1941 Stanley Cup Finals

1941 Stanley Cup Finals
Teams 1 2 3 4 Games Boston Bruins  3 2 4 3 4 Detroit Red Wings  2 1 2 1 0
Location: Boston, MA (Boston Garden) (1,2) Detroit, MI (Olympia) (3,4) Format: Best-of-seven Coaches: Boston: Cooney Weiland Detroit: Jack Adams Captains: Boston: Dit Clapper Detroit: Ebbie Goodfellow Dates: April 6 to April 12, 1941 Series-winning goal: Bobby Bauer (8:43, second)
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The 1941 Stanley Cup Final was a best-of-seven series between the Boston Bruins and the Detroit Red Wings. Boston would win the series 4–0 to win their third Stanley Cup.

Paths to the Final

Boston defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in a best-of-seven 4–3 to advance to the finals. The Red Wings had to play two best-of three series; winning 2–1 against the New York Rangers, and 2–0 against the Chicago Black Hawks.

The series

In the third best-of-seven series, Boston became the first to sweep the series in 4 games.

April 6

Boston Bruins

3–2

Detroit Red Wings

Boston Garden

April 8

Boston Bruins

2–1

Detroit Red Wings

Boston Garden

April 10

Detroit Red Wings

2–4

Boston Bruins

Detroit Olympia

April 12

Detroit Red Wings

1–3

Boston Bruins

Detroit Olympia

Boston won series 4–0

Boston Bruins 1941 Stanley Cup champions

Roster

  Centres

• 12 Pat McReavy
• 15 Milt Schmidt
• 17 Bill Cowley
• 16 Art Jackson

  Wingers

• 4 Herb Cain
• 7 Eddie Wiseman
• 9 Roy Conacher
• 14 Woody Dumart
• 16 Mel Hill
• 17 Bobby Bauer
• 20 Gordie Bruce^B

  Defencemen

• 3 Bill Flash Hollett
• 5 Aubrey Dit Clapper (Captain)
• 6 Jack Crawford
• 8 Des Smith
• 9 Jack Shewchuk†^A
• 19 Terry Reardon

  Goaltenders

• 1 Frank Brimsek

• ^A Played 22 of 48 regular season games, but not dressed in the playoffs.
• ^B Played 8 regular season games, and 2 playoffs games. Both Shewachuk and Bruce was original left off the cup. Shewachuk name was added to the cup when it redone during 1957–58, but not Bruce's name.

  Coaching and administrative staff

• Weston Adams Sr. (President/Owner), Art Ross (Vice President/Manager)
• Ralph Burkard (Treasurer), Ralph Cooney Weiland (Coach)
• Win Green (Trainer)
• Frank Ryan (Publicity Director)*

Stanley Cup engraving

• Frank Ryan (Publicity Director) was included on the 1929 and 1941 Stanley Cup pictures, but his name is not engraved on the Stanley Cup.
• Des Smith was engraved as WES SMITH with an "W" instead an "D". This mistake was corrected when the Stanley Cup was redone during the 1957–58 Season.
• Pat McReavy was misspelled PAT McCREAVY with an extra "C" on new version of the cup created during the 1957–58 season. Pat McReavy was often misspelled as Pat McCreavy on some team pictures with the Boston Bruins. When the Replica Cup was created in 1992–93, Pat McReavy name was misspelled as Pat McCeavy with "C" instead of a "R".

See also

• 1940–41 NHL season

References & notes

• 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 New York Rangers 1940

Boston Bruins Stanley Cup Champions 1941

Succeeded by Toronto Maple Leafs 1942