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

[Gilles Meloche]

Frank Brimsek

 

[njdevils1982]

Love Crozier in the Caps team pic…

why is he wearing 35 instead of 31?

 

[Minar]

Photo probably from September 1991, when Jari Kurri came back from Italy to rejoin the NHL, this time with Los Angeles. The season did not particularly well for him, and he ended up a -24 on the season and with Kings' fan booing him when he touched the puck. He looks pretty cool here, though.

Why didn't it really work for gretz and kurri on the kings when they were the best line in the league on edm?

 

[cupcrazyman2]

Boys choosing sides for hockey on Sarnia Bay Dec 29 1908.

 

[cupcrazyman2]

Hockey players in this 1908 postcard are seen on Sarnia Bay sharing the ice with skaters, curlers, and, at left, a horse. Image courtesy, Dave Burwell Collection

 

[The Panther]

Why didn't it really work for gretz and kurri on the kings when they were the best line in the league on edm?

1) Gretzky was just passing his prime. 1991-92 was his first mortal season. (He'd been 'Suter-ed' the preceding month.) Wayne got off to a rough start, including missed games (his father's health issue), and this would have affected Kurri's start, too.
2) Kurri may have been a bit fat and out of shape from a year in Italy.
3) Tomas Sandstrom with Kurri on the wings didn't really seem to work. Maybe the two were too similar in their approach to playing with Gretzky.

Kurri came back super-strong (presumably in better shape) to start 1992-93, despite (a) playing center for the first time and (b) Gretzky not playing at all. How strong was he? These was the NHL scoring leaders on Nov. 21st, 1992:
56 PTS (22 GP) Lemieux
46 PTS (22 GP) Kurri
43 PTS (20 GP) Lafontaine

Even as late as December 19th, 1992:
90 PTS (34 GP) Lemieux
58 PTS (33 GP) Lafontaine
56 PTS (34 GP) Kurri

After this point in the season, Kurri scored only 31 more points in 48 games.

 

[sr edler]

University of Montreal Faculty of Dentistry in 1920–21

 

[The Panther]

University of Montreal Faculty of Dentistry in 1920–21

Bit ironic, isn't it? A bunch of dentists playing hockey with no face-guard....?

 

[Gilles Meloche]

Mike Palmateer in his one preseason game with the Oilers…

 

[Retire91]

The time poor sharkie gut stuck, thankfully no one was hurt

 

[tinyzombies]

Rangers vs. Americans 1940. Charlie Conacher tries to block Dutch Hiller's shot but it makes it through to goaltender Earl Robertson. Americans Busher Jackson in the distance, and Ranger Phil Watson tussling with Art Chapman

 

[Mandar]

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Rangers vs. Americans 1940. Charlie Conacher tries to block Dutch Hiller's shot but it makes it through to goaltender Earl Robertson. Americans Busher Jackson in the distance, and Ranger Phil Watson tussling with Art Chapman

wow....you can see that Conacher took out the padding in his glove in order to grapple easier....great pic!!

 

[The Panther]

Jari Kurri: Ammattilainen ('Professional') in the mid-1980s:

Then, back in 2000, Finnish paparazzi were all over Jari Kurri's new love -- the recent Miss Finland, Vanessa Forsman.

Kurri and Forsman (who is his 2nd wife) married, and now have four children together.

 

[The Panther]

Were the 1987 Oilers the first Cup winner to have 3 Finns in the line-up?? (although this photo is from 1990...)

 

[Terrier]

 

[Staniowski]

Another one of Elizabeth, when she was Princess Elizabeth.

At the Montreal Forum, 1951. That's William Northey on her right. Habs 6, Rangers 1.

She became Queen the following year.

 

[tinyzombies]

I didn’t write that comment btw.

 

[Staniowski]

The Bank of Montreal building at the northwest corner of Yonge & Front in downtown Toronto that now houses the Hockey Hall of Fame. Photo taken from that intersection in 1890.

 

[Terrier]

Ryan Donato centering this line.

 

[Terrier]

 

[_habsfan9]

This isn't from Patrick Roy's last game, as he had switched to a newer model of Koho pads for the 1995-96 season that were half red - half white, as in this photo:
patrick roy 1995 - Google Search

He wore those same half red and half white pads hoisting the cup in Colorado

 

[Terrier]

MIT(my alma mater) in 1975

 

[tinyzombies]

Fern Flaman

 

[biblihockey]

bought this photo on web , this is an original

 

[sdf]

Nice pants