1936 Stanley Cup Final

Path to the Final

Detroit defeated the defending champion Montreal Maroons in a best-of-five 3–0 to advance to the Finals. The Leafs had to play a total-goals series; 8–6 against Boston Bruins, and win a best-of-three 2–1 against the New York Americans to advance to the Finals.

Game summaries

|1-1-1 =Buzz Boll (5) - 12:15 |1-1-2 =4:53 - sh - Bucko McDonald (1) 5:37 - Syd Howe (2) 12:05 - Wally Kilrea (1) |1-2-1 =No scoring |1-2-2 =No scoring |1-3-1 =No scoring |1-3-2 =No scoring |goalie1-1 =George Hainsworth |goalie1-2 =Normie Smith

|2-1-1 =Buzz Boll (6) - 12:35 |2-1-2 =1:30 - Wally Kilrea (2) 4:25 - Marty Barry (1) 10:05 - pp - Herbie Lewis (2) 16:55 - Bucko McDonald (2) |2-2-1 =Joe Primeau (1) - 14:00 |2-2-2 =7:15 - pp - John Sorrell (2) 9:10 - Gord Pettinger (1) |2-3-1 =Bill Thoms (2) - 9:40 Bob Davidson (1) - 16:10 |2-3-2 =7:30 - John Sorrell (3) 12:05 - Gord Pettinger 17:15 - Bucko McDonald (3) |goalie2-1 =George Hainsworth |goalie2-2 =Normie Smith

|3-1-1 =No scoring |3-1-2 =Ralph Bowman (2) - 9:23 |3-2-1 =No scoring |3-2-2 =Mud Bruneteau (2) - 1:05 |3-3-1 =13:09 - Joe Primeau (2) 15:20 - Pep Kelly (1) 19:19 - Pep Kelly (2) |3-3-2 =Syd Howe (3) - 11:15 |3-4-1 =00:30 - Buzz Boll (7) |3-4-2 =No scoring |goalie3-1 =George Hainsworth |goalie3-2 =Normie Smith

|4-1-1 =15:10 - Joe Primeau (3) |4-1-2 =No scoring |4-2-1 =No scoring |4-2-2 =Ebbie Goodfellow (1) - 9:55 Marty Barry (2) - 10:38 |4-3-1 =10:57 - Bill Thoms (3) |4-3-2 =Pete Kelly (1) - 9:45 |goalie4-1 =George Hainsworth |goalie4-2 =Normie Smith

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1936 Stanley Cup was presented to Red Wings captain Doug Young by NHL President Frank Calder following the Red Wings 3–2 win over the Maple Leafs in game four.

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

1935–36 Detroit Red Wings

• 3 Wilfred Bucko McDonald
• 5 Ebbie Goodfellow
• 16 Ralph "Scotty" Bowman
• 9 Wally Kilrea
• 11 Gord Pettinger
• 6 Larry Aurie
• 8 Syd Howe
• 10 John Sorrell
• 12 Hec Kilrea
• 14 Mordere "Mud" Bruneteau
• 15 Pete Kelly |non-players=
• James E. Norris Sr. (President/Owner), James D. Norris Jr. (Vice President/Owner)
• Arthur Wirtz Sr. (Secretary-Treasurer/Owner), Jack Adams (Manager-Coach)
• Frank "Honey" Walker (Trainer), John Gilles (Business Manager) |engraving-notes=
• Four Red Wings were included on the team picture, but left off the Stanley Cup: #14 Wilfie Starr (C), #17 Art Giroux (RW), Les Tooke (G), and assistant trainer Carl Mattson. Tooke, who spent the season with the Windsor Shamrocks of the Michigan-Ontario Hockey League, was the Wings' spare goaltender; he never played in the NHL.

Detroit: "City of Champions"

When the Red Wings won the 1936 Stanley Cup, the City of Detroit was mired in the Great Depression, which had hit Detroit and its industries particularly hard. But with the success of the Red Wings and other Detroit teams and athletes in the 1935/36 sports season, Detroit's luck appeared to be changing, as the city was dubbed the "City of Champions". The Detroit Tigers started the winning streak by winning the 1935 World Series, and the Detroit Lions continued the process by capturing the 1935 NFL Championship Game. When the Red Wings completed their own championship drive, the city had seen three major sporting league championships in less than a year.

Notes

References

Bibliography

• Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub. pp 12, 50.

before = Montreal Maroons 1935 | after = Detroit Red Wings 1937 | title = Detroit Red Wings Stanley Cup champions | years = 1936|

References

1. (June 17, 2008). "Detroit is a hockey, baseball, basketball town".