1941 Stanley Cup Finals

The 1941 Stanley Cup Finals was a best-of-seven series between the Boston Bruins and the Detroit Red Wings. Boston would win the series 4–0 to win their third Stanley Cup.

1941 Stanley Cup Finals
1234 Total
Boston Bruins 3243 4
Detroit Red Wings 2121 0
Location(s)Boston: Boston Garden (1, 2)
Detroit: Olympia Stadium (3, 4)
CoachesBoston: Cooney Weiland
Detroit: Jack Adams
CaptainsBoston: Dit Clapper
Detroit: Ebbie Goodfellow
DatesApril 6 – April 12
Series-winning goalBobby Bauer (8:43, second)
Hall of FamersBruins:
Bobby Bauer (1996)
Frank Brimsek (1966)
Dit Clapper (1947)
Roy Conacher (1998)
Bill Cowley (1968)
Woody Dumart (1992)
Milt Schmidt (1961)
Red Wings:
Sid Abel (1969)
Ebbie Goodfellow (1963)
Syd Howe (1965)
Jack Stewart (1964)
Coaches:
Jack Adams (1959, player)
Cooney Weiland (1971, player)
Stanley Cup Finals

Paths to the Finals

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

Game summaries

In the third best-of-seven series, Boston became the first to sweep the series in four games.

April 6 Detroit Red Wings 2–3 Boston Bruins Boston Garden Recap  
No scoring First period 13:26 - Eddie Wiseman (4)
No scoring Second period 14:45 - Milt Schmidt (3)
Carl Liscombe (3) - 10:55
Syd Howe (1) - 17:45		 Third period 9:16 - Pat McReavy (2)
Johnny Mowers Goalie stats Frank Brimsek
April 8 Detroit Red Wings 1–2 Boston Bruins Boston Garden Recap  
No scoring First period No scoring
No scoring Second period No scoring
Mud Bruneteau (2) - 2:41 Third period 13:35 - Terry Reardon (2)
17:35 - Roy Conacher (1)
Johnny Mowers Goalie stats Frank Brimsek
April 10 Boston Bruins 4–2 Detroit Red Wings Olympia Stadium Recap  
Eddie Wiseman (5) - 3:57
Milt Schmidt (4) - 14:07		 First period 3:15 - Bill Jennings (2)
7:45 - Sid Abel (2)
Milt Schmidt (5) - 00:59 Second period No scoring
Art Jackson (1) - pp - 17:20 Third period No scoring
Frank Brimsek Goalie stats Johnny Mowers
April 12 Boston Bruins 3–1 Detroit Red Wings Olympia Stadium Recap  
No scoring First period 10:14 - pp - Carl Liscombe (4)
Flash Hollett (3) - pp - 7:42
Bobby Bauer - pp - 8:43
Eddie Wiseman (6) - 19:32		 Second period No scoring
No scoring Third period No scoring
Frank Brimsek Goalie stats Johnny Mowers
Boston won series 4–0

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1941 Stanley Cup was presented to Bruins captain Dit Clapper by NHL President Frank Calder following the Bruins 3–1 win over the Red Wings in game four.

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

1940–41 Boston Bruins

Players
  Defencemen
  • A Jack Shewchuk played 22 of 48 regular season games, but not dressed in the playoffs. He was original left off the cup. Shewchuk name was added to the cup when it redone during 1957–58, but not Gordie Bruce.
  • Gordie Bruce(LW) was original was credited with playing 8 regular season games, and 3 playoffs games. Bruce's stats were corrected to only 7 regular season, and no playoff games. He did not qualify so his name was left off the Stanley Cup.

Coaching and administrative staff

Stanley Cup engraving
  • ^Frank Ryan (Publicity Director) was included on 1929, 1939 1941 Stanley Cup pictures, but his name is not engraved on the Stanley Cup.
  • Des Smith was engraved as WES SMITH with a "W" instead a "D". This mistake was corrected when the Stanley Cup was redone during the 1957–58 Season.
  • Pat McReavy was misspelled PAT McCREAVY with an extra "C" on new version of the cup created during the 1957–58 season. Pat McReavy was often misspelled as Pat McCreavy on some team pictures with the Boston Bruins. When the Replica Cup was created in 1992–93, Pat McReavy name was misspelled as Pat McCeavy with "C" instead of a "R".

See also

References & notes
  • Diamond, Dan (2000). Total Stanley Cup. Toronto: Total Sports Canada. ISBN 978-1-892129-07-9.
  • Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub. pp 12, 50. ISBN 978-1-55168-261-7
  • "All-Time NHL Results".
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