1969 Stanley Cup Finals | |||||||||||||||||||
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Location(s) | Montreal: Montreal Forum (1, 2) St. Louis: St. Louis Arena (3, 4) | ||||||||||||||||||
Coaches | St. Louis: Scotty Bowman Montreal: Claude Ruel | ||||||||||||||||||
Captains | St. Louis: Al Arbour Montreal: Jean Beliveau | ||||||||||||||||||
Dates | April 27 – May 4, 1969 | ||||||||||||||||||
MVP | Serge Savard (Canadiens) | ||||||||||||||||||
Series-winning goal | John Ferguson (3:02, third, G4) | ||||||||||||||||||
Hall of Famers | Blues: Al Arbour (1996, builder) Glenn Hall (1975) Doug Harvey (1973; did not play) Jacques Plante (1978) Canadiens: Jean Beliveau (1972) Yvan Cournoyer (1982) Dick Duff (2006) Tony Esposito (1988) Jacques Laperriere (1987) Jacques Lemaire (1984) Henri Richard (1979) Serge Savard (1986) Rogie Vachon (2016) Gump Worsley (1980; did not play) Coaches: Scotty Bowman (1991) | ||||||||||||||||||
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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.