1967 NHL Playoffs
Montreal vs New York
After another very successful regular season, the “dark horse”
Habs have to be the favourite to win the cup. They start off really really badly though. The
Rangers, who finished 22 points behind
Montreal, outshoot them 51-13.
Stan Mikita gets 3 assists in
NY’s dominant 5-1 game one victory! Game two is almost a carbon copy of the first game. It’s 3-0
New York by the end of the first period.
Montreal is outshot 40-14, and put up almost no resistance. 5-2
NY shocking the
Montreal crowd.
Mikita and the Rangers look amazing in the opening games!
Welcome to the series
Montreal! Trailing 1-0 early, the
Habs score twice in 12 seconds, and add a 3rd 3 minutes later. The
Rangers get one back before the end of the 1st, and
Dick Duff scores twice early in the third to take the lead, but
Montreal gets 3 straight in a matter of 4 minutes this time to take it 6-4.
Montreal has the momentum back, and go up 2-0 after a period of game four.
Bobby Orr gets his first playoff goal 10 seconds into a rough 2nd period, which saw 8 minor penalties called.
Alex Delvecchio tied it minutes into the third, and late in the game, its
Doug Mohns who converts a
Orr pass into the back of the
Montreal net! 3-2
Rangers win.
Orr with his first playoff goal!
Facing elimination, emerging defenseman
Don Awrey gets 2 goals and an assist, giving
Montreal the boost they need.
Awrey gets first star in the
Habs 4-2 win. Back to
New York to face elimination again,
Montreal played their best game of the series. The
Rangers though, look like they stayed in
Montreal for game 7.
Vic Hadfield gets 5 points.
Claude Provost and
Dave Keon each get 3.
Montreal crushes
NY 9-0 to force a game 7.
Hadfield has 5 points for Montreal in game 6!
Game 7
Stan Mikita is out for the game with a bruised ankle. The dominance
Montreal showed in game six continued in the first period. The
Habs get the first 9 shots on net, and
NY finished the period with just two of their own, but it’s scoreless after one.
Déjà vu in the second period.
Montreal gets the first 9 shots, and have an 18-2 lead in shots on net at one point. The
Rangers open up the scoring though.
Ab McDonald finds some space behind
George Gardner giving the
Rangers an undeserved lead.
Montreal’s Don Awrey receives a breakaway pass from
Bob Pulford, and scores his 3rd. Tie game heading to the third.
Vic Hadfield gives
Montreal the lead halfway through the third, and it looks like the better team will win tonight.
Jacques Laperriere seals the deal with an empty net goal.
Montreal wins 3-1, and after being embarrassed in the opening two games, come back to take the series!
Chicago vs Toronto
A back and forth game one sees
Phil Esposito play the hero, scoring the winning goal with 2 minutes remaining.
Chicago wins their first playoff game in almost a decade, 4-3.
Glenn Hall makes 26 saves, and
Pat Stapleton gets 2 assists.
Rod Gilbert scored early in the 2nd, to give
Chicago a lead they would hold the rest of the way.
Chicago wins game two, 3-1.
A nice start to his playoff career!
Jean Beliveau and
Norm Ferguson exchange late first period goals in game three.
J.C. Tremblay would score on the PP in the 2nd, to give
Chicago a lead. The goalies closed the doors from there, and
Tremblay’s goal held up. 2-1
Chicago wins game three. Down 2-1 late in the third, and facing a sweep,
Pit Martin scores for
Toronto to tie the game, and for the moment, the
Leafs are alive. That hope ends when
Pat Stapleton scores on a goal mouth scramble with 35 seconds left!!
Chicago wins 3-2 and sweeps the
Leafs!
