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CANADIENS v MAPLE LEAFS • THE GREAT HOCKEY RIVALRY • WEEK 5 • Every Saturday throughout the 2011-12 hockey season, we will highlight two vintage stars from hockey’s greatest on-ice rivalry: the Montréal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs. The Saturday series will run 40 weeks from the start of October through to the end of June. The series will highlight stars from the 15 Montréal-Toronto playoff series: 1918, 1925, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1951, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1978 and 1979. For each vintage duo, we will feature five cool items listed in the 2012 Vintage Collector’s Almanac & Price Guide. Be sure to pick up your copy of the 2012 Vintage Collector’s Almanac & Price Guide at magazine stores (in Canada) or popular hockey collector stores.

1925 PLAYOFFS: MONTRÉAL WINS THE NHL CHAMPIONSHIP

Hamilton was supposed to meet the winner of the Toronto-Montréal playoff series in the 1925 NHL Championship, but a strike by the Hamilton players kept the team out of the playoffs. As such, the Toronto-Montréal series was the NHL Championship, with the winner advancing to the Stanley Cup final to meet the Western League winner from Victoria. Montréal won the two-game NHL final 5-2 on aggregate, but then lost the Stanley Cup final in four games to the Victoria Cougars.

MONTRÉAL CANADIENS: AURÈLE JOLIAT

Aurèle Joliat helped the Montréal Canadiens win three Stanley Cups: a first in 1924 and then two more in the back-to-back seasons of 1930 and 1931. Nicknamed the Little Giant, he was an NHL First Team All-Star in 1930-31 and the Hart Trophy winner in 1934-35. His most productive season was 1924-25 when he scored 29 goals / 40 points in 24 games. At the time of his retirement in 1937-38, he ranked third all time in goals scored. In 1947, Joliat was was honoured as part of the second induction class of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
2012 VINTAGE COLLECTOR’S ALMANAC & PRICE GUIDE
PAGE 26 – 1923-24 Paterson’s Hockey League Bar #14 Aurèle Joliat $1,000
PAGE 27 – 1924-25 Maple Crispette Hockey Players Aurèle Joliat $600
PAGE 28 – 1933-34 O-Pee-Chee Hockey Stars #50 Aurèle Joliat $600
PAGE 30 – 1934-38 Bee Hive photo Aurèle Joliat $40
PAGE 117 – 1927-28 La Patrie Photo Aurèle Joliat $100-$200

TORONTO ST. PATRICKS: HAP DAY

Clarence (Hap, Happy) Day spent 13 seasons in Toronto with the St. Patricks and Maple Leafs. Once called an “untouchable” by general manager Conn Smythe, he led the franchise to a Stanley Cup championship in 1932. In 1937, he left Toronto to play one final NHL season with the New York Americans. He would later return as head coach in Toronto and lead the Maple Leafs to five more Stanley Cups between 1942 and 1949. He won another Stanley Cup ring as assistant general manager of the Maple Leafs in 1951. Ten years later in 1961, Day became an honoured member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
2012 VINTAGE COLLECTOR’S ALMANAC & PRICE GUIDE
PAGE 27 – 1924-25 Champ’s Cigarettes Hockey Players Hap Day $600
PAGE 28 – 1932-33 O’Keefe coaster #4 Hap Day $400
PAGE 30 – 1934-37 Bee Hive photo Hap Day $20
PAGE 38 – 1955-56 Quaker Oats #34 Hap Day $90
PAGE 78 – 1983 Hockey Hall of Fame #F4 Babe Dye $2.50

THE RIVALRY: INDEX v INDEX

There are 146 items listed on the Aurèle Joliat Collector’s Index. The earliest hockey card is the 1923-24 Paterson’s Hockey League Bar #14 (the Joliat rookie card). In 2010-11, Joliat was featured in Dominion, In The Game Enshrined and Ultimate Memorabilia.

There are 94 items listed on the Hap Day Collector’s Index. The earliest hockey card is the 1924-25 Champ’s Cigarettes Hockey Players (the Day rookie card). This past season, Dye was featured in the 2010-11 In The Game Enshrined and 2010-11 Ultimate Memorabilia.

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