1931 Stanley Cup Final

1931 ice hockey championship series August 2023 1931 April 3–14, 1931 Chicago Black Hawks Chicago Dick Irvin Ty Arbour Montreal Canadiens Montreal Sylvio Mantha Cecil Hart best-of-five 1 2 2** 1** 3*** 2*** 2 4 0 2 2 3 * – Denotes overtime period(s) Chicago: Chicago Stadium (1, 2) Montreal: Montreal Forum (3–5) Johnny Gagnon (9:59, second) Canadiens:George Hainsworth (1961)Aurele Joliat (1947)Sylvio Mantha (1960)Howie Morenz (1945)Black Hawks:Charlie Gardiner (1945)Coaches:Dick Irvin (1958, player) 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. 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.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.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.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. Chicago Black Hawks Montreal Canadiens Chicago Stadium Montreal Forum April 3 1 2–1 1 bigmouthsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1931-Stanley-Cup-Playoff-boxscores-MTL.pdf Georges Mantha (3) - 4:50 No scoring No scoring No scoring Pit Lepine (2) - 2:20 8:20 - Vic Ripley (2) George Hainsworth Charlie Gardiner April 5 1 1–2 2 2 www.nhl.com/gamecenter/mtl-vs-chi/1931/04/05/1930030212#game=1930030212,game_state=final No scoring No scoring No scoring 11:45 - Stew Adams (2) Nick Wasnie (3) - 12:10 No scoring No scoring 4:50 - Johnny Gottselig (2) George Hainsworth Charlie Gardiner April 9 2 3–2 3 2 www.nhl.com/gamecenter/chi-vs-mtl/1931/04/09/1930030213#game=1930030213,game_state=final 5:15 - Johnny Gagnon (3) No scoring 7:29 - Georges Mantha (5) No scoring No scoring Mush March (3) - 16:20Stew Adams (3) - 17:07 No scoring Cy Wentworth (1) - 13:50 George Hainsworth Charlie Gardiner April 11 2 2–4 1 www.nhl.com/gamecenter/chi-vs-mtl/1931/04/11/1930030214#game=1930030214,game_state=final No scoring Johnny Gottselig (3) - 1:33Ty Arbour (1) - 13:58 4:34 - Johnny Gagnon (4) No scoring 4:25 - Johnny Gagnon (5)10:55 - Pit Lepine (3)17:25 - Pit Lepine (4) No scoring George Hainsworth Charlie Gardiner April 14 2 0–2 1 www.nhl.com/gamecenter/chi-vs-mtl/1931/04/14/1930030215#game=1930030215,game_state=final No scoring No scoring 9:59 - Johnny Gagnon (6) No scoring 15:27 - Howie Morenz (1) No scoring George Hainsworth Charlie Gardiner 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 *1 George Hainsworth *2 Sylvio Mantha (captain) 3 Marty Burke 5 Jean Pusie^ 8 Albert Leduc 11 Art Lesieur 12 Georges Mantha *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 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) #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 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.) Hilarion A. "Louis" Letourneau (Owner/Director) gave up his position on the Board of Directors of the Montreal Canadiens after the 1930 Stanley Cup. He would sell his shares in 1932. So the name was not included on the 1931 Stanley Cup engraving. See also 1930–31 NHL season Notes References Diamond Dan Total Stanley Cup 2000 Total Sports Canada Toronto 978-1-892129-07-9 registration https://archive.org/details/totalstanleycupo0000unse Jenish D'arcy 2008 The Montreal Canadiens: 100 years of glory 978-0-385-66324-3 Doubleday Canada Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub. pp 12, 50. 978-1-55168-261-7 Montreal Canadiens1930 Toronto Maple Leafs1932 Montreal CanadiensStanley Cup champions 1931 Stanley Cup Category:Stanley Cup Finals Category:Chicago Blackhawks games Category:Montreal Canadiens games Category:April 1931 sports events in the United States Category:Ice hockey competitions in Chicago Category:Ice hockey competitions in Montreal Stan Category:1931 in Quebec Category:1931 in Chicago Category:1930s in Montreal Category:Events at Chicago Stadium Category:April 1931 sports events in Canada