Red Wings Clinch Stanley Cup Glory
On April 10, 1934 – 1934: It’s Chicago goalie Chuck Gardiner’s last game, though neither he nor his teammates know it at the time. Though not feeling well, the Blackhawks’ captain performs superbly in Game 4 in Chicago of the best-of-five Stanley Cup final against the Detroit Red Wings.
“The Wandering Scotsman” doesn’t allow a goal through three periods, but neither does Detroit’s Wilf Cude. The game goes into a second overtime and midway through it, tiny Mush March beats Cude, who had stopped 53 shots, with his blast. After 90 minutes and five seconds, the Blackhawks win, 1-0, to gain their first Stanley Cup.
Gardiner, the first team all-NHL goalie three of the past four seasons, finishes with 39 saves. Two months later, he will be dead of a brain hemorrhage at 29.
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