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

[Robert Gordon Orr]

December 3, 1926 - Corb Denneny [1894-1963] - John Ross Roach [1900-1973] - Bert McCaffrey [1893-1955]

 

[VanIslander]

Zetterberg and his car. I personally don't care about a player's life away from the rink most of the time, and certainly not about what they drive, but it's a cool photograph.

 

[VanIslander]

I remember this event as the nhl.com site had a live pre-game show outside the arena during the Preds-Ducks conference final series.

 

[VanIslander]

Sergei Babinov, the fast-skating, hard-hitting defensive defenseman for the Soviet national team in 162 international games from 1975 to 1984, including six world championship medals four of which were gold. He was a "star defenseman" according to several sources and it wasn't for scoring as he rarely put the puck in the net. What he did was skate quickly to defend, with grit and toughness, and made passes to others leaving the defensive zone. He was 21 in the 1976 Canada Cup on the Bronze medal team but was in the prime of his career in winning the 1979 Challenge Cup over NHLers and then was victorious in the 1981 Canada Cup. He also was in on nine Soviet league championships over a 452-game career with the Red Army.

...the marvelously mobile Sergei Babinov...

... star Sergei Babinov... muscular and aggressive...

In 1972, all the bodychecking had been one way: Canadians gave, Soviets took. But now the Soviets, especially defencemen like Sergei Babinov, were capable of administering the occasional crunching body check

"He is about as close to our style as any of their defencemen. ... He's chunky, a Leo Boivin style. He likes to hit people and he gives the puck to his partner a lot rather than control the play.

 

[VanIslander]

Tomas Hyka celebrating one of his four NHL preseason goals (the team's highest scorer) before the talented forward is eventually sent down because the Czech was signed earlier this year to an entry-level deal that is waiver exempt on an expansion club with too many defensemen to carry a regular slew of forwards.

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

April 1, 1962 - Chicago's finest, Sergeant Ray Blazak escorts a sheepish scalper off the premises prior to the third game of the Stanley Cup semi-finals.

January 7, 1940 - Chicago's Mush March (left) and Johnny Gottselig prepare their sticks at Chicago Stadium.

1943 - Johnny Gottselig poses with Chicago’s new centre-ice Bulova clock before it’s raised to the Stadium rafters.

1940s - A young Rocket Richard is ready to step on the ice

1936 - Charlie Conacher and Hap Day wading through the crowd at Boston Garden.

1938 - Red Horner is being helped off the ice by his teammates

Speaking of Red Horner - This is a great shot of him

1930s - Howie Morenz - Hooley Smith - Charlie Conacher

December 31, 1969 - Keith Magnuson and Walt Tkaczuk

October 1955 - Sid Smith and goalie Harry Lumley ride the new escalators at Maple Leaf Gardens.

October 1928 - Knees up boys !
Training camp in Port Elgin, Ontario. The Leafs players are drilled by Corporal Joe Coyne of the RCR.
First row, left to right: Ace Bailey, Art Duncan, Joe Primeau, Hap Day. Middle: Shorty Horne, Dr. Bill Carson, Gerry Lowrey, Art Smith. Back: Lorne Chabot, Jack Arbour, Alex Gray, Danny Cox.

 

[ICM1970]

Always one of my favourite, rare hockey photos. Michel Briere and Claude Provost during Briere's one and only NHL season.

 

[VanIslander]

Robert Gordon Orr, I've seen five of those in your last post before. The Red Horner pose and the Leafs training are in SEVERAL history books. not to mention blogs. Are they really new to you?

But the young Richard and teammates helping off a wounded Horner make the post likeable.

 

[VanIslander]

Anybody here tried Malort wormwood liquor? Hossa likes it.

Do you think Dustin Byfuglien's dog Walter is drinking water?

A young Bobby Orr getting a champagne shower.

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

Robert Gordon Orr, I've seen five of those in your last post before. The Red Horner pose and the Leafs training are in SEVERAL history books. not to mention blogs. Are they really new to you?

But the young Richard and teammates helping off a wounded Horner make the post likeable.

Well, I've seen the Red Horner and Charlie Conacher photos before.
I vaguely remember seeing some of the others as well, but it never hurts posting them, despite the thread title.

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

1957 - Bobby Orr (C) sharing the Ontario Bantam Play-Off Honors with Scarboro's team Captain Syl Apps Jr.

1932 - Another youngster in form of Milt Schmidt at the age of 14.

April 17, 1957 - The Rocket pouring himself a drink

1929 - New York Americans - Where's Al Capone and Lucky Luciano?

December 29, 1954 - Ok, so we've seen this photo before, but I love the intensity in Rocket's eyes. Here he is restrained by linesman George Hayes after having been boarded by Bob Bailey.
Richard picked up 27 penalty minutes in the game and Bailey 15.

December 1963 - Alex "Fats" Delvecchio with a smile on his face

1940s - Pumped up fan at Maple Leafs Garden

1970s - Phil Myre looking at the game clock

 

[Killion]

Robert Gordon Orr, I've seen five of those in your last post before. The Red Horner pose and the Leafs training are in SEVERAL history books. not to mention blogs. Are they really new to you?

But the young Richard and teammates helping off a wounded Horner make the post likeable.

Yep, Orr packaged & sold those posts "beyond like". Brilliant! Love the photo of Red Horner, a 14yr old Milt Schmidt, a young Richard stepping onto the ice & note the vertical tongue-in-groove boards huh?.... Even that last shot of Phil Myre in the Flames jersey looking up at the clock, rather a poignant pose/study, very evocative given what transpired with that franchise.... Many of these photo's Ive never seen before so again thanks guys's.

 

[Soundgarden]

I love all the shots where you can see the crowd clearly.

 

[greyraven8]

Caption: NWMP winter sports, Whitehorse [A North West Mounted Police hockey team, attired humorously and as women, posing for a photograph on the ice rink in the North West Mounted Police compound.] 1902. (from Yukon Archives).

 

[JackSlater]

I'm sure that most have seen the picture of ripped and shirtless Howe on a fishing boat, but here is a picture I never saw before today of an older Howe once again fishing:

Would love to see a larger version. His arms are ridiculous. Couldn't hold up today though.

 

[UnrefinedCrude]

 

[VanIslander]

Here is Gordie Howe with his brother Vic Howe.

Vic had been traded to the NHL's New York Rangers along with Andy Bathgate in a deal with an AHL club. Vic was a minor leaguer who played half a season for the Rags but was a star for a year eventually when he went to England in 1957 and was a point-per-game scorer for the first-ever champion Harringay Racers of the then-new Scottish and English united British League.

P.S. I love the simplicity of that Red Wings jersey. It would be cool to wear on the street! And I don't even like the Wings (well, the Wings of my lifetime; I enjoy the history of all O6 teams).

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

1953/54 - Elmer Lach

February 1, 1959 - Lou Fontinato in a fight with Gordie Howe.

March 17, 1940 - Toronto Maple Leafs against New York Americans. A Maple Leaf is getting choked.

1962 - Great shot of Gump Worsley sprawling on the ice while Claude Provost (# 14) looks on.

1948 - Turk Broda kisses his Vezina Trophy.

1940s - Leo Reise Jr.

January 16, 1944 - Mush Marsh pursues the puck while Earl Seibert (in the rear) takes out Toe Blake (# 6)

1979/80 - Veteran Gerry Cheevers is protecting his goal from rookie Laurie Boschman.

December 16, 1937 - New York Rangers vs New York Americans at Madison Square Garden. Rangers’ goalie Dave Kerr smothers the puck in front of John Gallagher, behind him are Rangers Lynn Patrick (# 9) and Ott Heller (#3). Other visible players is the Americans' Sweeney Schriner (# 11) with Art Coulter (# 2).
Battling in front of the goal is Cecil Dillon of the Rangers and the Americans’ Hap Emms.
This was Ching Johnson’s first game as an American after 11 years as a Ranger.

March 2, 1968 - Kings Réal Lemieux (# 9) and Leafs Bob Pulford (# 20) watches goalie Wayne Rutledge catching the puck. Dave Amadio in the background.

1967-70 ca - Maple Leaf Norm Ullman (# 9) and teammate Floyd Smith (# 17) watching as Seals goalie Gary Smith is making a toe save.

1970/71 ca - Jacques Plante getting a classic snow-shower.

1968 - Al Arbour is trying to stop Bobby Hull.

May 1974 - Stanley Cup final. Bernie parent have just made a kick save.

 

[VanIslander]

Terry "Bloody" O'Reilly crosschecks Gary "Suitcase" Smith in the mid-70's.

 

[VanIslander]

6'2 200 lbs. center Lennart Johansson, a 7 time SEL champion, 1964 Olympic silver medalist and HOFer in Sweden, nicknamed "Tiger" and renowned as a battler on the ice and had been compared to Tumba, though never quite lived up to that billing.

 

[VanIslander]

Ryan Smyth as an Islander?
For 18 games (15 points) in 2007.
It just looks plain wrong.

 

[VanIslander]

 

[K Fleur]

A supposed Hall of Fame caliber goaltender playing this angle in game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals.

 

[VanIslander]

Three-time all-star gamer Rick MacLeish in a playoff game against Atlanta in 1974. The Flyers won their first Stanley Cup that year with Rick scoring the only goal in the cup-clinching game. The Flyers won the Cup again in 1975, defeating the Buffalo Sabres. MacLeish led the team in playoff scoring — goals plus assists — in both Stanley Cup seasons. The team made it to the finals again in 1975-76, but this time without MacLeish, who was injured, and they were swept in four games by the Montreal Canadiens.

From his The New York Times obituary, May 31, 2016:

... known for his nimble, stylish skating and a deadly left-handed wrist shot, had a 14-year career in the National Hockey League, almost all of it with Philadelphia, which was still something of a fledgling franchise when he joined the squad in 1971. In 1972-73, his first full season, he became the first Flyer to score 50 goals in a season (including a league-best 21 on the power play).

MacLeish scored 328 of his 349 goals with the Flyers, the sixth most in team history, and had 697 total points as a Flyer (out of 759 total), fifth in team history. With 53 of his 54 career playoff goals having come with Philadelphia, he remains tied with Barber, his former teammate, as the franchise’s most prolific postseason goal scorer.

 

[VanIslander]

A supposed Hall of Fame caliber goaltender playing this angle in game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals.

Maybe Osgood is trying to copy a Hasek move. In his heyday in Buffalo Hasek would often stand to one side and basically dare the shooter to hit the open side, a genius move because Dom had lightning reflexes and his brain did not have to decide which way to go, simply whether to go or not!

Osgood is no HHOF caliber goalie in my books. I lived in Windsor just across the river for two years of grad school and went to a lot of games at the Joe. I never cheered for the home team and laughed at Osgood at times. He is a decent NHL back-up goalie who was in the right place at the right time to be made to look better than he was, thanks to the team around him. Just look at this: