Leading scorer for Team Canada and he was the leader they needed. As a Habs fan, the Bruins were the enemy but ya gotta respect Big Phil. Hell of a player.
Also team Canada won 3 in a row at Russia. I know Olympics and Americans winning great, but to me team Canada ussr was amazing...it was a series not a game. Team Canada had superstars...
About 25 years after this I played with Rod Gilbert in a great celebrity golf tournament and our group took first place. I’ll never forget that for the photograph we all held our drivers like hockey sticks. The man could tell dirty jokes like a Gatling Gun. RIP Mr. Hockey!
nobody could tell dirty jokes like charles durning, the late great character actor ( the sting, tootsie, etc. ) he told me priest and nun jokes for a half hour until i couldn't take it any more. so dirty and so funny !
We love seeing Rod Gilbert blast one home in "Super slow motion " haha. Love it. He was the best for this 12 yr old at the time in Saskatchewan and a Ranger fanatic back then
1972 was a great season! We were one of only a few houses in our Cape Cod neighborhood that could get UHF channel 38 to watch our beloved Bruins. 50 years ago now!
50 years ago this month, Orr lifted the Cup for the last time. I forget to think that people would've been shocked back then if they found out that this was going to be the last time.
Absolutely you should have went on to win many more unbelievable and tragic the career had! he should had at least another 10 years but Boston is so grateful and thank you for all the great memories Bobby was giving us! #4🐻
After this season Orr's bad left knee began to have an influence on how he played his game. Even though he had a few great seasons, his knee showed more on the defensive side than offensive side of the ocean.
Early in film Dan Kelly alluded to knee injury suffered by Eddie Giacomin in Blackhawk series and Villemeure had to fill in. Yet Emile starts Eddie in 3 of first 4 games and Eddie struggled. Why didn’t he just stick with Villemeure? I guess loyalty to Eddie since they finally made final but decisions like that costs you the cup.
I remember that year that was such a great era for the Bruins.i got my first hockey skates in 68 and went to the frog pond to try them out in love ever since but Can somebody please send this video to the Boston Bruins 2024 club after yesterday's game against the capitals? LOL and Calgary feels like something is missing from this team even as good as they are,we don't want a repete of last year.. I think they need to make a move, just my opinion.
Two things happened after this series. The next season the New York Islanders entered the NHL, and took Boston's Ed Westfall in the expansion draft, and named him their very first captain. In September of that year. The Series of the Century took place. Canada vs. Russia 1972. Where Phil Esposito was a leader, and Paul Henderson was made a national hero.
The late NY Islander GM Bill Torrey was determined to build the Islanders through the draft. Potvin, Trottier and Bossy were among the "gems" he chose. I remember how Montreal GM Sam Pollock would often package a group of veterans into a trade for a team's first-round selection and tried this with Torrey. Pollock desperately wanted to draft Dennis Potvin who the Canadien "brain trust" thought would be the French Canadien version of Bobby Orr. Torrey would have none of it. His approach ultimately led to the 4 straight Stanley Cups won by the Islanders (1980-83)
@@michaelleroy9281 We lost Walton and Green as well. I consider Westfall a W.H.A. casualty as well because the ONLY reason the N.H.L. gave the Isles the franchise that year was to stop The W.H.A. expanding into the NY market more. The W.H.A. it can be argued hurt The Bruins more than any other team in the league. It basically tore away the middle of the team not to mention the guy Vladislav Tretiak called the best ever in Gerry Cheevers.
A lot of big men going down hard back then. I was playing as a ten year old then and remember watching this. The Bs were and still are my team. Great memories!
I have written a book about the Boston Bruins 1978-79 season and, of course, the Boston-Montreal semifinal series. Its title is Too Many Men on the Ice: The 1978-79 Boston Bruins and the Most Famous Penalty in Hockey History. It can be purchased through Amazon or from the publisher McFarland. If you like this clip, you''ll enjoy my book. It's gotten very good reviews.
Lava1964...I still can't watch highlights of that season never mind reading a book about it. Was that 7th game the one where Gilles Gilbert was named #1 star of the game despite losing...in Montreal no less. I think he made 63 saves.
@@josephmurphy9723 Yes. Read the book despite the series' outcome. There are many uplifting moments about the 1978-79 Bruins that are worth revisiting.
What a beautiful thing it was to see The Cheof, John B., pick up the cup and give it a little skate in MSG!! Rangers fans had nothing to put their head down for as they had a great team,,,,,but Boston had Orr and he made up the difference. A great series!!
Dave Thompson How true. Man for man the Rangers were the better team but Mr. Robert Orr was no man. Do you know what his nickname was on the Bruins? GOD. BTW , he hated it. One other thing was as much as I loved him , Giacomin was a big time choke artist
Michael Belfer -Giacomon has the albatross on his neck of acute hockey fans and I would agree overall.Villemure was the better goaltender in that series.Now as far as the Rangers having the better squad......
Great series. Tough series for Espo who couldn't buy a goal. Kudos to NY to defeat Montreal in the semi's. Wish they would have won as Boston never did beat Montreal in the 70's
The Rangers did The Bruins a big favor taking out Montreal this year. As you are aware, Montreal had Boston’s number for to long a time in the playoffs.
I remember reading at the time, one Ranger player said the Bruins and the Rangers were evenly matched but the difference was they had Orr and his team didn't.
When the Boston Bruins traded John McKenzie & Freddy Stanfield & one more good hockey player but I can't remember his name🤔just before the 1972 73 season they definitely were not the same but they did have a strong team in 1974 & 1979 to end the 1970s
You have to wonder if the Rangers would have won the series if Jean Ratelle had been 100 percent after suffering a broken ankle. He was leading the league in scoring at the time of the injury
Very possible, for me looking at them man for man against Boston, Bruins were just a better team. I don't always pay attention to head to head during the regular season but Boston owned them the whole year. Boston's top players had size and toughness, as great as this Rangers team was, they have zero toughness, back then it was essential which I think did them in. 74 against Philly might be the best example of that. The year before this was their best team and couldn't beat a Chicago team they were clearly better than. Mtl woud have been no match for them in the Finals
I was only ten in 1972 but I still recall how tough my Leafs were against Boston. The Leafs were unlucky too. At 57 I still recall Paul Henderson not getting the puck high enough over a fallen Ed Johnston in a game the Bruins only won by a 2-0 count. I recall the Leaf third period collapse in game four,a game the Leafs should have won. One of the comeback goals went in off Esposito's rear end. Decades later I learned the Leafs had the tying goal disallowed in the final seconds of the last game. The Bruins were a powerhouse,the better team;however,they needed a certain amount of luck to get by the Leafs. Bobby Orr admitted it. The Leafs played really well for all the turmoil they dealt with that year.
@@michaelleroy9281 True enough,but I still feel the Leafs were really unlucky. Steven Cole(I think I have his name right) in his book SEARCHING FOR BOBBY ORR thought so too. Then again,you have to be lucky too to succeed.
This is a ridiculous comment. The Leafs were beaten 4 games to 1 in that series and were SHUTOUT TWICE. The Leafs only victory was an overtime win. Because you mentioned a disallowed goal, the Bruins had a goal disallowed during regulation in that game, otherwise it’s a Boston sweep. You’re using the logic of a ten year old, even at your advanced years. FYI, I was 15-years old in ‘72, and remember the entire ‘72 season quite well, thanks to WSBK TV38.
I remember watching Game 6 on tv. The game was either a Friday or Saturday night on NBC. Aside from the Game of the Week on Sunday afternoons, the American viewers were lucky to get more than one game on National tv of the finals each year.
@@joedeangelis2972 Thank you for the correction Joe. I do remember now that the national broadcasts were on CBS in the early 70's. Dan Kelly was the main play by play guy. By the mid 1970's, I believe NBC did the games. Tim Ryan did the play by play.
In the 60s and early 70s, the Rangers weren't as popular as other teams in the NYC area (Knicks, Jets, Giants). Rod Gilbert once said that the Rangers had a hard core of about 20K fans and as it turned out they would be the ones that would sellout MSG each home game.
We Bruins fans like to give it to Ranger fans but, in all honesty, The Rangers had a hell of a club in 1972. And one of There best passer and scorer, John Ratelle, was out (or playing with) with a broken ankle if memory serves me correctly. Is this right Ranger fans?
Brady Dog He came back for the finals but wasn't back in playing shape and though he tried to keep it secret, his ankle was killing him every shift. At best Jean was playing at 50% and I've always believed his performance in the finals hurt, no helped their chances. That and Ed G. doing his usual choke job vs Boston
I tend to agree. I think the Rangers were deeper and overall better when you match their 20 human players vs. the B's 19 human players...but then we also had Orr...
@@billybenden4431 I agree. I've always said that as talented as Gretzky was he didn't change the game the way Orr did. Wayne was The Great One based on his talent...but when he retired the game was the same pretty much. Orr totally changed the game...paved the way for Potvin and Coffey and Bourque. AND he was pretty much finished at 28 years old!! Imagine if he had been able to play until 35 or 40 yrs old!!
Rangers were one of 2 teams to win a playoff series against the Canadiens in the 70’s with Rangers winning twice. Which is the other team to beat Canadiens in playoff series?
As good as the Bruins were that rangers team had one of the best collection of forwards ever assembled and brad park was an absolute magician with the puck.akways had so much respect for brad park.no way does he get his proper place among the great dmen.so many players that couldn't carry his skates thought of as superior players than park and simply were not
Still remember that first game - where the Rangers tied the game 5 - 5, after falling behind 5 - 1. If the Rangers win that game, does the series end differently?
There were many fights in this series, with the Bruins winning almost all of them, so I wish they that had shown us more than just the Don Awrey vs Gene Carr bout.
Orr’s post season knee surgery hampered his career.He was never the same.The pinnacle year of Boston hockey.And Arlington won the state tourney(again)!!
He also missed the Canada Cup of 72 because of that surgery. Oh, if only for arthroscopic surgery then. He stilled dominated on one leg. But Orrs years between 68-72 will never be duplicated by another 3 zone hockey player.
lol.no way.they could never have beaten the 72-73 canadiens....what, 10 losses that season? a machine. deep.....dont even think about the 75-76 habs....or worse, the 76-77 monster.....
I enjoy watching these old films. I'm also surprised by how many pucks go in the nets that would be stopped today. Goaltending has become much better now.
You can not compare goaltenders of the past with today's over-sized, over-equipped and overly paid fat cats with the acrobatic style of the greats of the past, who wore cheap gear compared to today's standards. Just look at the size of today's goalie gloves, sheesh! Their bodies were often riddled with bruises and welts. They actually made real saves along with their tiny goalie gloves, and acrobatic stops. Today's goalie can not make a real save in the sense of the word; its their over-sized equipment that's making the "save" - opps, I mean block, not them. Today's goalie even has a choice between hybrid or butterfly pads. And they still get scored upon between the 5 hole with their butterflies on - which is designed to close up the 5 hole. I guess they're just too damn slow with all that obstacle oversized gear on, lol! Or they are just too use to being on their knees going from post to post - another added benefit to today's goalie pads (calf sliders). And don't tell me that the game has changed; that guys are faster and they shoot the puck harder, etc - hence the oversized goalie gear. Yes, the game has changed, but only in development, but the competitive competition has remained at an even leveled balance between player and goalie through-out the years. So in that sense, the game has not changed. But "saves" have. Again, they are not saves; as in "kick save and a beauty!" Today its, "pad stop by So & So." Again, its the equipment making the save, I mean block; and the play by play dude knows it.
If anything the goalies from that time were better. They faced the best players in the world outside of Russia. Could you imagine if the NHL were comprised of 16 teams today? You would have more than two good lines on every team. On top of that, the equipment that goalies use is insanely big! Give me Bernie Parent or Ken Dryden, you can have Vasilevskiy and Price!
@@gustoworld I disagree. They're far better now but since they have all improved it's hard to see the top ones as outstanding. The old videos show how goals went in that would be easily stopped now. The coaching is better now and yes, the equipment is better as well. As the skaters are better now as well maybe you don't see the difference.
@@howie9751 What NHL team of today compares to the Edmonton Oilers of the 1980's? You had Gretzky, Kurri, Coffey, Messier Tikkanen, Anderson, Krushelnyski, Ruotsalainen, and Lowe, just to name a few. No team has that kind of depth in a 31 league! Back then goalies faced great teams! Not just three or four great players combined with a bunch of interchangeable parts.
The parity is reflected by the fact that an expansion team (Vegas) was able to appear in the Finals in their inaugural season. That never would have happened in 1989!
"This is the National Hockey League. Hockey at its best." No wonder the '72 Summit Series was such an awful shock to us Canadians! Everyone, even hockey players and experts, just assumed that, no matter how many Olympics and world championships the Soviets won, they were just amateurs. We were finally assembling a Team Canada made up of the world's best professionals. We were so arrogant! That little detail that Dan Kelly inserted at the end about Orr needing surgery after winning the Cup was about what kept him out of Summit Series later in September, but I do not suppose that anyone felt how ominous that was at the time ...
Hockey is punk rock. in 1972 it was Iggy and the Stooges...gritty, smelly, simple, real and human. Now it's all Panic At The Disco and Green Day. Fuck it...it's a dead sport to me. I only watch old hockey clips now. people smoking cigars in the stands - hell, yeah!
i was at game 1 of this finals -- my first finals game. i also saw game 5 against philly in '74 ( 5-1 win. it was so loud that my brother couldn't hear me screaming into his ear. ) my last finals game was in '78 when stan jonathan beat the crap out of pierre bouchard for calling him a racist name and schmautz scored in OT against dryden, right in front of me.
I love how the goalies back then had to really work at it - small pads. For fans = more goals meant more fun and suspense. The big 7' loaf-pincher goalies of today just have to stand there and lay down sometimes. Boring 1-0 games many times
I have the media guide in mint condition from the April 5th game, which was two days before I was born in New York on Long Island. Which is the other funny thing, I was born the year the rangers went to the finals after 22 years and the year the NY Islanders were born.
All i can say is THANK YOU SO MUCH NY RANGERS FOR BEATING MONTREAL ON YOUR WAY TO FINALS.GUARANTEE YOU IF MONTREAL HAD PLAYED BOSTON THE BRIINS WOULD NEVER HAVE GOTTEN BY THEM
Oh perhaps the Hawks would have beaten Montreal in the Semi Finals? The 71-72 Habs weren't exactly their best edition....Having said that , neither was the 70-71 team - so point well taken.
Hmmm.. #19 broke his ankle on March 1 1972. Up until that time the Bruins played the Rangers 5 times during the regular season - Bruins won 4 of them - 3 for 3 in MSG. The other win was in Boston 8 - 1....
@@joedeangelis2972 guess your right but the series did go 6 games its not like it was a sweep plus you guys had a healthy Orr for that season honestly didnt know bruins handled rangers so well during the year but one has to think a healthy prime Ratelle with a full Gag line instead of washed up phil Goyette i think took his place i may be wrong i was only 10 years old still went 6 games who knows sour grapes on my part but one is left to wonder but many good points by you i mean the next year half your team went to the WHA and Espo was hurt and rangers beat the bruins in 5 easy games but of course didnt close the deal. agian great points by you bruins been robbing and pretty much had there way in the like 49 out of the last 50 years PS No doubt you would of swatted the Rangers and there Lucky run with Espo in 1979 without a doubt would of been nice to see anyway.
@@vincentmittica9001 Vince, #4 was hardly healthy. He had surgery on one of those knees shortly after the season. It resulted in Orr missing the series with the Soviets and the 10 to 12 games at the start of the 72/73 season. Not too sure about '79. B's may have had nothing left if they got to finals... Good talking to Hockey Folks! Lot's of good games/highlights on youtube!
joe he may of been hurt as he often was sadly but i can still feel my tears in game #6 when the great Orr did that spin around bruce mcgregor and blasted one past poor Gllles Villemure to give Boston the all important first goal lead i once saw mr bruin derek sanderson talking about the rangers on a TV show talking about the Rangers saying they were good they were very good but we had bobby and they didnt. Good Luck in this years playoffs.👍
@@vincentmittica9001 Hey Vincent - Thanks for the note - #4 certainly was the difference. Another thing about that Game 6 - #30 probably played the best game of his life. I think we'll need more than luck this year - but we'll see. BTW - I thought Davidson, etc were doing a good job with the Rangers. Thought it was premature to let them go..
What a great league that has been fucked up over the years. I mean, what league shuts down for a whole year and changes the time honoured league logo? Talk about arrogance on the part of Bettman and Daily! Who are they to change that? That was a disgrace!
Phil had a great 1972. A Stanley Cup win and he was a big part of Canada winning the Summit Series too. Great job, Phil. Nifty!
Leading scorer for Team Canada and he was the leader they needed. As a Habs fan, the Bruins were the enemy but ya gotta respect Big Phil. Hell of a player.
Also team Canada won 3 in a row at Russia. I know Olympics and Americans winning great, but to me team Canada ussr was amazing...it was a series not a game. Team Canada had superstars...
About 25 years after this I played with Rod Gilbert in a great celebrity golf tournament and our group took first place. I’ll never forget that for the photograph we all held our drivers like hockey sticks. The man could tell dirty jokes like a Gatling Gun. RIP Mr. Hockey!
nobody could tell dirty jokes like charles durning, the late great character actor ( the sting, tootsie, etc. ) he told me priest and nun jokes for a half hour until i couldn't take it any more. so dirty and so funny !
Great!
Gorde howe ,Mr hockey
We love seeing Rod Gilbert blast one home in "Super slow motion " haha. Love it. He was the best for this 12 yr old at the time in Saskatchewan and a Ranger fanatic back then
Great find and thanks for posting! Great to see films from the early 70’s. Narrated by late great Dan Kelly!
They didn't have the huge catching gloves, blockers, and wide pads they way they do today.
Agreed, this is ridiculous now. 204 joke.
1972 was a great season! We were one of only a few houses in our Cape Cod neighborhood that could get UHF channel 38 to watch our beloved Bruins. 50 years ago now!
No cable?
@@scottlevison7994 We didn’t get cable TV on Cape Cod until 1974!
@@scottieperkins724 the Cape had it since the 60s. I remember seeing Channel 11 in a motel back then with their Weather Service audio.
Watching Game 6 on a little black/white TV in my bedroom. I was 15. Memories....
Me too it was great. Me and my brother used to track penalty min BRUIN/FLYERS 😂👍
Wow..memories. I've asked many, nobody has that full game to upload. Bobby orr was great.
13 years of age for me.
King Clancy -- Now that's a name you don't hear very much of nowadays....
This was filmed very nicely. Thank you, Molson, for making it all happen LOL
Hockey was best sport back then goalie mask were cool
Yea, the masks were the best in this era.
... Absolutly ! And goalies were not crawling dwarves for 60 minutes.
So exciting even this many years later!
the last big triumph of the greatest B's team ever
Ill take 70s hockey any day!💯👍
Those auper great mid 1970s Montreal Canadians hockey team
@@Loydstardeli2017OH YEAH BABY!
great film, thanks, brings back so many memories
RIP Rod Gilbert/Emil Francis
50 years ago this month, Orr lifted the Cup for the last time. I forget to think that people would've been shocked back then if they found out that this was going to be the last time.
And 1974 was the last time he appeared in a Stanley Cup Final
Absolutely you should have went on to win many more unbelievable and tragic the career had! he should had at least another 10 years but Boston is so grateful and thank you for all the great memories Bobby was giving us! #4🐻
After this season Orr's bad left knee began to have an influence on how he played his game. Even though he had a few great seasons, his knee showed more on the defensive side than offensive side of the ocean.
.. No no, not here in Montreal, we weren't shocked at all. I think we had 5 or 6 Stainless Cups in the 70s.
Bruins had fantastic scoring punch in those days what a wagon of a team
eddie johnston was their best goalie
Nice to see hockey without ads all over the place
Is that all you have to offer?
Sorry my comment isn't satisfactory to you
Early in film Dan Kelly alluded to knee injury suffered by Eddie Giacomin in Blackhawk series and Villemeure had to fill in. Yet Emile starts Eddie in 3 of first 4 games and Eddie struggled. Why didn’t he just stick with Villemeure? I guess loyalty to Eddie since they finally made final but decisions like that costs you the cup.
Wore my jersey to school the next day..9th grade..
I remember that year that was such a great era for the Bruins.i got my first hockey skates in 68 and went to the frog pond to try them out in love ever since but Can somebody please send this video to the Boston Bruins 2024 club after yesterday's game against the capitals? LOL and Calgary feels like something is missing from this team even as good as they are,we don't want a repete of last year.. I think they need to make a move, just my opinion.
Two things happened after this series. The next season the New York Islanders entered the NHL, and took Boston's Ed Westfall in the expansion draft, and named him their very first captain. In September of that year. The Series of the Century took place. Canada vs. Russia 1972. Where Phil Esposito was a leader, and Paul Henderson was made a national hero.
And the Bruins lost Cheevers Mc Kenzie and Sanderson to the WHA( although Sanderson came back) that hurt them big time
The late NY Islander GM Bill Torrey was determined to build the Islanders through the draft. Potvin, Trottier and Bossy were among the "gems" he chose. I remember how Montreal GM Sam Pollock would often package a group of veterans into a trade for a team's first-round selection and tried this with Torrey. Pollock desperately wanted to draft Dennis Potvin who the Canadien "brain trust" thought would be the French Canadien version of Bobby Orr. Torrey would have none of it. His approach ultimately led to the 4 straight Stanley Cups won by the Islanders (1980-83)
@@michaelleroy9281 We lost Walton and Green as well. I consider Westfall a W.H.A. casualty as well because the ONLY reason the N.H.L. gave the Isles the franchise that year was to stop The W.H.A. expanding into the NY market more. The W.H.A. it can be argued hurt The Bruins more than any other team in the league. It basically tore away the middle of the team not to mention the guy Vladislav Tretiak called the best ever in Gerry Cheevers.
gerry wasn't the best ever, but he was a good clutch and big game goalie@@rf396
Notice how it's much easier to follow the puck without all of the ads on the boards and ice?
My dad went to nyr game 72 6.00 lol...today at msg 500 same seats...also boards were much lower u can talk to players my dad said. Now, boards huge
Hockey purity without the commercial pollution.
@@jeffmccoy1700 -- so true.
A lot of big men going down hard back then. I was playing as a ten year old then and remember watching this. The Bs were and still are my team. Great memories!
Great stuff !
I have written a book about the Boston Bruins 1978-79 season and, of course, the Boston-Montreal semifinal series. Its title is Too Many Men on the Ice: The 1978-79 Boston Bruins and the Most Famous Penalty in Hockey History. It can be purchased through Amazon or from the publisher McFarland. If you like this clip, you''ll enjoy my book. It's gotten very good reviews.
If Don Marcotte had shot it higher on Ken Dryden, in OT, the Bruins were gonna SWEEP the Rangers in the 1979 finals.
Lava1964...I still can't watch highlights of that season never mind reading a book about it. Was that 7th game the one where Gilles Gilbert was named #1 star of the game despite losing...in Montreal no less. I think he made 63 saves.
@@josephmurphy9723 Yes. Read the book despite the series' outcome. There are many uplifting moments about the 1978-79 Bruins that are worth revisiting.
I read your book - finished it waiting on a flight from Chicago to Philadelphia. LOL - A good read - I recommended it.
Love it!
And after the 71-72 season hockey would never be the same
Why?
@@lonestarbug why? duh....duh....cement head, figure it out..,,
@@graciemaemarie11jones16 I figured out that you’re stupid.
@@lonestarbugWHA started I’m guessing
@@IbelikemjWHA did begin in 1972-73 for 7 stormy years of relocating and folding franchises
What a beautiful thing it was to see The Cheof, John B., pick up the cup and give it a little skate in MSG!! Rangers fans had nothing to put their head down for as they had a great team,,,,,but Boston had Orr and he made up the difference. A great series!!
Dave Thompson How true. Man for man the Rangers were the better team but Mr. Robert Orr was no man. Do you know what his nickname was on the Bruins? GOD. BTW , he hated it. One other thing was as much as I loved him , Giacomin was a big time choke artist
Michael Belfer -Did Villimure outplay Giacoman in this series?
@@5inthehole yes.just like johnston outplayed cheevers overall
Michael Belfer -Giacomon has the albatross on his neck of acute hockey fans and I would agree overall.Villemure was the better goaltender in that series.Now as far as the Rangers having the better squad......
herb petrillo -Very interesting comment!
Great series. Tough series for Espo who couldn't buy a goal. Kudos to NY to defeat Montreal in the semi's. Wish they would have won as Boston never did beat Montreal in the 70's
The Rangers did The Bruins a big favor taking out Montreal this year. As you are aware, Montreal had Boston’s number for to long a time in the playoffs.
@@5inthehole yup.and probably would have beat boston again
Robert Jones hard telling not knowing.
I remember reading at the time, one Ranger player said the Bruins and the Rangers were evenly matched but the difference was they had Orr and his team didn't.
Orr scored 2 goals in the final game.!!!
Another thing to consider is that Ratelle was attempting to play coming back early from an injury and could do little.
22:36 John McKenzie floors a fan to the ice!
HAHA! I scrolled through comments to see if anyone noticed it!
The only thing he did.
When the Boston Bruins traded John McKenzie & Freddy Stanfield & one more good hockey player but I can't remember his name🤔just before the 1972 73 season they definitely were not the same but they did have a strong team in 1974 & 1979 to end the 1970s
You have to wonder if the Rangers would have won the series if Jean Ratelle had been 100 percent after suffering a broken ankle. He was leading the league in scoring at the time of the injury
Very possible, for me looking at them man for man against Boston, Bruins were just a better team. I don't always pay attention to head to head during the regular season but Boston owned them the whole year. Boston's top players had size and toughness, as great as this Rangers team was, they have zero toughness, back then it was essential which I think did them in. 74 against Philly might be the best example of that. The year before this was their best team and couldn't beat a Chicago team they were clearly better than. Mtl woud have been no match for them in the Finals
Today’s hockey is way to vanilla
I was only ten in 1972 but I still recall how tough my Leafs were against Boston. The Leafs were unlucky too. At 57 I still recall Paul Henderson not getting the puck high enough over a fallen Ed Johnston in a game the Bruins only won by a 2-0 count. I recall the Leaf third period collapse in game four,a game the Leafs should have won. One of the comeback goals went in off Esposito's rear end. Decades later I learned the Leafs had the tying goal disallowed in the final seconds of the last game. The Bruins were a powerhouse,the better team;however,they needed a certain amount of luck to get by the Leafs. Bobby Orr admitted it. The Leafs played really well for all the turmoil they dealt with that year.
hate all things bush-town.....bwoston.....how i hate that shit laced shitty city.....
The Leafs at least took 1 game from the Bruins in the series
@@michaelleroy9281 True enough,but I still feel the Leafs were really unlucky. Steven Cole(I think I have his name right) in his book SEARCHING FOR BOBBY ORR thought so too. Then again,you have to be lucky too to succeed.
what else is new😂
This is a ridiculous comment. The Leafs were beaten 4 games to 1 in that series and were SHUTOUT TWICE. The Leafs only victory was an overtime win. Because you mentioned a disallowed goal, the Bruins had a goal disallowed during regulation in that game, otherwise it’s a Boston sweep. You’re using the logic of a ten year old, even at your advanced years. FYI, I was 15-years old in ‘72, and remember the entire ‘72 season quite well, thanks to WSBK TV38.
Maybe the greatest team ever
groovy music
I remember watching Game 6 on tv. The game was either a Friday or Saturday night on NBC. Aside from the Game of the Week on Sunday afternoons, the American viewers were lucky to get more than one game on National tv of the finals each year.
HI James - A Thursday Night for game 6. In the States in was on CBS - For this finals - Games 1, 4 & 6 were on CBS - national tv....
@@joedeangelis2972 Thank you for the correction Joe. I do remember now that the national broadcasts were on CBS in the early 70's. Dan Kelly was the main play by play guy. By the mid 1970's, I believe NBC did the games. Tim Ryan did the play by play.
The '72 Bruins could win in any era.
i don't think so 😄
Yet they didn't win another Stanley Cup until 2011
In the 60s and early 70s, the Rangers weren't as popular as other teams in the NYC area (Knicks, Jets, Giants). Rod Gilbert once said that the Rangers had a hard core of about 20K fans and as it turned out they would be the ones that would sellout MSG each home game.
Phil Esposito was a great player, but how did the Rangers keep him from scoring no goals in the 6 games of the Stanley cup finals.
Great defense led by Brad Park
number 18...walt i cant spell his name, but man, was he tough
@@graciemaemarie11jones16 you don't know hockey
@graciemaemarie11 jones For Boston #18 was Ed Westfall that's not so hard to spell
This is when i started watching Ranger hockey i was 7
Back when hockey jerseys actually looked good.
We Bruins fans like to give it to Ranger fans but, in all honesty, The Rangers had a hell of a club in 1972. And one of There best passer and scorer, John Ratelle, was out (or playing with) with a broken ankle if memory serves me correctly. Is this right Ranger fans?
Brady Dog He came back for the finals but wasn't back in playing shape and though he tried to keep it secret, his ankle was killing him every shift. At best Jean was playing at 50% and I've always believed his performance in the finals hurt, no helped their chances. That and Ed G. doing his usual choke job vs Boston
Yes but bobby orr is the greatest!!
I tend to agree. I think the Rangers were deeper and overall better when you match their 20 human players vs. the B's 19 human players...but then we also had Orr...
@@josephmurphy9723 from a ranger fan. BOBBY ORR IS THE GREATEST PLAYER TO LACE THEM UP. CASE CLOSED
@@billybenden4431 I agree. I've always said that as talented as Gretzky was he didn't change the game the way Orr did. Wayne was The Great One based on his talent...but when he retired the game was the same pretty much. Orr totally changed the game...paved the way for Potvin and Coffey and Bourque. AND he was pretty much finished at 28 years old!! Imagine if he had been able to play until 35 or 40 yrs old!!
Good old days
Anyone know the music band in this movie and in particular the title from 17:41 ?
Bruins should have won at least four more Stanley Cups.
Bruins Rangers to evenly matched teams , the difference was no4 for the Bruins
I'm a Ranger fan but that's right. #4 Bobby Orr
Nice video. However, I am a Rangers fan and so naturally this is depressing.😞
Rangers were one of 2 teams to win a playoff series against the Canadiens in the 70’s with Rangers winning twice. Which is the other team to beat Canadiens in playoff series?
Tronna
RK Larkin Buffalo Sabres in 1975.
Steven Hamburg -Very good! Who would have called that outcome?
2:16 Orr in the stands taking notes.
As good as the Bruins were that rangers team had one of the best collection of forwards ever assembled and brad park was an absolute magician with the puck.akways had so much respect for brad park.no way does he get his proper place among the great dmen.so many players that couldn't carry his skates thought of as superior players than park and simply were not
Still remember that first game - where the Rangers tied the game 5 - 5, after falling behind 5 - 1. If the Rangers win that game, does the series end differently?
And to think, a few years later the Bruins had Park and Pre for a few games in 75-76.
There were many fights in this series, with the Bruins winning almost all of them, so I wish they that had shown us more than just the Don Awrey vs Gene Carr bout.
gene carr? pansy
The Bruins won the Stanley Cup in 1970 and 1972 because the Montreal Canadiens were not in their way always tough for the Bruins to beat
Real hockey, real teams! None of this expansion team crap!
Garnett Bailey scored the game winner in game 1, died on one of the planes on 9/11.
God Bless Ace!! Wish I had a time machine.
in this series he almost cut a rangers' leg off....brutal
Bobby Hull played his last 4 games in Chicago swept by the Rangers in the 2nd round
Orr’s post season knee surgery hampered his career.He was never the same.The pinnacle year of Boston hockey.And Arlington won the state tourney(again)!!
He also missed the Canada Cup of 72 because of that surgery. Oh, if only for arthroscopic surgery then. He stilled dominated on one leg. But Orrs years between 68-72 will never be duplicated by another 3 zone hockey player.
Should've won every cup from 69-75...fuckin WHA
lol.no way.they could never have beaten the 72-73 canadiens....what, 10 losses that season? a machine. deep.....dont even think about the 75-76 habs....or worse, the 76-77 monster.....
@@graciemaemarie11jones16 a team with Bobby Orr can beat anyone..Habs had good seasons? Check out the Bruins seasons too pal
@@Bruins-vq5ey Montreal just had a few more great seasons than Boston
@@michaelleroy9281 not during those years
I enjoy watching these old films. I'm also surprised by how many pucks go in the nets that would be stopped today. Goaltending has become much better now.
You can not compare goaltenders of the past with today's over-sized, over-equipped and overly paid fat cats with the acrobatic style of the greats of the past, who wore cheap gear compared to today's standards. Just look at the size of today's goalie gloves, sheesh! Their bodies were often riddled with bruises and welts. They actually made real saves along with their tiny goalie gloves, and acrobatic stops. Today's goalie can not make a real save in the sense of the word; its their over-sized equipment that's making the "save" - opps, I mean block, not them. Today's goalie even has a choice between hybrid or butterfly pads. And they still get scored upon between the 5 hole with their butterflies on - which is designed to close up the 5 hole. I guess they're just too damn slow with all that obstacle oversized gear on, lol! Or they are just too use to being on their knees going from post to post - another added benefit to today's goalie pads (calf sliders).
And don't tell me that the game has changed; that guys are faster and they shoot the puck harder, etc - hence the oversized goalie gear. Yes, the game has changed, but only in development, but the competitive competition has remained at an even leveled balance between player and goalie through-out the years. So in that sense, the game has not changed. But "saves" have. Again, they are not saves; as in "kick save and a beauty!" Today its, "pad stop by So & So." Again, its the equipment making the save, I mean block; and the play by play dude knows it.
If anything the goalies from that time were better. They faced the best players in the world outside of Russia. Could you imagine if the NHL were comprised of 16 teams today? You would have more than two good lines on every team. On top of that, the equipment that goalies use is insanely big! Give me Bernie Parent or Ken Dryden, you can have Vasilevskiy and Price!
@@gustoworld I disagree. They're far better now but since they have all improved it's hard to see the top ones as outstanding. The old videos show how goals went in that would be easily stopped now. The coaching is better now and yes, the equipment is better as well. As the skaters are better now as well maybe you don't see the difference.
@@howie9751 What NHL team of today compares to the Edmonton Oilers of the 1980's? You had Gretzky, Kurri, Coffey, Messier Tikkanen, Anderson, Krushelnyski, Ruotsalainen, and Lowe, just to name a few. No team has that kind of depth in a 31 league! Back then goalies faced great teams! Not just three or four great players combined with a bunch of interchangeable parts.
The parity is reflected by the fact that an expansion team (Vegas) was able to appear in the Finals in their inaugural season. That never would have happened in 1989!
"This is the National Hockey League. Hockey at its best." No wonder the '72 Summit Series was such an awful shock to us Canadians! Everyone, even hockey players and experts, just assumed that, no matter how many Olympics and world championships the Soviets won, they were just amateurs. We were finally assembling a Team Canada made up of the world's best professionals. We were so arrogant!
That little detail that Dan Kelly inserted at the end about Orr needing surgery after winning the Cup was about what kept him out of Summit Series later in September, but I do not suppose that anyone felt how ominous that was at the time ...
That's an old stuff of the championship.
Old time hockey 🏑🏒
FROM THE GOD OLD DAYS
Back when the world was mostly normal, especially politicians
half hockey. half war.
Hockey is punk rock. in 1972 it was Iggy and the Stooges...gritty, smelly, simple, real and human. Now it's all Panic At The Disco and Green Day. Fuck it...it's a dead sport to me. I only watch old hockey clips now. people smoking cigars in the stands - hell, yeah!
No Ratelle
quelle souvenier pour moi
i was at game 1 of this finals -- my first finals game. i also saw game 5 against philly in '74 ( 5-1 win. it was so loud that my brother couldn't hear me screaming into his ear. ) my last finals game was in '78 when stan jonathan beat the crap out of pierre bouchard for calling him a racist name and schmautz scored in OT against dryden, right in front of me.
Rangers win this cup if Rattle didn’t get a broken ankle in March. no one stopped the GAG line.
I love how the goalies back then had to really work at it - small pads. For fans = more goals meant more fun and suspense. The big 7' loaf-pincher goalies of today just have to stand there and lay down sometimes. Boring 1-0 games many times
I have the media guide in mint condition from the April 5th game, which was two days before I was born in New York on Long Island.
Which is the other funny thing, I was born the year the rangers went to the finals after 22 years and the year the NY Islanders were born.
The Bruins just slaughtered the Blues in the 2 nd round
All i can say is THANK YOU SO MUCH NY RANGERS FOR BEATING MONTREAL ON YOUR WAY TO FINALS.GUARANTEE YOU IF MONTREAL HAD PLAYED BOSTON THE BRIINS WOULD NEVER HAVE GOTTEN BY THEM
Oh perhaps the Hawks would have beaten Montreal in the Semi Finals? The 71-72 Habs weren't exactly their best edition....Having said that , neither was the 70-71 team - so point well taken.
Trivia time! ( and no cheating!). Before this series, when was the last time two American teams played for Lord Stanley’s Cup??
Brady Dog Two years before in 1970, the teams were Boston and St.Louis!
Merti63 -Very good! Truer to trip folks up thinking it was awhile back!
Brady Dog ok, now a more difficult one: up to now, when was the last SCF with two canadian teams, and of course identify the teams.
Merti63 -I’m not looking and it has had to be awhile back. Let me guess Montreal vs Calgary in 1986?
Brady Dog You had the teams right, but not the year. The year was 1989 (Calgary won in six). Considering you didn't google it, you did wery well!
GARNET BAILEY WHO SCORED THE WINNING GOAL IN GAME 1 WAS IN THE 2nd PLANE ON 911
Oh wow I did not know that :-/
So they say.except he wasnt on the plane that hit the towers.those passengers were fliwn to an airforce base and never seen again
@@robertjones1543 you're an idiot. Your tin foil hat is on too tight.
@@robertjones1543 - which Air Force base, and why? Do you really believe that conspiracy crap?
8:30...the goal scorer garnett bailey was on one of the planes on september 11. "allegedly"
@CJ Dillon ya I already said that. But thanks for chimin in
@CJ Dillon its a reference to the possible conspiracy theory... Dumbass
@@Chrisman77 Your the dumbass for even entertaining a conspiracy. You're probably a mouth breathing Trumpanzee.
One of the Rags five Finals appearances over the past 81 years. What a pathetic organization. 1994 LETS GO REUNITED OILERS 🤷🏻
Keep clinging on to the old days. Your grandchildren will retire before The Islanders see another cup final.
Remember in 1979 they played the mighty Canadiens in the Final, no way they were beating them
the only reason the bruins won that cup was because Ratelle was crippled Rangers were the deeper team.
Hmmm.. #19 broke his ankle on March 1 1972. Up until that time the Bruins played the Rangers 5 times during the regular season - Bruins won 4 of them - 3 for 3 in MSG. The other win was in Boston 8 - 1....
@@joedeangelis2972 guess your right but the series did go 6 games its not like it was a sweep plus you guys had a healthy Orr for that season honestly didnt know bruins handled rangers so well during the year but one has to think a healthy prime Ratelle with a full Gag line instead of washed up phil Goyette i think took his place i may be wrong i was only 10 years old still went 6 games who knows sour grapes on my part but one is left to wonder but many good points by you i mean the next year half your team went to the WHA and Espo was hurt and rangers beat the bruins in 5 easy games but of course didnt close the deal. agian great points by you bruins been robbing and pretty much had there way in the like 49 out of the last 50 years PS No doubt you would of swatted the Rangers and there Lucky run with Espo in 1979 without a doubt would of been nice to see anyway.
@@vincentmittica9001 Vince, #4 was hardly healthy. He had surgery on one of those knees shortly after the season. It resulted in Orr missing the series with the Soviets and the 10 to 12 games at the start of the 72/73 season. Not too sure about '79. B's may have had nothing left if they got to finals... Good talking to Hockey Folks! Lot's of good games/highlights on youtube!
joe he may of been hurt as he often was sadly but i can still feel my tears in game #6 when the great Orr did that spin around bruce mcgregor and blasted one past poor Gllles Villemure to give Boston the all important first goal lead i once saw mr bruin derek sanderson talking about the rangers on a TV show talking about the Rangers saying they were good they were very good but we had bobby and they didnt. Good Luck in this years playoffs.👍
@@vincentmittica9001 Hey Vincent - Thanks for the note - #4 certainly was the difference. Another thing about that Game 6 - #30 probably played the best game of his life. I think we'll need more than luck this year - but we'll see. BTW - I thought Davidson, etc were doing a good job with the Rangers. Thought it was premature to let them go..
What a great league that has been fucked up over the years. I mean, what league shuts down for a whole year and changes the time honoured league logo? Talk about arrogance on the part of Bettman and Daily! Who are they to change that? That was a disgrace!
Bettman needs to go, you should have been in Minnesota in 1993
Lots of shitty goaltending, and players circling in their own end. However, Bobby Orr is worth watching any day.
Goalies didn't have those giant catching gloves and padding that they have today.
cheevers really sucked
Got his name on two cups. Always thought he was the better goalie than Johnston.
they used to initially call him tay-chuck. in two series vs the rangers in '70 and '72 bobby orr had 11 total goals