Hawks		0–2		Montreal Canadiens	Forum de Montréal	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			2:55 - pp - Jean Beliveau (4)
No scoring		Third period			8:07 - pp - Dick Duff (1)
Glenn Hall 29 saves / 31 shots		Goalie stats			Gump Worsley 18 saves / 18 shots

April 22	Montreal Canadiens		1–3		Chicago Black Hawks	Chicago Stadium	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
John Ferguson (3) - 4:16		Second period			5:03 - Phil Esposito (3)
No scoring		Third period			2:08 - Kenny Wharram (2) 19:24 - en - Chico Maki (3)
Gump Worsley 25 saves / 27 shots		Goalie stats			Glenn Hall 22 saves / 23 shots

April 25	Montreal Canadiens		1–5		Chicago Black Hawks	Chicago Stadium	Recap
No scoring		First period			2:57 - Fred Stanfield (2)
Jean Beliveau (5) - pp - 6:29		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			00:26 - pp - Bobby Hull (9) 15:20 - pp - Bill Hay (3) 18:48 - Bobby Hull (10) 19:57 - Doug Jarrett (1)
Charlie Hodge 23 saves / 28 shots		Goalie stats			Glenn Hall 25 saves / 26 shots

April 27	Chicago Black Hawks		0–6		Montreal Canadiens	Forum de Montréal	Recap
No scoring		First period			7:14 - pp - Jean Beliveau (6) 16:36 - pp - Dick Duff (2)
No scoring		Second period			2:38 - pp - Bobby Rousseau (5)
No scoring		Third period			4:29 - pp - Jean Beliveau (7) 6:46 - Henri Richard (6) 19:55 - sh - J.C. Tremblay (1)
Glenn Hall 21 saves / 24 shots Denis DeJordy 10 saves / 13 shots		Goalie stats			Charlie Hodge 23 saves / 23 shots

April 29	Montreal Canadiens		1–2		Chicago Black Hawks	Chicago Stadium	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
Ralph Backstrom (2) - 16:57		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			6:06 - Moose Vasko (1) 8:15 - pp - Doug Mohns (3)
Charlie Hodge 22 saves / 24 shots		Goalie stats			Glenn Hall 21 saves / 22 shots

May 1	Chicago Black Hawks		0–4		Montreal Canadiens	Forum de Montréal	Recap
No scoring		First period			00:14 - Jean Beliveau (8) 5:03 - Dick Duff (3) 16:27 - pp - Yvan Cournoyer (3) 18:45 - pp - Henri Richard (7)
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
Glenn Hall 31 saves / 35 shots		Goalie stats			Gump Worsley 20 saves / 20 shots

Montreal won series 4–3

Jean Béliveau wins first Conn Smythe Trophy

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1965 Stanley Cup was presented to Canadiens captain Jean Beliveau by NHL President Clarence Campbell following the Canadiens 4–0 win over the Black Hawks in game seven.

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

1964–65 Montreal Canadiens

Players

  Centres

• 4 Jean Beliveau (Captain)
• 6 Ralph Backstrom
• 16 Henri Richard (A)
• 23 Red Berenson
• 23-24 Garry Peters^A

  Wingers

• 8 Dick Duff
• 12 Yvan Cournoyer
• 11 Claude Larose
• 14 Claude Provost
• 15 Bobby Rousseau
• 20 Dave Balon
• 21 Gilles Tremblay*
• 22 John Ferguson Sr.
• 26 Jim Roberts

  Defencemen

• 2 Jacques Laperrière
• 3 Jean-Claude J. C. Tremblay
• 10 Edward Ted Harris
• 17 Jean-Guy Talbot (A)
• 18 Bryan Watson^B
• 19 Terry Harper
• 24 Jean Gauthier
• 24-25 Noel Picard

  Goaltenders

• 1 Charlie Hodge
• 30 Lorne Gump Worsley
• 29 Ernie Wakely (spare/did not play)^C

Coaching and administrative staff

• Hartland Molson (Chairman/owner)
• J. David Molson (President), Maurice Rocket Richard (Asst to President)
• Sam Pollock (Vice President/Manager), Toe Blake (Coach)
• Andy Galley (Trainer), Larry Albut (Asst. Trainer)

Stanley Cup engraving

• ^A Garry Peters played 13 games. ^B Bryan Watson played 8 games. ^C Ernie Wakely was dressed but did not play in the regular season. Walkey did dress for games 3-4-5 (of 5) in Stanley Cup Semi-Finals due to Charlie Hodges being injured. All three players spent most of the season in the minors, but their name was put on the Stanley Cup. None of the three players played in the playoff or officially qualifies for Cup engraving.
• *Gilles Tremblay played 25 games and missed the rest of the season injured but was still included in the Stanley Cup.
• When Toronto won the Stanley Cup in 1962, 1963, and 1964, they took up more room than was allowed for engraving their winning members' names on it. So when Montreal won the Stanley Cup, the ring was finished off with 32 members. Had the ring been engraved correctly in 1964–65, there would have been more than enough room to include all 27 members of the Montreal Canadiens 1965–66 roster with their full first and last names, and non-playing positions.

See also

• 1964–65 NHL season

References

• "All-Time NHL Results".
• Diamond, Dan (2000). Total Stanley Cup. Toronto: Total Sports Canada. ISBN 978-1-892129-07-9.
• Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub., pp. 12, 50. ISBN 978-1-55168-261-7