1938 Stanley Cup Finals

1938 Stanley Cup Finals
Teams 1 2 3 4 Games Chicago Black Hawks  3 1 2 4 3 Toronto Maple Leafs  1 5 1 1 1
Location: Toronto, Ontario (Maple Leaf Gardens) (1,2) Chicago, Illinois (Chicago Stadium) (3,4) Format: best-of-five Coaches: Chicago: Bill Stewart Toronto: Dick Irvin Captains: Chicago: Johnny Gottselig Toronto: Charlie Conacher Dates: April 5 to April 12, 1938 Series-winning goal: Carl Voss (16:45, second)
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The 1938 Stanley Cup Finals was a best-of-five series between the Chicago Black Hawks and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Chicago won the series 3–1 to win their second Stanley Cup.

Paths to the Final

Toronto defeated Boston Bruins in a best-of-five 3–0 to advance to the finals. The Black Hawks had to play two best-of three series; winning 2–1 against Montreal Canadiens, and 2–1 against the New York Americans.

The series

Chicago lost their regular goaltender during the playoffs and started Alfie Moore in game one. Frank Calder ruled that Moore was ineligible, but allowed the victory. Paul Goodman played and lost game two. The regular goalie Mike Karakas returned for games three and four wearing a steel toe to protect his foot.

Chicago set a record with eight Americans and also set a record for attendance with 18,497 in game three. It was the last time that the Hawks would win the Stanley Cup at home until 2015, and the last that a Chicago team would win a championship at Chicago Stadium until the Bulls won their second straight NBA championship in 1992. The next time the Blackhawks would win the Stanley Cup at home would be in 2015, when they defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 6 of the 2015 Stanley Cup Finals.

The NHL did not see fit to make sure that the Cup was in Chicago when they won the game and the series on April 12.

Chicago Black Hawks vs. Toronto Maple Leafs

Date	Away	Score	Home	Score	Notes
April 5	Chicago Black Hawks	3	Toronto Maple Leafs	1
April 7	Chicago Black Hawks	1	Toronto Maple Leafs	5
April 10	Toronto Maple Leafs	1	Chicago Black Hawks	2
April 12	Toronto Maple Leafs	1	Chicago Black Hawks	4

Chicago wins best-of-five series 3–1.

Chicago Black Hawks 1938 Stanley Cup Champions

Roster

  Centres

• 3 Jack Shill
• 14 Carl Voss†
• 15 Carol Cully Dahlstrom†

  Wingers

• 5 Harold Mush March
• 6 Paul Thompson
• 7 Johnny Gottselig(Captain)
• 12 Ewlyn Doc Romnes†
• 16 Louis Trudel†
• 18 Pete Palangio
• 18 Bert Connelly*

  Defencemen

• 2 Art Wiebe
• 8 Alex Levinsky†
• 9 Harold "Hal" Jackson*
• 14 Bill MacKenzie
• 17 Earl Seibert
• 18 Virgil Johnson†*
• 19 Roger Jenkins†

  Goaltenders

• 1 Mike Karakas†
• 1 Alfie Moore*(Sub)
• 1 Paul Goodman*(Sub)

  Coaching and administrative staff

• Frederic McLaughlin† (President/Owner), Bill Tobin (Vice President)
• Thorne Donnelley (Secretary-Treasurer), Bill Stewart† (Manager-Coach),
• Eddie Froelich& (Trainer)

† denotes American born.

Stanley Cup engraving

• †Bill Stewart was the first American-born, and 5th NHL rookie coach to win the Stanley Cup. Bob Johnson would be the second American born to coach win the Stanley Cup 1991, 53 years later. He was also first American-born Manager to win the Stanley Cup. The 2nd was Brian Burke in 2007, 69 years later.
• When the cup was redesigned during the 1957–58 season Pete Palangio's name was engraved twice, firstly as PALAGO, secondly as PETE PALANGIO.
• *Six names were left off the cup when it was redone during the 1957–58 season. Four were on the original ring – Virgil Johnson, Paul Goodman, Alfie Moore(players), and Ed Froelich (Trainer). Players Hal Jackson, and Bert Connelly qualified to be engraved on the Stanley Cup, but their names were not included on any version of the 1938 Chicago team's engravings. There is room on the Stanley Cup for all six missing names.
• With this victory, Carl Voss became only the second player to have his name engraved on the Stanley Cup and Canadian football's Grey Cup. He had previously been part of the Queen's Golden Gaels football team that won the 12th Grey Cup in 1924. Hall of Famer Lionel Conacher is the other player.

See also

• 1937–38 NHL season

References & notes

• Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub. pp 12, 50. ISBN 978-1-55168-261-7

Preceded by Detroit Red Wings 1937

Chicago Black Hawks Stanley Cup Champions 1938

Succeeded by Boston Bruins 1939