What a gem. Thanks so much for uploading this. Cool to see O Canada completely in French at a major professional hockey game - maybe one day Quebec will get their team back and we'll see that again.
Those Winnipeg WHA uniforms are the ones the Jets will be using as their new 3rd uniforms beginning this season. They should make them their primary home unis and get rid of those boring 'maple jet' jerseys they've been using since 2011.
Bobby Hull did so much for salaries, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Quebec, and so many others, and never got close to the respect he should have for making all his teams wait thousands of hours while he signed absolutely every autograph! He treated my dad and me like gold, while his wife Joanne sat at the far end of the dining room table glaring at us! Not saying hi to guests,(us) not smiling, not joining the conversation, nothing, just glaring cross armed at two country friends of Bobby's. I was there. Saw all the negativity of hers, and the really tremendous personality of Bobby, welcoming us like long lost best friends! RIP Bobby. Never forget your hospitality, buddy! AND, your humble skills especially showcased in world class competition!
Yes; this was the last one, if I'm not mistaken. They showed one of the first two WHA games--Alberta @ Ottawa--in 1972, and I remember seeing a game on a Sunday afternoon late in that season (it might have been Quebec vs. New England). I don't recall CBC showing any other WHA games until game 5 of this series, on May 22, 1977. Game 7 was on May 26.
@@DrLuke49, no, unless you can get Montreal to acqiesce you are not going to get a team in QUEBEC CITY.. Unless, you boycott sponsors or owners' companies' products which is how QC got into the NHL IN 1979-80.
Would love to see a rival league, but I suspect it would happen only if the NHL under Gary Bettman's commissionership tried to Americanize the game more than it already is. Then the rival league would a Canadian one. Do you get the sense that it's time for Gary Bettman to move on?
@@craignl, you CANADIAN HOCKEY FANS make me scratch my head. I am by no means a BETTMAN fan. His sorry wormy defense of concussions and his playing with and cramming politics into the sport, are just two of the reasons I cannot stand him. But, here is a newsflash for you: MAKING THE GAME MORE US MARKETABLE has saved the NHL. JUST AS 1967 expansion saved the league back then from having a legitimate rival major league vis-a-vis the late '60's WESTERN LEAGUE'S U.S. PLANS= SAN FRAN, SEATTLE, L.A. MARKETS ON TV; the so-called "AMERICANIZING" of the game, franchise shifts, saved the NHL from fading into obscurity from anyone other than a northeast U.S. AND UPPER MIDWEST fans, and CANADIAN FANS cared about enterprise. The sunbelt moves brought more desire for first, ABC, and then later NBC, to seek a long term TV package with the NHL. And, NOW YOU HAVE THE NEW TV PACKAGE. AND, regarding that package's evolution: ITS NO LONGER A NON-PAYOUT arrangement, with the NHL not paid anything by the network up front, and only sharing in ad-revenue or getting its own ad-revenue from its proprietary sponsors or sharing some of the latter with NBC- COMCAST UNIVERSAL. No, now ABC/ESPN AND TURNER SPORTS are paying IN THIS NEW PACKAGE= the NHL up front because BETTMAN brings in a US CENTRIC league if not completely in its history, but in its current age, its reality. He brings an internet streaming package that hooks the NHL UP WITH DISNEY in the process, too. HE BRINGS IN a league that still has financial weaklinks but not nearly as many as it used to, and one that is now worth in the billions when that was nowhere near the case before he took over. If he had not done those things including moving QUEBEC and HARTFORD AND SUNBELT EXPANSION WHICH has been a rousing success, save for the very few weaklinks and ATLANTA, and teams would not get that TV money, the NHL would just be a niche league, instead of one moving away from that. That all is tied up into longterm survival and that includes his forcing a cap on the players by backing them into a corner.. If he had not, the NHL and your CANADIAN teams might not be here today. Owners were not going down with a sinking ship. If you just want Canadian-based hockey, knock yourselves out. The next time the Canadian dollar plummets and Western Canada's economies crash because oil has gone bye bye as an energy source, let's see if your league survives without US teams' owners dollars and a U.S. TV CONTRACT. Think about it..
@@robertsprouse9282 Bettman is responsible for moving the Jets to Arizona, how'd that work out? The Coyotes have been a dismal failure and should have never been relocated from Winnipeg, yet Bettman is so stubborn in keeping them in the desert where they continue to lose millions of dollars year after year. Is it any wonder why he pushed for Las Vegas to get a team instead of Quebec City? This man has ruined and pussyfied the league and needs to go!!
Merci beaucoup pour ce post! Pour un match de fin des années 70, le rythme est pas mal bon!
What a gem. Thanks so much for uploading this. Cool to see O Canada completely in French at a major professional hockey game - maybe one day Quebec will get their team back and we'll see that again.
Attendance for Game 7 of the 1977 WHA Avco Cup Finals was a standing room only crowd of 11,461 fans.
Those Winnipeg WHA uniforms are the ones the Jets will be using as their new 3rd uniforms beginning this season. They should make them their primary home unis and get rid of those boring 'maple jet' jerseys they've been using since 2011.
The Jets WHA logo is one of the best in pro sports.
Absolutely agree on that, man!
JC Tremblay's tally reminds me of Jacques Lemaire's goal against Tony Esposito that got the Habs rolling in Game 7 of the '71 Stanley Cup final.
If they used modern names, the 1977 Avco Cup Final was contested between the Colorado Avalanche and the Arizona Coyotes.
Hola!
During the anthem that French guy sounded like he had a "frog" in his throat at points. lol
Now they would be Arizona (original Jets) vs. Colorado (Nordiques)
RIP to Don Whitman and Don Chevrier
Bobby hull was the mickey mantle of hockey,
Bobby Hull did so much for salaries, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Quebec, and so many others, and never got close to the respect he should have for making all his teams wait thousands of hours while he signed absolutely every autograph! He treated my dad and me like gold, while his wife Joanne sat at the far end of the dining room table glaring at us! Not saying hi to guests,(us) not smiling, not joining the conversation, nothing, just glaring cross armed at two country friends of Bobby's. I was there. Saw all the negativity of hers, and the really tremendous personality of Bobby, welcoming us like long lost best friends! RIP Bobby. Never forget your hospitality, buddy! AND, your humble skills especially showcased in world class competition!
@@ejomamma6234 Hull is a legend, even though I heard bad things about him personally, even his son Brett had a fractured relationship with him,
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Was this on CBC?
Yes; this was the last one, if I'm not mistaken. They showed one of the first two WHA games--Alberta @ Ottawa--in 1972, and I remember seeing a game on a Sunday afternoon late in that season (it might have been Quebec vs. New England). I don't recall CBC showing any other WHA games until game 5 of this series, on May 22, 1977. Game 7 was on May 26.
There needs to be a new league to rival the NHL now.
We will see a new NHL team in Quebec City before we ever see a new league.
Never say never I suppose.
@@DrLuke49, no, unless you can get Montreal to acqiesce you are not going to get a team in QUEBEC CITY..
Unless, you boycott sponsors or owners' companies' products which is how QC got into the NHL IN 1979-80.
Would love to see a rival league, but I suspect it would happen only if the NHL under Gary Bettman's commissionership tried to Americanize the game more than it already is. Then the rival league would a Canadian one.
Do you get the sense that it's time for Gary Bettman to move on?
@@craignl, you CANADIAN HOCKEY FANS make me scratch my head.
I am by no means a BETTMAN fan. His sorry wormy defense of concussions and his playing with and cramming politics into the sport, are just two of the reasons I cannot stand him.
But, here is a newsflash for you: MAKING THE GAME MORE US MARKETABLE has saved the NHL.
JUST AS 1967 expansion saved the league back then from having a legitimate rival major league vis-a-vis the late '60's WESTERN LEAGUE'S U.S. PLANS= SAN FRAN, SEATTLE, L.A. MARKETS ON TV; the so-called "AMERICANIZING" of the game, franchise shifts, saved the NHL from fading into obscurity from anyone other than a northeast U.S. AND UPPER MIDWEST fans, and CANADIAN FANS cared about enterprise.
The sunbelt moves brought more desire for first, ABC, and then later NBC, to seek a long term TV package with the NHL.
And, NOW YOU HAVE THE NEW TV PACKAGE.
AND, regarding that package's evolution: ITS NO LONGER A NON-PAYOUT arrangement, with the NHL not paid anything by the network up front, and only sharing in ad-revenue or getting its own ad-revenue from its proprietary sponsors or sharing some of the latter with NBC- COMCAST UNIVERSAL.
No, now ABC/ESPN AND TURNER SPORTS are paying IN THIS NEW PACKAGE= the NHL up front because BETTMAN brings in a US CENTRIC league if not completely in its history, but in its current age, its reality.
He brings an internet streaming package that hooks the NHL UP WITH DISNEY in the process, too.
HE BRINGS IN a league that still has financial weaklinks but not nearly as many as it used to, and one that is now worth in the billions when that was nowhere near the case before he took over.
If he had not done those things including moving QUEBEC and HARTFORD AND SUNBELT EXPANSION WHICH has been a rousing success, save for the very few weaklinks and ATLANTA, and teams would not get that TV money, the NHL would just be a niche league, instead of one moving away from that.
That all is tied up into longterm survival and that includes his forcing a cap on the players by backing them into a corner..
If he had not, the NHL and your CANADIAN teams might not be here today.
Owners were not going down with a sinking ship.
If you just want Canadian-based hockey, knock yourselves out.
The next time the Canadian dollar plummets and Western Canada's economies crash because oil has gone bye bye as an energy source, let's see if your league survives without US teams' owners dollars and a U.S. TV CONTRACT.
Think about it..
@@robertsprouse9282 Bettman is responsible for moving the Jets to Arizona, how'd that work out? The Coyotes have been a dismal failure and should have never been relocated from Winnipeg, yet Bettman is so stubborn in keeping them in the desert where they continue to lose millions of dollars year after year. Is it any wonder why he pushed for Las Vegas to get a team instead of Quebec City? This man has ruined and pussyfied the league and needs to go!!