1969 Stanley Cup Finals

1969 Stanley Cup Finals
Teams 1 2 3 4 Games St. Louis Blues  1 1 0 1 0 Montreal Canadiens  3 3 4 2 4
Location: Montreal, QC (Montreal Forum) (1,2) St. Louis, MO (St. Louis Arena) (3,4) Format: Best-of-seven Coaches: St. Louis: Scotty Bowman Montreal: Claude Ruel Captains: St. Louis: Al Arbour Montreal: Jean Béliveau Dates: April 27 to May 4, 1969 MVP: Serge Savard Series-winning goal: John Ferguson (3:02, third, G4)
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The 1969 Stanley Cup Final was a best-of-seven series played from April 27 to May 4, 1969, between the defending champions Montreal Canadiens and the St. Louis Blues, the same finalists as in 1968. As they had done the previous year, the Canadiens would win the series in four straight games.

Paths to the final

Montreal defeated the New York Rangers 4–0 and the Boston Bruins 4–2 to advance to the finals.

St. Louis defeated the Philadelphia Flyers and Los Angeles Kings in four games each.

The series

Claude Ruel became the eleventh rookie coach to win the Stanley Cup. Montreal goaltender Rogie Vachon limited St. Louis to three goals in four games. In the process, he earned his first career playoff shutout.

Montreal Canadiens vs. St. Louis Blues

Date	Visitors	Score	Home	Score	Notes
April 27	St. Louis	1	Montreal	3
April 29	St. Louis	1	Montreal	3
May 1	Montreal	4	St. Louis	0
May 4	Montreal	2	St. Louis	1

Montreal wins the series 4–0.

Game 1

April 27

St. Louis Blues

1–3 1 – 2, 0 – 0, 0 – 1

Montreal Canadiens

Montreal Forum Attendance: 16,607

Game reference
	Jacques Plante	Goalies	Rogie Vachon
	Frank St. Marseille 3 (Bill McCreary, Noel Picard) – 18:24	0 – 1 0 – 2 1 – 2 1 – 3	3:39 – Dick Duff 3 (Yvan Cournoyer, Jean Béliveau) (PP) 4:17 – Bobby Rousseau 3 (Claude Provost) (SH) 19:46 – John Ferguson 3 (Henri Richard) (EN)
	20	Shots	28

Montreal Canadiens 1969 Stanley Cup champions

Roster

  Centres

• 4 Jean Beliveau (Captain)
• 6 Ralph Backstrom
• 16 Henri Richard(A)
• 25 Jacques Lemaire
• 23 Christian Bordeleau

  Wingers

• 8 Dick Duff
• 12 Yvan Cournoyer
• 14 Claude Provost(A)
• 15 Bobby Rousseau
• 20 Lucien Grenier&
• 21 Gilles Tremblay
• 22 John Ferguson Sr.
• 24 Michael Mickey Redmond

  Defencemen

• 2 Jacques Laperriere
• 3 Jean-Claude J. C. Tremblay
• 10 Edward Ted Harris
• 17 Larry Hillman
• 18 Serge Savard
• 19 Terry Harper

  Goaltenders

• 29–30 Rogatien Vachon
• 1 Lorne Gump Worsley
• 29 Tony Esposito

  Coaching and administrative staff

• J. David Molson (President/Owner), William Molson (Vice President/Owner)
• Peter Molson (Vice President/Owner), Sam Pollock (Vice President/General Manager)
• Claude Ruel (Head Coach)
• Larry Albut (Trainer), Eddy Palchak (Asst. Trainer)
• Floyd Curry (Asst. General Manager)^

Stanley Cup engraving

• Anthony "Tony" Esposito's name was misspelled on the Replica Stanley Cup created in 1992–93 as P. FSPOSITO instead of A. ESPOSITO.
• Claude Ruel was the 10th NHL rookie coach to win the Stanley Cup.
• &-Gilles Tremblay missed the playoffs with a career ending injury. His name was still included on the Stanley Cup.
• &-Lucien Grenier played 2 playoff games, but name was left off the Stanley Cup even though he qualified to be engraved on it
• ^-name was left off the Stanley Cup, but qualified to be included.

Won 4 Stanley Cups in 5 Years with Montreal 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969

Ralph Backstrom, Jean Béliveau, Yvan Cournoyer, Dick Duff, John Ferguson, Terry Harper, Ted Harris, Jacques Laperrière, Claude Provost, Henri Richard, Bobby Rousseau, Gilles Tremblay, Jean-Claude Tremblay, Gump Worsley (14 players), David Molson, Sam Pollock, Larry Aubut (3 non-players).

See also

• 1968–69 NHL season

References

Preceded by Montreal Canadiens 1968

Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup Champions 1969

Succeeded by Boston Bruins 1970