Same Year St. Louis/Toronto Titles And NHL/NBA Titles Clinched On Consecutive Days Notes
Here’s one regarding St. Louis and Toronto titles and years the NHL and NBA crowns were clinched on successive nights/days, each manifesting this year.
This was the third straight year the NHL (first) and NBA titles were clinched on consecutive days.
Of course St. Louis (Blues) and Toronto (Raptors) won those titles. It is the fourth time St. Louis and Toronto won sports titles in the same calendar year.
The other times it was the baseball Cardinals and NHL Maple Leafs for St. Louis and Toronto respectively.
Those years were 1942, 1964 and 1967.
In 1942 there was no NBA. In both ’64 and ’67 the NHL (first) and NBA titles were clinched on consecutive days. Thus 3 possibilities, 3 St. Louis/Toronto titles in years the NHL and NBA crowns were clinched on consecutive days.
A magnificent player and a vital member of 4 Toronto Maple Leafs’ Stanley Cup winners, the 4 most recent in ’62,’63,’64 and ’67, Dave Keon is pictured above.