1966 NHL Playoffs
Montreal vs Boston
Johnny Bucyk scores twice in the first period to tie the game after
Montreal grabbed a 2-0 lead.
Bruins with some early fightback to erase a deficit. There’s no more scoring, until the games final seconds.
Johnny Bucyk completes his hattrick in dramatic fashion, scoring the winner with 9 seconds remaining.
Boston wins game one, 3-2.
Johnny Bucyk opens the scoring in game 2, his 4th already.
Montreal needs to figure out a way to stop him. The
Habs do score 30 seconds later, and find themselves a lead before too long, but
Ron Ellis ties it by the end of the first period for
Boston. The goals keep coming and early in the third,
Bucyk scores again, which gives
Boston a 5-3 lead.
George Armstrong and
Gilles Tremblay get huge goals for the
Habs to tie it and force overtime. In OT,
Bucyk does not score, by
Kenny Wharram does!
Boston wins it 6-5!!
Bucyk was shredding the Habs apart!
Game three looks like it would be all
Montreal after a dominant 1st period and a 2-0 lead. The
Bruins fought back though.
Jacques Plante shut the door, and
Norm Ullman tied it midway through the third. Another overtime is needed. In the extra frame, its
Doug Barkley scoring his 2nd of the game for
Boston, giving them the comeback 3-2 win, and a 3-0 series lead!
Montreal looked like a defeated team in game four.
Boston doubled them in shots, and
Johnny Bucyk got his 6th goal of the playoffs. Still only a 1 goal game late,
Dale Rolfe scores in the empty
Montreal net, sealing the deal. 3-1
Bruins. They upset the
Habs with a sweep!
Detroit vs Toronto
Bobby Hull scores early, because he’s amazing in the playoffs, but the
Leafs Ron Murphy takes a 5 minute major and is ejected from the game.
Pierre Pilote ties it, and the
Wings score twice more on the PP to take a 3-1 lead.
Toronto gets one back, but it’s not enough.
Detroit wins game one, 3-2. Game two is a blowout.
Gordie Howe gets 2 goals and an assist.
Donnie Marshall scores twice as well. The
Leafs go down hard, 6-1.
Ron Murphy's major started Detroit down the road to their 2-0 lead.
Donnie Marshall and
Gordie Howe score 40 seconds apart to break open a scoreless draw in the 2nd period of game three.
Detroit adds another for their 2nd three goal period of the series.
Bobby Hull and
Frank Mahovlich cut the lead to one, but
Marshall would get another and the
Wings score an insurance empty net goal. 5-2
Detroit.
Toronto comes out hard in game four. They get 15 shots in the first, but find themselves trailing 2-1. Late in the 2nd,
Gordie Howe gets a shorthanded goal, that pretty much ended any hope of a
Leafs comeback.
Detroit wins 5-1, and sweeps the
Leafs.
