This year's Stanley Cup Final will feature two Original Six teams, the Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins. Amazingly enough, these two teams have never met in the Finals before.
Since the teams play in different conferences, they don't meet very often in the playoffs. In fact, the last time they met in the postseason was 1978.
Yes, 1978...Jimmy Carter was in the White House, disco was king. The No. 1 song on the Billboard charts was "Night Fever" by the Bee Gees. The cost of living was lower in those days. A first-class postage stamp was just 15 cents and a gallon of gas cost 63 cents. By the end of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 805.
The Blackhawks and Bruins both won their divisions that year, which earned them byes in the opening round of the playoffs, which back then was a best-of-three series.
Boston, coached by Don Cherry, finished with the league's second-best record at 51-18-11, good enough to win the Adams Division. Meanwhile, the Blackhawks finished 32-29-19 under Bob Pulford, which was still good enough to win the Smythe Division.
The Bruins set an NHL record that season by having 11 ...
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NHL Stanley Cup Final: Last Time the Bruins and Blackhawks Met in the Playoffs
June 10th, 2013 by Brad Kurtzberg Leave a reply »
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