Old time hockey fact: The reason the red line is dashed or dotted rather than solid is so that viewers watching on black and white tvs back in the day could tell the difference between the blue and red lines.
Thanks for sharing. My father used to talk about "dirty" Red Horner. Dad was born in 1921 so I can imagine him listening to the radio and enjoying this game in 1933. Happy 100 this year Dad.
In the winter of 1898, a group of ice hockey enthusiasts suited up for an outdoor game in West Orange, New Jersey. The frozen surface of Crystal Lake served as the venue for the match, which featured at least a dozen players. One spectator of note was also in attendance at the game: cinematographer William Heise, who was employed by inventor Thomas Edison’s nearby film production studio. On that day, the studio’s film equipment was hauled to the lake, where Heise and the group of skaters unassumingly made hockey history.
😲 These guys making low salary, wearing no helmet, little pads, and skates were like wearing old converse sneakers with dull blades, respect goes out to those players.
They didnt fall on the ice, fake being an assault victim and hoping their nose is bloody to get their team a 4 minute power play. They got up and put their sticks up and handled things like men.
It always strikes me how well they skate, when I see old films like these, considering the soft and unsupportive boots they had in those day's. Mad respect!
That narrator totally blew the pronunciation of your grandfather's name! I've known about your grandfather my whole life even though he retired years before I was born. He was a great one and played his whole career for the Rangers.
This was EXCELLENT to see! What I love most about this footage is that it proves that while the game has definitely changed a bunch over the past century, its still fundamentally the same game. This in turn proves that ice hockey was excellent sports entertainment right out of the box. If someone from the 1930s were to be transported forward in time to the present day, they'd be able to get into the groove of modern ice hockey with minimal confusion.
For sure, I was better at other sports as a kid but when my buddies and I talked about our favorite sport to play, it was hockey for me. I felt it had all the fascist of having a good time.
Most important and entertaining innovation over the years: the Zamboni of course zamboni.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/EvolutionofZamboniMachine_web.pdf
Today’s hockey is just a more futuristic version. It’s interesting to imagine how the sport will evolve over the next 100 years. Hopefully they’ll replace refs with robots 🤖
Your comment is 2 years old and just this month Jagr is still playing pro and became the oldest pro hockey player in history and he's still putting up points. Absolute living legend.
I've seen old footage for a long time now and this is the first really old stuff that didn't look slow. The game looked very fast and reckless. Can't believe helmets weren't a thing.
meh, boxing was the most popular sport in the US at the time, so a few knocks from hockey wasn't considered too bad. and it still wasn't as fast as it is now - and it was harder to lift the puck because sticks didn't have any curve - so not as dangerous as like the 50s/60s onwards
@@iansteelmatheson not sure when it changed but at one point a forward pass was illegal. I can't even process that. Game is a billion times better now than this but was just shocked at how reckless it looked. Guys just flying around into each other with such thin equipment and no helmets. They were definitely tough for sure.
@Calvin Ilkay He (Foster Hewitt) called the Paul Henderson winning goal against the Russians in the 72 Summit series 39 years later. ruclips.net/video/lMf2fAXPS1Q/видео.html
Kaiden Dove, atta boy. I live out in Alberta and had to talk a couple Leafs fans off the ledge a few weeks ago. They said how can you be so optimistic, told them being a Caps fan I know all kinds of playoff pain through the years.
This was an incredible watch. There may not be anything more badass than Rangers goalie Andy Aitkenhead wearing that cap during the game. Incredible compilation. Thank you for posting this.
The TV announcer was Foster Hewitt. I remember hearing him call Leafs games in the 1960's for Hockey Night in Canada. I never realized he had started calling games in the 1930's. I can still hear his voice when he'd sign in.
Back then that brawl probably had a total of 10 PIMs. There were a few guys in the 1940s and 1950s with over 100 PIMs in a season...I shudder to think how many people they had to actually murder to get to that mark.
I remember the Don Cherry story. Apparently, when he was playing, his coach was the notorious enforcer Eddy Shore. Cherry and this guy, did not get along whatsoever. Cherry made a comment about Shore no longer being able to live up to the tough guy image. Shore gets up, clocks Cherry right in the head, sits down and acts like it never happened. Shore was the real deal
That's actually legendary, seeing such legends play. When I heard the announcer say "Joliat" I almost lost it. Can you imagine? Back then, Aurel Joliat was today's McDavid or Matthews. Georges Vézina was today's Vasilevskiy or Price and being able to see footage from almost 100 years ago now and seeing those legends play is truly fabulous.
True, but the money to put these events on has to come from somewhere. Nobody’s doing it for free. The players have to paid, the referees have to be paid, the electricity has to be paid for, upkeep of the arena has to be paid for, the network and their employees need to be paid, because they have to eat and pay for electricity and housing. They don’t plaster ads up there just to ruin your day..
This is quite honestly one of the coolest videos I've EVER seen. Toronto when MLG was only 2 years old, Toronto when they played in Mutual Street... FOSTER HEWITT *Mind blown* Thank you!
Agreed but at the same time it's kind of amazing how well they move and play, especially considering the quality of the skates and ice had to be really bad compared to today's game
@@EmailBaconthe technique advanced directly because of the equipment. The technique back then would have been the same as today if they had the same equipment as today lol. Why tf are people so stupid these days that they think human beings in the past just didn’t know any better 🤦♂️.
Unbelievable that the goalie (and everyone else) was so completely unprotected. How did these guys have the guts to go out there in the days before helmets and face masks? Those pucks flying at you are lethal weapons!
I remember my dad telling me stories how grandpa used to take him to see the red wings play back in the 1930's and 1940's. Sometimes I wish their was a time machine so I can go back and join them.
Nowadays we witness idiot fans taunting players behind the protection of acrylic. My dad told me that back in the day (30's & 40's), fans risked getting the butt-end of a player's stick in their face for that kind of nonsense.
I played in four different rinks over the years that had chain link fence at the ends of the rink. Along the sides, nothing but boards. In three of the rinks, all "Icelands" (Belmont, Fremont and Berkeley, CA), the boards only came up to just below the hip. It was not uncommon to get knocked over the boards and into the laps of spectators. The only bad things about the fencing was the dead rebounds, and the possibility of snagging something (your sweater, or your lip) as you rubbed along it. And though most of the folks in CA were wearing helmets at that time, I wasn't unless a particular league mandated them. Helmets weren't mandatory yet for officials, and I didn't start wearing one until about '92. I had to officiate a game between UC-Berkeley and Fresno State by myself one night when the other two officials didn't make it to the rink. That rink was like a frozen football field, and dark as hell. The icing on top (no pun intended) was when two players collided with me and broke my whistle.
" The fans are standing up to them! The security guards are standing up to them! The peanut vendors are standing up to them! And by golly, if I could get down there, I'd be standing up to them!"
That was superb. Thanks for posting. I knew a man who actually played against Howie Morenz when Morenz played for Stratford and Ed Hyllier played for New Hamburg. He said Morenz was hard to play against. Pretty neat to see these forgotten players like King Clancy, Red Horner on the ice. It is also funny to hear the English take on the game. I think the narrator called the puck a ball at one point. Like I said, superb, and thank you.
Damn, that was the quickest 7 minutes ever. Left me hungry for more... please???? And why on earth did RUclips wait all this time to recommend this channel? Great content!
@@dustinwillis3261 maybe but there are more Quebecois on the Lighting than on Les Canadiens so we still ,as Canadians and Quebecers win in a way. You Americans couldn’t win without our boys. Lol
Wonderful historical footage for serious hockey fans. I'd like to see all this great footage digitally restored with speed correction and colorized as well.
I thought that sounded like Foster Hewitt at first and then it showed him. My God he was young. I guess it was the early thirties. These videos go back a long way showing some of the great stars. Thanks for uploading this.
Great video of old time hockey! They were athletes even then. And it is amazing to me that there was just one sports and news announcer for the entirety of the 20s, 30s, and 40s! He even learned French for part of this video! That guy was busy!
just because of the microphones back then, they were picking up a different frequency in the voice ( if we can call it that) than the ones we have now.
Well, lad, I was about your age when they actually won the STANLEY CUP way back in 1967. Maybe when you're my age (I turned 60 last week), they just might make it to the semi-finals. But I wouldn't want to set you up for disappointment by encouraging a child to have false hope..
@@greganderson4547 They didn't have every inch of their bodies protected by hi-tech equipment, and they travelled long distances between games by train or bus. You can bet they didn't sleep in the palaces players stay in today, too. There weren't anywhere near the number of rules back then; the game was much dirtier as there was no tv or video to second guess a ref or to show spectators what was really going on at ice level.
@@greganderson4547 Your comment makes no sense. It was the same degree of difficulty for every team so therefore it was just as hard for every team. Don't forget the basic rule - difficulty is a relative thing.
@@greganderson4547 that means talent is not diluted and those 6 teams are best of best. Can you imagine having 6 teams chose from all NHL players today until they form their team and tell everyone else to go home. You will have 6 near all star teams playing in a tournament.
Great video! It's wonderful to hear some pretty famous names and see the differences in the game back then. It would great if someone could clear up the old films to make it clearer and to the correct pace. As well a full colourization would really bring the scenes to life but it's expensive when done properly.
this is as old time hockey as you can get. kinda reminds me of us playing high school hockey in the 60's but we did have these little leather helmets that didn't even cover the top of your heads, it was all good though, we loved it.
I genuinely ask you why? We don't have to get carried away with them sure but sponsors are throughout every league from tball and mini mite to pros. That's how we're here today.
That was great, thanks for sharing. I was surprised to see both the fast pace and how little checking there was. Also is the goalie wearing a bloke hat at 2:51? Outstanding!
It's amazing that an NHL game played in the 1930s, with such small goalies, little equipment and a fast pace can actually end up 0-0 after regulation 🏒
Yeah, but all the skaters' sticks and skates weighed more than nearly all of the equipment worn by current players combined. Plus, based on what I've seen, the boots of their skates were soft and not very supportive. Must've been extremely difficult to skate like that.
The announcer for the second clip goes for the drama: like Howard Cosell as a kid. I once had a dealing with a pre-helmet NHL star: I'm sure he was a good guy, but his face had more scars than Freddy Krueger.
I have seen the old footage of said early NBA and it was not until the early George Mikan era in 1949 to early 1950's did the sport look more professional. Before the early George Mikan era, courts looked like they were high quality plywood for the floor that was painted up and no gloss on the floor because most of the shoes they used were old style Converse or similar shoes with smooth rubber bottom to them or some even had leather soled sports shoes in the 1940's.
@@mimicotom At 1:45 in the film, on the GWG by New York, that sure looks like a forward pass by the Rangers in their zone. Anyhow...ourhistory.canadiens.com/rules/1910-1930 "After a complete season with forward passes allowed in the neutral and defensive zones, the league moves forward in its makeover. In 1929-1930, forward passes are finally allowed in the offensive zone, changing forever the way hockey is played. On the other hand, no passes were yet allowed across either blue line."
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It's always great to see Jaramir Yagr's first few years in the league.
Geez that’s brutal
@@danielzhang7408 The joke or the spelling?
@@Joseph-kd2gy 0 for 2 on the names lol
When the rangers were good 😂
I think it was his rookie season. (in Europe J is pronounced Y) (IDK what is pronounced J)
Little did they know thousands of people would be watching them ~100 years later on a tiny HD touchscreen supercomputer
Millions
Nah, I bet they knew.
Damn. That’s so mind blowing when you really think about it.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
When a camera from 1898 has better quality than the security cameras at your local corner store
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the power of analog :D
And my ESPN Plus feed.
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Old time hockey fact: The reason the red line is dashed or dotted rather than solid is so that viewers watching on black and white tvs back in the day could tell the difference between the blue and red lines.
Thank you for that amazing, informative fact.
@@proto-geek248 ya gotta be pretty dumb not to figure that out
Can't you tell by the location??
makes sense, I barely remember that but I heard it somewhere
and the red line actually meant something, no two line passes!
I see that goalies back in the day used the Hextall technique: Holding your stick like you’re about to hit someone. The ultimate intimidation factor
Hextall used the back in the days technique *
@@UnknownArtistsTM
The joke
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@@yaoming7762 original reply bro
Ron hextall was the man in the 80s. He didnt fuck around
well yeah they didn't have Butterfly back then
Thanks for sharing. My father used to talk about "dirty" Red Horner. Dad was born in 1921 so I can imagine him listening to the radio and enjoying this game in 1933. Happy 100 this year Dad.
Is he still alive
Happy 101st birthday to your pops! I’m a year late to this comment btw
name checks out
It has been said by opponents of his that R.H. usually got into fights because he knew it would get his name in the newspaper.
Hopefully his last. Put him out of his misery already
In the winter of 1898, a group of ice hockey enthusiasts suited up for an outdoor game in West Orange, New Jersey. The frozen surface of Crystal Lake served as the venue for the match, which featured at least a dozen players.
One spectator of note was also in attendance at the game: cinematographer William Heise, who was employed by inventor Thomas Edison’s nearby film production studio. On that day, the studio’s film equipment was hauled to the lake, where Heise and the group of skaters unassumingly made hockey history.
link to edison's yt channel?
😲 These guys making low salary, wearing no helmet, little pads, and skates were like wearing old converse sneakers with dull blades, respect goes out to those players.
They are also moving at 1/4 the speed.
They didnt fall on the ice, fake being an assault victim and hoping their nose is bloody to get their team a 4 minute power play. They got up and put their sticks up and handled things like men.
It always strikes me how well they skate, when I see old films like these, considering the soft and unsupportive boots they had in those day's. Mad respect!
@Pierre Alariw What do you expect from something that occurred almost 100 years ago. The same will be said in a 100 years about today.
And they ALL wore the SAME unis to save $$$ it looks like! L0L
Some of this footage is better than 70s film.
weirdly tru xD
Uh
Better than early 2000s film
Better than security footage
Possibly even the 90's and early 2000's film. They seemed to film with potatoes for the longest time.
My grandfather Frank “Bowchwer” (Boucher) scores for the Rangers.
Chance is are that is of french canadian origin. Very common name in Québec.
That narrator totally blew the pronunciation of your grandfather's name! I've known about your grandfather my whole life even though he retired years before I was born. He was a great one and played his whole career for the Rangers.
@@s.thomas3289 Oui : François Xavier Boucher was his name.
"His paternal grandfather, Antoine Boucher was French, while his other grandparents were of Irish descent."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Boucher
Wonderful to see the film of your grandfather, 3-time Champion and Hall of Famer, truly one of the greatest of all New York Rangers! True Blue!!
This was EXCELLENT to see! What I love most about this footage is that it proves that while the game has definitely changed a bunch over the past century, its still fundamentally the same game. This in turn proves that ice hockey was excellent sports entertainment right out of the box.
If someone from the 1930s were to be transported forward in time to the present day, they'd be able to get into the groove of modern ice hockey with minimal confusion.
For sure, I was better at other sports as a kid but when my buddies and I talked about our favorite sport to play, it was hockey for me. I felt it had all the fascist of having a good time.
@@garryshea4945 *facets. Not to be a grammar Nazi... or any kind of grammar fascist.
Most important and entertaining innovation over the years: the Zamboni of course zamboni.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/EvolutionofZamboniMachine_web.pdf
Today’s hockey is just a more futuristic version. It’s interesting to imagine how the sport will evolve over the next 100 years. Hopefully they’ll replace refs with robots 🤖
Appropriate none the less. Hockey is more fascistic than the other sports. In a good way.
These Jaromir Jagr highlights are great
Your comment is 2 years old and just this month Jagr is still playing pro and became the oldest pro hockey player in history and he's still putting up points. Absolute living legend.
I've seen old footage for a long time now and this is the first really old stuff that didn't look slow. The game looked very fast and reckless. Can't believe helmets weren't a thing.
meh, boxing was the most popular sport in the US at the time, so a few knocks from hockey wasn't considered too bad. and it still wasn't as fast as it is now - and it was harder to lift the puck because sticks didn't have any curve - so not as dangerous as like the 50s/60s onwards
also the footage looks to be sped up like lots of other footage from this time period. i'm sure it wasn't intentional
@@iansteelmatheson not sure when it changed but at one point a forward pass was illegal. I can't even process that. Game is a billion times better now than this but was just shocked at how reckless it looked. Guys just flying around into each other with such thin equipment and no helmets. They were definitely tough for sure.
@@prodremedy you're probably right.
hockey is tame compared to motorsports at that time :D no seatbelts in cars and no helmets in cars or motorcycle racing either :D
Can we just appreciate how nice the goal at 1:46 is for a second.
I guess that's where Denis Savard learned it.
But, the clothesline at 5;34 had me on my feet almost 100 years later😂
just a casual spinorama ot game winner.
That caught me aback
yup, real Gretzkyesque.😄
This was pure hockey. No advertisements, no music, full capacity crowds. Just the game.
Yes
Yeah but it would be kinda boring with no music in today's hockey
Money ruins all. Pure evil
@@TheGtagtr hockey isn’t boring without music 😅
New hockey is a lot better. It’s more viewer friendly. Old hockey had its perks, though.
This is exactly how I expected the announcer to sound.
It is Foster Hewitt
@@billyehh is it really, thanks ! I remember foster from the sports palace in Moscow. Canadian Hockey Hero
@@billyehh it is eh? I knew the voice sounded familiar.
Dave Michigan of Tampa Bay should take notice.
@Calvin Ilkay He (Foster Hewitt) called the Paul Henderson winning goal against the Russians in the 72 Summit series 39 years later.
ruclips.net/video/lMf2fAXPS1Q/видео.html
Leafs losing in the playoffs even way back then
That’s a dang-it
It’s called consistency, we have a brand and we stick to it
Kaiden Dove, atta boy. I live out in Alberta and had to talk a couple Leafs fans off the ledge a few weeks ago. They said how can you be so optimistic, told them being a Caps fan I know all kinds of playoff pain through the years.
@@waynethera2712 oh I can only imagine, at least you guys got past round one a few times, this is just purgatory lmao
at least they went to the finals back then lol
This was an incredible watch. There may not be anything more badass than Rangers goalie Andy Aitkenhead wearing that cap during the game. Incredible compilation. Thank you for posting this.
The TV announcer was Foster Hewitt. I remember hearing him call Leafs games in the 1960's for Hockey Night in Canada. I never realized he had started calling games in the 1930's. I can still hear his voice when he'd sign in.
"What a fight! They even had to call in the police!" LOL I love hockey
Back then that brawl probably had a total of 10 PIMs. There were a few guys in the 1940s and 1950s with over 100 PIMs in a season...I shudder to think how many people they had to actually murder to get to that mark.
Remember when Canadian fans callled the police on Chara lol?
@@scottinnh88 Jou mean CanadiEn fans?
My Hawks took care of Chara in The 17 Seconds Final Cup Game
it became much worse in the 70's. Check out the history of football sometime. A lot of kids died from injuries in the early days. Just incredible.
Wow. U can see the guys moved really well even back then
yep I thought that too, even though the skates were basically shoes with blades, so way less stable
@@iansteelmatheson it shows that even back then the skill level was very high
Imagine sending a player, like for instance Connor McDavid, back in time. Crazy how the game has changed and hasn't at the same time
@@josephlangs8781 totally agree
They look faster and more agile to me than players from the 80's... :O
I remember the Don Cherry story. Apparently, when he was playing, his coach was the notorious enforcer Eddy Shore. Cherry and this guy, did not get along whatsoever. Cherry made a comment about Shore no longer being able to live up to the tough guy image. Shore gets up, clocks Cherry right in the head, sits down and acts like it never happened. Shore was the real deal
No ads, no nonsense frill. Just the game. What a time to be alive.
xD Zamboni's are literally just 3 dudes with brooms
Those guys had a wicked hop forward style with those monster length things.
Yes, couldn't help but notice the condition of the ice.
That was even before the idea of using hot water in buckets on a trolley (a la early Maple Leaf Gardens) was even thought of.
I think I saw that movie! :P
The ice must’ve been so rough and dulling for their skates 😭
5:50 That's Georges Vézina in the net, you might know him from the trophy that bears his name.
That's actually legendary, seeing such legends play. When I heard the announcer say "Joliat" I almost lost it. Can you imagine? Back then, Aurel Joliat was today's McDavid or Matthews. Georges Vézina was today's Vasilevskiy or Price and being able to see footage from almost 100 years ago now and seeing those legends play is truly fabulous.
Can't get over how well Hockey translates over the years. Looks fast, looks skilled, and the pace seems very similar.
I was just thinking that. The fans must have been ecstatic!
I think the rover was eliminated by then! Clint Benedict in Goal?Chabot,maybe in net!Chicago hockey nut,old hockey nut!
the spinorama goal at 1:40 was sick
Great vintage footage. When I see old hockey footage, I am always impressed over how clean the boards and ice looks without ads.
Nice, no ads plastering to boards and ice! Just hockey, pure and simple! Not just one big ad!
True, but the money to put these events on has to come from somewhere. Nobody’s doing it for free. The players have to paid, the referees have to be paid, the electricity has to be paid for, upkeep of the arena has to be paid for, the network and their employees need to be paid, because they have to eat and pay for electricity and housing.
They don’t plaster ads up there just to ruin your day..
@@nicholsonjay4724 you're incorrect. that's exactly what they do.
I don’t ever want to hear an NHLer complain about ice conditions again.
right? im sure they lost some players that fell into a rift that opened from time to time 😂
Thanks for the awesome footage, brilliant to see! I used to play here in England, and do miss it at times!
This is quite honestly one of the coolest videos I've EVER seen. Toronto when MLG was only 2 years old, Toronto when they played in Mutual Street... FOSTER HEWITT *Mind blown* Thank you!
This is extremely interesting to watch and see just how far the NHL has grown. Please do more of these if you can find more footage!
Especially the goalies. The technique is so advanced now. Even the equipment for everyone
Joe I love your comment I think the exact same thing
Agreed but at the same time it's kind of amazing how well they move and play, especially considering the quality of the skates and ice had to be really bad compared to today's game
@@_JellyDonut_ it was interesting to see guys cleaning the ice with brooms.
@@EmailBaconthe technique advanced directly because of the equipment. The technique back then would have been the same as today if they had the same equipment as today lol. Why tf are people so stupid these days that they think human beings in the past just didn’t know any better 🤦♂️.
The good old hockey game is the best game you can name, and the best game you can name is the good old hockey game.
That's my alarm tone when it's time to head to the rink!
Tilsonberg, my back still hurts when I hear that word.
I'm sure you had your GuyTar ready to roll
I spelled Guy in French like Guy Lafleur
Unbelievable that the goalie (and everyone else) was so completely unprotected. How did these guys have the guts to go out there in the days before helmets and face masks? Those pucks flying at you are lethal weapons!
In those days shots did not fly high off the stick blade. The takeover of the wreckless slapshot forced changes, like helmets for instance.
Yep, a gal from a town not too far from mine got killed by a rogue puck.
Long before the slapshot took over hockey, pucks did not fly out of the rink & pelt fans.
You'll notice goalies only played standing position back then
@@allewis4008 not even stacking the pads like the 80s.
I remember my dad telling me stories how grandpa used to take him to see the red wings play back in the 1930's and 1940's. Sometimes I wish their was a time machine so I can go back and join them.
This is the era where you almost score on your own tendie by winning a faceoff
This is still that Era! Just watch a beer league game🤣
I think he was talk about the NHL in general
The Flames did that like 10 years ago lol
Everyone has done it at least once
This will have millions of views some day
Stevie Ray Genoch is on RUclips.com
I love that goalie at 2:54 with the bunnett hat that looks like he’s there for a leisurely skate.
I really picked up on that!
This is like a special gift. Thank you Delta for uploading the video. 😺
gotta love the chain link fencing around the rink. Imagine getting a face rub on that.
That and terrible referees are what inspired the creation of steel cage matches and hell in a cell matches in WWE
Nowadays we witness idiot fans taunting players behind the protection of acrylic. My dad told me that back in the day (30's & 40's), fans risked getting the butt-end of a player's stick in their face for that kind of nonsense.
Crazy how they had no netting behind the glass (or even glass at all) back then.
I played in four different rinks over the years that had chain link fence at the ends of the rink. Along the sides, nothing but boards. In three of the rinks, all "Icelands" (Belmont, Fremont and Berkeley, CA), the boards only came up to just below the hip. It was not uncommon to get knocked over the boards and into the laps of spectators. The only bad things about the fencing was the dead rebounds, and the possibility of snagging something (your sweater, or your lip) as you rubbed along it. And though most of the folks in CA were wearing helmets at that time, I wasn't unless a particular league mandated them. Helmets weren't mandatory yet for officials, and I didn't start wearing one until about '92. I had to officiate a game between UC-Berkeley and Fresno State by myself one night when the other two officials didn't make it to the rink. That rink was like a frozen football field, and dark as hell. The icing on top (no pun intended) was when two players collided with me and broke my whistle.
Chain link was in minor hockey rinks still in the 80s
That goalie was still wearing his hat!
A newsboy hat at that!
They would use newspaper stuffed into knee-socks before shinguards were invented.
You say that as though he forgot to take it off 😅
Apparently many players wore baseball caps during games in these early days.
In this day, they would make an exception and LET you wear a mask -after you got stiched up.
That was fantastic! I enjoyed it all. More please!
Thanks
Amazing footage. They were better than how I imagined hockey from that era
I was very surprised at the quality of play.
Meanwhile it reminded me of playing hockey back in elementary school.
2:55 - than goodness the goalie is wearing his newsboy hat for protection!!
It should be brought back into the league .
@@Jay-vr9ir Jacques Plante agrees!
These guys were just incredible skaters. Especially considering how bad the ice probably was
True. And the skates too.
Man, those skates are terrible
Fantastic. Thanks for this great piece of NHL history.
If the announcer in 1932 saw some of the fights in hockey today, they would call for the National Guard to be sent in.
" The fans are standing up to them! The security guards are standing up to them! The peanut vendors are standing up to them! And by golly, if I could get down there, I'd be standing up to them!"
That was superb. Thanks for posting. I knew a man who actually played against Howie Morenz when Morenz played for Stratford and Ed Hyllier played for New Hamburg. He said Morenz was hard to play against. Pretty neat to see these forgotten players like King Clancy, Red Horner on the ice. It is also funny to hear the English take on the game. I think the narrator called the puck a ball at one point.
Like I said, superb, and thank you.
Damn, that was the quickest 7 minutes ever. Left me hungry for more... please???? And why on earth did RUclips wait all this time to recommend this channel? Great content!
Je ne savais même pas que de telles archives puissent exister ! C'est formidable !! Merci à vous !!
amazing footage. Great to see and hear a super young Foster Hewitt.
I was wondering if that was him. Didn't think he went back that far! Wow.
Probably the greatest sports broadcaster - EVER.
6:40 - I did not know they had footage of Chara's first game!
Lol
Wow! Great footage! Not only the play, but they used big brooms to smooth the ice!! Thank goodness for Zambonis.
That’s so nice to see, thank you for sharing this.
That was super fun! Its crazy how there's a playoff game on right now that i can't watch, so Im watching this. Thanks nhl
Haha watching both
lol agreed just VPN it
Nhl66.ir
No need to thank me.
There's also nhl-streamcast works very good
Very cool footage. I’m proud that I was able to watch the oldest known hockey clip there is.
What I loved to see was the total absence of advertisements! Didn’t even have face off circles!
This is awesome! Thanks for posting!
As a Habs fan, I know that hockey history goes way back over a century ago but to see this footage is really amazing.
Lightning in 4!
@@dustinwillis3261 maybe but there are more Quebecois on the Lighting than on Les Canadiens so we still ,as Canadians and Quebecers win in a way. You Americans couldn’t win without our boys. Lol
Y’all
Satan’s team
@@brunopaolucci6594 No no, Satan's Team has Trudeau, Tam, Tory and Ford on it .. get it straight please.
Wonderful historical footage for serious hockey fans. I'd like to see all this great footage digitally restored with speed correction and colorized as well.
God no, not colorized
I wouldn't
That first clip is unbelievably sharp and the FPS is so smooth, it looks better than half the NHL footage on RUclips from the 80s/90s.
I thought that sounded like Foster Hewitt at first and then it showed him. My God he was young. I guess it was the early thirties. These videos go back a long way showing some of the great stars. Thanks for uploading this.
And he was still active 40 years later to call the Summit Series in '72
how they lined up for the faceoffs was wild
Wonder when they noticed where the advantages were.
Evolution of hockey footage from the ‘30s to the present.
Merci beaucoup. Great to see old clips.
Very cool to see. Amazing how good they look with the equipment available.
They even had to call in the police had me dying lol
New subscriber…it was interesting to see how the ice was cleaned with swinging brooms. 👍 Thanks
Great video of old time hockey! They were athletes even then. And it is amazing to me that there was just one sports and news announcer for the entirety of the 20s, 30s, and 40s! He even learned French for part of this video! That guy was busy!
lol yeah....the fact that they probably all learned to use that same voice back then may have played a role too ;)
They were athletes even then? What did you expect them to be, ballet dancers?
Why is it, that every announcer back in the day was "South Park's Canadian"? Every. Single. One.
just because of the microphones back then, they were picking up a different frequency in the voice ( if we can call it that) than the ones we have now.
They're all performed by Jon Lovitz
Thank uso much I was looking for futage like this for a while now awsome vids
Beyond awesome! Thank you!
1:44 damn 100 years ago buddy doing a spin into back hand top net.
Grandpa: "Back in my day the hockey fights were so bad they had to call the police in"
Me: "sure they did, Grandpa"
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That’s the first time I’ve seen the leafs in the finals
Well, lad, I was about your age when they actually won the STANLEY CUP way back in 1967. Maybe when you're my age (I turned 60 last week), they just might make it to the semi-finals. But I wouldn't want to set you up for disappointment by encouraging a child to have false hope..
There were only 6 teams and they only had to win one round to get to the finals so it wasn't all that hard back then.
@@greganderson4547 They didn't have every inch of their bodies protected by hi-tech equipment, and they travelled long distances between games by train or bus. You can bet they didn't sleep in the palaces players stay in today, too. There weren't anywhere near the number of rules back then; the game was much dirtier as there was no tv or video to second guess a ref or to show spectators what was really going on at ice level.
@@greganderson4547 Your comment makes no sense. It was the same degree of difficulty for every team so therefore it was just as hard for every team. Don't forget the basic rule - difficulty is a relative thing.
@@greganderson4547 that means talent is not diluted and those 6 teams are best of best. Can you imagine having 6 teams chose from all NHL players today until they form their team and tell everyone else to go home. You will have 6 near all star teams playing in a tournament.
Great video! It's wonderful to hear some pretty famous names and see the differences in the game back then. It would great if someone could clear up the old films to make it clearer and to the correct pace. As well a full colourization would really bring the scenes to life but it's expensive when done properly.
Love it. Thanks for sharing. Philadelphia was rough even back then. Anyone notice the Rangers goalie wearing a newsboy cap?
I’ve always been intrigued by how all announcers back then basically sounded identical
Amazing footage, thanks!
this is as old time hockey as you can get. kinda reminds me of us playing high school hockey in the 60's but we did have these little leather helmets that didn't even cover the top of your heads, it was all good though, we loved it.
Back when Jaromir Jagr was a young, spry rookie! LOL
Jaromir Jagor with his Auger, Drilled a Hole and Caught a Sauger.
Love it
This is purely gold and amazing. Absolutely loved it. specially the french commentator at the end lol. Just subscribed btw!
What I loved the most is that there are NO F'N advertisments built into the ice or on the boards. I hate that shite.
$$$$
I genuinely ask you why? We don't have to get carried away with them sure but sponsors are throughout every league from tball and mini mite to pros. That's how we're here today.
Boards look so empty without them imo. I think they added advertisements in 1988 or 1989.
I agree the leagues need the money but sometimes they get carried away with all the adds everywhere
That was great, thanks for sharing. I was surprised to see both the fast pace and how little checking there was. Also is the goalie wearing a bloke hat at 2:51? Outstanding!
I looks like a Newsboy cap to me. I guess it would keep him warm and provide at least a little padding.
It's amazing that an NHL game played in the 1930s, with such small goalies, little equipment and a fast pace can actually end up 0-0 after regulation 🏒
They are all chasing the puck as if it is every man for that one nugget of gold.
Yeah, but all the skaters' sticks and skates weighed more than nearly all of the equipment worn by current players combined. Plus, based on what I've seen, the boots of their skates were soft and not very supportive. Must've been extremely difficult to skate like that.
Shots back then were much slower and lower.
Put mcdavid in this game it be 200-0 lol
@@roderickturner4454 McDavid with today's equipment and training, yes, but with what they were using at the time? Not so much.
I can’t imagine if I had to be a goalie with out a helmet or anything. Those guys were hella tough to be taking those shots
I been subbed forever! This is another amazing video
Culture at its finest.
Awesome footage!
Cool video! So amazing that you found late 19th century footage, that’s extremely rare😯
Great vid man I can't believe u found this
The announcer for the second clip goes for the drama: like Howard Cosell as a kid. I once had a dealing with a pre-helmet NHL star: I'm sure he was a good guy, but his face had more scars than Freddy Krueger.
Did he have any teeth?
Thank you for showing this great video back when hockey was good old days and thank you for showing all the years to see 🏒👍👍
Better skaters than I would have thought. Great stuff to watch. Love old sports footage.
Great footage.thanks for the view
Its good to know that the NHL isn't wasteful and still uses these cameras today on the blue lines.
Omg imagine watching this in real life compared to now
Training footage , for the Buffalo Sabres 2020-21 , lol !!!!!
@@gerardvinet8448 hey man 😔 don’t gotta do us like that
@@jonathansellars885 *virtual hug *
You can really appreciate this footage when you've seen the travesty that was considered basketball at around this time.
I have seen the old footage of said early NBA and it was not until the early George Mikan era in 1949 to early 1950's did the sport look more professional. Before the early George Mikan era, courts looked like they were high quality plywood for the floor that was painted up and no gloss on the floor because most of the shoes they used were old style Converse or similar shoes with smooth rubber bottom to them or some even had leather soled sports shoes in the 1940's.
Basketball: unwatchable then, great now
Hockey: great then, great now
Baseball: unwatchable then, unwatchable now
Excellent gem. Thanks a lot.
Notice how none of them are passing the puck forward. This was a rule in the NHL at that time
Up until 1943 players could not make forward passes in their own zone.
@@mimicotom At 1:45 in the film, on the GWG by New York, that sure looks like a forward pass by the Rangers in their zone. Anyhow...ourhistory.canadiens.com/rules/1910-1930 "After a complete season with forward passes allowed in the neutral and defensive zones, the league moves forward in its makeover. In 1929-1930, forward passes are finally allowed in the offensive zone, changing forever the way hockey is played. On the other hand, no passes were yet allowed across either blue line."
2:51 Hey Goalie, nice hat.