NY Islanders 1981 Stanley Cup Celebration [1/2]
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- NY Islanders 1981 Stanley Cup Finals victory, their 2nd straight title. May 21, 1981. Includes final :45 seconds of the Islanders 5-1 victory over the Minnesota North Stars (4 games to 1). Also includes Stanley Cup presentation/celebration and post game interviews with Bryan Trottier, Butch Goring (MVP), Denis Potvin, John Tonelli, and Mike Bossy.
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one of the best team in history. Isles since 1975 became stronger and stronger. Al Arbour is genius
One of the greatest teams of all time in any sport. Perhaps the greatest team ever assembled in the history of the NHL. Certainly, without question, the greatest hockey team ever assembled in the USA.
Man you aren't kidding. They were tremendous. 40 years...where has the time.gone.
Oh I agree with you, the Islanders had a lot better team than the Oilers, a more complete team, no weakness at all.
Bossy easily could have won the Conn Smyth with his 35 points, but Goring had an amazing final.
Question : The Islanders won 4 Cups in a row. Any other team win 4 in a row?
Answer: None. Canadiens did it. 1976-79 & five times (1956 -60)
Now with 30 teams in the league. I don't see it happening in my lifetime.
Security sure was lax those days.
Potvins cups
rangers couldn't win 4 Stanley cups if there were only 6 teams in the league. LMFAO!!!!!!!
Love it the way the Islanders grabbed Mike McEwen from the Rockies that year and he was such a big factor on the backline for them.
I was at the game in Sect. 308. Thanks for posting. Brings back memories.
44 year old fan now living in New Jersey.
If SportsChannel rebroadcasts this game using the CBC telecast with Bob Cole, does that mean the original local SportsChannel telecast of this game (prob with Jiggs McDonald) was lost?
billny33 I believe (I could be wrong) that in both the 1980 and 1981 final, as well as the 1979 final with the Rangers the year before, the local cable channels in the NY metro area (HBO/MSG for the Rangers and the newly formed Sportschannel 3 for the Isles) used simulcasts of the CBC feed for the home games of those series. It was a long time ago, and I truthfully can't remember and am going by what I was told by someone my age who actually had cable at the time, but I believe that's the case. I know that CBS/Hughes picked up game 6 of the 1980 finals, but I believe that's the exception. I do know that starting in 1982, Jiggs M. and Ed Westfall broadcasted every game throughout the playoffs and Sportschannel had exclusive rights to home games.
billny33 Then again, I've seen a Sportschannel interview with Billy Smith after the final game of the 1981 final, so I could be incorrect. I do remember, even after that season, that many of the interviews post game/post series were flipped between the CBC feed and the local feed, so it is possible that Sportschannel arranged for post game interview coverage and not actual game coverage. It's way too long ago.
Could your question be more irrelevant to what I was saying?
ESPN didn't televise the Finals until 1986.
Parades were estimated at 30,000 to 100,000 from the first to last one.
TheIslanders91 Do you know if there is any footage of the parades?
Even though I'm an Oilers fan through and through, I'd have to agree with you. I do believe that the Islanders were one of if not the best dynasty teams ever. Sure the Oilers won more cups (if you think sbout it, the oilers basically won the cup in 94 as well), appeared in the finals more times (thus winning more conference championships), set more records, lasted longer in terms of overall performance, but lets remember, the Isles won four straight!
why is this guy even dissing this team in terms of the 1980's ? Fact remains no matter how bad you think the Islanders were, they still won those Stanley Cups.
You can call everyone names and Diss the NY Islanders all you want, fact is, they won those years.
Fast forward to this generation and lifetime, you could debate on how much they do suck, then again, when the team had Yashin and Peca the team was still a force.
As a Rangers fan you're in no place to talk about anything involving the Isles organization.
a) The building sucks, yeah.
b) Wang has no intention of moving the team, have you ever heard of a freaking bargaining chip?
c) That's insulting. Average attendance may be low, but the fact that they still have 13,000 fans going to every game to see such a terrible team shows that the fans are anything but fair-weather.
The problem is that in Wang's mind he sees more lettuce by turning ( in a future economy ) the entire Turnpike area into something it was never meant to be. And hockey has nothing to do with the plans. I hate the fact that we have 'players for hire' in all sports that diminishes traditional rivalries. I think it's great for hockey to have a team in Columbus, but I remember the abject failures of the Kansas City Scouts & Cleveland Barons ( can LeBron skate too??? ).
I agree I had an argument with at least three of my friends over this same subject. Somehow the fact that they won these four in a row always is said and is their best point. They are very proud of it and they should be. It's all they have right now. Then I ask them who is the better team right now in 2008 and they say the rangers but can't say that without saying that they won the cup four times.
a) thanks for agreeing
b) thanks for disagreeing
c) The Isles couldn't outdraw, Columbus, Nashville, Atlanta or Phoenix! Are you kidding me???? Not to mention every other team in the league! 13K is an abomination and an embarrassment!
See you in in the midwest when wacko-Wang takes your shit team to his home base....
I am glad I found this with Al Arbour getting to coach his 1500th game with the Isles tonight. I remember this like it was yesterday. Between the US Olympic Gold Medal in 1980 and then the Isles 4 straight cups it felt like Championships were a New Yorkers birthright. Islanders Army thanks for this and all the other great vids
lol...Well, seriously, if you're a hockey fan, and remember what the Islander-Ranger rivalry once was, you'd have to agree that the Islanders need management committed to winning and keeping the team on Long Island without needing to develop the NVMC land for purposes other than the hockey team
people...can't you see we are New Yorkers we may not like eachothers hockey teams but because we are rivals we are closer than two hockey teams...and I know I may sound gay right now but deep down it's true and I am relating to Islander fans when I say go rangers...GO RANGERS!.
@leafyutube
I would take the Candiens, Islanders and Oilers of that era over any hockey team today. PERIOD
They didnt play the sissified brand of hockey back then. It was tough. But there was sportsmanship and dedication to the team.
I'm an Oilers fan but that doesn't mean i don't like checking out other great teams in history. This is a pretty kool video and we'll neve see two dynasty's clash again in history. I ment the 82'83-83'84 finals. Nice vid.
KNS is right. ESPN showed hockey, but had little to no coverage of the playoffs. This telecast is from CBC and Sportschannel had exclusive rights to all Islanders home games in the US during the 1980-1981 playoffs.
Thank you for posting these wonderful videos. This was an awesome series the Islanders were spectacular and the North Stars played a series to be proud of even though they didn't win it. A hockey fan couldn't have asked for anything better then this. This Islanders team had team spirit and class. This my friends is hockey. The way it was meant to be played not like todays passing and no shooting game.
Oh man that was so boring if you really want to see an exciting game watch the real New York team (rangers) win the stanley cup back in 94 that game still gives me goose bumps damn...
On this one I may agree with you as the only GM who has done a worse job in recent memory and kept his job far longer than deserved is Bobby Clarke.
One last thing lundqvist doesent abuse women potvin beats his wife so let me sing a repeat ok listen beat your wife potvin beat your wife!!! lmao!
Rangers suck. Whose idea was it to sign Drury and Gomez but no defenders? LOL at ranger fans thinking that team had a shot all season.
Im 40 and I have always been a fan of hockey and I have to give the Islanders lots of compliments for their skill it seemed unmatched from 1980 to 1982. They were just amazing to watch only very few other teams were comparable to them.
did the Islanders have any parades or parking lot celebrations? or they didn't have enough fans to bother with that stuff?
We've pretyy much beaten you 2 seasons in a row concerning intergroup meetings ;)
Think about that!
With our roster...!
The Islanders took 4 years to win 4 cups, the Rangers took how long to win 4 cups..and they were an original six team.
Amazing team ....won't be anymore dynasty of 4 or more in a row..2024....they did this as a rookie team under ny rangers...amazing
d) The team is bad thanks to Mad Mike Milbury. They have a deep prospect pool and high hopes for the future.
I have to agree with Triumph72 who says that Islanders fans can't give the Rangers credit for anything.
2:08 Sweeping the series 4 games to 1?
A year later... lol @ you man
Kevin is just mad that the fights in the ring are better than the fights on the ice.
Ilenders fans went crazy the ice was full of fans celebrating with the ilenders
Huh, not too many playoff beards. I bet they touched the Campbell or Wales trophy ( at some point, they got switched )too. All these ridiculous "traditions" that got hung on the Islanders.
LOL i can't hear the crowd. Must not be any people there... thats normal
my dad and grandpa was at all of the Stanley win
The Islanders could play hockey or beat the crap out of the Flyers. Great Great team. Al Arbour is from my home town of Sudbury.
Dennis Potvin played with the Ottawa 67's in his Junior Hockey days.
Great team but too bad Billy Smith was such a poor sport...maybe he and Fatso in New Jersey can open a restaurant together where they don't let any body in....
Marty and Billy Smith, more combined Cups then the entire Rangers organization.
The ranger fans always made a song like that loll
so does that make us classholes? or noass fans?
@KISSARMYjf i prefer love gun
@bluepastry calm down little boy
potvin still has his cups
@ 1:26 1(second) look out
sweet stash
Great
TROTTIER!
2012 champs
@ nyerinmo & USAGiant
Seems a little, but it means a lot : Thank you for your respectful apologies!
I went only once to NY, but once is enough to appreciate the big open-mindedness of people over there. And yes, in any city, there are also imbeciles...
Were we talking hockey ? Keep going... :-)
oilers had some of the greatest teams of all time. it sucked that the great one had to be traded. think of what could have been if he stayed
damm, look at those old school HNIC coats. This bring back alot of memories
02:25 Isles fan interrupts interview. LOL!
Hey Gridmaster...it is generally regarded in the entire sports world that a) the Isles have the worst building in professional sports..by far b) they have a wack job of an owner that didn't get his way on the Meadowbrook parkway and is just itching to get out to the midwest c) the fans are fair weather at best d) the team is terrible....that is accurate sports talk that no REAL Isles fan can comment negatively upon...
I am an absolute, lifelong, back in the GAG line, EDDIE-EDDIE-EDDIE days but I have to very grudgingly admit, the Isles were a special team. BUT AS A LIFELONG RANGERS FAN I WAS NEVER HAPPIER WHEN THE 'DRIVE FOR FIVE' BECAME THE DIVE FOR FIVE'....
As I said, that was a LOOOOOOOOOONG time ago! WHT?! lol! It's really sad that this is the only vestige of ANYTHING Islander fans have left.
wow the Islanders actually had fans back then.