1938 Stanley Cup Final

1938 ice hockey championship series August 2023 1938 Chicago Black Hawks Chicago Bill Stewart Johnny Gottselig 3 1 2 4 3 Toronto Maple Leafs Toronto Charlie Conacher Dick Irvin 1 5 1 1 1 best-of-five Toronto: Maple Leaf Gardens (1, 2) Chicago: Chicago Stadium (3, 4) April 5–12, 1938 Carl Voss (16:45, second) Black Hawks:Earl Seibert (1963)Carl Voss (1974, builder)Maple Leafs:Syl Apps (1961)Turk Broda (1967)Charlie Conacher (1961)Gordie Drillon (1975)Red Horner (1965)Busher Jackson (1971)Coaches:Dick Irvin (1958, player) The 1938 Stanley Cup Final was a best-of-five series between the Chicago Black Hawks and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Chicago won the series 3–1 to win their second Stanley Cup. With their record of 14–25–9, they possess as of 2022, the lowest regular season winning percentage (.291) of any championship team in the four major professional sports leagues. They are also the Stanley Cup winning team with the lowest number of Hockey Hall of Fame members as a player, with only one (Earl Seibert). This would be the last best-of-five Stanley Cup Finals. Paths to the Finals Toronto defeated Boston Bruins in a best-of-five 3–0 to advance to the Finals. The Black Hawks had to play two best-of three series after narrowly reaching the postseason by two points (at the time, six of the eight teams made the postseason); the Black Hawks won a 2–1 upset against Montreal Canadiens and then won 2–1 against the New York Americans to advance to the Finals. Game summaries Chicago lost their regular goaltender, Mike Karakas, during the playoffs and started Alfie Moore in game one. League president Frank Calder ruled that Moore was ineligible, but allowed the victory. Paul Goodman played and lost game two. Karakas returned for games three and four wearing a steel toe in his skate to protect his foot.The Official Illustrated NHL History Pincus, Arthur Reader's Digest 0-88850-800-X Montreal 2006 53 Chicago set a record with eight American players winning the Stanley Cup. Also set a record for attendance with 18,497 in game three. It was the second time in NHL history a team won the Stanley cup after starting three different goalies in the playoffs after the Detroit Red Wings accomplished the feat in the previous year; no Stanley Cup Champion would win the cup while starting three different goalies until the Penguins did it in 2016. It was the last time that the Hawks would win the Stanley Cup at home until 2015, and the last year that a Chicago team would win a championship at Chicago Stadium until the Bulls won their second straight NBA championship in 1992.https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/15/sports/basketball-with-jordan-starring-bulls-make-it-a-rerun.html BASKETBALL; With Jordan Starring, Bulls Make It a Rerun Brown Clifton The New York Times June 15, 1992 June 16, 2024 The NHL did not see fit to make sure that the Stanley Cup was in Chicago when they won the game and the series on April 12.Rovell Darren Blackhawks fans eye Cup clincher at home, paying huge Game 6 ticket prices ESPN June 14, 2015 https://www.espn.com/chicago/nhl/story/_/id/13075628/chicago-blackhawks-fans-paying-big-ticket-prices-game-6-stanley-cup-finals June 15, 2015 Chicago Black Hawks Toronto Maple Leafs Maple Leaf Gardens Chicago Stadium April 5 1 3–1 1 www.nhl.com/gamecenter/chi-vs-tor/1938/04/05/1937030211#game=1937030211,game_state=final Johnny Gottselig (4) - pp - 19:08 1:54 - Gordie Drillon (4) Paul Thompson (4) - 1:51 No scoring Johnny Gottselig (5) - 12:08 No scoring Alfie Moore Turk Broda April 7 1 1–5 2 www.nhl.com/gamecenter/chi-vs-tor/1938/04/07/1937030212#game=1937030212,game_state=final Earl Seibert (5) - pp - 8:31 1:42 - Gordie Drillon (5) No scoring 6:10 - Busher Jackson (1) No scoring 9:44 - Gordie Drillon (6)11:29 - George Parsons (2)12:08 - George Parsons (3) Alfie Moore Turk Broda April 10 2 1–2 1 www.nhl.com/gamecenter/tor-vs-chi/1938/04/10/1937030213#game=1937030213,game_state=final No scoring Syl Apps (1) - pp - 1:35 16:02 - Carl Voss (2) No scoring 15:55 - Doc Romnes (2) No scoring Alfie Moore Turk Broda April 12 2 1–4 1 www.nhl.com/gamecenter/tor-vs-chi/1938/04/12/1937030214#game=1937030214,game_state=final 5:52 - Cully Dahlstrom (3) Gordie Drillon (7) - 8:26 16:45 - Carl Voss (3)17:58 - Jack Shill (1) No scoring 16:24 - Mush March (2) No scoring Alfie Moore Turk Broda Chicago won series 3–1 Stanley Cup engraving The 1938 Stanley Cup was presented to Black Hawks captain Johnny Gottselig by NHL President Frank Calder following the Black Hawks 4–1 win over the Maple Leafs in game four. The following Black Hawks players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup 1937–38 Chicago Black Hawks *1 Mike Karakas* 1 Alfie Moore (Sub)† 1 Paul Goodman (Sub)† *2 Art Wiebe 4 Bill MacKenzie 8 Alex Levinsky* 10 Virgil Johnson* † 14 Harold "Hal" Jackson* † 16 Roger Jenkins* 17 Earl Seibert *3 Jack Shill 14 Carl Voss* 15 Carol Cully Dahlstrom* *5 Harold Mush March 6 Paul Thompson 7 Johnny Gottselig (Captain) 12 Ewlyn Doc Romnes* 16 Louis Trudel* 18 Pete Palangio 18 Bert Connelly † Frederic McLaughlin* (President/Owner), Bill Tobin (Vice President) Thorne Donnelley (Secretary-Treasurer), Bill Stewart* (Manager-Coach), Eddie Froelich (Trainer)† Denotes American born. * Bill Stewart was the first American-born, and fifth NHL rookie coach to win the Stanley Cup. Bob Johnson would be the second American-born to Coach win the Stanley Cup in 1991, 53 years later. He was also the first American-born Manager to win the Stanley Cup. The second was Brian Burke in 2007, 69 years later. When the cup was redesigned during the 1957–58 season, Pete Palangio's name was engraved twice, firstly as PALAGO, secondly as PETE PALANGIO. † Six names were left off the cup when it was redone during the 1957–58 season. Four were on the original ring – Virgil Johnson, Paul Goodman, Alfie Moore(players), and Ed Froelich (Trainer). Players Hal Jackson and Bert Connelly qualified to be engraved on the Stanley Cup, but their names were not included on any version of the 1938 Chicago team's engravings. There is room on the Stanley Cup for all six missing names. With this victory, Carl Voss became the third player and only American to have his name engraved on the Stanley Cup and Canadian football's Grey Cup. He had previously been part of the Queen's Golden Gaels football team that won the 12th Grey Cup in 1924. (See Joe Miller, Lionel Conacher, Leo Dandurand, Norman Kwong & Wayne Gretzky also won the Grey Cup and Stanley Cup.) See also 1937–38 NHL season References & notes Diamond Dan Total Stanley Cup 2000 Total Sports Canada Toronto 978-1-892129-07-9 registration https://archive.org/details/totalstanleycupo0000unse Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub. pp 12, 50. 978-1-55168-261-7 http://www.nhl.com/info/all-time-nhl-playoff-results https://web.archive.org/web/20170724171920/https://www.nhl.com/info/all-time-nhl-playoff-results dead July 24, 2017 All-Time NHL Results Detroit Red Wings1937 Boston Bruins1939 Chicago Black HawksStanley Cup champions 1938 Stanley Cup Category:Stanley Cup Finals Category:Chicago Blackhawks games Category:Toronto Maple Leafs games Category:April 1938 sports events in the United States Category:April 1938 sports events in Canada Category:1930s in Toronto Category:1938 in Chicago Category:1938 in sports in Ontario Stanley Category:Ice hockey competitions in Chicago Category:Events at Chicago Stadium