1939 Stanley Cup Final

Paths to the Finals

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

Game summaries

Frank Brimsek held Toronto to just six goals in the 5 games.

|1-1-1 =No scoring |1-1-2 =16:04 - Woody Dumart (1) |1-2-1 =No scoring |1-2-2 =No scoring |1-3-1 =Red Horner (1) - 13:54 |1-3-2 =16:31 - Bobby Bauer (2) |goalie1-1 =Turk Broda |goalie1-2 =Frank Brimsek

|2-1-1 =Murph Chamberlain (2) - 8:55 Syl Apps (2) - 9:29 |2-1-2 =No scoring |2-2-1 =No scoring |2-2-2 =15:05 - Roy Conacher (2) 16:18 - Mel Hill (5) |2-3-1 =No scoring |2-3-2 =No scoring |2-4-1 =Doc Romnes (1) |2-4-2 =No scoring |goalie2-1 =Turk Broda |goalie2-2 =Frank Brimsek

|3-1-1 =No scoring |3-1-2 =No scoring |3-2-1 =No scoring |3-2-2 =No scoring |3-3-1 =19:11 - Gus Marker (2) |3-3-2 =Bobby Bauer (3) - 1:28 Roy Conacher (3) - 8:12 Jack Crawford (1) - 13:03 |goalie3-1 =Turk Broda |goalie3-2 =Frank Brimsek

|4-1-1 =No scoring |4-1-2 =Roy Conacher (4) - pp - 2:20 |4-2-1 =No scoring |4-2-2 =No scoring |4-3-1 =No scoring |4-3-2 =Roy Conacher (5) - 12:55 |goalie4-1 =Turk Broda |goalie4-2 =Frank Brimsek

|5-1-1 =Bingo Kampman (1) - 18:40 |5-1-2 =11:40 - Mel Hill (6) |5-2-1 =No scoring |5-2-2 =17:54 - Roy Conacher (6) |5-3-1 =No scoring |5-3-2 =19:23 - Flash Hollett (1) |goalie5-1 =Turk Broda |goalie5-2 =Frank Brimsek

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1939 Stanley Cup was presented to Bruins captain Cooney Weiland by NHL President Frank Calder following the Bruins 3–1 win over the Maple Leafs in game five.

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

1938–39 Boston Bruins

• 3 Bill Flash Hollett
• 4 Terry Reardon*
• 5 Aubrey Dit Clapper
• 5 Jack Shewchuk*
• 8 Jack Portland
• 19 Jack Crawford
• 10 Bill Cowley
• 11 Gord Pettinger
• 15 Milt Schmidt
• 16 Pat McReavy*
• 6 Ray Getliffe
• 6-16 Robert Red Hamill
• 9 Roy Conacher
• 14 Woody Dumart
• 16-4 Harry Frost
• 17 Bobby Bauer
• 18 Mel Hill |player-notes= Name engraved on Stanley Cup despite not officially qualifying. |non-players=
• Weston Adams Sr. (President/Owner), Art Ross (Vice President/Manager-Coach)
• Ralph Burkard (Treasurer)
• Frank Ryan (Publicity Director)†
• Win Green (Trainer)†‡
• † Win Green (Trainer), Frank Ryan (Publicity Director) were included on one of the two team pictures but left off the Stanley Cup.
• ‡ Missing from the Stanley Cup, but qualified to be on it. |engraving-notes=
• • Three players were included on the Stanley Cup, but did not qualify Pat McReavy (6 games played), Terry Reardon (4 games played), Jack Shewchuk (3 games played). Not one of the three players played in the playoffs. Every player who played for Boston that season was included on the Stanley Cup.
• From 1930 to 1939, except for the 1933 New York Rangers, 1934 Chicago Black Hawks and 1935 Montreal Maroons every team included their playoff games scores on the Stanley Cup. In 1939, the Boston Bruins were the last team to do this. When the Cup was redone during 1957–58 season all playoff game scores were left off the new ring for the cup winners from 1928 to 1940.}}

References & notes

• Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub. pp 12, 50. before = Chicago Black Hawks 1938 | after = New York Rangers 1940 | title = Boston Bruins Stanley Cup champions | years = 1939|