| Year: | 1955 |
| Team2: | Montreal Canadiens |
| Team2 Short: | Montreal |
| Team2 Captain: | Emile Bouchard |
| Team2 Coach: | Dick Irvin |
| Team1: | Detroit Red Wings |
| Team1 Short: | Detroit |
| Team1 Captain: | Ted Lindsay |
| Team1 Coach: | Jimmy Skinner |
| Team1 1: | 4 |
| Team1 2: | 7 |
| Team1 3: | 2 |
| Team1 4: | 3 |
| Team1 5: | 5 |
| Team1 6: | 3 |
| Team1 7: | 3 |
| Team1 Tot: | 4 |
| Team2 1: | 2 |
| Team2 2: | 1 |
| Team2 3: | 4 |
| Team2 4: | 5 |
| Team2 5: | 1 |
| Team2 6: | 6 |
| Team2 7: | 1 |
| Team2 Tot: | 3 |
| Dates: | April 3–14, 1955 |
| Location1: | Detroit Olympia Stadium (1, 2, 5, 7) |
| Location2: | Montreal Montreal Forum (3, 4, 6) |
| Series Winner: | Gordie Howe (19:49, second) |
| Hofers: | Red Wings: Alex Delvecchio (1977) Gordie Howe (1972) Red Kelly (1969) Ted Lindsay (1966) Marcel Pronovost (1978) Terry Sawchuk (1971) Canadiens: Jean Beliveau (1972) Emile Bouchard (1966) Bernie Geoffrion (1972) Doug Harvey (1973) Tom Johnson (1970) Dickie Moore (1974) Bert Olmstead (1985) Jacques Plante (1978) Maurice Richard (1961; did not play) Coaches: Dick Irvin (1958, player) |
The 1955 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1954–55 season, and the culmination of the 1955 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the Montreal Canadiens, appearing in their fifth of ten straight Finals, and the defending champion Detroit Red Wings, in the third Detroit-Montreal Finals series of the 1950s and the second consecutively. The Red Wings once again defeated the Canadiens in seven games for their second consecutive Stanley Cup championship, fourth in six seasons, and seventh overall. The Red Wings would not win the Stanley Cup again until .
Montreal defeated the Boston Bruins in five games to reach the Finals. Detroit defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in four games to reach the Finals.
Prior to the playoffs, Montreal's Maurice Richard was suspended and would be missed by the Canadiens.[1]
In the second game, Ted Lindsay scored four goals to set an NHL record for most goals in one game in a Finals series.[2]
Gordie Howe set two NHL records, amassing 12 points in this round, and surpassing former Canadiens player (and soon-to-be-coach) Toe Blake's point mark for the playoffs with 20 points in 11 games.[3]
This was also the first Finals in which the home team won all seven games of the series, a feat that would be repeated only twice in the next 50 years, in (Montreal defeated the Chicago Black Hawks) and (the New Jersey Devils beat the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim).[4]
The 1955 Stanley Cup was presented to Red Wings captain Ted Lindsay by NHL President Clarence Campbell following the Red Wings' 3–1 win over the Canadiens in game seven.
The following Red Wings players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup:
1954–55 Detroit Red Wings
Gordie Howe, Red Kelly, Ted Lindsay, Marty Pavelich, Marcel Pronovost, John Wilson (6 Players), Jack Adams, Carl Mattson, Fred Hubert Jr. (3 Non-players).