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Post by galaxytrash on Aug 20, 2022 18:46:27 GMT -6
weird, wild stuff...
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Post by galaxytrash on Aug 21, 2022 18:22:48 GMT -6
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Post by T-man2010 on Aug 21, 2022 18:38:20 GMT -6
Surprised Gordie didn't give him an elbow to the head. |
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Post by steamer on Aug 25, 2022 18:44:10 GMT -6
On August 25, 1976 the Colorado Rockies were started when the Kansas City Scouts moved to Denver. In the 80’s the Rockies became the New Jersey Devils. The mid to late 70’s are a little hazy for me to be honest but the internet doesn’t lie - well actually it probably does at times . . .
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Post by hsbob on Aug 26, 2022 7:57:45 GMT -6
On August 25, 1976 the Colorado Rockies were started when the Kansas City Scouts moved to Denver. In the 80’s the Rockies became the New Jersey Devils. The mid to late 70’s are a little hazy for me to be honest but the internet doesn’t lie - well actually it probably does at times . . . Other than the 'Bicentennial',my biggest recolection of the summer was the three man crusade my late brother,my cousin and me were on to sign FA Marcel Dionne(one of us may have actually written a letter....LOL).......at least the three of us got to enjoy a parade together 34 summers later. Ownership saw a bigger 'draw' in the aging,injured Bobby Orr and signing the GREAT player for about the same $$$ the Kings gave the future HoF,25yro,French Canadian center coming off a 47/121 season in Detroit ended as any reasonable fan would expect. Bobby Orr was coming off major knee surgery for his third and most severe injury that saw him miss all but 10 games the year prior but the 'braintrust' saw visions of the GREAT Bobby Orr skatin' in the 'Indian head' and couldn't resist. It happened only 26 times over the next 2 seasons and the guy still mustered 27pts but unfortunately.........the great player was done. Marcel Dionne?....... www.nhl.com/player/marcel-dionne-8446430 |
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Post by steamer on Aug 26, 2022 8:15:03 GMT -6
Dionne was a great player and would likely garner a lot more attention if he were playing today - and he got a fair amount then. It seemed like the Kings and anything west of Chicago were out of the limelight or not fully on the radar of the NHL. To score at that rate with so so teams is amazing!!
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Post by Nikos on Aug 26, 2022 8:51:24 GMT -6
On August 25, 1976 the Colorado Rockies were started when the Kansas City Scouts moved to Denver. In the 80’s the Rockies became the New Jersey Devils. The mid to late 70’s are a little hazy for me to be honest but the internet doesn’t lie - well actually it probably does at times . . . Other than the 'Bicentennial',my biggest recolection of the summer was the three man crusade my late brother,my cousin and me were on to sign FA Marcel Dionne(one of us may have actually written a letter....LOL).......at least the three of us got to enjoy a parade together 34 summers later. Ownership saw a bigger 'draw' in the aging,injured Bobby Orr and signing the GREAT player for about the same $$$ the Kings gave the future HoF,25yro,French Canadian center coming off a 47/121 season in Detroit ended as any reasonable fan would expect. Bobby Orr was coming off major knee surgery for his third and most severe injury that saw him miss all but 10 games the year prior but the 'braintrust' saw visions of the GREAT Bobby Orr skatin' in the 'Indian head' and couldn't resist. It happened only 26 times over the next 2 seasons and the guy still mustered 27pts but unfortunately.........the great player was done. Marcel Dionne?....... www.nhl.com/player/marcel-dionne-8446430 I actually went to the Orr press conference, believe it was at the Bismark Hotel. Johhny Morris from channel 2 news was there and the other local stations too I just do not recall the anchors names. What a shame if Orr was playing today with the modern science and medical advancements, he could have continued his career. |
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Post by steamer on Aug 26, 2022 11:36:48 GMT -6
Bill White’s birthday today - unfortunately he passed away in 2017. For the 4 seasons - ‘70-‘71 thru’73-‘74 he averaged a +44 and 34 points. I remember him as being a reliable stay at home D-man.
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Post by Nikos on Aug 26, 2022 13:30:48 GMT -6
Bill White’s birthday today - unfortunately he passed away in 2017. For the 4 seasons - ‘70-‘71 thru’73-‘74 he averaged a +44 and 34 points. I remember him as being a reliable stay at home D-man. Not flashly solid defenseman believe made some all star teams one for sure that I recall. |
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Post by galaxytrash on Aug 26, 2022 19:18:17 GMT -6
Bill White’s birthday today - unfortunately he passed away in 2017. For the 4 seasons - ‘70-‘71 thru’73-‘74 he averaged a +44 and 34 points. I remember him as being a reliable stay at home D-man.  photo from 1972 in his team canada uni...interestingly rocking a pretty nice 'stache which i don't believe he had during the 8 game series. in fact i don't think i've seen him with a moustache other than this picture. anyways...enough with the facial hair. old bill toiled in the minors for 7 years until 1967 when the league doubled in size from 6 to 12 teams and l.a. picked him up. he lead the king's defensemen for both full years he was there (he was 4th in the league among all defensemen in 67/68 and 10th in 68/69). then in february of 1970 white with goalie gerry desjardins and center bryan campbell was traded to chicago denis dejordy, gilles marotte and jim stanfield. i read something about him i never knew on his wiki page. White turned professional in 1960. Held back due to the paucity of jobs available in the Original Six days of the National Hockey League, he would star for seven seasons in the minor league American Hockey League, mostly for the Springfield Indians. While with the Indians, White was instrumental in the players' strikes which led to the prominence of agent Alan Eagleson and the creation of the National Hockey League Players' Association.anyways, great defender who had a bit of a mean streak. 6 great seasons in chicago. and on a star studded team canada in 1972, he was paired with whitey stapleton and led all players on the canadian team with a +7 rating. anyways, a nice story written about white by the great bob verdi. www.nhl.com/blackhawks/news/white-played-tight-defense-on-the-ice-kept-team-loose-off-it/c-289550836edit: another article about bill white which i think is a pretty good read. thehockeywriters.com/an-evening-with-bill-white/ |
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Post by galaxytrash on Aug 26, 2022 19:53:52 GMT -6
Dionne was a great player and would likely garner a lot more attention if he were playing today - and he got a fair amount then. It seemed like the Kings and anything west of Chicago were out of the limelight or not fully on the radar of the NHL. To score at that rate with so so teams is amazing!! dionne looked good in a hawks' uni.  unfortunately it was with st. catherines black hawks, not chicago...although a few notable blackhawks went through st. catherines in their careers. ken hodge, dennis hull, fred stanfield, doug jarrett, jerry korab, dick redmond among others. edit: the earlier version of the st. catherines black hawks were the st. catherines teepees...many many hawks alum played there as well. phil esposito, bobby hull, chico maki, mikita, pilote, moose vasko, stapleton, denis dejordy...no doubt missing some. |
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Post by steamer on Aug 27, 2022 6:43:28 GMT -6
Bill White’s birthday today - unfortunately he passed away in 2017. For the 4 seasons - ‘70-‘71 thru’73-‘74 he averaged a +44 and 34 points. I remember him as being a reliable stay at home D-man. photo from 1972 in his team canada uni...interestingly rocking a pretty nice 'stache which i don't believe he had during the 8 game series. in fact i don't think i've seen him with a moustache other than this picture. anyways...enough with the facial hair. old bill toiled in the minors for 7 years until 1967 when the league doubled in size from 6 to 12 teams and l.a. picked him up. he lead the king's defensemen for both full years he was there (he was 4th in the league among all defensemen in 67/68 and 10th in 68/69). then in february of 1970 white with goalie gerry desjardins and center bryan campbell was traded to chicago denis dejordy, gilles marotte and jim stanfield. i read something about him i never knew on his wiki page. White turned professional in 1960. Held back due to the paucity of jobs available in the Original Six days of the National Hockey League, he would star for seven seasons in the minor league American Hockey League, mostly for the Springfield Indians. While with the Indians, White was instrumental in the players' strikes which led to the prominence of agent Alan Eagleson and the creation of the National Hockey League Players' Association.anyways, great defender who had a bit of a mean streak. 6 great seasons in chicago. and on a star studded team canada in 1972, he was paired with whitey stapleton and led all players on the canadian team with a +7 rating. anyways, a nice story written about white by the great bob verdi. www.nhl.com/blackhawks/news/white-played-tight-defense-on-the-ice-kept-team-loose-off-it/c-289550836edit: another article about bill white which i think is a pretty good read. thehockeywriters.com/an-evening-with-bill-white/Good articles - thanks for posting! |
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Post by galaxytrash on Aug 27, 2022 6:46:28 GMT -6
photo from 1972 in his team canada uni...interestingly rocking a pretty nice 'stache which i don't believe he had during the 8 game series. in fact i don't think i've seen him with a moustache other than this picture. anyways...enough with the facial hair. old bill toiled in the minors for 7 years until 1967 when the league doubled in size from 6 to 12 teams and l.a. picked him up. he lead the king's defensemen for both full years he was there (he was 4th in the league among all defensemen in 67/68 and 10th in 68/69). then in february of 1970 white with goalie gerry desjardins and center bryan campbell was traded to chicago denis dejordy, gilles marotte and jim stanfield. i read something about him i never knew on his wiki page. White turned professional in 1960. Held back due to the paucity of jobs available in the Original Six days of the National Hockey League, he would star for seven seasons in the minor league American Hockey League, mostly for the Springfield Indians. While with the Indians, White was instrumental in the players' strikes which led to the prominence of agent Alan Eagleson and the creation of the National Hockey League Players' Association.anyways, great defender who had a bit of a mean streak. 6 great seasons in chicago. and on a star studded team canada in 1972, he was paired with whitey stapleton and led all players on the canadian team with a +7 rating. anyways, a nice story written about white by the great bob verdi. www.nhl.com/blackhawks/news/white-played-tight-defense-on-the-ice-kept-team-loose-off-it/c-289550836edit: another article about bill white which i think is a pretty good read. thehockeywriters.com/an-evening-with-bill-white/Good articles - thanks for posting! thnx for reading them. : ) |
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Post by galaxytrash on Aug 29, 2022 22:48:26 GMT -6
back in the late 70's and early 80's they had this on hockey night in canada.
it was called NHL showdown. pretty sure it had to be filmed the previous off season and it was shown in the first intermission (if i recall) during the following year on the saturday night games on CBC in canada.
it would be nice if they brought something like that back.
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Post by galaxytrash on Aug 30, 2022 15:53:35 GMT -6
got a feeling hall was skating off on a delayed penalty call.
still a nice play. i like how hall dragged his leg on the other side of center so he wouldn't get penalized. he's smarter than patrick roy. : )
i wish more goalies did that. it's definitely exciting.
the rangers had a goalie named eddie giacomin who loved to take the puck for a skate from time to time. it likely pisses off the coaches though.
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Post by steamer on Sept 1, 2022 17:29:11 GMT -6
On this date Mario Lemieux bought the Pens - the 1st North American to buy a franchise he used to play for. I looked up his scoring record which of course is eye popping. He scored 282 points in 70 games as an 18 year old in juniors. #1 pick in the 1984 draft and then in his rookie season at age 19 he scored 100 points. Now that is a generational player!!
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Post by BigT on Sept 1, 2022 18:40:07 GMT -6
On this date Mario Lemieux bought the Pens - the 1st North American to buy a franchise he used to play for. I looked up his scoring record which of course is eye popping. He scored 282 points in 70 games as an 18 year old in juniors. #1 pick in the 1984 draft and then in his rookie season at age 19 he scored 100 points. Now that is a generational player!! To me generational is a player ou only see every 6-8 years. Guys like Lemieux or Gretzky are once in a lifetime. Scoring was a lot easier back then. I still say McDavid is the best we’ve ever seen. He’s almost unstoppable. He has the moves like Jagr, the speed of a fighter jet, and the vision of a wolf. He’s everything you would want if you went to the build your perfect player store. He’s literally changing the game. Guys like Mackinnon, Mathews, Marner, Stamkos, Kucherov, Spezza, Thornton etc are Generational players. They should amongst the best in their generation. Top 5 of their generation. McDavid, Gretzky, Lemieux are the best of all time!!! |
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Post by galaxytrash on Sept 1, 2022 19:39:55 GMT -6
tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of the '72 summit series' game 1. fairly certain that most canadians here are too young to remember and most americans here really could care less. for me, at the very least, it compares to the 3 cup wins and in some ways surpasses it. but it's pretty hard to compare memorable sporting events when you're 12 to those in your 50s. i will say that sitting on the bleachers in the school gym that day watching henderson score that late goal to win the series is personally my greatest sports "moment" but i think overall i got more enjoyment out of the 3 cups if that makes any sense. anyways, this article has a lot of facts in it i never knew before. torontosun.com/sports/hockey/50-nifty-facts-on-50-years-since-summit-seriesup 2-0 early first period, me and likely 99.9% of the country were already thinking 8 game sweep. wrong-O. |
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Post by hsbob on Sept 2, 2022 7:56:57 GMT -6
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Post by steamer on Sept 2, 2022 8:02:09 GMT -6
Great success story!
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Post by galaxytrash on Sept 4, 2022 21:34:38 GMT -6
game 2 was 50 years ago today played at maple leaf gardens.
a 4-1 win evens the series after the shocking 7-3 loss in game 1 in montreal.
4 black hawks in that game. (tony, mikita, stapleton and white) i don't believe dennis hull played that game.
the game 1 hilites are a couple posts back.
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Post by galaxytrash on Sept 5, 2022 8:01:14 GMT -6
Never seen this one before.
I love it when goalies take it for a spin.
Never cared for the bruins that much but i sure liked gerry cheevers.
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Post by galaxytrash on Sept 6, 2022 16:42:38 GMT -6
50 years ago.
2 shorties against killed us that game.
series tied up 1-1-1.
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Post by galaxytrash on Sept 8, 2022 18:55:06 GMT -6
50 years ago, game 4 of the summit series in vancouver.
likely the low point in canadian hockey at the time, the vancouver fans booed team canada off the ice after the 5-3 loss.
phil esposito's famous interview at the end really shows his and the team's frustration.
canada trails the series 1-2-1 and after a 2 week break the series resumes in moscow where the last 4 games are played.
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Post by steamer on Sept 13, 2022 14:15:44 GMT -6
50 years ago, game 4 of the summit series in vancouver. likely the low point in canadian hockey at the time, the vancouver fans booed team canada off the ice after the 5-3 loss. phil esposito's famous interview at the end really shows his and the team's frustration. canada trails the series 1-2-1 and after a 2 week break the series resumes in moscow where the last 4 games are played. Some great clips! Esposito was quite the player to say the least. I know Dryden was a great goalie and these were short clips and no doubt he made a number of great saves in this game but he didn't make some stops that he probably should have. Admittedly picky on my part 50 years later. |
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Post by nighbor on Sept 16, 2022 14:19:34 GMT -6
The Seattle Metropolitans of the (PCHA) Pacific Coast Hockey Association was the city's first professional hockey team and the first American team to win the Stanley Cup, hockey's biggest prize, a feat accomplished in their second season when they defeated the Montreal Canadiens in the 1917 Stanley Cup final. The "Mets" made seven postseason appearances and played for the Stanley Cup three times, winning in 1917, tying in 1919 (the Spanish Flu pandemic plaguing the world struck Seattle, hospitalizing five Canadiens and killing Montreal's Joe Hall (1881-1919). Without enough skaters to field a team, the Canadiens offered to forfeit the final game and with it, the Stanley Cup. Pete Muldoon and Frank Patrick declined the offer, canceling the final game and declaring the series a tie -- the only year a champion was not crowned), and losing in 1920. The franchise disbanded in the summer of '24, its players scattering to rival teams.
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Post by galaxytrash on Sept 18, 2022 21:34:47 GMT -6
an article about tony esposito and his role on team canada in the '72 series. i was kind've surprised to hear he didn't exactly have any fond memories of that tournament. i think it took a lot out of him. anyways, tony-0 would've still been my all time favorite player even if he hadn't played in that series. the fact that he played and was the best goalie in it just cemented him in a bit further. like older brother phil said...if tony wasn't on that team, the soviets win that series. www.nhl.com/news/tony-esposito-was-canada-summit-series-hero/c-335560978?tid=335154694 |
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Post by nighbor on Sept 18, 2022 22:48:19 GMT -6
In 1892 Lord Stanley of Preston commissioned the Dominion Hockey Challenge cup for US $48.67 or $1468 in 2021 dollars. On the opposite side of the cup was engraved Donated by Lord Stanley. The cup became known as the Stanley Cup as early as May 1, 1893 by the Ottawa Citizen. It originally started as a trophy for amateur teams and later opened to professionals and now controlled by the NHL. Even though controlled by the NHL they do not own it. There are actually 3 Stanley Cups. The original Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, Presentation and the corrected spelling Permanent Cup on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame whenever the Presentation Cup is not available. The original bowl was made of silver. The current cup is topped with a copy of the original bowl made with silver and alloy nickel.
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Post by steamer on Sept 20, 2022 15:28:08 GMT -6
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Post by galaxytrash on Sept 23, 2022 14:55:26 GMT -6
in the '72 series there was 2 weeks between the last game in canada and the first game in russia. canada played 2 games in sweden and 1 in czechoslovakia. canada won 1 and tied 2 against somewhat inferior teams and the game by all accounts were pretty dirty. it was also said that canada grew as a team and that their conditioning had also improved.
game 5 hilites. things started off on the wrong foot for canada.
so after blowing leads of 3-0 and 3-1. canada lost and trails the series at 3-1-1 and needs to sweep the final 3 games in moscow, all played at the luzhniki palace in moscow. interestingly enough, the rink at the palace had no glass at either ends of the ice, just fish netting,
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