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It's Been 77 Years - 77 Years! - Since Blackhawks Won Stanley Cup at Home

By Justin Breen | June 14, 2015 10:26am | Updated on June 15, 2015 6:28am
 Jack Shill, Carl Voss, Cully Dahlstrom and Harold 'Mush' March of the Chicago Black Hawks celebrate in the locker room after they defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals on April 12, 1938 at Chicago Stadium.
Jack Shill, Carl Voss, Cully Dahlstrom and Harold 'Mush' March of the Chicago Black Hawks celebrate in the locker room after they defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals on April 12, 1938 at Chicago Stadium.
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CHICAGO — The last time the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in Chicago, you could buy a house for $3,900, pay 10 cents a gallon for gas and purchase a new car for $763.

Heck, the Blackhawks weren't even called the Blackhawks in 1938, when the Black Hawks — two words — last claimed the Stanley Cup on Chicago ice.

The Hawks beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 on Saturday night, setting up a potential Stanley Cup-clinching Game 6 Monday night at United Center.

The Hawks' last three championships, in 1961, 2010 and 2013, were won in Detroit, Philadelphia and Boston, respectively.

World War II was still more than a year away from starting when Chicago beat Toronto April 12, 1938 at the old Chicago Stadium to win the best-of-five Stanley Cup Final three games to one. Back then, the NHL had only six teams, and Chicago won the championship despite a regular-season record of 14-25-9.

 Hawks fans had to travel to Boston in 2013 to see the Stanley Cup raised. The Hawks have a chance to win the Cup on home ice Monday for the first time since 1938.
Hawks fans had to travel to Boston in 2013 to see the Stanley Cup raised. The Hawks have a chance to win the Cup on home ice Monday for the first time since 1938.
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If you want to witness this chance at history, you'll have to pony up. Standing-room-only tickets to Monday's game are going for $850-$1,700 on various resale sites, and don't even think about plopping your butt in a seat for less than $1,500.

Other events from 1938 include:

• Boxer Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in the first round at Yankee Stadium

• Superman first appeared in a comic book

• The Cubs won the National League before losing to the Yankees in the World Series

• The U.S. forbade child labor in all factories

• The "drunkometer," the first breath test created by Dr. R N Harger, is introduced in Indiana.

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