1976 Stanley Cup Final

Paths to the Finals

Montreal defeated the Chicago Black Hawks 4–0 and the New York Islanders 4–1 to advance to the final.

Philadelphia defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4–3 and the Boston Bruins 4–1 to make it to the final.

Game summaries

Guy Lafleur scored the first two finals goals in his career, both game-winners.

Reggie Leach scored four goals in the Finals, and nineteen times in total in the playoffs to win the Conn Smythe Trophy even though the Flyers lost the Cup to the Canadiens. He is one of the only two non-goaltenders in NHL history to be named MVP of the playoffs in an unsuccessful cause, and the third of only six as of 2024. His accomplishment followed Roger Crozier (Detroit Red Wings, in ) and Glenn Hall (St. Louis Blues, ) and preceded Ron Hextall (Philadelphia, ), Jean-Sebastien Giguere (Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, ) and Connor McDavid (Edmonton Oilers, ).

|1-1-1 =Reggie Leach (16) - 00:21 Ross Lonsberry (4) - 13:22 |1-1-2 =No scoring |1-2-1 =No scoring |1-2-2 =4:04 - Jimmy Roberts (3) 6:30 - Larry Robinson (3) |1-3-1 =Larry Goodenough (3) - pp - 5:17 |1-3-2 =10:02 - Jacques Lemaire (2) 18:38 - Guy Lapointe (3) |goalie1-1 =Wayne Stephenson |goalie1-2 =Ken Dryden

|2-1-1 =No scoring |2-1-2 =No scoring |2-2-1 =No scoring |2-2-2 =15:19 - sh - Jacques Lemaire (3) |2-3-1 =Dave Schultz (2) - 17:35 |2-3-2 =2:41 - Guy Lafleur (6) |goalie2-1 =Wayne Stephenson |goalie2-2 =Ken Dryden

|3-1-1 =8:40 - pp - Reggie Leach (17) 18:14 - Reggie Leach (18) |3-1-2 =Steve Shutt (5) - pp - 3:17 |3-2-1 =No scoring |3-2-2 =Steve Shutt (6) - pp - 1:09 |3-3-1 =No scoring |3-3-2 =Pierre Bouchard (1) - 9:16 |goalie3-1 =Wayne Stephenson |goalie3-2 =Ken Dryden

|4-1-1 =00:40 - Reggie Leach (19) 18:20 - pp - Bill Barber (6) |4-1-2 =Steve Shutt (7) - pp - 5:35 Pierre Bouchard (2) - pp - 11:48 |4-2-1 =13:59 - pp - Andre Dupont (2) |4-2-2 =Yvan Cournoyer (3) - pp - 19:49 |4-3-1 =No scoring |4-3-2 =Guy Lafleur (7) - 14:18 Peter Mahovlich (4) - 15:16 |goalie4-1 =Wayne Stephenson |goalie4-2 =Ken Dryden

Team rosters

Montreal Canadiens

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Philadelphia Flyers

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Stanley Cup engraving

The 1976 Stanley Cup was presented to Canadiens captain Yvan Cournoyer by NHL President Clarence Campbell following the Canadiens 5–3 win over the Flyers in game four.

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

1975–76 Montreal Canadiens

• 20 Peter Mahovlich
• 21 Doug Jarvis
• 25 Jacques Lemaire
• 5 Guy Lapointe
• 18 Serge Savard
• 19 Larry Robinson
• 26 Pierre Bouchard
• 27 Rick Chartraw
• 29 Ken Dryden
• 10 Guy Lafleur
• 11 Yvon Lambert
• 12 Yvan Cournoyer (Captain)
• 14 Mario Tremblay
• 17 Murray Wilson
• 22 Steve Shutt
• 23 Bob Gainey |non-players=
• Jacques Courtois (President), Jean Beliveau (Vice President – Director of Cooperate Relations)
• Peter Bronfman (Chairman/Owner), Edward Bronfman (Executive Director/Owner)
• Sam Pollock (Vice President/General Manager), William Scotty Bowman (Head Coach)
• Eddy Palchak (Trainer), Pierre Meilleur (Asst Trainer)
• Claude Ruel (Director of Player Development)
• Floyd Curry (Asst. General Manager), Ron Caron* (Asst. General Manager) |engraving-notes=
• #24 Don Awrey (D) played in 72 regular season games. #3 John van Boxmeer (D) played in 46 regular season games. As neither player played in the playoffs, their names were not included on the Stanley Cup. The official rules says that players must play in the playoffs to be included on the Stanley Cup, but this rule was not followed very well. Players who played in playoffs were often left off, and many players who did not play in the playoffs were still engraved on it. The NHL changed the rules to say that any player who played at least 40 games (half the regular season game total) or more for the winning team, or one game in the Stanley Cup Final must be included. However, Awrey and Van Boxmeer were not added to the cup for 1976. Awrey's name is on the Cup in 1970, 1972 with Boston. Van Boxmeer's name does not appear on the Stanley Cup.
• 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.
• Between 1976 and 1985, an "A" (alternate captain) was no longer marked on players' sweaters. Only the captain was marked with a "C."
• American Rick Chartraw was born in Venezuela, and was first South American born player to win the Stanley Cup.

Notes

References

before = Philadelphia Flyers 1975 | after = Montreal Canadiens 1977 | title = Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup champions | years = 1976|