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Legendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday.This week Fischler looks back 84 years when the NHL held its first best-of-7 Stanley Cup Final, pitting the Boston Bruins against the Toronto Maple Leafs. The 1939 Final also featured a personal battle between the leaders of each team, Art Ross of Boston and Conn Smythe of Toronto, as well as an unexpected happy ending to their feud.
Toronto Maple Leafs founder Conn Smythe was a decorated World War I hero and was 44 years old when Canada entered World War II in 1941. Although he was considered too old to fight again in Europe, the patriotic sportsman chose to enlist once more.