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

[alko]

Brendan Shanhan trying to catch fans is super

 

[Namba 17]

 

[Namba 17]

I have some photos of Soviet "back yard" hockey. Is it interesting?

 

[DowntownBooster]

From the 1974 Summit Series

Bobby Hull

Gordie Howe

J C Tremblay and Gerry Cheevers

 

[Killion]

I have some photos of Soviet "back yard" hockey. Is it interesting?

Definitely. Link em' up Namba.

 

[DowntownBooster]

Vladislav Tretiak making the save on Paul Henderson

 

[DowntownBooster]

1975-77 ca - Gary Kurt

1975/76 - Jack Norris

 

[Namba 17]

Definitely. Link em' up Namba.

 

[DowntownBooster]

1974 ca - Wayne Gretzky

 

[Killion]

^^^ Couple of rare ones there DB.... WHA Phoenix Roadrunners.... Gary Kurt in particular.... one of the first "big goalies" at like 6'3" & 205lbs, unusual in that he was a righty, caught with his right hand.... spent a lot of time in the minors after his Junior career in Kitchener I believe it was mid 60's. Won the Hap Holmes in the AHL. Finally got his chance at the NHL unfortunately.... it was with the California Seals, well behind the 8Ball on that one, snookered so when the WHA came along he along with others in-luck. Did have some decent seasons in Arizona.

^^^ And those are awesome Namba!... Love the old gear, outerwear, spartan environments. Smiling happy people, even Olde St. Nick huh?

 

[Namba 17]

^^^ And those are awesome Namba!... Love the old gear, outerwear, spartan environments. Smiling happy people

Thanks

even Olde St. Nick huh?

It's Ded Moroz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moroz)

 

[Killion]

Thanks

It's Ded Moroz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moroz)

.... ya, I guess so uh?.... more of a SuperHero Santa than the Western version as he also fights off Baba Yaga, the Wicked Witch who goes around stealing kids presents.

 

[DowntownBooster]

^^^ Couple of rare ones there DB.... WHA Phoenix Roadrunners.... Gary Kurt in particular.... one of the first "big goalies" at like 6'3" & 205lbs, unusual in that he was a righty, caught with his right hand.... spent a lot of time in the minors after his Junior career in Kitchener I believe it was mid 60's. Won the Hap Holmes in the AHL. Finally got his chance at the NHL unfortunately.... it was with the California Seals, well behind the 8Ball on that one, snookered so when the WHA came along he along with others in-luck. Did have some decent seasons in Arizona.

^^^ And those are awesome Namba!... Love the old gear, outerwear, spartan environments. Smiling happy people, even Olde St. Nick huh?

Killion, that was an interesting tidbit about Gary Kurt winning the Hap Holmes while playing for the AHL Cleveland Barons in 1970-71. I was previously unaware of that accomplishment. On a side note, it appears that his career ended at a relatively young age for a goaltender following the 1976-77 season with Phoenix when he was 30. I located a picture of Kurt from the WHA inaugural season in 1972-73 as a member of the New York Raiders as well as a couple from the following season where the team split the season as the New York Golden Blades and New Jersey Knights.

 

[Killion]

^^^ Man is that one strange looking mask he's got on there, bottom photo. No idea who mightve made that one.... And ya, he appeared to be on his way after winning the Hap Holmes however sort of "detoured" in winding up grabbed by the Seals. Originally Ranger property however it was pretty tough to break in to any of the 06 teams even post 67/68 Expansion for several years as they were all pretty deep in the crease. As I said he was unusual being a righty for one thing, big for another, like Maniago & his more immediate contemporary in Ken Dryden. So much of ones career really does depend on luck, where you wind up.... I seem to recall that he did play a handful of games at the Senior level in Kitchener or Cambridge the year following his professional retirement.

 

[Killion]

^^^ The other goalie there who split time with Kurt in Phx, Jack Norris, another well traveled guy. Again, caught in situation first with Boston where be backed up Eddie Johnston & performed fairly admirably however with the arrival of Cheevers that was pretty much it and he was bundled off to Chicago in the blockbuster deal that saw Esposito & company heading to Boston. Eventually wound up in Montreal... and good luck with that... a wealth of riches in the crease.... so ya, the WHA comes along & he's off to the races, Starter with the Alberta Oilers for their 1st couple of seasons. I believe he's originally from Saskatchewan, a province thats produced more than its fair share of excellent players.

 

[DowntownBooster]

1979 - Bobby Hull and Burton Cummings (former lead singer of The Guess Who) at the Winnipeg Arena during the shooting of CBC special "Portage and Main".

1991/92 - Burton Cummings was the Winnipeg Jets celebrity captain for the NHL 75th Anniversary season.

 

[DowntownBooster]

1964 - Canada vs USSR at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Although Canada would finish the tournament with a 5-2-0 record, matching that of Sweden (silver) and Czechoslovakia (bronze), they would place as 4th overall in Group A. The Soviet Union would take gold finishing with a record of 7-0-0.

 

[Howie Hodge]

^^Wish I had some pics of Uncle Burton to post!!

Pittsburgh Penguins 1'st couple seasons...

Original Jersey

Les Binkley and Joe Daley

HOF'er Andy Bathgate

Ken Schinkel and Allan Stanley

Binkley, Woytowich, The Big M - Frank Mahovlich

 

[DowntownBooster]

1976 - New York Rangers GM John Ferguson along with Phil Esposito introduces a new uniform for the team. Ferguson would be fired by the Rangers on June 2, 1978 and replaced by Fred Shero. The Ferguson style uniforms would last be used in the 1978 pre-season. Shero would bring back the traditional Rangers uniforms for the start of the 1978-79 season. John Ferguson would soon become GM of the Winnipeg Jets when he was hired on November 22, 1978 during the last season of the WHA.

Unfortunately for Jets fans, Ferguson would change the Jets uniforms upon entry into the NHL to that same design that he brought to New York a few years earlier. Winnipeg would be stuck with those uniforms until 1990 when they changed to a new look. The picture below of Bobby Hull with Ulf Nilsson and Anders Hedberg was from 1978 when the Jets played 2 exhibition games against the Rangers at the Winnipeg Arena. It was following the pre-season that the Rangers would discard those uniforms.

 

[DowntownBooster]

September 21, 1969 - the infamous stick fight between Ted Green of the Boston Bruins and Wayne Maki of the St. Louis Blues during an exhibition game in Ottawa. Green suffered a fractured skull and brain damage as a result of the incident. Fortunately for Green, he would recover after missing the 1969-70 season rejoining the Bruins for 2 more seasons. He would then join the New England Whalers for the WHA inaugural 1972-73 season and spend 3 years with them before moving on to the Winnipeg Jets for the 1975-76 season. In December of 1978, Green would retire from the Jets after 20 games into the season.

 

[DowntownBooster]

1978/79 - a rare picture of future teammates Wayne Gretzky (Edmonton Oilers) and Mark Messier (Cincinnati Stingers) facing off against each other.

 

[DowntownBooster]

1972/73 - Derek Sanderson during his brief stint with the Philadelphia Blazers. He would play 8 games with the Blazers before returning to the Boston Bruins.

 

[Killion]

^^^ Interesting early career Mark Messier had..... he'd been playing Tier II Junior & his father (a former minor-pro player & Coach) who also began acting as his agent phoned up Pat Stapleton, then Coach of Indianapolis and asked him if he'd be interested in signing another 17yr old?.... So Mark went from Tier II Junior to Pro, WHA, major step-up though only lasted 5 games... he then returned to Tier II in Alberta for about a month which must have been pretty hard to take, wasnt interested in playing Major Junior, then got a call from Cincinnati.... signed there for $35K a year.... Apparently as a young player & really not surprisingly he was pretty wild & undisciplined, could skate like the wind but no finish around the net, just physically bruising, played a lot on the PK. Checking. It wasnt until he arrived in Edmonton & the NHL that he really began to develop that now famous mental toughness & discipline, taking up a Leadership role that he'd learned from the likes of Robbie Ftorek & others in the WHA.

 

[Howie Hodge]

Ironically Wayne Maki would be diagnosed with a brain tumor three years after the Ted Green incident in 1969. He passed away in 1974 at the age of 29.

Not sure if that's Karma or what......

 

[Namba 17]

I have no ideas where are they and what Wayne holds