Great Hockey Photos You've Just Seen for the First Time!

[VanIslander]

I went back 10+ pages on this board and can't find the last pictures thread (other than the one about ugly players' pics), so I'll link the previous one to this one when someone finds it.

In the meantime...

What hockey history photo have you seen recently for the first time. PLEASE no flying Orr cup-clinching goals by the crease! Let's stick to ones you've come across today (go hunting google images!) or not long ago.

I'll start with:

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[VanIslander]

Helmets in 1937? The fallout of the Ace Bailey head trauma probably. Here, Nels Stewart goes tumbling, apparently due to the stickwork of Gord Pettinger (the guy who crapped in the Stanley Cup after Detroit won later that year in the postseason and was immediately stripped of the captaincy he had just been handed days beforehand - hard to find records of it other than in two history books - and he was angrily traded away that summer).

Funny how both skaters are wearing head protection and goalie Normie Smith is just wearing a cap!

 

[VanIslander]

Frank Mahovlich mugging Tretiak in the 4-4 tie in Winnipeg in the 1972 Summit series. Seeing it on fast moving blurry bad angle film at the HHOF twice (where the Summit Series was shown in its entirety on a loop nonstop for a few years back in the nineties) is not the same as a still photo of it up close and personal.

 

[VanIslander]

The line of Gretzky , Perreault and Lafleur dominated early games of the 1981 Canada Cup but then Perreault got injured and Marcel Dionne joined the line and they did well until the final when the Soviets thrashed them 8-1 in what Gretz's calls the worst defeat of his career. He half-jokingly said afterwards, and I quote: "I played so badly, they should have sent me to Siberia."

Here are the linemates before the final:

 

[VanIslander]

Steve Payne of the North Stars cushions Larry Robinson's fall in a 1980 NHL game. This photo is from a Toronto Star story (March 16, 2015) about the NHL being criticized for knowing more about head injuries than they let on back then.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/com...nd-other-players-about-head-injury-risks.html

 

[Sanf]

Wille Löfqvits accepting bronze medal in 1980 Olympics. I don´t know if he is happy, joking or thanking hockey gods, but interesting picture nevertheless.

 

[VanIslander]

I don't recall ever having seen before Lundqvist throwing off his blocker glove when Sweden won the 2006 Olympic gold. But then again. media coverage in Canada of it was short and it was out of the news within a day or two, unlike the prior (Canada win in 2002) where media coverage continued for weeks!

 

[VanIslander]

Three of the greatest Chicago sports stars ever. (Gawd Hull and Mikita look tiny. I have to remind myself that a young Bobby Hull hauling hay was ripped!)

 

[VanIslander]

 

[Killion]

^^^ Awesome!. Great shots VanIsle.... and btw, migration still on-going with a lot of old HOH threads.

 

[VanIslander]

This may be just embarrassing! I have worked as a newspaper journalist and know a staged photo when I see one (you probably do too). Apparently this is a version of kissing the ground from returning WWII vets.

Lesser lights back from the wars included the wingers shown above expressing their pleasure at being back on NHL ice at Madison Square Garden: left is Hal Brown, 25, from Brandon, Manitoba and, on the right, and Toronto-born Alan Kuntz, 26.

 

[Killion]

^^^ Staged sure but very cool. Always enjoying seeing shots of the so called "lesser lights".

 

[VanIslander]

One of the greatest international hockey games I ever enjoyed (that didn't involve Canada) in terms of intensity was the Finland vs. Sweden 4-4 tie in the 2004 World Cup. What a joy! It truly was the last great tie I've ever seen in the sport. From that game, here is Alfredsson jostling with 6'2, 200 lbs. Teppo Numminen (Teppo remains 2nd in NHL franchise Jets/Coyotes games played, 4th in career assists and 5th in career points):

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

Good old school battle between Wayne Hillman and Réal Lemieux during the 1969/70 season.
Lemieux sadly passed away at the young age of 30.

Ok, so it's been seen before, but I think it's a great shot. It was on the cover of Sports Illustrated on February 17, 1958

Frank Mahovlich and Vic Hadfield being separated by John D'Amico

Poor quality photo of Gretzky and Howe facing off in the old WHA

Bob Wall, Ted Irvine, Howie Hughes, Terry Sawchuk, Bill Flett, Wayne Rutledge & Bill White of the 1967-68
Los Angeles Kings. The Forum in the background

Lionel Conacher and Roger Jenkins sharing the penalty box on December 10, 1935

 

[Canadiens1958]

1972 Gusev and Vasiliev on Ste Catherine St. after practice before the Summit Series.

 

[Admiral Awesome]

Not a photo of a hockey player, but I get a kick out of this pic posted by the one and only Jaromir Jagr.

 

[Killion]

^^^ that works.... totally acceptable. My appreciation, valuation of Jagr just went up appreciably.

 

[VanIslander]

Here is NHL defenseman Jean Pusie with a pusycat. He won the 1931 Stanley Cup with the Habs, played for the Bruins and Rangers, but also was a pro boxer and wrestler and his hockey career was mostly minor league.

Here is a description of his hilarious penalty shot:

"He made each shot an event. First, he would stand at center ice and comb his thick hair. Then he would take a lengthy windup, skate slowly in on the waiting goaltender, stop in front of the nervous chap, take off a glove, and shake his hand. It was if to say, "My poor fren'. I am ver' sorry I must now make you look embarras' in front of all these people." Naturally, the crowd would be in an uproar. Hometown fans serenaded Pusie with a huge cheer, while in foreign rinks he'd hear deafening boos. Another whirlwind windup would follow and this time Pusie would take his shot. If he missed and his detractors booed, he was known to circle the ice, find an opening, and leap in among the spectators, looking for those who dared to critique his penalty shot performance.

 

[VanIslander]

Three-time Stanley Cup champion goaltender and HHOFer Clint Benedict is here coaching the Wembley Lions of the British League in 1936.

 

[Iapyi]

I don't recall ever having seen before Lundqvist throwing off his blocker glove when Sweden won the 2006 Olympic gold. But then again. media coverage in Canada of it was short and it was out of the news within a day or two, unlike the prior (Canada win in 2002) where media coverage continued for weeks!

just a quick note in our defence. i'm sure they still talk about it in sweden, why would/should canada be obligated to have massive media coverage of another country winning? sorry but that just doesn't make any sense to me.

 

[alko]

Stan Mikita in uniform of VSS Kosice in 1965. He played one friendly game here in Slovakia. Scored 4 goals.

 

[VanIslander]

We've seen the famous Forsberg shootout goal of the 1994 Olympics plenty of times on T.V. but I've never seen it from the angle of this photo:

 

[VanIslander]

 

[VanIslander]

Sorry bro'! Tony vs. Phil Esposito.

 

[VanIslander]

I can't believe I've never seen Lafleur's acceptance of the Hart, Art Ross and Conn Smythe trophies in 1977.