1931 Stanley Cup Final
1931 ice hockey championship series
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The 1931 Stanley Cup Final was played between the Montreal Canadiens and the Chicago Black Hawks, making their first Stanley Cup Finals appearance. The defending champions Canadiens, won the series to become the second NHL team to win back-to-back championships. Former player and now coach, Chicago's Dick Irvin, made his Finals coaching debut against the team he would later coach to three Stanley Cup titles.
Montreal: Montreal Forum (3â5)
Montreal: Cecil Hart
Montreal: Sylvio Mantha
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| Location(s) | Chicago: Chicago Stadium (1, 2) Montreal: Montreal Forum (3â5) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | best-of-five | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Coaches | Chicago: Dick Irvin Montreal: Cecil Hart | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Captains | Chicago: Ty Arbour Montreal: Sylvio Mantha | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Dates | April 3â14, 1931 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Series-winning goal | Johnny Gagnon (9:59, second) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Hall of Famers | Canadiens: George Hainsworth (1961) Aurele Joliat (1947) Sylvio Mantha (1960) Howie Morenz (1945) Black Hawks: Charlie Gardiner (1945) Coaches: Dick Irvin (1958, player) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Game summaries
Over 18,000 fans packed Chicago Stadium for game two to set a record for the largest attendance in hockey history to that time.[citation needed] The triple-overtime game three of the series was (at the time) the longest game in Stanley Cup Finals history, and today remains the fourth-longest game in Stanley Cup Finals history at 113:50.[citation needed]
Game five
For game five, Foster Hewitt came to Montreal to make the radio broadcast play-by-play and transmission lines carried his broadcast to radio stations across Canada Interest was so high that Montrealers in the thousands lined up for end zone and standing room tickets.[citation needed] Johnny Gagnon opened the scoring in the second period and Howie Morenz scored an insurance goal in the third period. It ended a nine-game goalless streak for Morenz.[1]
| April 3 | Montreal Canadiens | 2â1 | Chicago Black Hawks | Chicago Stadium | Recap | |||
| Georges Mantha (3) - 4:50 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| Pit Lepine (2) - 2:20 | Third period | 8:20 - Vic Ripley (2) | ||||||
| George Hainsworth | Goalie stats | Charlie Gardiner | ||||||
| April 5 | Montreal Canadiens | 1â2 | 2OT | Chicago Black Hawks | Chicago Stadium | Recap | ||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 11:45 - Stew Adams (2) | ||||||
| Nick Wasnie (3) - 12:10 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second overtime period | 4:50 - Johnny Gottselig (2) | ||||||
| George Hainsworth | Goalie stats | Charlie Gardiner | ||||||
| April 9 | Chicago Black Hawks | 3â2 | 3OT | Montreal Canadiens | Montreal Forum | Recap | ||
| No scoring | First period | 5:15 - Johnny Gagnon (3) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 7:29 - Georges Mantha (5) | ||||||
| Mush March (3) - 16:20 Stew Adams (3) - 17:07 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Cy Wentworth (1) - 13:50 | Third overtime period | No scoring | ||||||
| Charlie Gardiner | Goalie stats | George Hainsworth | ||||||
| April 11 | Chicago Black Hawks | 2â4 | Montreal Canadiens | Montreal Forum | Recap | |||
| Johnny Gottselig (3) - 1:33 Ty Arbour (1) - 13:58 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 4:34 - Johnny Gagnon (4) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 4:25 - Johnny Gagnon (5) 10:55 - Pit Lepine (3) 17:25 - Pit Lepine (4) | ||||||
| Charlie Gardiner | Goalie stats | George Hainsworth | ||||||
| April 14 | Chicago Black Hawks | 0â2 | Montreal Canadiens | Montreal Forum | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 9:59 - Johnny Gagnon (6) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 15:27 - Howie Morenz (1) | ||||||
| Charlie Gardiner | Goalie stats | George Hainsworth | ||||||
| Montreal won series 3â2 | |
Stanley Cup engraving
The 1931 Stanley Cup was presented to Canadiens captain Sylvio Mantha by NHL President Frank Calder following the Canadiens 2â0 win over the Black Hawks in game five.
The following Canadiens players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup
1930â31 Montreal Canadiens
Players
- 7 Howie Morenz
- 9 Alfred Pit Lepine
- 4 Aurel Joliat
- 5 Armand Mondou
- 6 Nick Wasnie
- 10 Wildor Larochelle
- 14 Johnny Gagnon
- 16 Gus Rivers
- 2 Sylvio Mantha (captain)
- 3 Marty Burke
- 8 Albert Leduc
- 11 Art Lesieur
- 12 Georges Mantha
Coaching and administrative staff
- Louis Athanase David (President), Edouard St. Pere (Vice President)
- Joseph Cattarinich (Vice President/Owner), Amerdee Monte (Director)
- Joseph Viateur "Leo" Dandurand (Secretary/Owner), Alphonse Raymond (Director)
- Cecil Hart (Manager-Coach), Georges Richer (Treasurer)
- Fernand Rinfeet (Director), Henry Gray (Director)
- Jules Dugal (Business Manager), Dr. James Albert Corrigan (Team Physician)
- Edward Dulfour (Trainer), Jim McKenna (Asst. Trainer)
Stanley Cup engraving
- #11 Bert McCaffrey (RW) played in 22 regular season games, but none in the playoffs. #5 Jean Pusie (D) played in 6 regular season games and 3 games in the Finals. Despite McCaffrey playing in at least half of the regular season games and Pusie playing in at least 1 Finals game, their names were left off the Stanley Cup engraving.
- Officially, owner Leo Dandurand was the Manager of the Montreal Canadiens from 1921â22 to 1934â35. However, Cecil Hart was engraved on the Stanley Cup in 1930 and 1931, and he is listed on every team picture for those seasons as Manager. Leo Dandurand would later get his name on the Grey Cup as the President (owner) of Montreal Allouettes in 1949. This made Leo Dandurand the 4th person to win both the Stanley Cup and Grey Cup. (See Joe Miller, Lionel Conacher, Carl Voss, Harold Ballard, Norman Kwong & Wayne Gretzky other persons who won both the Grey Cup and Stanley Cup.)
- Hilarion A. "Louis" Letourneau (Owner/Director) gave up position on Board of Directors of the Montreal Canadiens after the 1930 Stanley Cup. He would sell his shares in 1932. So name was not included on the 1931 Stanley Cup engraving.