Great photos in hockey history you've just seen for the first time (Part III)

[MarkusKetterer]

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Pavel Bure and Mike Bullard EV Landshut on October 28th 1994.

This is amazing

 

[DJ Man]

View attachment 448108Another goal? This one by Henri Richard. Eddie Johnston is sporting the Bruins' jersey of the pre-expansion 1960s. That was when Boston missed the playoffs for eight straight seasons. The jerseys were changed before the 1967-68 season, and the fortunes of the team improved. Coincidence?

I'm betting that this was a Boston home game. The Bruins' yellow jerseys caused problems for the mostly black-and-white television of the earlier 1960s, having little contrast with the visiting team's white sweaters. Accordingly, the television stations preferred that the visiting teams pack their "home" uniforms when being televised out of Boston to provide the contrast.

(However, I do recall watching one nationally-televised Sunday afternoon game wherein the Bruins wore white at home with the opponent in full colors. I guess they didn't want to confuse casual fans in the expanded network viewership with two "home" teams.)

Even once the stations began to broadcast in color, many households still watched on B-&-W sets, so this trick may have gone on longer had the Bruins not changed to the dark home jerseys along the way.

Currently, they assume that everyone is watching in color, so yellow-vs-white is no big deal.

 

[MeHateHe]

Bugsy and BobbyView attachment 448110An usher sits between Bryan Watson and Bobby Hull in the penalty box. This photo was taken during the first round of the 1965-66 playoffs, during which the Wings eliminated the Hawks in six games. Hull scored two goals, as did Watson. Bryan earned a lot of attention in the hockey world for the job he did driving Bobby to distraction in this series. Andy Bathgate - who scored five goals for Detroit in that series - nicknamed Watson "Bugsy," a name he which stuck.

Was Hull signing an autograph while in the penalty box during a playoff game?

 

[Davenport]

Before the mustache

Derek Sanderson

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

I'm betting that this was a Boston home game. The Bruins' yellow jerseys caused problems for the mostly black-and-white television of the earlier 1960s, having little contrast with the visiting team's white sweaters. Accordingly, the television stations preferred that the visiting teams pack their "home" uniforms when being televised out of Boston to provide the contrast.

(However, I do recall watching one nationally-televised Sunday afternoon game wherein the Bruins wore white at home with the opponent in full colors. I guess they didn't want to confuse casual fans in the expanded network viewership with two "home" teams.)

Even once the stations began to broadcast in color, many households still watched on B-&-W sets, so this trick may have gone on longer had the Bruins not changed to the dark home jerseys along the way.

Currently, they assume that everyone is watching in color, so yellow-vs-white is no big deal.

Pretty sure the home team wore white and the road teams dark jersey in the 60s.

 

[DJ Man]

Pretty sure the home team wore white and the road teams dark jersey in the 60s.

It's gone back and forth in history, but I'm sure it was white-on-the-road throughout the 1960s.

White-at-home is generally used by baseball and basketball for logistical reasons: the home team has better access to laundry facilities.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

It's gone back and forth in history, but I'm sure it was white-on-the-road throughout the 1960s.

White-at-home is generally used by baseball and basketball for logistical reasons: the home team has better access to laundry facilities.

Seem to recall seeing a couple games in the 1960s in the Boston Garden where the Bruins were in white.

 

[Staniowski]

Ken Dryden, Carey Price.

 

[The Panther]

Jaromir Jágr:

Jágr reading a book... about The Bermuda Triangle, I believe:

Jaromir Jágr, listening to Bryan Trottier:

 

[The Panther]

Nice shot of Wayne Gretzky, circa 1985:

 

[Davenport]

The photo above brought to mind this Oiler

Blair MacDonald caught my attention in 1979-80 with his 46 goals and 94 points.

 

[hacksaw7]

It's gone back and forth in history, but I'm sure it was white-on-the-road throughout the 1960s.

White-at-home is generally used by baseball and basketball for logistical reasons: the home team has better access to laundry facilities.

White at home and dark on the road has always been my preference. That way you can have a variety of road jerseys come into your building and give the games a more diverse look. As it is every home game yo watch of your team is always going to be dark jerseys vs white. It's better when you had all the other teams in the leagues colors coming into your building. The Whalers green, Leafs blue, Blackhawks red etc

 

[hacksaw7]

 

[Davenport]

The Aud, 1973

The French Connection (Rick Martin, 7; Gilbert Perreault, 11; Rene Robert, 14) faces off against the visiting LA Kings.

 

[Davenport]

Dan Maloney

His second - and final - season with the London Knights earned him some attention in the hockey world. In 54 games, he had 31 goals, 35 assists and 66 points, which was no small feat having spent 232 minutes in the penalty box.

 

[Davenport]

New York Rangers' new jerseys

Rod Gilbert (7) and Pat Hickey (16) are here sporting them.

 

[SealsFan]

Teams wore the dark jerseys at home in the 60's (but there may have been exceptions for televised games as mentioned). The switch over to home whites (which I prefer) happened in the 70-71 season.

 

[hacksaw7]

Was Hull signing an autograph while in the penalty box during a playoff game?

I remember a story from some hockey documentary where the Hawks team bus was about to leave and Hull was outside still signing autographs for fans. Everyone was pretty much minding their own business...reading, playing cards. One of the guys on the bus started to become progressively irritated and wanted to get going already. Think it was a young cocky rookie that hadn't been with the team that long and didn't know about Hull's propensity to fulfill every request after a game. He blurts out something to the effect of "Tell Hull enough already with the damn autographs and get on the bus, let's go"

One of the vets turn to him and go "If it were you out there and not him, the bus would've left 20 minutes ago"

 

[Davenport]

I remember a story from some hockey documentary where the Hawks team bus was about to leave and Hull was outside still signing autographs for fans. Everyone was pretty much minding their own business...reading, playing cards. One of the guys on the bus started to become progressively irritated and wanted to get going already. Think it was a young cocky rookie that hadn't been with the team that long and didn't know about Hull's propensity to fulfill every request after a game. He blurts out something to the effect of "Tell Hull enough already with the damn autographs and get on the bus, let's go"

One of the vets turn to him and go "If it were you out there and not him, the bus would've left 20 minutes ago"

I remember Stan Mikita telling that story.

 

[Davenport]

Gilbert (7) did backcheck

To no avail in this case, but - nonetheless - note that he is the first Blueshirt back, before d-man Jim Neilson (15). Ralph Backstrom (6) has scored on Terry Sawchuk. Terry Harper is the Canadien closest to Gilbert - don't know why he's so far from his own end.

 

[Davenport]

Wings quintet

Dean Prentice, Andy Bathgate, Gordie Howe, Norm Ullman and Alex Delvecchio. In 1965-66 - as a Wing - Prentice had his one shot at winning the Stanley Cup.

 

[Davenport]

Scott Stevens (A)

and Rod Langway (C).

 

[yukoner88]

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Ken Dryden, Carey Price.

They both look just as surprised about the camera lol

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Scott Stevens (A)View attachment 449421and Rod Langway (C).

Nice nose on Langway.

 

[ChuckLefley]

There have been some great pictures in these threads, but a lot of them are just ordinary pictures, nothing special. For instance (not picking on the poster) that picture of Stevens and Langway. Big deal, it’s two players on the bench.