1956 - 57 Allan Cup Final Final . " Best of 7 " Whitby Dunlops beat Spokane Flyers 4 games to none . Whitby Dunlops won the Allan Cup . Newspaper Story . From the : Spokane , WA Spokesman - Review Wednesday , May 1 , 1957 It ' s All Over For Flyers ; 6 - 2 in Finale Whitby in Sweep to Win Allan Cup By Harry Missildine Spokesman - Review Sports Writer TORONTO , April 30 - - The rags - to - riches Whitby Dunlops , in their first season of top senior hockey competition , tonight completed their sweeping conquest of the Spokane Flyers by winning their fourth straight Allan Cup game , and the Canadian amateur championship . A crowd of 6 , 259 in storied Maple Leaf Gardens watched the Dunnies win it , 6 - 2 . It was the play of left winger and Mormon elder Fred Etcher , whose shots sometimes seemed to have almost divine guidance , that insured the victory for the clean , hustling Ontario club . Now the Dunlops are looking toward the world championship . There ' s little doubt that the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association will send them to Stockholm next February , although you never know about the CAHA . If the Dunlops can win there , they ' ll be the first to bring the world prize back to Canada since the Penticton V ' s did it in 1955 . Since then , it has been Russia in the 1956 Winter Olympics , then Sweden , when Canada did not send a team to represent its national sport , in Moscow last winter . No Less Than Fabulous Etcher ' s winning goal in tonight ' s deciding game , which came after 31 seconds of the third period for a 3 - 1 Whitby lead , was scored nothing less than fabulous fashion . It was set up by headgeared Charlie Burns , who plays with a silver plate in his skull from an ice concussion two seasons back , and who was worth his weight in gold in this series . Burns , foxy and fearless in the corners , went to the wall against a Flyer defender and flipped a blind pass outward in front of the Spokane net . Etcher , floating in , overskated the puck . But he reached way behind him and using himself as a screen , ruddered the puck past Flyer goalie Johnny Sofiak , as he sailed pivoting through the crease . If that was a fortunate turn of events , it was perhaps even less lucky than Whitby ' s first and second goals which got them a 2 - 1 lead in the second period after a scoreless first . Both of those shots were scrambled home by Bob Attersley , Whitby ' s leading scorer in regular season play , who hadn ' t scored against Spokane until tonight . Two in 33 Seconds Attersley ' s first was a goal - mouth rebound . His second was a deflection of a pass - out from deep in the right hand corner . Both came in a space of 33 seconds , after John Zahara had put the Flyers into a 1 - 0 lead at 10 : 54 of the second , glancing Carl Cirullo ' s long drive into a top corner over " Long " John Henderson ' s guarding goal - stick . But even after Etcher ' s 3 - 1 goal , the Flyers were conceding nothing . At 7 : 11 of the third , Trail tiger Bobby Kromm closed it to 3 - 2 when he tipped in Jack Lancien ' s low drive from the blue line . That made four series goals for little Bobby . No other Flyer had more than one in the games which saw the Dunnies win by 5 - 2 , 6 - 3 , 7 - 3 and tonight ' s 6 - 2 . Borrowed from Trail for this series , and wearing the injured Lorne Nadeau ' s number 13 , Kromm was brilliant all the way . As a Trail Smoke Eater , he ' s been used to boos when he took the ice against Spokane . He ' ll rate some Coliseum cheers next season . Soon after Bobby ' s goal , Whitby ' s Sandy Air drew a minor penalty , and that of course sent Burns out to penalty - skate for the Dunnies . Burns was more than effective , because just eight seconds before Air returned , Harry Sinden stole a pass intended to start a Spokane powerplay rush , dumped it to Burns , and the little centre chipped the puck deftly over Sofiak ' s stick for a 4 - 2 lead . Then it was preacher Etcher again , within 29 seconds , with a perfect high drive into the top right corner at 9 : 38 of the third . That made it all over , except the cheering for the Dunlops , which happened again as CAHA Secretary - Manager George S . Dudley presented the handsome Allan Cup itself . That ' s an overstatement . The Flyers never quit trying to come back . They opened up and repeatedly looked dangerous until the final green light brought the big silver mug to centre ice . They they stayed out there and congratulated the Dunnies warmly . It was a clean series , and in the last three games the Flyers looked better - - considerably better - - than the final scores . The Dunlops , you might have guessed , are co - sponsored by a tire and rubber company . That company virtually has promised to guarantee the new champions $ 40 , 000 for the Stockholm trip , if the CAHA gives the nod at its meeting May 25 - 26 in Edmonton . The Whitby manager , Wren Blair , is enthusiastic about the trip , and so are his players . Blair says he can count on three or four additions to make the club " real solid " next season . They ' re plenty solid now , even though they played in senior " B " ranks last season , and were intermediates ( hockey ' s equivalent of semi - pro baseball ) the year before . Except for goalie Henderson and Burns , they came up with new stars each night . Hodges Leads Spokes Tom Hodges , the spirited defenceman , was outstanding for the Flyers . It may be coincidence , but it was the hotblooded types like Hodges , Kromm , Buddy Bodman , Zahara , Dave Gordichuk and large Larry Plante ( and for exceptions add Frank Kubasek and captain Ralph Luke ) who were best for the Spokes in the series . But they all gave all they had . They were more than 40 days on the road . They won the Savage Cup from the 1956 Allan Cup champion Vernon Canadians , and the Patton Cup for the Western Canada title from the former pro - packed Fort William Beavers , and now they ' re coming home . They ' ll arrive in Spokane at 8 : 37 Thursday morning by air . And remember - - Penticton went east in 1953 and lost ; then won in 1954 ; Vernon went east in 1955 and lost , then won in 1956 . Next season will tell if history can repeat one more time . By golly , next season is less than five months away ! See Also . List of Allan Cup Finals