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The 1969 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1968–69 season, and the culmination of the 1969 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the defending champion Montreal Canadiens and the St. Louis Blues, a rematch of the previous year's finals. As they did in the previous matchup, the Canadiens won the series in four games.

Paths to the Finals

Montreal defeated the New York Rangers 4–0 and the Boston Bruins 4–2 to advance to the finals.

St. Louis defeated the Philadelphia Flyers and Los Angeles Kings in four games each.

Game summaries

This was the second playoff series between these two teams. Their only previous meeting came in the previous year's Stanley Cup Finals. In this year's six-game regular season series, there were five wins for Montreal and one tie.

Claude Ruel became the eleventh rookie coach to win the Stanley Cup. Montreal goaltender Rogie Vachon limited St. Louis to three goals in four games. In the process, he earned his first career playoff shutout.

April 27	St. Louis Blues		1–3	Montreal Canadiens	Montreal Forum	Recap
Frank St. Marseille (3) - 18:24		First period		3:39 - pp - Dick Duff (3) 4:17 - sh - Bobby Rousseau (3)
No scoring		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		19:46 - John Ferguson (3)
Jacques Plante		Goalie stats		Rogie Vachon

April 29	St. Louis Blues		1–3	Montreal Canadiens	Montreal Forum	Recap
No scoring		First period		17:26 - Ralph Backstrom (3)
No scoring		Second period		9:07 - pp - Dick Duff (4) 14:11 - Yvan Cournoyer (4)
Larry Keenan (4) - pp - 9:20		Third period		No scoring
Glenn Hall		Goalie stats		Rogie Vachon

May 1	Montreal Canadiens		4–0	St. Louis Blues	St. Louis Arena	Recap
Serge Savard (4) - 12:34		First period		No scoring
Jacques Lemaire (4) - 9:16 Dick Duff (5) - 13:38		Second period		No scoring
Dick Duff (6) - pp - 18:35		Third period		No scoring
Rogie Vachon		Goalie stats		Jacques Plante

May 4	Montreal Canadiens		2–1	St. Louis Blues	St. Louis Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period		No scoring
No scoring		Second period		10:50 - Terry Gray (3)
Ted Harris (1) - 00:42 John Ferguson (4) - 3:02		Third period		No scoring
Rogie Vachon		Goalie stats		Glenn Hall

Montreal won series 4–0

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1969 Stanley Cup was presented to Canadiens captain Jean Beliveau by NHL President Clarence Campbell following the Canadiens 2–1 win over the Blues in game four.

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

1968–69 Montreal Canadiens

Players

Centres

Wingers

Defencemen

Goaltenders

Coaching and administrative staff

J. David Molson (President/Owner), William Molson (Vice President/Owner)
Peter Molson (Vice President/Owner), Sam Pollock (Vice President/General Manager)
Claude Ruel (Head Coach)
Larry Albut (Trainer), Eddy Palchak (Asst. Trainer)
Floyd Curry (Asst. General Manager)^

Stanley Cup engraving

Anthony "Tony" Esposito's name was misspelled on the Replica Stanley Cup created in 1992–93 as P. FSPOSITO instead of A. ESPOSITO.
Claude Ruel was the 10th NHL rookie coach to win the Stanley Cup.
&-Gilles Tremblay missed the playoffs with a career-ending injury. His name was still included in the Stanley Cup.
&-Lucien Grenier played 2 semi-final games, but his name was left off the Stanley Cup even though he qualified to be engraved on it because was regular member of the team.

Won 4 Stanley Cups in 5 Years with Montreal 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969

Ralph Backstrom, Jean Beliveau, Yvan Cournoyer, Dick Duff, John Ferguson, Terry Harper, Ted Harris, Jacques Laperriere, Claude Provost, Henri Richard, Bobby Rousseau, Gilles Tremblay, Jean-Claude Tremblay, Gump Worsley (14 players), David Molson, Sam Pollock, Larry Aubut (3 non-players).

Notes

References

Diamond, Dan, ed. (2000). Total Stanley Cup. NHL.
Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books. ISBN 978-1-55168-261-7.

Preceded byMontreal Canadiens
1968

Montreal Canadiens
Stanley Cup Champions
1969

Succeeded byBoston Bruins
1970

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