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

[Killion]

^^^ Nope, dont mind seeing that photo of the Bandy players plunging through the ice again at all. Fabulous shot... as are all the rest of them once again..... A lot going on in each, could spend hours studying them.

 

[Killion]

I agree. This is a great photo !
I posted it earlier in this thread (# 74)

Yes I did see it earlier when you posted it & was just "havin fun" with the poster who duped your efforts.

 

[Howie Hodge]

Buffalo Memorial Auditorium with Key Bank Center in background.

Front of The Aud. I had Press Credentials, and used to attend events through a side door on the right in the 90's...

The abandoned Aud. TV's from the Upper Blues (under the Oranges.) Needed TV's to see the scoreboard from there...

Lot's of little sidebars at The Aud. This was one of my favorites.

The Aud Club, glorious in it's prime, sad in it's retirement....

The Orange seats. So steep if you went too fast down the steps you'd fall onto the ice...

Old corriders, 2005.

 

[Howie Hodge]

Yes Virginia; Buffalo did once have an NBA Team - The Buffalo Braves. I have never forgiven The NBA.

Lastly, the mid nineties Beer Prices. Big cups, too......

 

[Killion]

^^^ Great photos of the derelict & abandoned Aud.... Sad really.... Theres another series of the old Olympia in Detroit. Very spooky. Frozen in time..... worst of all, former Winter & Summer Olympic sites.

 

[DowntownBooster]

May 16, 1976 - Bobby Clarke of the Philadelphia Flyers congratulating Montreal Canadiens coach Scotty Bowman following the Flyers 5-3 loss in game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals. Montreal won the series in 4 games straight and ended Philadelphia's two year run as defending champions.

 

[Albatros]

worst of all, former Winter & Summer Olympic sites.

True, but also some fantastically beautiful sites that have evolved with time, like the Olympic Ice Stadium in Cortina that saw the Soviets led by Bobrov win gold before the United States and Canada in 1956:

 

[DowntownBooster]

July 19, 2010 - Andrew Ladd watching the sunrise from Crown Mountain just north of Vancouver after being flown by helicopter to the location. The Chicago Blackhawks had just recently won the Stanley Cup on June 9 in game 6 against the Philadelphia Flyers. However, due to salary cap issues for Chicago, Ladd was traded to the Atlanta Thrashers on July 1, 2010.

 

[Soundgarden]

Love the pics of inside the old arenas, something you don't really think about.

 

[DowntownBooster]

1973-75 ca - Pat Hickey (# 16), Mark Howe (# 4), Gordie Howe (# 9) and John Schella (# 2)

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

1951 – Allan Stanley trying to stop the Rocket

1959/60 – Jean Beliveau (# 4) and Allan Stanley (A). Bernie Geoffrion (A) in the background

1961-63 ca - Gump Worsley on his back and Harry Howell (# 3) on his knees

1963 – Andy Bathgate (# 9) taping his stick. Phil Goyette (# 20) and Harry Howell (# 3) in the background

1965-67 – Terry Sawchuk (# 30) – Bill Hay (# 8) – Allan Stanley (# 26)

April 1967 - Johnny Bower - Tim Horton - Gilles Tremblay (# 5) - Claude Provost

1967-68 - Glenn Hall with Al Arbour in the background

1970s - Jim Neilson

1970s – Bernie Parent (# 30)

1978-80 – Rick Smith (# 23) – Gary Doak (# 25) - Bobby Clarke (# 16)

1980-82 - Mike Palmateer (# 29) and Wilf Paiement (# 99)

1980s - Kelly Hrudey getting ready

May 1984 – End of a Dynasty - Denis Potvin (# 5) - Butch Goring (# 91) - Greg Gilbert (# 17) - Billy Smith (# 31) and Ken Morrow (# 6)

1996 – Rat Trick in Florida

June 7, 2003 – Paul Kariya knocked out cold after a devastating check delivered by Scott Stevens

June 17, 2013 - Puck hitting the camera

 

[Killion]

^^^ More fabulous shots.... love the ones of Stanley, Bathgate etc...... And good question there as to whether thats the 6'1" Paul Harrison.... I dont recall him wearing a Plante mask & the goalie in that shot appears shorter.... I'm thinkin thats actually 5'10" Bernie Parent. Pads look like Parents. Harrison as I recall wearing white goalie skates.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Love these strings of photos. All of them tell a story.

 

[Howie Hodge]

^^^ More fabulous shots.... love the ones of Stanley, Bathgate etc...... And good question there as to whether thats the 6'1" Paul Harrison.... I dont recall him wearing a Plante mask & the goalie in that shot appears shorter.... I'm thinkin thats actually 5'10" Bernie Parent. Pads look like Parents. Harrison as I recall wearing white goalie skates.

Parent. Harrison wore this mask in Toronto as far as I remember:

 

[Killion]

.... Thanks Howie..... I thought it was Parent.... the mask & his shorter pads & stature, style a giveaway. You guys had Harrison in Buffalo briefly late in his career early 80's.... Retired, became a Cop with the Ontario Provincial Police.

 

[Howie Hodge]

.... Thanks Howie..... I thought it was Parent.... the mask & his shorter pads & stature, style a giveaway. You guys had Harrison in Buffalo briefly late in his career early 80's.... Retired, became a Cop with the Ontario Provincial Police.

Lol; yes, he was a disaster here in Buffalo.

Funny how some goalies just seem to lose it all at once. Harrison, Allan Bester, Jim Rutherford, Donny Edwards, Bunny Laroque; the list goes on. Also playing on shite teams probably broke their respective spirits too....

 

[The Panther]

Some pics of one of my favorites, Jari Kurri:

c.1970:

c.1978, in Finland:

c.1979-80:

with Messier and Gretzky, late 1980 (I admit I have seen this one before!):

with Paul Coffey, c.1982:

The dynamic duo, c. 1982-83:

c.1983 (?):

c.1985 (in 1984-85, Gretzky & Kurri scored 144 goals between the two of them, and were a combined +174. They then combined for 36 playoff goals in only 18 games, and a combined +52):

The dynamic duo + super-pest, 1988:

unexpected champions (again!), in 1990:

with L.A. Kings, 1992-93:

c. 1996, with Selänne, in Anaheim:

number-retirement in Edmonton (with Lee Fogolin, Kevin Lowe, Wayne Gretzky), Oct. 6th, 2001:

The General Manager embracing Selänne, at Sochi Olympic Games, 2014:

with Justin Bieber, for reasons I cannot fathom (anyone...?):

more recently -- at sauna, with Esa Tikkanen:

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

December 15, 1965 – Stan Mikita

1967 – Bernie Geoffrion hitting the linesman

May 9, 1972 – Cup final – L to R (Top) – Vic Hadfield (# 11) – Ed Westfall (# 18) – Bobby Orr (# 4) – Eddie Johnston (# 1) – L to R (Bottom) – Derek Sanderson (# 16) – Rod Gilbert (# 7) – Dallas Smith (# 20)

1974 - Jim Rutherford with Jean Hamel in foreground

January 15, 1978 – Wayne Gretzky loved McDonalds

May 8, 1978 – Serge Savard (# 18) – Ken Dryden (# 29) – Darryl Sittler (# 27) – Guy Lapointe (# 5) – Lanny McDonald

January 16, 1989 – Brett (13) and Eric Lindros (15) playing shinny in their backyard

1996 – Scotty Bowman in control of his troops, flanked by Barry Smith

April 1, 1998 – Patrick Roy and Chris Osgood going at it

May 2002 – Patrick Roy in action

2003 - Sidney Crosby

November 1, 2011 - Zenon Konopka landing a right jab to the face of Shawn Thornton

2011/12 - Tim Brent flips over the boards after a check

 

[Canadiens1958]

1942 Verdun Auditorium.

 

[Killion]

1942 Verdun Auditorium.View attachment 97443

Home of the Verdun Maple Leafs (you can see the Leaf there in the gable, not sure if a sign or brickwork).... A Sr team from the 20's into the 40's, along with a couple of Jr clubs playing in the MMJHL & the QMJHL.... producing quite an eclectic collection of pro's.. Maurice Richard, Larry Zeidel, Roly Rossignol, Guy Lapointe etc etc etc.... Did you ever play at or visit that beautiful old building?.. Long gone yes?

 

[Double]

1973-75 ca - Pat Hickey (# 16), Mark Howe (# 4), Gordie Howe (# 9) and John Schella (# 2)

Some great John Schella stories at approximately the 12:20 mark of this amazing video on the history of the Minnesota Fighting Saints. Shakey Walton tells an unbelievable story about Schella getting into an altercation with the Fighting Saints' Bill Goldthorpe in the WHA playoffs in 1974. This story is clearly the genesis of one of the many great scenes from the movie 'Slap Shot, ' which as many know the character of Ogie Oglethorpe was based on Bill Goldthorpe.

 

[Double]

Wanted to add that one of my favorite parts of this thread is that so many players are identified in the photos. Even players in the background that were not the main stars of the photos. Great job, gents. Keep 'em coming!

 

[DowntownBooster]

February 23, 1966 - goalie Al Smith makes his NHL debut against Chicago. Smith was up from the Toronto Marlboros Junior A team and entered the game at 2:15 of the first period when starter Gary Smith got injured as he pulled a groin when making a save on a Pierre Pilote shot. The other players in the picture are Dennis Hull (# 10), Eddie Shack (# 23) and Al MacNeil (# 19). The Leafs would go on to win the game 3-2.

 

[tarheelhockey]

2011/12 - Tim Brent flips over the boards after a check

So, the internet is a weird place.

My first thought was "that's definitely not Tim Brent". So I went looking for the correct player to identify, based on the jersey style and number. But the only #37 who played for the Canes using that uniform was... Tim Brent.

So I poked around a little more, scratched my head, and then looked for photos of Tim Brent. That's when I found the original of this photo:

So... somebody photoshopped it with a different face, for reasons that I won't even try to guess.

 

[Canadiens1958]

Home of the Verdun Maple Leafs (you can see the Leaf there in the gable, not sure if a sign or brickwork).... A Sr team from the 20's into the 40's, along with a couple of Jr clubs playing in the MMJHL & the QMJHL.... producing quite an eclectic collection of pro's.. Maurice Richard, Larry Zeidel, Roly Rossignol, Guy Lapointe etc etc etc.... Did you ever play at or visit that beautiful old building?.. Long gone yes?

Brickwork. Built in the 1930s part of the depression job creation initiative.

Played, visited, etc.

Still standing and in use, a number of renovations, Second pad was added about a generation ago - Denis Savard Arena.