More great photos in hockey history you've just seen for the first time!

[Howie Hodge]

Yes Virginia, these guys did actually have hair at one time.....
Don Cherry

Colin Campbell

Don Edwards

 

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[Howie Hodge]

The WHA's New York Raiders, 1972 - 1973 (Partila roster)

Goalie Gary Kurt - two pad save, nice!

 

[Killion]

The WHA's New York Raiders, 1972 - 1973 (Partila roster)

Very interesting Howie..... odd. See, I just saw these exact photo's very recently on a FB Page of which Im a Member. So either you too a Member or... you ripped them off?... That your source, Gold Mine?...

I wont tell. Secrets safe.

 

[Howie Hodge]

Very interesting Howie..... odd. See, I just saw these exact photo's very recently on a FB Page of which Im a Member. So either you too a Member or... you ripped them off?... That your source, Gold Mine?...

I wont tell. Secrets safe.

The picture of Gary Kurt is off of facebook, we obviously are both members and follow that fb page, and it's a good one!

The team picture is from a google search!

Our little secret!

 

[Killion]

The picture of Gary Kurt is off of facebook, we obviously are both members and follow that fb page, and it's a good one!

Indeed so. Vintage.... hey ho... www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHBZFSYA12A

 

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Bucyk's 500th goal

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

May 3, 1959 – Johnny Bucyk against Gump Worsley. Boston Bruins trounced New York Rangers 12-4 at the Patinoire des Vernets rink in Geneva, Switzerland. Notice the boards.

1961/62 - Action on the ice lit by glass-mounted strobe flashes. L to R - Allan Stanley (A) - Tim Horton – Ken Schinkel - Johnny Bower (# 1) – Dean Prentice (# 17)

1962-64 ca – Bobby Hull racing down the ice

1971-73 ca – Simon Nolet in action as he’s getting hooked from behind

1973/74 – NHL’s own Ogie Ogilthorpe – John “Wire” Wensink, here in a Rochester Americans (AHL) uniform. The man with the Afro and pugilistic skills also managed to score a respectable 28 goals for the Bruins in one NHL season (1978/79). They sure looked older back then (Wensink was 20 in the photo)

December 31, 1985 - Sergei Makarov (# 24) weaving his way through the Montreal defense of Petr Svoboda (# 25) and Larry Robinson (# 19)

1980s - Jarmo Kuusisto (# 5) of Lukko Rauma making Mark Jooris (# 26) eating the ice in a Finnish league game

1994 - Patrick Roy (# 33) – Mike Gartner (# 22) – Mathieu Schneider (# 27)

March 8, 2011 – Zdeno Chara (# 33) laying out a devastating hit on Max Pacioretty

November 1, 2013 – The late Ray Emery (# 29) [1982-2018] giving Braden Holtby (# 70) a good lickin’

 

[Tarantula]

May 3, 1959 – Johnny Bucyk against Gump Worsley. Boston Bruins trounced New York Rangers 12-4 at the Patinoire des Vernets rink in Geneva, Switzerland. Notice the boards.

Wow, ahead of the Fighting Saints even. Wonder how the players found having "boards" like that, imagine it would be good for the spectators.

 

[Canadiens1958]

1924, Montreal Forum ready.

 

[a79krgm]

Can't see this image anymore. Bad memories. Very bad.

 

[Torspo21]

That picture of Jarmo Kuusisto. Its Mark Jooris of Ässät that #26 who is upside down. Kuusisto ia the #5.

 

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[Canadiens1958]

1902 Montreal, Hippodrome corner St. Hubert and Duluth. Horses in summer, skating in winter.

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

These are predominantly not hockey photos, but they are great old sports related photos and a piece of Canadiana. I hope you don’t mind

1903 – Shamrock Lacrosse Club of Montreal, Minto Cup Champions. Several hockey players in the photo, Trihey, Brennan, Smith and O’Reilly, just to name a few of them

1912 - Vancouver Lacrosse Club team - 1911 Minto Cup Champions. Several hockey related persons appears on the photo, Bones Allen, Newy Lalonde, Pete Muldoon, Mickey Ion, Dot Phelan, Cory Hesse and Sibby Nichols to name some of them

1914 – Vancouver Millionaires

1919 – Art Duncan, Vancouver Millionaires, hockey player and WW I fighter Ace

1921 - Advertising the baseball season in front of Gordon's Drug Store, Haney, British Columbia

1928 - Ethel Catherwood, 1928 Olympic High Jump gold medalist

1930 – Gord Pettinger with the Vancouver Lions

1931 – Jack Dempsey, former World heavyweight Champion in Vancouver

1936 – Edmonton Grads Basketball team in Strasbourg, France. They represented Canada at the 1936 Olympics

1939 – Syl Apps, Toronto Maple Leafs

1939 - Tony Lazzeri, Toronto Maple Leafs manager and Rogers Hornsby, Baltimore Orioles manager

1940s – Baseball umpire in Vancouver

1948 – RCAF Flyers, 1948 Olympic Gold medallists

1956 - Edmonton Eskimos quarterback, Don Getty, drinking out of the Grey Cup at Varsity Stadium, Toronto

1958 - Montreal Canadiens Jacques Plante showing his goalie mask during practice

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

Ok, so don't kill me for getting off our path of great hockey photos, but I think it is worth posting these great non sports Canadiana photos. This is for those who enjoy historical photos. If you don't, then just ignore it.

1890 - Three men sharing a bed in a bachelor's hall, Vancouver. Whoever complains today (students?) for having to share an apartment, surely wouldn’t trade their place with these guys

1891 - Vancouver volunteer fire brigade – hose reel racing team

1895 – No paved roads back then in Sour-Dough Alley, Rossland, British Columbia

1900 - Portrait of a cowboy with fur chaps, Bowden, Alberta

1903 - Vancouver City Police in front of old City Hall and Police Station. The moustache was in vogue

1909 - Harrison Hot Springs bus trip to C.P.R. Station at Agassiz

1910 - Raw Eater of the Siksika Nation, Alberta. Now that’s a leatherfaced veteran

1914 – Dingman No.1 oil well drillers, Turner Valley, Alberta

1915 - Squidge, regimental pet of the 24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force

1916 - Group portrait of the Wallace, Brown and Wolvin couples in a partially constructed ship at the Wallace Shipyard

1917 - Officer wearing a captured German sniper's mask

1917 - Captured German prisoner wearing latest body protector

1917 – A Canadian Miner resting after a heavy night's work

1917 – A Canadian soldier about to go on leave takes his tunic to the tailor's shop

1918 - B.C. Motors Ltd., Granville and 15th in Vancouver. Please can I buy one of these in that condition for the 1918 price? Hmmm...I guess not

1923 - Gas fitter in Draeger oxygen equipment in Toronto

1923 – British Columbia firemen at training

1930 - Daredevil William "Red" Hill [1888-1942] in the oak barrel in which Greek immigrant George Statakis died in 1930 while taking a plunge with it over Niagara Falls, Ontario

1931 - Bucking bronco at the Vancouver Exhibition

1935 - Snow plane built and operated by Boychuk's Garage, Willingdon, Alberta

1936 - Cross and Company trucks (Ginger Ale) in Vancouver. Even the little fellow is ready

1937 - Lumberjacks having their photograph taken in Québec

1938 – Lions gate bridge in Vancouver under construction

1940 – The time when men were real men and heroes to boot. Willie McKnight (left), Canada’s highest scoring ace during the Battle of Britain. Also in the photo Douglas Bader (middle) and Eric Ball. Worth noting is that Bader played hockey

1940s – When car safety wasn’t an issue. Accident between an automobile and a street car in Vancouver

 

[Tarantula]

Here flanked by Douglas Bader & Eric Ball

Thanks, I was thinking of Mr. Bader just yesterday while driving home. Read up on him in high school, English class. That was one book I DID finish ahead of the class, couldn't put his bio down. Going to have to look him up, quite a man, quite a story.

1930 - Daredevil William "Red" Hill [1888-1942] in the oak barrel in which Greek immigrant George Statakis died in 1930 while taking a plunge with it over Niagara Falls, Ontario

Another side dish for me, Niagara Falls daredevils!!

 

[DowntownBooster]

1977-79 ca - Gordie and Mark Howe of the New England Whalers in action against Barry Legge of the Cincinnati Stingers

 

[Soundgarden]

May 3, 1959 – Johnny Bucyk against Gump Worsley. Boston Bruins trounced New York Rangers 12-4 at the Patinoire des Vernets rink in Geneva, Switzerland. Notice the boards.

Another interesting thing about this one is how much natural light thee is, it looks like an open rink.

 

[Tarantula]

Another interesting thing about this one is how much natural light thee is, it looks like an open rink.

Indeed, seems to be. Take a look at the old fencing running through the stands

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

1928 – Bruins trainer Win Green

1950/51 – Sid Abel (C) working hard

1960s – Johnny Bower (# 1) and Yvan Cournoyer (# 12) in a battle

1985-87 - Bobby Smith (# 15) in front of Gilles Meloche (# 27)

October 12, 2015 - Loui Eriksson (# 21) and Erik Condra (# 22) are both not giving up on the play

January 2, 2017 – Winter Classic - Alex Pietrangelo

January 29, 2017 – Wayne Simmonds in action during the NHL All-Star Game

May 5, 2017 – Sebastian Aho (# 20) scoring from a tough angle against Belarus

November 11, 2018 - David Pastrnak posing with a fan before the game against the Golden Knights

December 11, 2018 – Eric Fehr (# 21) and Phillip Danault (# 24)


I’ll start ending these posts with some awesome historical non hockey related photos

1910 ca – Now that’s what I call a car - Cool Belgian driver having a smoke, while probably trying to figure out how the hell he is going to see anything in front of him

1938 – A cool kid in the Baltimore slum

April 1945 - A soldier of the 1st US Army, among debris inside the Monument to the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig, Germany

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

1948 - Elmer Lach out with a broken jaw

1967/68 - Garry Bauman in one of his 35 NHL career games

November 23, 1968 - Top photo - Don Awrey (# 26) exchanging words with Reggie Fleming (# 9). Jim Neilson (# 15) is keeping Ted Green (# 6) under control. Also seen is Ron Stewart (# 12). Bottom photo - Arnie Brown (# 4) colliding with Ed Giacomin (# 1)

1974/75 – Don Kozak (# 24) on a breakaway, hooked from behind by Walt McKechnie (# 18)

1974-76 - Ken Hodge casually stickhandling against California

November 25, 1977 – WHA action between Gordie Howe and Richard Brodeur

1980s - Sniper Mike Bossy in action. 573 regular season goals in 752 games, plus 85 playoff goals in 129 playoff games

September 15, 1987 – Epic finnish and epic game. Canada scoring the game winner with 86 seconds to go

May 12, 2013 - Clarke MacArthur (# 16) checks Dennis Seidenberg (# 44) into the boards

May 29, 2014 - Henrik Lundqvist (#30) defends the net against Thomas Vanek (# 20)



Random awesome historical non hockey related photos

1905 ca - Red Hawk of the Oglala Sioux on horseback in the Badlands of South Dakota

1912 - Auto Polo...ouch

May 1925 – Gangsta’ - William Stanley Moore - Australian mugshot
His file read – ”Opium dealer. Operates with large quantities of faked opium and cocaine. A wharf labourer; associates with water front thieves and drug traders.”

 

[blood gin]

Bucyk's 500th goal

Upper deck at the Boston Garden, you're hanging right over the ice. That place was packed in and tiny

 

[Staniowski]

1987 Canada Cup - Team Canada Training Camp, Montreal.

 

[Staniowski]

1987 Canada Cup - Tomas Jonsson and Andrei Khomutov.