The Red Wings once again defeated the Canadiens in seven games for their second consecutive Stanley Cup championship, fourth in six seasons, and seventh overall.
[3] This was also the first Finals in which the home team won all seven games of the series, a feat that would be repeated only twice in the next 50 years, in 1965 (Montreal defeated the Chicago Black Hawks) and 2003 (the New Jersey Devils beat the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim).
The next year, the Red Wings again met the Canadiens in the Finals in the hopes of a three-peat, but Montreal would get revenge on Detroit, winning the Cup in five games.
They then entered a near 20 year slump known as the "Dead Wings" era, in which they would only make the playoffs twice between 1967 and 1983.
The Red Wings would not win the Stanley Cup again until 1997, in which the swept the Philadelphia Flyers, starting another dynasty.