1964 Stanley Cup Final

Paths to the Finals

Toronto defeated the Montreal Canadiens 4–3 to advance to the finals and Detroit defeated the Chicago Black Hawks 4–3.

Game summaries

This series is famous for the courageous play of Bob Baun. In game six of the Final, he took a Gordie Howe slapshot on his ankle and had to leave play. He returned in overtime and scored the winning goal. He also played in game seven despite the pain and only after the series was over was it revealed that he had played on a fractured ankle.

Until the 2008–09 Final, John MacMillan was the only player to play in back-to-back Finals with different teams in successive series that pitted the same teams against each other. MacMillan won the Cup with the 1963 Toronto Maple Leafs in a five-game decision over Detroit and then lost the 1964 Cup Final to the Leafs as a member of the Red Wings.

|1-1-1 =Bruce MacGregor (3) - 4:31 Gordie Howe (6) - pp - 10:25 |1-1-2 =4:44 - George Armstrong (2) |1-2-1 =No scoring |1-2-2 =No scoring |1-3-1 =No scoring |1-3-2 =4:02 - pp - George Armstrong (3) 19:58 - sh - Bob Pulford (3) |goalie1-1 =Terry Sawchuck 29 saves / 32 shots |goalie1-2 =Johnny Bower 30 saves / 32 shots

|2-1-1 =Norm Ullman (7) - 12:43 |2-1-2 =4:41 - Allan Stanley (1) |2-2-1 =Eddie Joyal (1) - 3:19 Floyd Smith (2) - pp - 16:15 |2-2-2 =No scoring |2-3-1 =No scoring |2-3-2 =11:57 - Red Kelly (3) 19:17 - Gerry Ehman (1) |2-4-1 =Larry Jeffrey (1) - 7:52 |2-4-2 =No scoring |goalie2-1 =Terry Sawchuck 26 saves / 29 shots |goalie2-2 =Johnny Bower 45 saves / 49 shots

|3-1-1 =2:40 - Floyd Smith (3) 3:38 - Bruce MacGregor (4) 14:47 - pp - Floyd Smith (4) |3-1-2 =No scoring |3-2-1 =No scoring |3-2-2 =Andy Bathgate (3) - pp - 4:16 |3-3-1 =19:43 - Alex Delvecchio (3) |3-3-2 =Dave Keon (4) - 7:34 Don McKenney (4) - 18:47 |goalie3-1 =Terry Sawchuck 31 saves / 34 shots |goalie3-2 =Johnny Bower 30 saves / 34 shots

|4-1-1 =No scoring |4-1-2 =Dave Keon (5) - 5:45 |4-2-1 =5:57 - Bruce MacGregor (5) 13:05 - pp - Gordie Howe (7) |4-2-2 =Dave Keon (6) - pp - 16:09 |4-3-1 =No scoring |4-3-2 =Andy Bathgate (4) - 10:55 Frank Mahovlich (4) - 18:09 |goalie4-1 =Terry Sawchuck 31 saves / 35 shots |goalie4-2 =Johnny Bower 25 saves / 27 shots

|5-1-1 =Gordie Howe (8) - 10:52 |5-1-2 =No scoring |5-2-1 =No scoring |5-2-2 =No scoring |5-3-1 =Eddie Joyal (2) - 7:50 |5-3-2 =14:57 - pp - George Armstrong (4) |goalie5-1 =Terry Sawchuck 33 saves / 34 shots |goalie5-2 =Johnny Bower 32 saves / 34 shots

|6-1-1 =No scoring |6-1-2 =Bob Pulford (4) - sh - 17:01 |6-2-1 =4:20 - Paul Henderson (2) 10:56 - pp - Pit Martin (1) 15:56 - Gordie Howe (9) |6-2-2 =Bob Pulford (5) - 14:36 Billy Harris (1) - 17:48 |6-3-1 =No scoring |6-3-2 =No scoring |6-4-1 =No scoring |6-4-2 =Bob Baun (2) - 1:43 |goalie6-1 =Terry Sawchuck 32 saves / 34 shots |goalie6-2 =Johnny Bower 38 saves / 41 shots

|7-1-1 =No scoring |7-1-2 =3:04 - Andy Bathgate (5) |7-2-1 =No scoring |7-2-2 =No scoring |7-3-1 =No scoring |7-3-2 =4:26 - Dave Keon (7) 5:53 - Red Kelly (4) 15:26 - George Armstrong (5) |goalie7-1 =Terry Sawchuck 33 saves / 37 shots |goalie7-2 =Johnny Bower 33 saves / 33 shots

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1964 Stanley Cup was presented to Maple Leafs captain George Armstrong by NHL President Clarence Campbell following the Maple Leafs 4–0 win over the Red Wings in game seven.

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

1963–64 Toronto Maple Leafs

• 1 Don Simmons
• 7 Miles Tim Horton
• 16 Larry Hillman
• 21 Bob Baun
• 26 Allan Stanley (A)
• 14 Dave Keon
• 15 Billy Harris
• 17 Don McKenney
• 10 George Armstrong (Captain)
• 18 Jim Pappin
• 20 Bob Pulford (A)
• 23 Eddie Shack
• 12 Ron Stewart
• 27 Frank Mahovlich
• 9 Andy Bathgate |non-players=
• Stafford Smythe (President/Owner), Harold Ballard (Exe. Vice President/Owner)
• John W. H. Bassett (Chairman/Owner)
• George Punch Imlach (Manager-Coach), Frank King Clancy (Asst. Manager-Coach)*
• Bob Haggert (Trainer)
• Tom Nayler (Asst. Trainer)
• Hugh Hoult (Stickboy/Asst. Trainer) |engraving-notes=
• #25 Ed Litzenberger (RW – 19 regular season games and 1 Finals game) and #3 Al Arbour (D – 6 regular season games and 1 Finals game) played in the Stanley Cup Final qualified to have name engraved on Stanley Cup, but were left off. Both spent most of season in the minors.
• #19 Kent Douglas (D) – played in 43 games for Toronto. He name was left off the Stanley Cup, because he played in the minors during the playoffs.
• • Frank "King" Clancy name was misspelled on the Stanley Cup as FRANK KING CLANCE ASST COACH GEN MAN. In 1992–93 the mistake was corrected on the newly created Replica Cup.
• Bob Davidson (Chief Scout), Dr. Karl Elieff (Physiotherapist), Dr. Jame Murphy, Dr. Hugh Smythe (Team Doctors) - left off
• (Also see 1965 Montreal about Toronto 1962-63-64 engravings).}}

Notes

References

• Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub. pp 12, 50.

before = Toronto Maple Leafs 1963 | after = Montreal Canadiens 1965 | title = Toronto Maple Leafs Stanley Cup champions | years = 1964|

References

1. (May 22, 2018). "Baun was unlikely hero of Maple Leafs' run to Cup in 1964".
2. Dater, Adrian. (March 29, 2009). "Red Wings are a formidable foe". The Denver Post.