The Canadiens defeated the Red Wings in six games to win the Stanley Cup for the seventh time in eleven years.
In 1966, NBC became the first[1] television network in the United States to air a national broadcast of a Stanley Cup Playoff game.
On April 24[7] and May 1,[8] NBC aired Games 1 and 4[9] of the Stanley Cup Finals between the Montreal Canadiens and the Detroit Red Wings.
[10] NBC's coverage of the 1966 Stanley Cup Finals marked the first time that hockey games were broadcast on network television in color.
The Red Wings only made the playoffs four times in the next 20 years between 1967 and 1986, and would not return to the Stanley Cup Finals again until 1995, where they were swept by the New Jersey Devils.