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

[Albatros]

Uli Hiemer of the New York Devils

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

December 15, 1935 – NY Americans vs Chicago - Howie Morenz is in a headlock as goalie Roy Worters follows the action

1959 – Tim Horton – Johnny Wilson – Johnny Bucyk – Johnny Bower

April 16, 1961 – Bobby Hull during the final seconds of the Stanley Cup final game – Eric Nesterenko (# 15)

1965-67 ca – Norm Ullman – Claude Provost (# 14) - Yvan Cournoyer (# 12) – Charlie Hodge

1968-70 - Bobby Orr and Pat Quinn

1971/72 - Gilles Meloche (# 27) - Rick Smith (# 5) - Bob Stewart (# 6). The Bruins Phil Esposito and Ken Hodge (# 8) skates away

1972/73 – Rookie Larry Robinson (# 19) and Pete Stemkowski (# 21)

1974-76 – Greg Joly (# 3) and Pierre Larouche (# 10)

1982-84 ca – Murray Bannerman (# 30) – Greg Fox (# 2) – Rick Vaive (# 22)

September 15, 1987 – Canada Cup – Mario Lemieux – Doug Gilmour (# 28) – Michel Goulet – Paul Coffey – Craig Hartsburg

December 20, 1988 - Mario Lemieux splitting the defense of Rich Pilon and Jeff Norton, scoring his 247th career NHL goal

January 4, 1992 – Eric Lindros and Alexei Kovalev shaking hands at the World Juniors

Summer 1997 - The Cup is buckled in next to Phil Pritchard aboard a plane as they made their first trip to Russia

February 18, 2009 – Old time New York rivalry

February 2014 – Japanese women's hockey team bowing to the crowd

 

[c9777666]

1991-92

Tim Cheveldae posing in front of a car that looks like a Chevrolet

Chevy with a Chevy

 

[Albatros]

Some interesting and in part very creepy 1930s pictures from a time when hockey was popular in Britain and they had their own Miracle on Ice, winning Olympic gold in Garmisch-Partenkirchen:

Clint Benedict teaching young Englishmen the secrets of scoring goals

Practice session at Harringay Arena in London

Japanese players facing Great Britain at the 1936 Winter Olympics

The Olympic Stadium

Great Britain beating Sweden

United States beating Germany

The same goal from the other side

Canadians and Americans beating each other

United States versus Canada

Team Canada

Team Great Britain under the menacing gaze of Hitler, Goebbels

A hockey player getting an autograph

Team Great Britain

The Olympic champions

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

Some interesting and in part very creepy 1930s pictures from a time when hockey was popular in Britain and they had their own Miracle on Ice, winning Olympic gold in Garmisch-Partenkirchen:

Most of these shots are well-known classics and have been in numerous books over the years. The Germans documented the 1936 Olympics very well, both the summer and winter Olympics.

Hitler enjoyed hockey and Philip LaBatte, the Canadian player, was the one that Hitler applauded the most. Probably because of Labatte's physical play, as he layed out some big hits when Hitler saw him play. One of the above photos is from that game when one of the Canadian players is getting an autograph from Hitler. In the other photo with Hitler in the stands we see the British secondary coach and captain Carl Erhardt talking to the players (the guy with the moustache looking into the camera)

In any case, it's a nice time capsule.

 

[Killion]

In any case, it's a nice time capsule.

I'll say. Fascinating. I'd never seen any of those before.

 

[Ceremony]

"hockey player getting an autograph" is quite the caption

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

I'm not sure who's the more scary one here, Gord Laxton in goal or Pennywise the Dancing Clown from It

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

1915-16 – A 13 year old Eddie Shore with a horse on the family farm

1940s – Maurice Richard - Bill Durnan and Alf Pike

1950s ca - Ted Lindsay shows off a medical harness designed to help prevent further shoulder injuries

1960s ca – Gladiator themed intermission entertainment featuring Ed Westfall?

1960s – A young Jim Neilson (# 15) is moving in on Gump Worsley who plays the puck.
Jean-Claude Tremblay? (# 3) looks on in the background

March 1965 – Maurice Richard looking at his doppelgänger at Montreal’s new Ville Marie Wax Museum a month before it opened

February 1968 - Popular Mechanics’ scientific study of NHL player skills. Ok, so it should not be under this category (Greatest pictures), but what the heck, we can live with that, it was just an interesting study

1970s - Scotty Bowman holds an on-ice meeting with the Habs

1975-76 ca - Marcel Dionne (# 16) – Don Marcotte (# 21) and Jean Ratelle (# 10)

March 15, 1980 - Al Secord battling Jerry Butler

1981-83 ca – Richard Sevigny and Wayne Gretzky and Larry Robinson

1987/88 – Brett Hull in Calgary

September 15, 1992 - Four greats – Muhammad Ali – Wilt Chamberlain – Gordie Howe – Bob Cousy
Only Cousy is alive today. He'll be 90 later this year

1990s – Markus Naslund and Borje Salming hanging out somewhere in the Swedish wilderness

April 5, 2011 – James Reimer making a great save on Marcus Johansson

 

[Killion]

^^^ Awesome range of shots RGO..... Love the 13yr old shore in full (and genuine) cowboy rig w/pony.....
Alf "The Embalmer" Pike, so named as he was a Mortician off-season.... Richard, out of body experience or what?.... Love the Bruins/Kings fisheye lens shot... Naslund & Salming etc... all great!.... but..... Gordie Howe
with a 114mph Wristshot?. .... Hull with the "supposed" 118mph Slapper is one thing but this?

 

[Canadiens1958]

1956 City of Montreal rink,Ontario corner of Bennett Blockand a half south of the East End Boys Club beside the Maisonneuve Market.

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

1960's to 80's quality action photos

1960s – Ed Giacomin and Harry Howell (# 3)

December 28, 1966 – Ed Westfall (# 18) – Claude Larose (# 11) – Ted Green (# 6) and a maskless Gerry Cheevers (# 30)

1967/68 – George Armstrong (# 10) - Charlie Hodge (# 1) – Gerry Ehman (A) – Larry Cahan (# 5)

1968/69 – Joe Daley (# 1) – Bob Woytowich (# 20) – Charlie Burns (# 9) – Ken Schinkel (# 12) – Leo Boivin (# 2)

November 12, 1969 – Marv Edwards (# 31) - Glen Sather (# 16) – Jim McKenny (# 18)

1969-71 – Al Smith (# 29) – Jim Harrison (# 12) - Bob Blackburn (# 4)

1970/71 – George Gardner (# 30) – Rejean Houle (# 14) - Dale Tallon (# 19)

1973/74– Norm Ullman (# 9) – Terry Harper (C) – Frank St.Marseille (# 14)

1974 – Dan Bouchard (# 30) – Dwight Bialowas (# 22) – Dave Keon (C)

1974/75 – Errol Thompson (# 12) – Butch Deadmarsh (A) – Denis Herron

1976-78 ca – John Gould (# 21) and Stan Jonathan (# 17)

1981/82 – Bob Gainey (# 23) – Paul Holmgren (# 17) – Rick Wamsley (# 1)

1981/82 – Mike Kitchen (# 26) – Keith Acton (# 12) – Rob Ramage (C) – Glenn Resch (# 1)

1984-86 ca – Wayne Gretzky on his knees with Pat Lafontaine in the background

December 14, 1989 – Gord Murphy – Ken Wregget (# 35) – Tom Martin (# 24) scoring his last NHL goal – Ray Ferraro (# 26) – Dave Poulin – Kevin Dineen (far right)

 

[DowntownBooster]

1975/76 - Bob Girard (# 26)

1970-72 ca - Dick Redmond (# 4)

1974/75 - Fred Ahern (# 16) and Lorne Henning (# 10)

1974-76 ca - Len Frig (# 6) and Phil Esposito (# 7)

 

[Killion]

^^^ Pride of Lethbridge. Leonard Elroy Frig. Rugged player with a decent shot from the point.
............. paging @SealsFan. .... one of yer faves... thanks for the great Seals pic's DB.....

 

[Chief Nine]

1960's to 80's quality action photos

December 14, 1989 – Gord Murphy – Ken Wregget (# 35) – Tom Martin (# 24) scoring his last NHL goal – Ray Ferraro (# 26) – Dave Poulin – Kevin Dineen (far right)

Just fantastic as usual RGO! I love this one, looks like a very badly missed high five

 

[Canadiens1958]

Daoust 4343 Hochelaga, Montreal, QC- known for skates and athletic footwear when there was a heavy concentration of hockey equipment manufacturers in east end Montreal. Last building.

 

[Killion]

^^^ Love the old ad-panel.... Jean Beliveau at one point wore & endorsed Daoust Skates however for the majority of his career like most pro's of his era wore CCM's Tacks.... Canstar Sports eventually acquired Daoust, also manufacturing & or distributing Bauer, Lange's, Micron & a few other brands.

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

More 1960s and 70s photos

1965-67 – Don Marshall (# 22) and Bernie Parent (# 30)

December 21, 1966 – Yvan Cournoyer (# 12) against goalie Gary Smith (# 1) in his 5th NHL game. Cournoyer had his first career hat trick in the game, two of the goals coming against Smith

October 1967 – L to R – Seth Martin – Al Arbour – Noel Picard – Terry Crisp – Jimmy Roberts - Bill McCreary

March 9, 1968 – Reggie Fleming (# 9) – Orland Kurtenbach (# 25) - Terry Sawchuk (# 30)

1969/70 – Terry Harper – Bill Flett – Rogatien Vachon

1970-73 - Jacques Plante

March 9, 1971 – Charlie Hodge (# 1) in one of his last NHL games - Pete Mahovlich (# 20) - Pat Quinn (# 3) and Mickey Redmond (# 24)

1972-74 – Randy Manery (# 7) and Pat Quinn (# 3)

1972-74 ca – Serge Savard (# 18) – Ken Dryden and Rick Martin (# 7)

1973 – Wayne Thomas stretching

1973-74 ca – Dave Lewis (# 23) – Bert Marshall (A) – Gerry Desjardins (# 31)

March 16, 1974 – Veteran Henri Richard (# 16) chasing sophmore Phil Russell (# 5) while rookie goalie Mike Veisor is in the nets for his 6th NHL game

December 6, 1975 – Ken Dryden(# 29) and Stan Gilbertson (# 15). Gilbertson was part of the ”Brew line” with Tommy Williams and Ace Bailey. They sure missed a few curfews along the way.
Unfortunately Gilbertson’s playing career came to an abrupt end in 1977, when he had a car accident that cost him his leg

March 13, 1976 – Terry O’Reilly (# 24) – Jacques Lemaire (# 25) and Gerry Cheevers (# 31)

1970s - Al Smith in the WHA

 

[Chief Nine]

^^
Love how casual Dryden is in that photo, apparently he had a ton of faith in Serge Savard getting the puck out without any problem

 

[DowntownBooster]

Remembering the Los Angeles Sharks

 

[Killion]

^^
Love how casual Dryden is in that photo, apparently he had a ton of faith in Serge Savard getting the puck out without any problem

Ya. I noted that as well. Laissez faire or what? Rick Martin had some serious wheels on him & normally at minimum you'd be hugging the near post either in a crouch with your stick flush on the ice or standing... just in case..... as in better safe than sorry...

 

[Chief Nine]

Ya. I noted that as well. Laissez faire or what? Rick Martin had some serious wheels on him & normally at minimum you'd be hugging the near post either in a crouch with your stick flush on the ice or standing... just in case..... as in better safe than sorry...

Absolutely! Of course a goalie connoisseur like yourself is well aware, he would rest on his stick with his catching glove under his chin. That seems like he was just a tad too relaxed a bit earlier than usual in that shot!

 

[Killion]

Absolutely! Of course a goalie connoisseur like yourself is well aware, he would rest on his stick with his catching glove under his chin. That seems like he was just a tad too relaxed a bit earlier than usual in that shot!

Certainly a very unique & eccentric individual amongst even a group of people, those who have played or play the position and who generally march to different drummers. Very unusual. Everything about him really. Burst onto the scene in 71 & played absolutely lights out, one of the greatest goaltending performances Ive ever seen, that anyone a lot older than I had seen at the time going way back into the 30's. Thats saying a lot. Brimsek, Durnan, Sawchuk, Plante, Broda, Crozier there mid 60's with Detroit.... amazing.

 

[Chief Nine]

Certainly a very unique & eccentric individual amongst even a group of people, those who have played or play the position and who generally march to different drummers. Very unusual. Everything about him really. Burst onto the scene in 71 & played absolutely lights out, one of the greatest goaltending performances Ive ever seen, that anyone a lot older than I had seen at the time going way back into the 30's. Thats saying a lot. Brimsek, Durnan, Sawchuk, Plante, Broda, Crozier there mid 60's with Detroit.... amazing.

And the worst part is he was drafted by Boston... we all know the rest of that story

 

[Killion]

And the worst part is he was drafted by Boston... we all know the rest of that story

.... meh.... you guys did alright. Loved Eddie Johnston & most certainly Cheevers... two guys who's styles, dispositions, characters far better suited to the Bruins & the City of Boston really. The Broons beat themselves through the 70's on several occasions rather than actually "getting beaten" by Montreal, Philly etc. The Bruins were that good, too good really, flawed as a result. Was never big on your Coaching, Don Cherry in particular. Too many mental lapses; brain freezes. Noted the same with Sinden earlier & certainly during the 72 Summit Series.