Hence, the Rangers used Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto as their "home ice" in the 1950 Stanley Cup Finals, a move that potentially cost the Rangers that year's Stanley Cup.
The two teams however, played each other in the Eastern Conference Finals the previous year in which the Rangers won and eventually went on to win their first Stanley Cup in 54 years, breaking the Curse of 1940.
1940 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Investment Company Act of 1940 | 1940 in baseball | Pinocchio (1940 film) | Canadian federal election, 1940 | 1940 in music | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Royal Italian Army (1940–1946) | Broadway Melody of 1940 | The Curse of the Gloamglozer | The Curse of Frankenstein | ''The Curse Of An Aching Heart'' | Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940 | curse | The Curse of Peladon | The Curse of Chalion | Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 | Jud Süß (1940 film) | Hoots Mon! (1940 film) | Because of You (1940 song) | 1940 Summer Olympics | United States Senate elections, 1940 | United States presidential election, 1940 | Thorgal: Curse of Atlantis | The Eternal Jew (1940 film) | Pride and Prejudice (1940 film) | Investment Advisers Act of 1940 | Fritz Klimsch (1940) | Defence Medal 1940–1945 |