1935 Stanley Cup Finals

{{Infobox Stanley Cup Final

|year=1935

|team1=Montreal Maroons

|team1_short=Montreal

|team1_1=3*

|team1_2=3

|team1_3=4

|team1_tot=3

|team2=Toronto Maple Leafs

|team2_short=Toronto

|team2_1=2*

|team2_2=1

|team2_3=1

|team2_tot=0

|format=best-of-five

|gm1_ot=*

|table-note=* indicates periods of overtime.

|location1=Toronto: Maple Leaf Gardens (1, 2)

|location2=Montreal: Montreal Forum (3)

|dates=April 4–9, 1935

|team2_coach=Dick Irvin

|team1_coach=Tommy Gorman

|team1_captain=Hooley Smith

|team2_captain=Hap Day

|series_winner=Baldy Northcott (16:18, second, G3)

|hofers=Maroons:
Toe Blake (1966)
Lionel Conacher (1994)
Alec Connell (1958)
Hooley Smith (1972)
Maple Leafs:
King Clancy (1958)
Charlie Conacher (1961)
Hap Day (1961)
George Hainsworth (1961)
Red Horner (1965)
Busher Jackson (1971)
Joe Primeau (1963)
Coaches:
Tommy Gorman (1963)
Dick Irvin (1958, player)

}}

The 1935 Stanley Cup Finals was contested by the Montreal Maroons and the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Maroons won the series 3–0 to win their second and final Stanley Cup. The Maroons are the last defunct team to ever win the Cup, as the team disbanded three years later, and were also the last non-Original Six team to win the championship until the Philadelphia Flyers in 1974.

Paths to the Finals

Toronto defeated the Boston Bruins in a best-of-five 3–1 to advance to the Finals.

The Maroons had to play a total-goals series; 1–0 against Chicago Black Hawks, and win a second two-game total-goals series 5–4 against the New York Rangers to advance to the Finals.

Game summaries

Maroons manager-coach Tommy Gorman became the only coach to win successive Stanley Cup titles with two different teams after winning with the Chicago Black Hawks in the 1934 Stanley Cup Finals.{{cite news|title=Tommy Gorman Dies At 74|date=May 15, 1961|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|location=Ottawa, Ontario|page=15|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94583257/gorman-1961/}}

Maroons goaltender Alex Connell allowed just four goals in the three games.

{{NHLPlayoffs

|team2=Toronto Maple Leafs

|team1=Montreal Maroons

|stadium1=Maple Leaf Gardens

|stadium2=Montreal Forum

|date1 =April 4

|home1 =1

|score1 =3–2

|ot1 =1

|won1 =1

|recap1 =www.nhl.com/gamecenter/mmr-vs-tor/1935/04/04/1934030211#game=1934030211,game_state=final

|1-1-1 =No scoring

|1-1-2 =No scoring

|1-2-1 =Earl Robinson (1) - 3:57
Cy Wentworth (2) - 19:12

|1-2-2 =14:28 - Frank Finnigan (1)
18:12 - King Clancy (1)

|1-3-1 =No scoring

|1-3-2 =No scoring

|1-4-1 =Dave Trottier (2) - 5:28

|1-4-2 =No scoring

|goalie1-1 =Alex Connell

|goalie1-2 =George Hainsworth

|date2 =April 6

|home2 =1

|score2 =3–1

|won2 =1

|recap2 =www.nhl.com/gamecenter/mmr-vs-tor/1935/04/06/1934030212#game=1934030212,game_state=final

|2-1-1 =Earl Robinson (2) - pp - 15:44

|2-1-2 =No scoring

|2-2-1 =Russ Blinco (2) - 16:47

|2-2-2 =7:31 - sh - Busher Jackson (3)

|2-3-1 =Baldy Northcott (3) - 3:27

|2-3-2 =No scoring

|goalie2-1 =Alex Connell

|goalie2-2 =George Hainsworth

|date3 =April 9

|home3 =2

|score3 =1–4

|won3 =1

|recap3 =www.nhl.com/gamecenter/tor-vs-mmr/1935/04/09/1934030213#game=1934030213,game_state=final

|3-1-1 =19:35 - sh - Jimmy Ward (1)

|3-1-2 =No scoring

|3-2-1 =16:18 - Baldy Northcott (4)
16:30 - Cy Wentworth (3)

|3-2-2 =Bill Thoms (2) - 12:59

|3-3-1 =1:02 - Gus Marker (1)

|3-3-2 =No scoring

|goalie3-1 =Alex Connell

|goalie3-2 =George Hainsworth

|series = Montreal won series 3–0

}}

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1935 Stanley Cup was presented to Maroons captain Hooley Smith by NHL President Frank Calder following the Maroons' 4–1 win over the Maple Leafs in game three.

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

1934–35 Montreal Maroons

{{Stanley Cup champion

|goaltenders=*1 Alex Connell

|defence=*2 Marvin Cy Wentworth

3 Lionel Conacher
6 Stewart Evans
12 Allan Shields
19 Bill Miller
16 Bill MacKenzie (loaned to NY Rangers)

|centres=*11 Bob Gracie

14 Russ Blinco
17 Norman Dutch Gainor

|wingers=*4 Jimmy Ward

5 Lawrence Baldy Northcott
7 Reginald Hooley Smith (Captain)
8 Dave Trottier
8 Hector Toe Blake
9 Gus Marker
10 Herb Cain
15 Earl Robinson
16 Sammy McManus

|non-players=

Donat Raymond (President/Owner),
Thorad Arnold (Executive), Kenneth Daves (Executive), Bob McDougall (Executive)
Tommy Gorman (Vice President/Manager-Coach)
Bill O'Brien (Trainer)

|engraving-notes=

Bill MacKenzie was loaned to New York Rangers on 1935-01-29. In the Stanley Cup Semi-Finals, the Maroons defeated the Rangers, while MacKenzie played in a losing cause for the Rangers. He was included on the Stanley Cup and team picture. However, under NHL rules MacKenzie was disqualified from winning the Stanley Cup because he was a member of the Rangers when the Maroons won it. MacKenzie only played five games for the Maroons in the 1934-35 season. He officially won the Stanley Cup with Chicago in 1938.
In 1934 Tommy Gorman (Manager-Coach) led the Chicago Black Hawks to the Stanley Cup. In the off-season, Gorman was fired after a dispute with President/Owner Fredric McLaughlin. Montreal Maroons hired Gorman as (Manager-Coach) and he led Maroons to the Stanley Cup. He became the only Manager and/or Coach to win back-to-back Stanley Cups with two different teams.
Player Lionel Conacher won back-to-back cups with Chicago Black Hawks {{scfy|1934}} and Montreal Maroons in {{scfy|1935}}.
Montreal Maroons did not include any playoff scores in 1935.

}}

References & notes

{{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 }}
Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub. pp 12, 50. {{ISBN|978-1-55168-261-7}}
{{cite web | url=http://www.nhl.com/info/all-time-nhl-playoff-results|title=All-Time NHL Results}}

{{succession box |

before = Chicago Black Hawks
1934 |

after = Detroit Red Wings
1936 |

title = Montreal Maroons
Stanley Cup Champions |

years = 1935|

}}

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