1931 Stanley Cup Finals

{{Infobox Stanley Cup Final

|year=1931

|dates=April 3–14, 1931

|team1=Chicago Black Hawks

|team1_short=Chicago

|team1_coach=Dick Irvin

|team1_captain=Ty Arbour

|team2=Montreal Canadiens

|team2_short=Montreal

|team2_captain=Sylvio Mantha

|team2_coach=Cecil Hart

|format=best-of-five

|team1_1=1

|team2_1=2

|team1_2=2

|team2_2=1

|team1_3=3

|team2_3=2

|team1_4=2

|team2_4=4

|team1_5=0

|team2_5=2

|team1_tot=2

|team2_tot=3

|gm2_ot=**

|gm3_ot=***

|table-note=* indicates periods of overtime.

|location1=Chicago: Chicago Stadium (1, 2)

|location2=Montreal: Montreal Forum (3–5)

|series_winner=Johnny Gagnon (9:59, second)

|hofers=Black Hawks:
Charlie Gardiner (1945)
Canadiens:
George Hainsworth (1961)
Aurele Joliat (1947)
Sylvio Mantha (1960)
Howie Morenz (1945)
Coaches:
Dick Irvin (1958, player)

}}

The 1931 Stanley Cup Finals 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.

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|date=March 2021}} 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|date=March 2021}}

=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|date=March 2021}} 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.Jenish (2008), p. 76.

{{NHLPlayoffs

|team2=Chicago Black Hawks

|team1=Montreal Canadiens

|stadium1=Chicago Stadium

|stadium2=Montreal Forum

|date1 =April 3

|home1 =1

|score1 =2–1

|won1 =1

|recap1 =bigmouthsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1931-Stanley-Cup-Playoff-boxscores-MTL.pdf

|1-1-1 =Georges Mantha (3) - 4:50

|1-1-2 =No scoring

|1-2-1 =No scoring

|1-2-2 =No scoring

|1-3-1 =Pit Lepine (2) - 2:20

|1-3-2 =8:20 - Vic Ripley (2)

|goalie1-1 =George Hainsworth

|goalie1-2 =Charlie Gardiner

|date2 =April 5

|home2 =1

|score2 =1–2

|ot2 =2

|won2 =2

|recap2 =www.nhl.com/gamecenter/mtl-vs-chi/1931/04/05/1930030212#game=1930030212,game_state=final

|2-1-1 =No scoring

|2-1-2 =No scoring

|2-2-1 =No scoring

|2-2-2 =11:45 - Stew Adams (2)

|2-3-1 =Nick Wasnie (3) - 12:10

|2-3-2 =No scoring

|2-4-1 =No scoring

|2-4-2 =4:50 - Johnny Gottselig (2)

|goalie2-1 =George Hainsworth

|goalie2-2 =Charlie Gardiner

|date3 =April 9

|home3 =2

|score3 =3–2

|ot3 =3

|won3 =2

|recap3 =www.nhl.com/gamecenter/chi-vs-mtl/1931/04/09/1930030213#game=1930030213,game_state=final

|3-1-1 =5:15 - Johnny Gagnon (3)

|3-1-2 =No scoring

|3-2-1 =7:29 - Georges Mantha (5)

|3-2-2 =No scoring

|3-3-1 =No scoring

|3-3-2 =Mush March (3) - 16:20
Stew Adams (3) - 17:07

|3-4-1 =No scoring

|3-4-2 =Cy Wentworth (1) - 13:50

|goalie3-1 =George Hainsworth

|goalie3-2 =Charlie Gardiner

|date4 =April 11

|home4 =2

|score4 =2–4

|won4 =1

|recap4 =www.nhl.com/gamecenter/chi-vs-mtl/1931/04/11/1930030214#game=1930030214,game_state=final

|4-1-1 =No scoring

|4-1-2 =Johnny Gottselig (3) - 1:33
Ty Arbour (1) - 13:58

|4-2-1 =4:34 - Johnny Gagnon (4)

|4-2-2 =No scoring

|4-3-1 =4:25 - Johnny Gagnon (5)
10:55 - Pit Lepine (3)
17:25 - Pit Lepine (4)

|4-3-2 =No scoring

|goalie4-1 =George Hainsworth

|goalie4-2 =Charlie Gardiner

|date5 =April 14

|home5 =2

|score5 =0–2

|won5 =1

|recap5 =www.nhl.com/gamecenter/chi-vs-mtl/1931/04/14/1930030215#game=1930030215,game_state=final

|5-1-1 =No scoring

|5-1-2 =No scoring

|5-2-1 =9:59 - Johnny Gagnon (6)

|5-2-2 =No scoring

|5-3-1 =15:27 - Howie Morenz (1)

|5-3-2 =No scoring

|goalie5-1 =George Hainsworth

|goalie5-2 =Charlie Gardiner

|series = Montreal won series 3–2

}}

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1931 Stanley Cup was presented to Canadiens captain Sylvio Mantha by NHL President Frank Calder following the Canadiens 2–0 win over the Black Hawks in game five.

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

1930–31 Montreal Canadiens

{{Stanley Cup champion

|goaltenders=*1 George Hainsworth

|defence=*2 Sylvio Mantha (captain)

|centres=*7 Howie Morenz

9 Alfred Pit Lepine

|wingers=*4 Aurel Joliat

|non-players=

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. J. A. Corrigan (Team Physician)
Edward Dulfour (Trainer), Jim McKenna (Asst. Trainer)

|player-notes=

† Left off the Cup, but qualified to be on it. ^A Played three of five games in the Finals. ^B Played 22 of 44 regular season games.

|engraving-notes=

Officially, owner Leo Dandurand was the Manager of the Montreal Canadiens from 1921–22 to 1934–35. 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.)
*-The team physician's first name remains unknown
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.

}}

Notes

References

{{cite book | last=Diamond | first=Dan | title=Total Stanley Cup | year=2000 | publisher=Total Sports Canada | location=Toronto | isbn=978-1-892129-07-9 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/totalstanleycupo0000unse }}
{{cite book|last=Jenish |first=D'arcy |year=2008 |title=The Montreal Canadiens: 100 years of glory |isbn=978-0-385-66324-3|publisher=Doubleday Canada}}
Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub. pp 12, 50. {{ISBN|978-1-55168-261-7}}

{{succession box |

before = Montreal Canadiens
1930 |

after = Toronto Maple Leafs
1932 |

title = Montreal Canadiens
Stanley Cup Champions |

years = 1931|

}}

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