The first NHL game broadcast in color was in 1966 at the old MSG , Rangers vs Hawks. it was an afternoon game taped by WOR-TV ch 9 and shown that evening. A blue tint was added to the ice to reduce glare from the lighting.
OMG this is the very 1st NHL hockey game I ever saw on tv. What a flood of memories this brings back. It would have been broadcast back in Chicago and my family would get me hooked on hockey like they did for me watching baseball this is so cool to see this again
after the season was over chicago goalie dave dryden was working as a substitute teacher at a school in the Long Branch area of toronto. I think the name of the school was James Bell
This is the hockey grew up watching. I can't believe how different the game is now. Lots of players in this game came and went in flash. And if a player in the NHL did a lot of things on the ice that these players are doing here, the coach would bench the whole team after the 10:00 mark of the first period! Say what you want about the skill level of the players now compared to these players, but its really noticeable how much the science of the game has evolved since the 60's. The game now features shorter shifts, making for a game with far more intensity. But is it more exciting? Somehow the games back just seemed like more fun--even when watching those old games now it has an industrial league tinge to it!
Keon could skate forever. Short or long shift. Incredible endurance. 1st or 3rd period. Hull was fast as any today all of this with skates that were heavy. No helmets or goalies masks and smaller protection. I actually wonder how the new players would fit in with those conditions?
@@nthdegree1269 good players than could play now , good players now could play than. Rule changes now would benefit players like Bobby Hull , Big M, Keon who were very good skaters especially Hull and Mahovlich with no 2 line offside pass . less clutch and grabbing now compared to than . Horton is another player who be good now .
In some ways the game was better in those days. More exciting. They used three lines and no trap. Todays game is more predictable with a bigger bench a coach for everything and tablets..This is era and The Leaf team that I grew up watching and remember the most. Go Leafs Go..
Brit Selby won the Calder Trophy in 1965-66. So this must be Toronto's opening night for the 1966-67 season. (Some guy named Bobby Orr won the Calder Trophy in 1966-67)
The footage at the beginning is from a year earlier, not from this game; the host is mistaken. Brit Selby was with the expansion Flyers in 1967-68, and Dave Dryden and Gerry Goyer, to name a couple, weren't with the Black Hawks in 1966-67.
This video clearly shows how superior thae game was before expansion. Almost all of the players in the NHL playing today would never had made it back then.
The average player back in that era was well under 6ft tall and weighted less than 200lbs, that why it appears that there is so much room on the ice to maneuver around. Today's hockey players are bigger, stronger, faster and in better shape. The average NHLer today is well over 6ft tall and well beyond 200 lbs, not to mention that are the best that the world has to offer. The top lines from today's Oilers, Bruins, Capitals and Lightening would cream these guys.
Yup and orr picked a figjt with him the 1st time he came back to boston as a golden seal.i thought it was odd being they played togethet.i remeber wayne as a bruin it seems every whete he went he just didnt get a chance .he was pretty good with the bruins but they didnt keep him very long
The two were interviewed together on a Hockey Night in Canada intermission segment in the early '60s when they were both hot prospects. That doesn't seem to be on RUclips yet, but it's been shown on HNIC a number of times over the years.
@@robertjones1543 He scored 22 goals in 69 games in '70-'71, which is good, especially for the amount of ice time he must have had. He scored a hat trick vs. Toronto in the second-last game of the season. Somewhere I have a photo of him wearing a bad-looking wig while playing with the Ottawa Nationals in 1972-73; obviously, he doesn't bother with that anymore.
Keon could play one big LONG SHIFT and not loose anything. Incredible. Check out Toronto Detroit 1970. 13-0 for Toronto. Forgot how great a skating team the Leafs were before it went sour.
They also turned the puck over constantly. Don't get me wrong, these guys were tough as nails, but I can't even follow the action because puck possession was almost meaningless. It would just get hacked away and stolen immediately.
Yup the leafs were the team in the 60s and they got torn apart in the 1st expansion draft.the next. Team to get raped for the expansion draft shortening a would be dynasty the boston bruins .
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The first NHL game broadcast in color was in 1966 at the old MSG , Rangers vs Hawks. it was an afternoon game taped by WOR-TV ch 9 and shown that evening. A blue tint was added to the ice to reduce glare from the lighting.
OMG this is the very 1st NHL hockey game I ever saw on tv. What a flood of memories this brings back. It would have been broadcast back in Chicago and my family would get me hooked on hockey like they did for me watching baseball this is so cool to see this again
after the season was over chicago goalie dave dryden was working as a substitute teacher at a school in the Long Branch area of toronto. I think the name of the school was James Bell
those were crazy days..... Bobby hull with the banana blade and 100 miles an hour slap shot and Jonhny Bower with no face mask. EPIC !
120 mph
RIP Johnny Bower:
This is the hockey grew up watching. I can't believe how different the game is now. Lots of players in this game came and went in flash. And if a player in the NHL did a lot of things on the ice that these players are doing here, the coach would bench the whole team after the 10:00 mark of the first period! Say what you want about the skill level of the players now compared to these players, but its really noticeable how much the science of the game has evolved since the 60's. The game now features shorter shifts, making for a game with far more intensity. But is it more exciting? Somehow the games back just seemed like more fun--even when watching those old games now it has an industrial league tinge to it!
Keon could skate forever. Short or long shift. Incredible endurance. 1st or 3rd period. Hull was fast as any today all of this with skates that were heavy. No helmets or goalies masks and smaller protection. I actually wonder how the new players would fit in with those conditions?
@@nthdegree1269 good players than could play now , good players now could play than. Rule changes now would benefit players like Bobby Hull , Big M, Keon who were very good skaters especially Hull and Mahovlich with no 2 line offside pass . less clutch and grabbing now compared to than . Horton is another player who be good now .
In some ways the game was better in those days. More exciting. They used three lines and no trap. Todays game is more predictable with a bigger bench a coach for everything and tablets..This is era and The Leaf team that I grew up watching and remember the most.
Go Leafs Go..
Brit Selby won the Calder Trophy in 1965-66. So this must be Toronto's opening night for the 1966-67 season. (Some guy named Bobby Orr won the Calder Trophy in 1966-67)
This is 1967-68 opening game. No Espo, Hodge, or Stanfield on Hawks. They made that trade in the off-season. WORST trade ever made! (for Hawks).
The footage at the beginning is from a year earlier, not from this game; the host is mistaken. Brit Selby was with the expansion Flyers in 1967-68, and Dave Dryden and Gerry Goyer, to name a couple, weren't with the Black Hawks in 1966-67.
Oops; the earlier footage was from 1966, but they must have shown a game from then before this one from '67.
This video clearly shows how superior thae game was before expansion. Almost all of the players in the NHL playing today would never had made it back then.
The average player back in that era was well under 6ft tall and weighted less than 200lbs, that why it appears that there is so much room on the ice to maneuver around. Today's hockey players are bigger, stronger, faster and in better shape. The average NHLer today is well over 6ft tall and well beyond 200 lbs, not to mention that are the best that the world has to offer. The top lines from today's Oilers, Bruins, Capitals and Lightening would cream these guys.
Doug Hack, This game was a WATERED DOWN version of the NHL, bc the NHL had already expanded in the off season. "Clear as mud".
And I remember reading about old timers complaining that going from 6 to 12 teams wrecked the game.
@@scarbourgeoisiespoken like a true ignoramous
THAT'S WHY THEY CALLED HIM THE BIG "M"
Blackhawks mgmt bought the Big M for 1 mil., but the deal was cancelled at the 11th hour.
Mesmerizing
56:35 what a move by Horton. How’d he do that?
Where is Mikita??? He must have been injured...
ML Gardens was always as quiet as a library.
Wayne....first teamate to get to Bobby Orr after cup winning goal in 70
Yup and orr picked a figjt with him the 1st time he came back to boston as a golden seal.i thought it was odd being they played togethet.i remeber wayne as a bruin it seems every whete he went he just didnt get a chance .he was pretty good with the bruins but they didnt keep him very long
@@robertjones1543 Orr is an over-rated SCHMUCK, who was protected by GOONS.
The two were interviewed together on a Hockey Night in Canada intermission segment in the early '60s when they were both hot prospects. That doesn't seem to be on RUclips yet, but it's been shown on HNIC a number of times over the years.
@@robertjones1543 He scored 22 goals in 69 games in '70-'71, which is good, especially for the amount of ice time he must have had. He scored a hat trick vs. Toronto in the second-last game of the season.
Somewhere I have a photo of him wearing a bad-looking wig while playing with the Ottawa Nationals in 1972-73; obviously, he doesn't bother with that anymore.
RIGHT ON WAYNE
YEAH! Go Wayne Maki!!!
GO LEAFS -GO
the shifts were much longer, the play controlled and lacking the sense of urgency of today, and the players were seemingly so old
Keon could play one big LONG SHIFT and not loose anything. Incredible. Check out Toronto Detroit 1970. 13-0 for Toronto. Forgot how great a skating team the Leafs were before it went sour.
They also turned the puck over constantly. Don't get me wrong, these guys were tough as nails, but I can't even follow the action because puck possession was almost meaningless. It would just get hacked away and stolen immediately.
GREAT HOCKEY MEMORIES FROM THE ORIGINAL SIX AT MAPLE LEAF GARDENS WITH THE LATE BILL HEWITT
There were 12 teams in 1967-68 NOT 6.
He was only 5 mins LATE! GIVE HIM SOME SLACK! :P
Brit Shelby, the worst player to win the Calder.
The Leafs won four (4) Cups in the 1960s... DESPITE Imlach, not because of him.
Yup the leafs were the team in the 60s and they got torn apart in the 1st expansion draft.the next. Team to get raped for the expansion draft shortening a would be dynasty the boston bruins .
Leafs were getting old by time they won the cup in 1967. Guys like Red Kelly and George Armstrong.