1969 Stanley Cup Final

Paths to the Finals

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.

Game summaries

This was the second playoff series between these two teams. Their only previous meeting came in the previous year's Stanley Cup Finals. In this year's six-game regular season series, there were five wins for Montreal and one tie.

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.

|1-1-1 =Frank St. Marseille (3) - 18:24 |1-1-2 =3:39 - pp - Dick Duff (3) 4:17 - sh - Bobby Rousseau (3) |1-2-1 =No scoring |1-2-2 =No scoring |1-3-1 =No scoring |1-3-2 =19:46 - en - John Ferguson (3) |goalie1-1 =Jacques Plante 26 saves / 28 shots |goalie1-2 =Rogie Vachon 19 saves / 20 shots

|2-1-1 =No scoring |2-1-2 =17:26 - Ralph Backstrom (3) |2-2-1 =No scoring |2-2-2 =9:07 - pp - Dick Duff (4) 14:11 - Yvan Cournoyer (4) |2-3-1 =Larry Keenan (4) - pp - 9:20 |2-3-2 =No scoring |goalie2-1 =Glenn Hall 30 saves / 33 shots |goalie2-2 =Rogie Vachon 24 saves / 26 shots

|3-1-1 =No scoring |3-1-2 =Serge Savard (4) - 12:34 |3-2-1 =No scoring |3-2-2 =Jacques Lemaire (4) - 9:16 Dick Duff (5) - 13:38 |3-3-1 =No scoring |3-3-2 =Dick Duff (6) - pp - 18:35 |goalie3-1 =Jacques Plante 31 saves / 35 shots |goalie3-2 =Rogie Vachon 29 saves / 29 shots

|4-1-1 =No scoring |4-1-2 =No scoring |4-2-1 =10:50 - Terry Gray (3) |4-2-2 =No scoring |4-3-1 =No scoring |4-3-2 =Ted Harris (1) - 00:42 John Ferguson (4) - 3:02 |goalie4-1 =Glenn Hall 29 saves / 31 shots |goalie4-2 =Rogie Vachon 32 saves / 33 shots

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1969 Stanley Cup was presented to Canadiens captain Jean Beliveau by NHL President Clarence Campbell following the Canadiens 2–1 win over the Blues in game four.

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

1968–69 Montreal Canadiens

• 29 Anthony Tony Esposito
• 30 Rogatien Vachon
• 3 Jean-Claude J. C. Tremblay
• 10 Edward Ted Harris
• 17 Larry Hillman
• 18 Serge Savard
• 19 Terry Harper
• 6 Ralph Backstrom
• 16 Henri Richard (A)
• 23 Christian Bordeleau
• 25 Jacques Lemaire
• 8 Dick Duff
• 12 Yvan Cournoyer
• 14 Claude Provost (A)
• 15 Bobby Rousseau
• 22 John Ferguson Sr.
• 24 Mickey Redmond |non-players=
• 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) |engraving-notes=
• Anthony "Tony" Esposito's name was misspelled on the Replica Stanley Cup created in 1992–93 as P. FSPOSITO instead of A. ESPOSITO. Tony Esposito only played 13 regular season games, but qualified to be engraved on the Stanley Cup. Tony dressed for every game in the finals due to Gump Worsley being injured. Tony then won the Calder Trophy (Rookie of the Year) with Chicago in 1970. He was fourth player to accomplish the feat of winning the Stanley Cup before winning the Calder Trophy.
• #5 Gilles Tremblay (LW) missed the playoffs with a career-ending injury. His name was still included in the Stanley Cup.
• Claude Ruel was the 10th NHL rookie coach to win the Stanley Cup.
• #20–21 Lucien Grenier (RW) played 2 semi-final games, but his name was left off the Stanley Cup even though he qualified to be engraved on it. He was left off for playing the whole regular season in the minors.}}

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

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

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before = Montreal Canadiens 1968 | after = Boston Bruins 1970 | title = Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup champions | years = 1969|