OLYMPIA STADIUM
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I have been watching hockey night in canada since i was a kid in the 1960s.i recall Ward Cornell, Dave Hodge,Danny Gallivan,Howie Meeker,Dick Irvin.lets hear from everyone on there HNIC memories.
I used to get both CBC and the French version of HNiC on cable. It was fun to switch back and forth (even though I don't speak French), just to hear the game in a foreign language.
I remmber this very well but i was not home for that game so i taped the game that night.i always liked Dave Hodge and still to this day think that he should never have been fired for that.I remember the day Dave Hodge was canned.
Back before the work stoppage of 1994, HNIC showed a single game at 8pm Eastern time. Back in 1986 or 1987, one night the feature game ended and another game - Philadelphia @ Montreal - was about to go into OT at about 3 minutes before sign off. Hodge wanted to go to the OT but the network said no, they wanted to move to the next program. Hodge flipped a pen in the air and said "I guess that's the way we do things around here..."
He was ****canned immediately. It was great news for Ron MacLean.
Rene Lecavalier was great, one of the best broadcasting voices I've ever heard (maybe the best).
What about Danny Gallivan. there was nothing like watching the montreal canadiens on a saturday night with danny gallivan and dick irvin doing the games from the montreal forum.
It seems hard to believe now, but the games used to be joined in progress. We missed the first half hour while another Canadian classic was on air, Don Messer's Jubilee. I can remember that you always hoped that nobody scored during that half hour so you wouldn't miss anything.
I loved the "Showdown '75" & "'76" that was on during the intermissions. I had never even heard of Simon Nolet until he was on this! And Danny Grant was amazingly accurate as a shooter.
I remember those, we use to reinact those playing boot hockey at school. Wasn't there a Peter Puck segment as well? Still remember the Dave Hodge "pen flip" like yesterday.
I was told by a friend who has seen a list of the games and other items that HNIC or Molstar or what ever they are called today still have in there vaults. and was told that all of those showdown intermission features still exsist today.and as far as peter puck Brian McFarlane still has those cartoons today and he owns the rights to them.You can still find out there on the web people selling old hockey games on video and there are some games out there that still have the showdown feature on the video. I wish that Howie Meeker would put out on DVD today his hockey teaching shows that use to be on saturdays on channel 9 in windsor back in the 1970s.i got to meet Howie Meeker a couple of years ago and got his autograph. i asked him about those hockey teaching shows and he said that he still has those shows today, so maybe on day they will be out on video or DVD.
My friend knows someone in ontario canada that worked with the leaf channel and i guess he got a copy of the list of games from him.but i was told that all of the showdowns did exsist.at least that is what i was told by him.i was also told that there are a couple of Kansas City Scouts games against Montreal that still exsist wether that is true or not i dont know.I didn't think that Howie Meeker could air those shows again because of certain 'rights' issues at the CBC, the original carrier. Not all the showdowns exist as the earlier ones from the mid-70's are missing.
I wish you were right about a network coming up with those games from the 70's but I really think that is doubtful at this point.
You are right about the games that were aired in progress, the non-televised parts were filmed and kept.
I wonder how your friend saw the list of games that are in the 'vaults'.
My friend knows someone in ontario canada that worked with the leaf channel and i guess he got a copy of the list of games from him.but i was told that all of the showdowns did exsist.at least that is what i was told by him.i was also told that there are a couple of Kansas City Scouts games against Montreal that still exsist wether that is true or not i dont know.
are the leaf channel still showing the old games. they do have alot of games that toronto lost that they can show also.
Then I guess this friend of yours knows me somehow but he wouldn't have any access to the entire lists of the Molsons collection of games. He might just have a list of all the Classic games that have been shown on Leafs TV.
There are no Kansas City Scouts games against Montreal that exist, unfortunately.
Leafs TV will hopefully show a handful of new classic games next year - assuming they get edited.
Sure, there are plenty of games from the 80's that exist that the Leafs lost -but they wouldn't be what you would call 'classics'.
I am not talking about leaf games from the 1980s i am talking about leaf games that they lost in the 1960s that do exsist.and they have those games from around 1957 up to around 1971. so there are alot more games in the 1960s that have not been shown just because of the leafs losing.i was also told that we have to thank Brian McFarlane for these games. i was told that he kept copys of these for years.
And i was also told that there is a complete playoff game from the old madison square garden that still exsists today. maybe one day hockey fans will get the chance to see a game on video from the old MSG that was torn down in 1968.
I think you've been told a few things that aren't exactly accurate.
First of all, its not a simple process in acquiring the games to show. Leafs TV doesn't own them and they have to pay a lot of money to air them.
Secondly, there is no real effort to avoid games that the Leafs lose. There are plenty of games shown where the Leafs lost. But realistically, a significant game that the Leafs won tells a better story and gets much more interesting comments from the guest.
You should also know that there are games from the 60's that couldn't be shown because parts were missing or goals were cut out or were just games that weren't meaningful at all. If you have specific games that you think that Leafs TV is avoiding, please let me know.
That game you are referring to from MSG from the 1962 semis is not complete.
Brian McFarlane didn't 'keep' the games for all those years - its a tremendously complicated story.
You are making erroneous assumptions based on information that isn't complete or accurate.
But glad to hear that you like watching the classic games.
Let me know what games you think are purposely not shown and you would like to see.