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

[c9777666]

Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito are presented with the Hart/Art Ross/Norris Trophies at Boston Garden

 

[greyraven8]

Think I saw this somewhere else a while back, but ran across it again and still find it visually appealing.
Viin Green - trainer for Boston Bruins ca. 1928:

from here:
https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:3t945w22h

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

Bobby Hull with his patended slapshot in 1967

David vs Goliath

Say cheese...

Rocket Richard scoring the first of his three goals vs "Sugar Jim" Henry of the Bruins on April 14, 1953.

Rocket and Pocket Rocket

March of 1957 - Jerry Toppazzini working out - Great penaltykiller and the last non-goalie to don the pads in an NHL game

Hey kid, this stance served me well for more than a decade in the NHL - George Hainsworth

 

[The Panther]

Great thread! I especially love the photos of Morenz and Richard.

Photos of young Maurice Richard are amazing. This one is great, too:

Pinterest suggests that Richard is embracing Elmer Lach (recently deceased) here after a game-winning goal, evidently at the Forum, against Boston. (Anyone know the date?)

 

[The Panther]

I like this one, too... the two best Finns in NHL history...?

 

[VanIslander]

Rookie Esa Tikkanen harrassing Mike Vernon in the battle of Alberta in the 1986 playoffs.

What would one of the greatests pests in the history of the game dress up as on Halloween? (Yeah, that's him.)

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

Leapin' Louie hipchecks André Pronovost in 1957. Worth noting is that Fontinato recorded the highest pre-expansion +/- rating in one season (+55 in 1961/62)

1937 - Neil and Mac Colville. Neil is adjusting a new harness to his brothers broken jaw.

Hold on to that autograph kid, that's Eddie Shore, the myth, the legend.

Bob Dill shiner 1945

Sweet...

Hall of Famers...

January 14, 1963 - Two thirds of the famous Scooter line in action - Goal Ab MacDonald - Assist Stan Mikita

 

[VanIslander]

^^^^^ Great photos!

I'd seen the last one before and the Eddie Shore autograph signing one in a couple of books. The others never before. LOVED the broken jaw, would like to have framed the Richard looking into the cup photo and appreciate greatly the Believeau-Hull moment.

Now, I'll zip over to google images and see if I can dig up a new-to-me Eddie Shore pic.

EDIT: I found one! Er, it shows clearly he was pretty muscular (pre-weightlifting gym era).

 

[Canadiens1958]

Elmer Lach, OT Cup winning goal, April 16, 1953.

 

[JMCx4]

Searching a small search through DPLA and ran across this photo from University of Wisconsin Digital Collections from 1929:
"Hockey players Donald Meiklejohn (L) and Gilbert Krueger (R) on ice rink on the current Library Mall at the University of Wisconsin--Madison."

I had an old sports cage very much like those at home, handed down from older brothers. Story went that it was a corkball catcher's mask. I'd use it occasionally while in goal playing street hockey. Probably spared my parents the expense of a pair or two of wire-frame glasses - but only for a few extra weekends.

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

1965 - Wayne Hillman giving Bobby Rousseau a flying lesson.

1971 - Gordie Howe in a battle with a maskless Joe Daley. I love the crowd.

1975-76 - The battle of two small players - Marcel Dionne and Dennis Maruk who combined for 1087 NHL goals.

Patrick Roy believes he can fly.

Travis Hamonic and Nick Bjugstad earning their bucks.

Gump Worsley and Charlie Hodge

Frank "Mr.Zero" Brimsek stretching out.

1947 - Emile "The Cat" Francis

 

[District 5]

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Came across this pic of the 1922 Minnesota Gophers hockey team. The first official varsity hockey team at the University of Minnesota.

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

1966/67 - John Ferguson - Johnny Bower - Larry Hillman

February 20, 1975 - Toronto Toros-Chicago Cougars - Darryl Maggs, Steve Cuddie (with a sort of faceshield) and Dave Dryden.

January 10, 1975 - Toronto Toros-San Diego Mariners - Paul Henderson playing for Toronto Toros wearing some sort of crude face mask.

November 30, 1974 - Toronto Maple Leafs-Washington Capitals - Darryl Sittler crashing into the goal.

December 10, 1974 - Minnesota Fighting Saints-Toronto Toros - Fran Huck, Jim Turkiewicz and Gilles Gratton

1962/63 - Tim Horton (# 7), Kent Douglas (# 19), Captain George Armstrong (# 10) and Johnny Bower.

Early 1960s - Bird's eye of Johnny Bower

1960s - Bobby Hull slapshot

 

[VanIslander]

Al Arbour.
What's he thinking?
Maybe: "Will I ever be great? Am I a future HHOFer?"
Yes, Al, you will be. Just not as a player.

To be fair, his playing career was a bit noteworthy: He won the Stanley Cup
in Chicago and Toronto and captained the expansion St. Louis Blues
to 3 straight Stanley Cup Finals as a def. dman whom Scotty Bowman trusted.

 

[Killion]

.... again, outstanding!.... keep em' comin.

 

[VanIslander]

.... again, outstanding!.... keep em' comin.

Why don't you join in? It's easy. Just go to Google, type in search words then click Images. Sometimes you strike gold, sometimes you don't. Surfing is fun!

Let me give you an example I'll do here now. Killion. Hmm,... let's check out 'kill', 'lion' 'hockey' 'NHL' in various combinations.

Okay, using kill, lion and NHL I got a bunch of wild lion pictures and one of Eugene Melnyk in an NHL jersey talking about how the Senators would only play in a downtown arena of his making (one of the stories on the page is about lion hunting). No go on great pics here.

Okay, using kill, hockey, NHL, I get an interesting photo of Stan Jonathan with a quote from coach Don Cherry who called him "the definitive Bruin", a hard-working, hard-hitting role player and enforcer nicknamed "Bulldog" who in 2012 accidentally killed someone on a deer hunting trip. The photo is from 1978.

 

[Killion]

Surfing is fun!

.... this Charlie dont Surf VanIsle.... Hell breaking loose elsewhere & you want me to go surfin huh?

 

[VanIslander]

"Charlie", "surf", "hockey"...

And Trevor Daley sending someone flying in 2016:

 

[VanIslander]

Charlie Conacher with binoculars? In a Wings uniform? That just looks wrong. The longtime Leaf great apparently played one season in Detroit I hadn't realized, then went to New York where he finished his HHOF career with a couple of seasons on the now-defunct Americans.

 

[VanIslander]

Gump Worsley is a little too late after a high shot from Frank Mahovlich drops behind him in this 1961 game.

 

[VanIslander]

New Hampshire sandcastle competition of course features a Bruin.

This one was built in Newark, N.J.

A non-Lightning fan's effort in Tampa, Florida

And maybe an expat did this in... Taipei, Taiwan

 

[VanIslander]

I've seen a lot of great acrobatic Fuhr photos over the years but never before this one where it looks like he's just seen a rat!

 

[Killion]

1947 - Emile "The Cat" Francis

Wow. Checkout the foam Francis taped to his Blocker, similar to Denis Brodeurs though nowhere near as "form fitting". Indeed, Emile's entire rig extremely rudimentary, held together by tape. No protection really on the upper portion of his skates, the pads barely covering the knee's with the top straps totally loose, the pocket of his catching glove providing little in way of "trap", hard shot would just ricochet right out of it & very likely break a finger or two.

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

1935 - Referee Mike Rodden and Frank Patrick

April 22, 1962 - Allan Stanley (A) celebrating with his father William. Tim Horton (left) and Dick Duff (# 9).

April 1, 1979 - Wayne Gretzky with an early pro celebration in the old WHA.

1979-80 - Gordie Howe together with a young Gordie Roberts (# 7), named after the legendary Howe.

1925 - On the left Howie Morenz [1902-1937] photographed on George Street in Stratford, Ontario together with fellow hockey player and long time friend Walter "Butch" Kelterburn [1901-1971]. They are trying to avoid a speeding ticket in a 1902 Oldsmobile Curved Dash Model R .


Mostly Hall of Famers here...

 

[mja]

Digging the bowties.