A Century of Memories Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/8/2009
The Canadiens weren't the only game in town for Montreal hockey fans in the early days of the National Hockey League. The Montreal Maroons won their second Stanley Cup in 1934-35 and two vintage 8" x 10" team photos of that remarkable championship squad are offered here. The Maroons, who also won the Cup in 1926, swept Toronto in three games and celebrated their win at the Forum, which was actually originally built for them, not the Canadiens. A magnificently detailed and rarely seen photo with "Maroon squad at Winnipeg, 1934/35" written in pencil on the back shows the team lined up in two rows on the ice. Maroons manager Tom Gorman is pictured seated in the middle of the front row wearing a business-suit with skates on his feet. Star goalie Alec Connell is pictured on the left end of the front row with fellow Hall-of-Famer Lionel Conacher standing behind him at the end of the back row. Five Hall-of-Famers are featured in a vintage print of the famous Rice Studio photo montage of the 1934-35 Maroons, including Toe Blake, who debuted with the Maroons before going on to lead the Habs to two Stanley Cups as a player and eight more as their coach. Maroons captain Hooley Smith is also in the Hall, along with Conacher, Connell and Gorman. Great memories of Montreal's other NHL team from a time when the city enjoyed a heated hockey rivalry heightened by the two solitudes of French and English fans.
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