1973 Stanley Cup Final

Paths to the Finals

Chicago defeated the St. Louis Blues 4–1 and the New York Rangers 4–1 to advance to the final.

Montreal defeated the Buffalo Sabres 4–2 and the Philadelphia Flyers 4–1 to set up an "Original Six" final.

Game summaries

Yvan Cournoyer and Jacques Lemaire both had 12 points in the finals for the Canadiens. The Conn Smythe Trophy went to Cournoyer, who had six goals. It was Henri Richard's eleventh and last win of the Stanley Cup and Scotty Bowman's first.

|1-1-1 =Pit Martin (6) - 00:35 Ralph Backstrom (5) - 1:02 Pit Martin (7) - 12:07 |1-1-2 =2:28 - Jacques Laperriere (1) 8:07 - Marc Tardif (7) |1-2-1 =No scoring |1-2-2 =3:01 - Chuck Lefley (1) 16:23 - pp - Jacques Lemaire (5) |1-3-1 =No scoring |1-3-2 =8:38 - pp - Jacques Lemaire (6) 12:36 - sh - Peter Mahovlich (2) 13:34 - Frank Mahovlich (5) 14:35 - Chuck Lefley (2) |goalie1-1 =Tony Esposito 25 saves / 33 shots Gary Smith 5 saves / 5 shots |goalie1-2 =Ken Dryden 27 saves / 30 shots

|2-1-1 =No scoring |2-1-2 =5:36 - Pierre Bouchard (1) |2-2-1 =Cliff Koroll (4) - 7:28 |2-2-2 =12:08 - Yvan Cournoyer (10) |2-3-1 =No scoring |2-3-2 =5:01 - pp Yvan Cournoyer (11) 19:26 - en - Frank Mahovlich (6) |goalie2-1 =Tony Esposito 26 saves / 29 shots |goalie2-2 =Ken Dryden 18 saves / 19 shots

|3-1-1 =1:59 - pp - Dennis Hull (7) 11:44 - pp - J.P. Bordeleau (1) 13:20 - sh - Bill White (1) 14:20 - sh - Stan Mikita (5) |3-1-2 =No scoring |3-2-1 =2:08 - pp - John Marks (1) |3-2-2 =Frank Mahovlich (7) - 10:25 |3-3-1 =19:29 - en - Dennis Hull (8) 19:49 - en - Jim Pappin (6) |3-3-2 =Yvan Cournoyer (12) - 1:20 Guy Lapointe (6) - 7:15 Jacques Lemaire (7) - 8:01 |goalie3-1 =Tony Esposito 29 saves / 33 shots |goalie3-2 =Ken Dryden 30 saves / 35 shots

|4-1-1 =No scoring |4-1-2 =Marc Tardif (5) - 1:08 |4-2-1 =No scoring |4-2-2 =Yvan Cournoyer (13) - 14:13 Chuck Lefley (3) - 15:43 |4-3-1 =No scoring |4-3-2 =Claude Larose (1) - 3:45 |goalie4-1 =Tony Esposito 26 saves / 30 shots |goalie4-2 =Ken Dryden 19 saves / 19 shots

|5-1-1 =Dennis Hull (9) - 9:34 Stan Mikita (6) - 11:24 |5-1-2 =2:47 - Frank Mahovlich (8) 14:52 - pp - Peter Mahovlich (3) |5-2-1 =Dave Kryskow (1) - 3:10 Stan Mikita (7) - 6:21 Jim Pappin (7) - 11:24 Len Frig (1) - pp - 16:21 Jim Pappin (8) - 19:03 |5-2-2 =00:37 - Claude Larose (2) 4:23 - Claude Larose (3) 7:09 - Yvan Cournoyer (14) |5-3-1 =Lou Angotti (3) - 4:06 |5-3-2 =1:15 - Serge Savard (3) 11:43 - Henri Richard (5) |goalie5-1 =Tony Esposito 24 saves / 31 shots |goalie5-2 =Ken Dryden 21 saves / 29 shots

|6-1-1 =10:35 - Pit Martin (8) 11:31 - pp - Pit Martin (9) |6-1-2 =Henri Richard (6) - 19:48 |6-2-1 =8:32 - Dave Kryskow (2) 17:05 - pp - Pit Martin (2) |6-2-2 =Peter Mahovlich (4) - 5:05 Rejean Houle (3) - 6:37 Frank Mahovlich (9) - pp - 10:54 |6-3-1 =No scoring |6-3-2 =Yvan Cournoyer (15) - 8:13 Marc Tardif (6) - pp - 12:42 |goalie6-1 =Tony Esposito 27 saves / 33 shots |goalie6-2 =Ken Dryden 23 saves / 27 shots

Team rosters

Montreal Canadiens

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Chicago Black Hawks

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1973 Stanley Cup was presented to Canadiens captain Henri Richard by NHL President Clarence Campbell following the Canadiens 6–4 win over the Black Hawks in game six.

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

1972–73 Montreal Canadiens

• 16 Henri Richard (Captain)
• 20 Peter Mahovlich
• 25 Jacques Lemaire
• 5 Guy Lapointe
• 18 Serge Savard
• 19 Larry Robinson
• 23 Bob Murdoch
• 26 Pierre Bouchard
• 29 Ken Dryden
• 10 Guy Lafleur
• 11 Marc Tardif
• 12 Yvan Cournoyer (A)
• 15 Claude Larose
• 17 Murray Wilson
• 22 Steve Shutt
• 24 Chuck Lefley
• 27 Frank Mahovlich (A) |non-players=
• Jacques Courtois (President), Jean Beliveau (Vice President – Director of Cooperate Relations)
• Peter Bronfman (Chairman/owner), Sam Pollock (Vice President/General Manager)
• Edward Bronfman (Executive Director/owner), Scotty Bowman (Head Coach)
• Bob Williams (Trainer), Eddy Palchak (Asst. Trainer) |engraving-notes=
• Murray Wilson's name was misspelled in 1973, 1976, 1977 as MURRY WILSON missing an "A". Murray Wilson was spelled correctly on the Stanley Cup in 1978. Wilson's name was also spelled correctly all 4 times on the Replica Cup.
• Assistant General Managers Ron Caron and Floyd Curry were not included on the Stanley Cup, but qualified to be on it.
• On the Replica Stanley Cup created in 1992–93 Bob Murdoch's name was spelled BOB MURDOCK with a "K" instead of a "H". His name was correct on the original engraving in 1973.
• #30 Wayne Thomas (G) and #3 Dale Hodgson (D) were included in the team picture, but did not play enough games to get their name on the Stanley Cup.}}

Notes

References

before = Boston Bruins 1972 | after = Philadelphia Flyers 1974 | title = Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup champions | years = 1973|