Great Hockey Photos You've Just Seen for the First Time!
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Yes I did see it earlier when you posted it & was just "havin fun" with the poster who duped your efforts.
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.
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.
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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.
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:
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.
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
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^^^ 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.
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....
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:
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:
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
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?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
