Don’t you miss the little treats 70’s hockey gave you? In Montreal you had Roget Doucet sing the anthems, the small ice surface in Boston, Philly pulling out “God Bless America” when they needed a win and Toronto having the flags blowing in the wind at center ice. All those little treats are gone, what a shame.
Gary "Suitcase" Smith...this is great...such a shame CBC didnt start using Color VTR until the early mid 70's. Loved those early Seals Blue Green and white uniforms. I had forgotten about the flags flying from the wind machine blowing them during the anthem. Bob Goldham on the color commentary. I loved Brian Glennie...McKenny and Dorey not so much...both give away masters. Can almost guarantee I was at home in our living room watching this with my dad. Looked forward all week for HNIC. Almost always Sloppy Joes and A&W root beer.
Larry Horricks HNIC on Saturdays was a big deal in our home. Dad would make milkshakes and popcorn and we'd sit about 3 feet from the tv watching the game. Great clip..long live TH-cam..until they start charging.
Pat Frencn...It was a beautiful version, wasnt it? The anthem singer the Leafs are using right now is too much of a screetcher for my liking. Why is it that anthem singers add the screetchy flourish at the end where their voices go up so high, it hurts and they change keys in the middle of the song???
Oakland Seals uniforms were blue green and white. Only changes were the C for California to the O for Oakland, marketing department was doing too much dope.
Larry Horricks -In the Boston area, what intensified the excitement was when one of the original 6 teams were coming into town. We who lived during this era really got spoiled. It might go down as the golden era in hockey. The modern game is so far from it. I must admit that I too had forgotten about the flags blowing in the wind in Toronto. Seeing it again gave me an enjoyable nerve twitch and a smile on my kisser. I miss old time hockey, it was great!
I've never seen a Seal's game and they are buried in weird childhood memories. The thing that surprises me is this game looks better skilled overall than a game with the flyers a few years later. Even the Seal's players could really move and skate. 4 or 5 years later it's like watching low level wrestling on ice.
In one game he was so frustrated at the Seals' inability to clear the puck and start the offense that he skated out to center ice with it before passing off. Didn't help, of course. (I wasn't at the game but read about it in the SF Chronicle the next morning.)
I wish they could wear those kind of masks today,it added such a unique mysterious impression to the goalie,and they were all different shapes and styles,you could identify any goalie back then ,even from the mask they wore,I see in this game Gamble didnt wear one though.The mask today is basically the same for every goalie other than artwork but ,of course ,its functionality in safety is vastly improved,thankfully!I mean the puck speed today .......woahhhhh
In 1970 I was 11. My cousin and I were on an ice hockey team in Concord, Ca. My Uncle Archie had season tickets. The two best seats in the entire building. 1st row and right next to the visitors penalty box. Back then hockey was the center of my life. The Seals players were my idols. Lots of great memories.
I went to the Billy Harris-Dave Keon Summer hockey school in '69 and '70. Gamble, McKenny, Keon, Harris, Keith McCreary, Marcel Pronovost and Bob Wall were coaches.....those were the days
The Leafs usually had little trouble with these guys at MLG. Same thing with the Kings. But out on the coast? Very different story. The sun? The jet lag? The babes? The beaches? lol. It used to frustrate me as a young kid(I'm 54). Could never figure it out. Thanks.
The Leafs were the only East Division team to post a losing record against the first year expansion teams in 67-68. Possibly cost them a playoff berth.
I`m glad they stopped flashing the camera to a close-up of the goalie whenever there was a close-in scoring attempt. Watching these games from the 60`s really shows how different the game became after the influence of the Europeans. There`s much less passing here--and lots of individual efforts that is rarely seen in today`s game. The shifts are shorter now and it`s all-out for about 45 seconds for each shift. So much of this 60`s game looks like a bunch of guys out for a leisurely skate--nothing CLOSE to the intensity of today`s game.
+Casparus Kruger Also back then there were a lot more slapshots from a good ways out, which today's goalies would have no trouble stopping. There was a lot less hitting too, probably because very few players wore helmets.
I wondered what they were doing playing hockey in July when they definitely weren't in the finals (and even that was a stretch). Then I realized the date was on the English format: 7 February, 1970.
So many great players!!! The Seals had some players. Garry Jarrett and Wayne Muloin both played for the AHL Cleveland Barons and later the WHA Crusaders. How did the Norris winner Harry Howell leave the Rangers?? Was he left unprotected in the expansion draft?? Pat Quinn was a monster. A couple of years later he destroyed Bobby Orr at the blue line, Orr forgot to keep his head up, he almost lost it!!!
If I remember right the kid`s name was Redmond. It was a funny story about how his career got nipped in the bud because somebody got his name mixed up with somebody else`s. Never heard of him after that.
@@johnkennedy3970 Go figure. HNIC had another "prodigy" feature in the late 70s/early 80s about a 7-year-old kid named Mikey Gamble. Kid would score 6, 7 goals a game, every game. Opposing coaches began putting two goalies in net to try to stop him. They showed home video of him getting a pass in the slot and it would be in the top corner of the net almost before the goalie could react. People would come up to the poor kid for autographs and he could barely write his name yet. Never heard anything else from him, either.
@@roaringchicken92 My high school phys ed. teacher talked about this Gamble kid being the next great hockey star. He never panned out. I don't think he was very tall. If memory serves me right, I think I saw him playing senior amateur hockey in the late 1980s.
Bruce Gamble the Leafs goalie had a heart attack during a game in Oakland about 2 years after this game in Toronto. He experienced chest pains but played the game through and was taken to an Oakland hospital where it was found he had heart attack symptoms in the aforementioned game. He died 10 years later in 1982 at 44 from a heart attack he had. It was after he played an “ old timers” hockey game the night before I believe. RIP Bruce
Montreal was playing on the night of February 7th, 1970 at Minnesota. I point this out because this game was probably telecast only in southern Ontario, since the Oakland Seals were throughout their short history, the laughingstock of hockey, with the rest of the CBC probably getting Montreal and Minnesota.
Well at this point in their history (third year) they weren't a laughingstock yet, just another expansion team. Finley hadn't taken over the team yet and they made the playoffs in 68-69 and 69-70, the season this video was from. They still fielded a good young team with lots of potential in 71-72 during the Finley era but the following year the World Hockey Association came along and they lost 9 players to the new league. Things quickly went south after that...
@@kingz9916 great yea I was looking and found games with the Kings ( purple uni) from the Forum ...finally look for Pete Goodwin/ Boston it's the 1969 70 like 13:00
Still have my equipment. Arm protection was a half-inch of quilted felt with stiff cardboard over the chest area. Chest protector was half inch felt with plastic caps over the shoulders. Enough to make sure that you would get grapefruit-sized bruises but no bones would get broken. Man up and get some quicker hands, sonny, as my coaches would say.
I wonder if it was breezy for the guys on the blue line. I just realized that the anthems where recorded music unlike the organist they had at most other arenas (for anthems)
I watched a video from 11/15.69 and Bruce Gamble is wearing a mask. Strange he is not wearing one in this game. I fondly remember this era of the maskless goalies, was 15 when this game aired and still play goalie every week.
+Tom Metz I wouldn't be surprised if Harold Ballard or Staf Smythe made him take the mask off for nationally televised games. Wouldn't want Canada to think yer yella. btw is that Foster Hewitt announcing, or Bill?
+Tom Metz a lot of the goalies in that era felt the mask interfered with their ability to follow the puck and would only wear it if they had stitches or a cut on their face. Suitcase Smith at the other end of the ice only wore a mask part time as well. Cheers!
+Tom Metz Also...look how much less body padding the goaltenders were allowed in 1970! Gary Smith (6'4") almost looks like he's got a forward's gear on.
+King Bee I recall all the bruises back in '70 with the inferior equipment not to mention the cuts and bruises to the face with the fiberglass masks. At 60 I still play weekly with much better equipment allowing play without the fear factor. The equipment combined with the new style of play (fingers up glove hand and butterfly) allows goaltending to keep up with the faster play.
The name changed to the California Golden Seals after a couple of years. I think it was an attempt to attract fans from San Francisco. I crossed the Bay to see the Seals play, but not enough joined me.
+Scot Stephenson It sure has. The average skill level now in 30 teams is WAY higher than was in the late 60's. You watch the big stars like Bobby Orr and Bobby Hull back in those days and those guys would only be among the few that could crack a line-up in todays game. And it was the mediocre skill level of the other players than made these guys shine and look so dominant. But that's the thing so many people complain about hockey now. You watch a game with some of the league's top players and other than making a few plays, they hardly stick out at all.
+cmacdhon There are a few things these idiots are forgetting: 1)The effect of the introduction of so many Scandinavian, European and Russian players to the NHL and the adopting of European style of play by North American coaches 2) Rules changes have had an impact on the game that have made it faster (two line offside pass). 3) Go look at ANY sport with a 45 year gap and see the huge differences. I started following hockey in the 1960s and the 60s and 70s will always be the best times for hockey in my view. I still love today's hockey but it doesn't have the same feel as the old days.
Brutally slow and boring 😴. Limited skill. No wonder CCCP in 72 showed Canada how to play attacking hockey. Pond hockey 🏒 days were meant for clowns 🤡 like me.
![[TH] 2024 PMSL SEA W1D5 | Fall | เก็บแต้มของจริง คือวันนี้](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/EciIAlCXg5k/mqdefault.jpg)
Don’t you miss the little treats 70’s hockey gave you? In Montreal you had Roget Doucet sing the anthems, the small ice surface in Boston, Philly pulling out “God Bless America” when they needed a win and Toronto having the flags blowing in the wind at center ice. All those little treats are gone, what a shame.
The biggest treat was watching Bobby Orr skate across the ice for my Bruins.
oh ya
@@redsox4life -No shit!
Great hockey days.
Yes, and every building looked and sounded different. Just like old-time ballparks.
Gary "Suitcase" Smith...this is great...such a shame CBC didnt start using Color VTR until the early mid 70's. Loved those early Seals Blue Green and white uniforms. I had forgotten about the flags flying from the wind machine blowing them during the anthem. Bob Goldham on the color commentary. I loved Brian Glennie...McKenny and Dorey not so much...both give away masters. Can almost guarantee I was at home in our living room watching this with my dad. Looked forward all week for HNIC. Almost always Sloppy Joes and A&W root beer.
Larry Horricks HNIC on Saturdays was a big deal in our home. Dad would make milkshakes and popcorn and we'd sit about 3 feet from the tv watching the game. Great clip..long live TH-cam..until they start charging.
Pat Frencn...It was a beautiful version, wasnt it? The anthem singer the Leafs are using right now is too much of a screetcher for my liking. Why is it that anthem singers add the screetchy flourish at the end where their voices go up so high, it hurts and they change keys in the middle of the song???
Oakland Seals uniforms were blue green and white. Only changes were the C for California to the O for Oakland, marketing department was doing too much dope.
Dee Donner Ramone -When the owner of the Oakland A’s bought the teams he changed the uniform colors. They were the ugliest things with white skates!
Larry Horricks -In the Boston area, what intensified the excitement was when one of the original 6 teams were coming into town. We who lived during this era really got spoiled. It might go down as the golden era in hockey. The modern game is so far from it. I must admit that I too had forgotten about the flags blowing in the wind in Toronto. Seeing it again gave me an enjoyable nerve twitch and a smile on my kisser. I miss old time hockey, it was great!
You know what I love about the national anthem? Everyone stands at attention. Respect. Go Leafs Go!
personally i sit at ecery Nation anthem
@@JamieLennX so what do you stand for? Both metaphorically and figuratively.
Thanks for taking the time to give a treat to many people.
I've never seen a Seal's game and they are buried in weird childhood memories. The thing that surprises me is this game looks better skilled overall than a game with the flyers a few years later. Even the Seal's players could really move and skate. 4 or 5 years later it's like watching low level wrestling on ice.
Walton was my favourite leaf for a long time...still have in a box somewhere my #16 wool blue jersey with a felt crest.
I always liked how Gary Smith would go on the offense after making a save.
In one game he was so frustrated at the Seals' inability to clear the puck and start the offense that he skated out to center ice with it before passing off. Didn't help, of course. (I wasn't at the game but read about it in the SF Chronicle the next morning.)
I just now saw in the complementary post that that happened in the third period of this very game. I had thought it had happened at a game in Oakland.
A feast for the eyes .Thanks for the upload ,a great treat .
At seasons end Toronto ended up in last place while Oakland ended up in second. Boston won the Stanley Cup that year
This looks like slow motion compared to the NHL today, still love it. I would have been 12 years old when they played this game.
This was 28 years before I was born haha
@Richard Joubert My parents got me in hockey in Oakville in 1965. Played right up till covid. Good memories, good times.
I wish they could wear those kind of masks today,it added such a unique mysterious impression to the goalie,and they were all different shapes and styles,you could identify any goalie back then ,even from the mask they wore,I see in this game Gamble didnt wear one though.The mask today is basically the same for every goalie other than artwork but ,of course ,its functionality in safety is vastly improved,thankfully!I mean the puck speed today .......woahhhhh
Bobby Hull was playing during that time
proud of my uncle Howie number 16 of oakland
Go seals
In 1970 I was 11. My cousin and I were on an ice hockey team in Concord, Ca. My Uncle Archie had season tickets. The two best seats in the entire building. 1st row and right next to the visitors penalty box. Back then hockey was the center of my life. The Seals players were my idols. Lots of great memories.
Howie Menard
Was your uncle Gordie Howie?
The way the ref is skating so fast is awesome
I went to the Billy Harris-Dave Keon Summer hockey school in '69 and '70. Gamble, McKenny, Keon, Harris, Keith McCreary, Marcel Pronovost and Bob Wall were coaches.....those were the days
All the names on both teams bring back a flood of memories!
Back when the center line meant something!
The Leafs usually had little trouble with these guys at MLG. Same thing with the Kings. But out on the coast? Very different story. The sun? The jet lag? The babes? The beaches? lol. It used to frustrate me as a young kid(I'm 54). Could never figure it out. Thanks.
The Leafs were the only East Division team to post a losing record against the first year expansion teams in 67-68. Possibly cost them a playoff berth.
Great stuff! do wish it was color...not that anyone would but like the old movies wish they would colorize some of these
Interesting Vadnais started the game at forward. Doug Roberts was a big dude.
Saw one game at Maple Leaf Gardens! What a thrill! March 17. 1996 v Canucks,
I was 13 days yes, 13 days old and living 3 blocks away! On this night.
Funny Someone booing McKenny's name when it was announced...I can hear my dad yelling at Mckenny every time he gave the puck away.
To think scouts compared him with Orr
@@buddha7178 Leaf scouts no doubt. Brad Sellwood over Larry Robinson lol!
I`m glad they stopped flashing the camera to a close-up of the goalie whenever there was a close-in scoring attempt. Watching these games from the 60`s really shows how different the game became after the influence of the Europeans. There`s much less passing here--and lots of individual efforts that is rarely seen in today`s game. The shifts are shorter now and it`s all-out for about 45 seconds for each shift. So much of this 60`s game looks like a bunch of guys out for a leisurely skate--nothing CLOSE to the intensity of today`s game.
+Casparus Kruger Also back then there were a lot more slapshots from a good ways out, which today's goalies would have no trouble stopping. There was a lot less hitting too, probably because very few players wore helmets.
I think this is better than the shirt hockey now days.no hitting.zone trap....yawn
I wondered what they were doing playing hockey in July when they definitely weren't in the finals (and even that was a stretch). Then I realized the date was on the English format: 7 February, 1970.
So many great players!!! The Seals had some players. Garry Jarrett and Wayne Muloin both played for the AHL Cleveland Barons and later the WHA Crusaders. How did the Norris winner Harry Howell leave the Rangers?? Was he left unprotected in the expansion draft?? Pat Quinn was a monster. A couple of years later he destroyed Bobby Orr at the blue line, Orr forgot to keep his head up, he almost lost it!!!
10:20 Announcers mentioned a 1st Intermission feature of a 4-year-old hockey prodigy from Kamloops, BC. Steve Yzerman's first appearance on HNIC?
If I remember right the kid`s name was Redmond. It was a funny story about how his career got nipped in the bud because somebody got his name mixed up with somebody else`s. Never heard of him after that.
@@johnkennedy3970 Go figure. HNIC had another "prodigy" feature in the late 70s/early 80s about a 7-year-old kid named Mikey Gamble. Kid would score 6, 7 goals a game, every game. Opposing coaches began putting two goalies in net to try to stop him. They showed home video of him getting a pass in the slot and it would be in the top corner of the net almost before the goalie could react. People would come up to the poor kid for autographs and he could barely write his name yet. Never heard anything else from him, either.
@@roaringchicken92 My high school phys ed. teacher talked about this Gamble kid being the next great hockey star. He never panned out. I don't think he was very tall. If memory serves me right, I think I saw him playing senior amateur hockey in the late 1980s.
Leafs can't get out of their own end some things never change.
Bruce Gamble the Leafs goalie had a heart attack during a game in Oakland about 2 years after this game in Toronto. He experienced chest pains but played the game through and was taken to an Oakland hospital where it was found he had heart attack symptoms in the aforementioned game. He died 10 years later in 1982 at 44 from a heart attack he had. It was after he played an “ old timers” hockey game the night before I believe. RIP Bruce
I think it was in Vancouver
Montreal was playing on the night of February 7th, 1970 at Minnesota. I point this out because this game was probably telecast only in southern Ontario, since the Oakland Seals were throughout their short history, the laughingstock of hockey, with the rest of the CBC probably getting Montreal and Minnesota.
Well at this point in their history (third year) they weren't a laughingstock yet, just another expansion team. Finley hadn't taken over the team yet and they made the playoffs in 68-69 and 69-70, the season this video was from. They still fielded a good young team with lots of potential in 71-72 during the Finley era but the following year the World Hockey Association came along and they lost 9 players to the new league. Things quickly went south after that...
No organ music between plays...
So nice not seeing all that bs advertisements...
R.I.P.: Maple Leaf Gardens
wow that is great I hope he's still around
I saw a Rangers vs Seals game at the Oakland Coliseum Arena in Nov 1974. Rangers won 7-4. Paid 7.50 to sit near the glass.
Nice that they keep them behind the benches during the anthems do that they don't fuss and fidget.
Too bad they didn't broadcast in 1080 HD color.
+leafyutube It hadnt been invented then!!
+leafyutube too bad CBC didn't VTR in Color until the early 70's...all the American networks were recording in color in the 60's.
Um....duh.
Earl Ingarfield coached the Islanders before Al Aurbor was hired and Bert Marshall played for the Islanders in their early1970’s years
Liked this play by play announcer better than Bob Cole
Great stuff. How about some vintage LA Kings? Please post if you have any. Thanks.
If you still alive lol check Boston highlights 1969 70 I think or 70 71 you can find a Kings game or two
@@eternal1blue Alive and well. Go Kings. 😭
@@kingz9916 great yea I was looking and found games with the Kings ( purple uni) from the Forum ...finally look for Pete Goodwin/ Boston it's the 1969 70 like 13:00
@@eternal1blue Thanks. I will look for these games.
It looks like the goalies just borrowed a pair of shoulder pads from the position players
Still have my equipment. Arm protection was a half-inch of quilted felt with stiff cardboard over the chest area. Chest protector was half inch felt with plastic caps over the shoulders. Enough to make sure that you would get grapefruit-sized bruises but no bones would get broken. Man up and get some quicker hands, sonny, as my coaches would say.
I wonder if it was breezy for the guys on the blue line. I just realized that the anthems where recorded music unlike the organist they had at most other arenas (for anthems)
Burt marshal hockey school Kamloops bc 1972,3,4
ha Mike Laughton #15 Seals lives down the road on Kootenay Lake.
I watched a video from 11/15.69 and Bruce Gamble is wearing a mask. Strange he is not wearing one in this game. I fondly remember this era of the maskless goalies, was 15 when this game aired and still play goalie every week.
+Tom Metz I wouldn't be surprised if Harold Ballard or Staf Smythe made him take the mask off for nationally televised games. Wouldn't want Canada to think yer yella.
btw is that Foster Hewitt announcing, or Bill?
+RK Larkin That was Bill Hewitt, and the analyst was Bob Goldham.
+Tom Metz a lot of the goalies in that era felt the mask interfered with their ability to follow the puck and would only wear it if they had stitches or a cut on their face. Suitcase Smith at the other end of the ice only wore a mask part time as well. Cheers!
+Tom Metz Also...look how much less body padding the goaltenders were allowed in 1970! Gary Smith (6'4") almost looks like he's got a forward's gear on.
+King Bee I recall all the bruises back in '70 with the inferior equipment not to mention the cuts and bruises to the face with the fiberglass masks. At 60 I still play weekly with much better equipment allowing play without the fear factor. The equipment combined with the new style of play (fingers up glove hand and butterfly) allows goaltending to keep up with the faster play.
Did hockey night in Canada broadcast The Leafs when they were on the road? Most of these replays are played in Toronto (it’s why I ask).
yes
For many years the Leafs would not play in Montreal on Saturdays (or vice versa) so they could each have a home game shown on HNIC.
@@Lava1964 But it was REALLY exciting when the DID play!!!!!
not very often actually...leafs and or Habs almost always played at home on Saturdays...and rarely against each other on Saturdays.
THX FOR POSTING
Future Cleveland Barons.
gary and brian smith (cjoh) were brothers
Keons skating was arresting
Bad is, bob and carol and Ted and Dallas
Surprised Oakland wearing white while being away?
Oh my, McKenny and Walton were useless. What ever happened to Brit Selby? The top draft pick.
Thought they were called California Golden Seals
The name changed to the California Golden Seals after a couple of years. I think it was an attempt to attract fans from San Francisco. I crossed the Bay to see the Seals play, but not enough joined me.
The weren't the California Golden Seals until October 1970 when Charlie Finley bought the team
Foster Hewitt...yessssss
That's his son, Bill Hewitt, calling the game.
No mask worn by goalie Gamble.🏒
this is about as good as my beer league... 45 years later the league has changed so much.
+Scot Stephenson
It sure has. The average skill level now in 30 teams is WAY higher than was in the late 60's. You watch the big stars like Bobby Orr and Bobby Hull back in those days and those guys would only be among the few that could crack a line-up in todays game. And it was the mediocre skill level of the other players than made these guys shine and look so dominant. But that's the thing so many people complain about hockey now. You watch a game with some of the league's top players and other than making a few plays, they hardly stick out at all.
+Scot Stephenson Are you freaking kidding? You have to be to make a comment like that.
+cmacdhon There are a few things these idiots are forgetting: 1)The effect of the introduction of so many Scandinavian, European and Russian players to the NHL and the adopting of European style of play by North American coaches 2) Rules changes have had an impact on the game that have made it faster (two line offside pass). 3) Go look at ANY sport with a 45 year gap and see the huge differences. I started following hockey in the 1960s and the 60s and 70s will always be the best times for hockey in my view. I still love today's hockey but it doesn't have the same feel as the old days.
Uh, I think you are DELUSIONAL!!!!!!!!
Brutally slow and boring 😴. Limited skill. No wonder CCCP in 72 showed Canada how to play attacking hockey. Pond hockey 🏒 days were meant for clowns 🤡 like me.
the goalies are so bad... how do you not score a goal?
+Scot Stephenson
Yes, the fine art of goaltending has come a log way. And the players nowadays shoot a lot LOT harder too.
+Scot Stephenson Are you trying to set the record for the most idiotic comments in one video?
How are they bad?