The Canadiens won the best-of-seven series, four games to two to win their 18th Stanley Cup championship.
Montreal defeated the Buffalo Sabres 4–2 and the Philadelphia Flyers 4–1 to set up an "Original Six" final.
It was Henri Richard's eleventh and last win of the Stanley Cup and Scotty Bowman's first.
Note: Stan Mikita served as the Black Hawks unofficial team captain during the 1973 Stanley Cup playoffs.
Mikita was the alternate captain with the longest tenure in the league on the roster at the time of the playoffs.