Final team and individual statistics from the sixth Season Ticket Baseball Showdown . . .
Season Ticket Baseball Showdown 6
Four managers came together once again for a face-to-face Season Ticket Baseball showdown, and this time we went WAY back in the time machine. To celebrate the release of the 1910-1917 season sets, we selected the four most closely-matched teams (by winning percentage) from that span - this turned out to be the Cardinals, Cubs, Pirates and Reds of the 1915 National League. So, it's off to the era of the first transcontinental telephone call, the escalation of World War I by the sinking of the Lusitania and Babe Ruth's first career home run, for a double round-robin FTF tournament with no playoffs - winner takes all!
1960-61 NHL Replay
Final Individual Statistical Leaders and Awards
Final 1960-61 National Hockey League awards and leaderboards . . .
1960-61 NHL Replay
Final Individual Statistics
Final 1960-61 National Hockey League individual statistics . . .
1960-61 NHL Replay
Final Team and League Statistics
Final 1960-61 National Hockey League team and League statistics . . .
1960-61 NHL Replay - Stanley Cup Finals
Toronto vs Detroit
The Red Wings surprisingly shrugged aside the Canadiens in five games, while the Maple Leafs needed every one of the seven scheduled games to bring to an end the Ranger’s late-season heroics, so the season now comes down to the Stanley Cup Finals between Detroit and Toronto. Who will win out in the end - the high-powered Leaf offense led by 49-goal scorer Frank Mahovlich, or the gritty Red Wing defense anchored by two-way stars Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio? There’s only one way to find out for sure . . .
1960-61 NHL Replay - Playoff Semifinals
Toronto vs New York
After languishing in fifth place for much of the season, the New York Rangers ran roughshod over the League for the final month of the season, going 7-1-3 in their final eleven games (outscoring their opposition 54-23) to vault over the Black Hawks and grab the final spot in the playoffs. The Maple Leafs fell just short in their pursuit of Montréal for the top spot, despite going unbeaten in their last four and 7-3-2 in their final twelve. In their head-to-head meetings, Toronto won six games to New York's five and outscored the Rangers 51 to 43, suggesting a closer matchup than would the standings at first glance . . .
1960-61 NHL Replay - Playoff Semifinals
Montréal vs Detroit
The regular-season champion Canadiens face the third-placed Red Wings in the opening round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Detroit has had the third seed clinched for weeks, and stumbled to the finish line, losing their final four games by a combined score of 17-5, while Montréal finished with four wins and a tie in their last five as they engaged in a dogfight with Toronto for the top spot. The media have tabbed Montreal as the heavy favorite, and it would be hard to argue based on their regular-season results; the Canadiens won eleven of the fourteen games between the two clubs, by an aggregate score of 51-31 . . .
1960-61 NHL Replay - week ending 19 March 1961
After more than five grueling months of hockey, we have reached the final eight days of the regular season, and the bumps and bruises (and worse) are starting to accumulate as the clubs struggled to dress full lineups even though there were still playoff positions at stake . . .
1960-61 NHL Replay - week ending 11 March 1961
The magic number in the NHL is two - two points separate both the top two teams and the two clubs fighting for the final playoff spot, with two weeks to go in the season . . .
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