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Wow, that Bruins game at the end of this video brings back a ton of memories. I lived outside of Boston and was in Jr High when this game was broadcast. We used to stay up until 11 pm to catch the start of the west coast games once a year on channel 38. I loved the Seals because I loved the A’s baseball team and crazy Charlie O Finley. Made it tough to get up early the next morning but it was worth it to get a glimpse of the Golden Seals, Kings, and Canucks.

The San Jose Sharks are the Golden Seals reincarnated

I was a Blackhawks fan growing up, and it was great to see Bobby Hull. But the Seals were my second favorite team. Always hoped they would turn it around. And I Loved the Uniforms!!

I was a peewee hockey player in the late 60's from Boston, the bruins were my only heros, especially Bobby Orr, if I wasn't on the ice we were playing street hockey. (Car).

@24:55 the Seals player has to tell his coach that there was too many men on the ice by the opposition team, what great on the ball coaching lol. During the intermission periods when they show the Seals head coach talking to his players in the dressing room & i’m Canadian & played semi-pro hockey & that is the worst coaching i think i’ve ever witnessed/heard lol, the coach is completely clueless & I don’t think he even had a system & all he kept saying was c’mon boys keep moving go ahead lol & when he talks to his goalie during intermission about roughing up a player who is in his crease & how the referee can’t call a penalty on the goalie if a player is in his crease & to give the player a forearm shot etc & he can’t get a penalty lol 😂 my lord if that was true then Ron Hextall would have been pulverizing players if not killing them lol 😝

Thanks for posting this really interesting video. Even though i’m Canadian & grew up cheering for the Toronto Maple🍁 Leafs & that’s a totally different topic all in itself being a Leafs fan lol 😆 I tell ya there’s been a lot of years of heartache with not winning the Stanley Cup since 1967 which was the last year for the original six era & the California Golden Seals would join the NHL the following year. I remember my Mom telling me that when the “Seals” joined the NHL & she seen the “Seals” in Toronto at the old “Maple Leaf Gardens” & Mom told me their uniforms & skates seemed like something out of Disney World lol 😝… & a lot of people thinking that hockey had no place in warm climates year round who couldn’t even build an ice-rink in their back yards for the young kids development or not even having a minor hockey system for the kids. But as many of us know now how many sunshine state teams there are + winning Stanley Cups.

This is an absolute spot on classic! Growing up in Toronto, and because of my age, I started to watch hockey after the expansion to 12 teams...Toronto of course never won, nor will ever win, the stanley cup again, so I was especially interested in the California teams. Of all 6 of them, you folks in Oakland have a special place in my heart for hanging in there. Minnesota of all places in the winter wonderland did not keep their original team as well. I love the highlights with the Canadians...never loved them but their broadcasts from the Montreal Forum and the organ and the excitement was light years from that old barn Maple Leaf Gardens with the clowns know as the Maple Leafs....thanks so much for this posting

Oakland lost the Golden Seals, its NBA team which renamed itself Golden State Warriors, its NFL team first to LA and then to Las Vegas, and now its A’s to Las Vegas.

WOW !! Great footage...CRAZY GEORGE.....he certainly did not 'Bang The Drum Slowly'...I think he moved to Colorado, for some reason I seem to recall watching him in McNichols Arena where the Rockies played. This footage is a must watch. Look at how hockey has transformed from the 70's to present day 2023. HUGE difference. Nonetheless, just a great time in the NHL. And Ohhh, Charles Finley......precedent setting in some ways....a total buffoon in many others....

St Louis and the kings also adopted the coloured skates concept. iirc several in the WHA did too.

Only decent player they ever had was Carol Vadnais and of course they traded him to the Bruins. Thank you!!!! Go BS!!

It might have helped a little if they didn't Change thire team name litterly every single season 🤔 They also should have stuk with "gee" Lafleur when had a chance

Oh my gosh... I was 🤔 ing how much of a non fighter Magnuson was and then he lands a direct right hook square on Carol Vaidnais Snoz.......point blank at full strength. WoW. My one memory of Magnuson as a kid was when he blocked a shot with his jaw and it might have been Dick Redmond who did it.

Thank you Steve for the great memories! This is another example of Charlie Finley's meddling and causing the destruction of another sports franchise in the Bay Area...yet when you have the A's, Raiders, and Warriors in town, no doubt it was hard to keep up. I really treasurethis video - and thank you again!

Wayne Merrick was a former blue went on to win four Stanley Cups with the Islanders

Well when the seals came I the league so did the Los Angeles Kind,St.Lpuis Blues and 5 other teams in the year of 1967 been those two fanscise are still in the (N.H.L. )&( both won the )???? ( STANLEY CUP )( are supposed to be successful today slot of faithful fans popular in there cities nice Stadiums cool unforms

Never even knew they where in the N.H.L. 67 they where in Oakland ,68-69 they moved too California wow didn't know anything about the team dude who owned the A"s finly was the owner of the time

I can’t remember his name, but the Seals had a diehard fan who I think was the head of their booster club, an Asian gentleman. Anyone know who he was?

Why wouldn’t they just root for the Kings?

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According to my Google search, Vic Stasiuk is still alive. 93 years old!

Yes, they were respectable in the 1971-72 season, then came the WHA, that tells you the players couldn't wait to get away from Finley, just like a mass exodus of players from the Oakland A's after the 1976 season

There weren't many Seals fans in Upstate New York, but I was one of them. Gilles Meloche was my favorite, but I also rooted for Al MacAdam, Dennis Maruk, Joey Johnston, Bob Stewart, Dave Hrechkosy, Wayne Merrick. Their whole history might have been different if they didn't trade their 1st Round Draft pick to Montreal--turned out to be Guy Lafleur! And, man, did the Seals lose a lot of talented players to the WHA.

It’s hard to believe that they actually made the playoffs let alone twice

Despite the white skates the Seald looked really good in this game. So many players on both sides who relative unknowns at the time would go on to play pivotal roles with other teams in the coming seasons.

So fun

California golden seals coming soon 2023 2024 expansion n h l and quebec nordiques same thing

My uncle loved those White skates so much he used up most of the family fortune to start a company that made white workboots for men. Didn't go well. Last I checked he was fabricating blades to put on the boots. That's uncle Fred.

As a child, Dave Stewart( ex-Mlb pitcher) would sneak in to watch Seals games.

I was at that last game with Bruins. I was a little kid amd I loved hockey. I met the Penguin players at a Restaurant I worked at and made them desert. I was telling them about a game where Gillis Meloche let in a huge amount of goals in one period and got booed off the ice and I said I felt really bad for him. It was him I told the story to. He gave me his autographed photo and then I realized I was talking to Meloche himself.

Ah, when the NHL had real expansion drafts

Other than the game mentioned of 23 February 1972 with Boston 8, California 6, here are the dates for the other games in this video: 19 December 1969 with Chicago 4, Oakland 0; 17 February 1970 with Boston 3, Oakland 3; 19 December 1971 with Montréal 3, California 3.

I remember 50 years ago. ?????

between peiods 11:32 "I Don't anybody using the ref or the linesman as a crutch.... don't use them as an excuse" after losing 17:05 "I mean the referring....the first call was so obvious and ......"

I have Been Driving the Zamboni since I was 16 . Started skating when I was 12 . Got to work at 6 different rinks over my lifetime.

Great memories, Went too most Home Games with my father. Just lost him 2 days before Christmas. It will be 4 years ago in December. I still have a Seals Hat and Hoodie sweatshirt.

As kids we played hockey at Leggs ice rink at 11th and Market. The Seals were not very good and we would go to games mostly to see the visiting teams. But since i was a goalie, Gil Meloche was my hero and the only bright spot on an otherwise poor team beside the great crazy George! The bay area had rinks in every town and at that time ice skating was still quite popular. We traveled up and down the state playing junior hockey all through the 70s. What a great time in the bay area!

The game in the 71/ 72 season they had a 6-1 lead on the Bruins lost it 8-6

Too bad Crazy George couldn't warn us of the 2021 cheer....F**k Joe Biden....

Was this on channel KBHK 44 or KTVU 2, I don't think this was on ABC 7, CBS 5 or NBC 4! Do you have any Seals versus Flyers games?!

40:00 the voice of Blackhawks play by play announcer Loyd Pettit. Remember that voice so we'll.

Same thing with the loyal CFL fans from Baltimore coming to watch every Grey Cup.

Lafleur wore # 15 at first ? wow

I don't care what anyone thinks. I truly dug the uniforms and the skates. I call it being different; being unique.

RIP Magnuson

I liked the Seals as a boy. Even though they lost a lot. I even loved their uniforms; including their white skates.

I always liked the California Golden Seals! Such a cool hockey team!

If I still had my Booster Club Jacket, I'd wear it now. I loved watching this, I think I even caught a glimpse of my parents !! I wonder if Crazy George is still with us? I know Dave Hrechkosy passed due to cancer a few years back :( I'd love to talk to Ron Huston again - we shared several birthdays together back in the day !!

Love thinking about where all these people with the $1000.00 dollar iphones are now? Homeless shelters?

Whats up with the Star Wars Cantina Band music? WTF lol