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Home > Hockey > Stanley Cup History > Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins 1977 78
Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins 1977-78
The Stanley Cup is one of the most-recognized symbols in North American sports. It is the championship trophy of the NHL, National Hockey League which is won by one of the teams that have qualified for the championship finals after playing a series of playoff matches. It is the only trophy in professional sports that has the name of the winning players, coaches, management, and club staff engraved upon it. The Cup winners keep it until the new champion is crowned.
Montreal's swift-skating, tight-checking Canadiens swept to their second straight Stanley Cup championship 20th overall in 14 games, two over the maximum. In the process, they set the rest of the National Hockey League to worrying about the Frankenstein in their midst. It was not just that Les Ogres, as they are known in some quarters, swept four straight from the doughty Boston Bruins to wrap it up at Boston Garden. An example of the youthful veterans was the scoring hero of the clinching sixth game, winger Mario Tremblay. Tremblay scored two goals as Montreal captured the cup for the third successive season.
The Canadiens were forced to six games in the best of seven final against Boston, but they swept Toronto in four in the semifinal and went five games to throw out upstart Detroit in the first round. The key to Montreal's success, despite all the talk of its vaunted offense, was the troika on defense Conn Smythe Trophy winner Larry Robinson, Serge Savard and Guy Lapointe plus goalie Ken Dryden. Nine Montreal regulars came on draft choices acquired from other clubs, including scoring champion Guy Lafleur and his linemate Steve Shutt. Montreal, a team with outstanding depth, won its third straight Cup in 1978.
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