“We’d play them twice on a weekend and it was a 120-minute game for four points.
“I hated them all,” Red Wings forward Ted Lindsay said.
The Final opened at Detroit’s Olympia Stadium, where the Red Wings and Canadiens split the first two games.
Montreal then tied the series with a 4-1 win in Game 6 at home, setting the stage for the finale, three nights later on the night of Good Friday.
Richard was being shadowed by Detroit’s checking forward Tony Leswick, who previously with the New York Rangers, had made a career out of guarding the best forwards.
Montreal’s best defenseman, Doug Harvey, who had been a professional baseball outfielder, thought Leswick’s dump in looked like a Texas Leaguer.
“As soon as I got it, I figured it would be best to just send it up to their zone.
As Leswick’s flip headed downward, Harvey raised his glove to nab the flying puck, then drop it and speed on the attack.
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