1936 Stanley Cup Finals

The 1936 Stanley Cup Finals was contested by the Detroit Red Wings and the Toronto Maple Leafs. This was Detroit's second appearance in the Finals and Toronto's sixth. Detroit would win the series 3–1 to win their first Stanley Cup.

1936 Stanley Cup Finals
1234 Total
Detroit Red Wings 393*3 3
Toronto Maple Leafs 144*2 1
* – Denotes overtime period(s)
Location(s)Detroit: Olympia Stadium (1, 2)
Toronto: Maple Leaf Gardens (3, 4)
Formatbest-of-five
CoachesDetroit: Jack Adams
Toronto: Dick Irvin
CaptainsDetroit: Doug Young
Toronto: Hap Day
DatesApril 5 to April 11, 1936
Series-winning goalPete Kelly (9:45, third, G4)

Path to the Final

Detroit defeated the defending champion Montreal Maroons in a best-of-five 3–0 to advance to the Finals. The Leafs had to play a total-goals series; 8–6 against Boston Bruins, and win a best-of-three 2–1 against the New York Americans to advance to the Finals.

Game summaries
Detroit won series 3–1

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1936 Stanley Cup was presented to Red Wings captain Doug Young by NHL President Frank Calder following the Red Wings 3–2 win over the Maple Leafs in game four.

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

1936 Detroit Red Wings

Players

  Goaltenders

Coaching and administrative staff

Stanley Cup engraving
  • Four Red Wings were included on the team picture, but left off the Stanley Cup: Wilfie Starr, Art Giroux, Les Tooke, and assistant trainer Carl Mattson. Tooke, who spent the season with the Windsor Shamrocks of the Michigan-Ontario Hockey League, was the Wings' spare goaltender; he never played in the NHL.

Detroit: "City of Champions"

When the Red Wings won the 1936 Stanley Cup, the City of Detroit was mired in the Great Depression, which had hit Detroit and its industries particularly hard. But with the success of the Red Wings and other Detroit teams and athletes in the 1935/36 sports season, Detroit's luck appeared to be changing, as the city was dubbed the "City of Champions". The Detroit Tigers started the winning streak by winning the 1935 World Series, and the Detroit Lions continued the process by capturing the 1935 NFL Championship Game. When the Red Wings completed their own championship drive, the city had seen three major sporting league championships in less than a year.[1] Detroit's champions also included Detroit's "Brown Bomber", Joe Louis, the heavyweight boxing titlist; native Detroiter Gar Wood, top unlimited powerboat racer and the first man to go 100 miles per hour on water; and Eddie "the Midnight Express" Tolan, a black Detroiter who won gold medals in the 100- and 200-meter races at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

See also

Notes
  1. Detroit held all three titles for 178 days, from April 11 until October 6, 1936. The only other city to hold three major professional team titles at once was New York (Yankees, NFL Giants and Rangers) in 1927-28.

References
  • NHL (2000). Total Stanley Cup. Dan Diamond & Associates.
  • Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub. pp 12, 50. ISBN 978-1-55168-261-7
Preceded by
Montreal Maroons
1935		 Detroit Red Wings
Stanley Cup Champions
1936		 Succeeded by
Detroit Red Wings
1937
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