Glenn Hall was unbelievable in this series! All four of the games could have been victories by the Blues. Montreal sure knew how to win in the Finals. RIP Alex Trebek.
Hi Dave, Me too! Was 14 years old in ‘68 and went to my first game against the Red Wings and Gordie Howe. My dad was a big Cardinal baseball fan but knew nothing about hockey, so during warmups, I told him, “See #9 for Detroit? He’s the Babe Ruth of hockey!” So Dad kept watching Gordie for the rest of the game!
@@donhuber9131 Oh, wow, Don! Seth Martin is a name I almost forgot! He wound up being Glenn Hall's backup in the first season for the Blues. I never attended a game in the '67-'68 season, so I never saw Martin in person. Didn't really get on the Blues bandwagon until Ron Schock's OT goal against the North Stars, then I was hooked for life. So for that matter, didn't see or hear much about Seth Martin period. By that time Hall played most of the games, then Jacques Plant joined the next season. The first Blues game I attended was that game against Detroit in Fall '68 sometime. Can't rightly remember if Glenn or Jacques was in goal for our Boys in Blue. Glenn Hall was my first hockey hero, and I wound up being a street hockey goalie, then a club hockey goalie, and finally a beer league hockey goalie because of Glenn. (And also, Tony Esposito -- I liked him too). The first pro hockey game I ever attended was the old St. Louis Braves in 1965. My oldest brother had free tickets, so we went. They were a Blackhawk farm club and wore the same Indian head logo sweaters as the Blackhawks. (So, even as a Blues fan, I've always had a soft spot in my heart for the Blackhawks, which of course, is almost heresy for a native St. Louisan.) I was 11 years old at that time and knew very little about hockey, but those vivid bright red sweaters and the speed of the game caught my eye. The Arena was a filthy, dark dump in those days before the Salomons got the Blues franchise and spent lots of money renovating The Arena. Years later, I discovered that I had probably seen Phil Esposito in his youth, since he was on that team. Also learned that Gus Kyle was their head coach. Like I said, I was only 11 and not at all knowledgeable about hockey at that time. My whole sports world revolved around Cardinal Baseball until the Blues were a new NHL team and captured Our Town by storm. Gus, as you probably know, was the Blues first Ticket Sales Director and color commentator on KMOX. I can almost hear him now talking to Dan Kelly, "Dan the best defense is a good offense." And of course, during a tight competitive game, "This is a real barn burner!" And after a rather vicious, two-handed slash, "Heh, heh, that's laying the lumber to him!" (Yeah, hockey isn't quite as brutal as it used to be!) Cheers, Old Rusty
@@OldRustySteele Thank you for the lengthy response; I enjoyed every word! Hockey was fun in STL those first few seasons. The Blues had almost a "cult" following. Even the STL media was slow to pick up on hockey initially. KMOX actually carried a Cardinals exhibition game from FL instead of the Stanley Cup opener vs. Montreal at the Arena, the first coast to coast USA telecast of a hockey game. Also a lot of media people realized that the Blues were eclipsing the Hawks basketball team, and hated the Blues for that. Two media heroes were Les Charmichael on Channel 4, and Wally Cross who covered the Blues for the Post-Dispatch. The Globe Democrat did not cover the Blues well in the beginning; the musta thought hockey was a socialist plot from Canada! And KPLR, channel 11 would immediately erase the videotape right after every game because they were so cheap. Yes, they even erased Red Berenson's 6-goal game and didn't give a damn. I envy the fact that you saw the Braves. I passed on a couple of chances to go with a friend whose dad loved hockey before STL did. Other players who played for the Braves on their way to the Hawks were goalies Denis DeJordy and Dave Dryden. Both Maki brothers also played for the Braves along with, as you mentioned, Espo. I could write all night about this stuff. I thought briefly about writing a book about the Blues first four seasons, almost as a song-cycle, through the lenses of Bowman, Hall, Berenson, and Picard and their dramatic rise and precipitous fall. The way the magic died in that fourth season, 70-71, was almost a Shakespearean tragedy, and you could see it coming. Bowman was furious with Sid lll; Picard was getting beat up in fights due to his horseback riding injury affecting his balance; Hall was inconsistent and not able to finish games; Berenson had stopped scoring. Camelot was over, and a new era had begun. Great memories that you unleashed! Thanks!!!
Worsley and Hall are so nimble in goal. Canadiens skating and passing outclassed the Blues who had lots of heart, love Al Arbour on D with his glasses on, what a player!
Where di youfind this old film? Looks like it was first transfered to video. THe tracking on this copy is so bad. Would love to find a film or video version and make a cleaner copy. Any leads on where to find one?
23:53…Since 68…Flyers Kings Blues won the cups and of course Montreal won in 69 70s 80s and 90s blackhawks also boston won the cups as well and the rangers.
i'm sorry it was former boston bruin's coach harry sinden for bringing the bruin's out of last place the previous season to second 2 nd place the 1st year of expansion
Could it be that it was going to be a 2road3home1road1home series? Although, they may have just given the expansion division playoff champ team an alternating home-ice each year. I don't know. I do know that from 1971's Final till 1985's the team with the better record was given home-ice advantage with only a few exceptions. I'll explain about that and about '85's Finals, shortly. In '68 though, would Montreal have had game five at the Habs, and game 7, too..I don't know. One other time that I have heard of that lesser team record-wise getting home-ice in the playoffs Final was in '85's CHAMP. SERIES when best regular season series combined record of one conference vs. all the other conf. clubs total combined during the reg. season determined home-ice in the Final, and not overall reg. season record. That was scrapped after one year. Edmonton ended up with fewer points than Philly.. with the Flyers getting home-ice adv. regardless anyway more points or not, because of the new rule= WALES WAS BETTER IN ALL WALES V. CAMPBELL CONFS. HEAD TO HEAD GAMES AGGREGATE THAT SEASON, which was a format determiner that was scrapped after one year, but the Oilers also had three games- #3 thru #5 at home in that format, and beat the Flyers in five..(There was a 2-3-2 Finals format played in '84's as well when Edmonton and Gretzky won Cup#1 over the NY ISLES, and twas a 2-3-2 in 1985, too, again..scrapping it after that, going back to the 2-2-1-1-1 for now..) in all Cup playoff games in modern times(post 1942 with orig. six and with expansion) in the first round with division winners having home ice advant., with only a few exceptions, regardless of season records from 1993-2014, and in the first two rounds if division winners were alive after round one from '14 till 2019 in the first two rounds, which would have continued this season except for the re-formatting due to the suspension of the reg. season because of the viral pandemic. The exceptions in the first round and second round and third round would be during the '90's for one year in '93-94 when the team with the better record or the lone division winner involved in any series featuring Pacific Division vs. Central Div. clubs was given the alternative of surrendering home ice adv. by determing if they wanted to play the first two at home or the middle three on the road in any 2-3-2 format. Otherwise, I have never heard of the surrendering of home-ice advant. to the weaker team in any Cup playoff series post 1942, except for just a few times, more on that in a bit, and in any FINAL with only one exception. In 1970, BOSTON PLAYED THE FIRST TWO of the final IN ST.LOU because the Bos. Garden was tied up with, I believe, the circus. The Celtics were already eliminated from the NBA that season. The CUP FINAL had it gone the full seven, instead of only four, would have been for the better club(Bos.) 2road2home1road2home.. I think that's right because I believe I heard the narrator of the '70's Finals film, the late great Dan Kelly say in his game four voiceover that ST. LOUIS was trying to avoid a sweep and was trying to get the series back to St.Lou. for game five. I could be mistaken, but I think I heard that right/remember him saying that. If not, the series would have been a 2road3home1road1home for the full seven games. Boston had home-ice..I know that. One more thing, in the CUP SEMIFINALS OF 1971, 72, and '73, the CHICAGO BLACK HAWKS= 2 WORDS ON NICKNAME (BLACKHAWKS= ONE WORD SINCE 1986-87) then, had home ice adv. with fewer points each time because they won the West and played a non division winner from the East in the crossover semis..They also had home-ice in either '71 or the 1973 FINAL because they won their division and in one of those years, Montreal did not, yet the CANADIENS with more points, won the series, anyway. There were also the three-division per conference travesties from the 1998-'99 season till '13-14's season= in the first round where the old Southeast Division(one time a Northeast Division club) teams up until they changed it in the late 2000's first decade where #three seeds that did not fit with the three best records in the conference, would drop no lower than sixth place, akin to what the NBA did in the three division era before this latest format change where the worst division winner, record-wise would drop no lower than fourth seed. The NHL changed that almost completely when they went to the 2014-19 CUP playoffs format, top three auto qualifiers in each division, with two wildcards for the 8 club makeup in each conference.. Its up in the air to see if we have that coming back in hopefully, future non-COVID suspended seasons, lol. Yep..
For the first 3 years after the 67-68 Expansion, they did it just like they used to do the World Series in baseball. Home team advantage simply flipped from the West Division (the expansion teams) in ‘68 to the East (the Original Six) in ‘69, and back to the West in ‘70. Much like the National and American Leagues alternated home field advantage in baseball for many years. So the Blues had home ice advantage in the ‘68 and ‘70 Finals. Not that it did us any good, losing all 3 years in 4 games straight. Come to think of it, home ice wasn’t much of an advantage when we finally won it all in 2019. We won 3 in Boston and only 1 at home. Also won 10 road games and only 6 at home for the entire 2019 playoff run.
The Blues were really not the second best team in the league. They were the team that made it through to the Finals in a division with the 6 expansion team all together. I think it was done that way as a compromise with original six teams not all in agreement on expansion. I remembered hall of fame goalie Glenn Hall playing really well but from the highlights the Montreal goalies were also playing well. Blues coach Scotty Bowman brought in veterans such as Dickie Moore and Doug Harvey to help the new team. This turned out to be the closest the Blues got to winning the Cup until they finally did in 2019. This was sure an exciting time in St. Louis. I was a freshman in high school this year and had grown up going to St. Louis Braves games as they were the AAA team of the Chicago Black Hawks.
Just wanted to add I realize the Blues went more times in their early years to the Cup finals as the best of the expansion teams, but it was only in their first year that they played the Finals as competitive as they did in that first year 1967-1968.
@@michaelleroy9281 Thanks for the info. I remember they finished 3rd or 4th in the regular season with the top 4 going to the playoffs. I remember there werre some very exciting playoff games in those early 2 rounds with some games going to overtime. Each game with Montreal was very close with Glenn Hall playing so well.
Larry, I remember those first 3 years of the Blues vividly. Like you, I had gone to one game of the St. Louis Braves in 1965 when they were the Blackhawks farm club. I was only 11 at that time, so really didn’t know the players. Turns out that Phil Esposito was on that team. Gus Kyle, later our radio color commentator, was their coach. By 1970, I was 16 and me and my buddy stood in line in The Arena parking lot and got 2 tix for Game 1 of the 1970 Finals against the hated Bruins. That was the afternoon (yeah, remember Sunday matinee games?) that Jacques Plante got hit in the head by a deflected slap shot. He was out cold and I was afraid he was dead. You could hear a pin drop in The Arena as they took him off on a stretcher. We lost that game 6-1. Forty-nine years later, I spent $3,800 for 4 tix to Game 3 of the Finals against the same hated Bruins. Had to drive all the way from San Antonio (I moved from STL years ago). And, of course, we lost 7-2. The same goddamn 5 goal loss that I saw in 1970! But fortunately, we finally overcame all those disappointments and won The Cup!!!
@@OldRustySteele I enjoyed reading your memories of the Blues. Their first year in St. Loiis was my freshman year in High School, so the Braves were part of my grade school years. Funny you mentioned Phil Esposito. It was through my mom's best girl friend from her high school days who was married to a hockey fan of the Braves that got my Dad interested in seeing a Braves game. I remember my Dad and i going to our first game right after Phil Esposito was called up to Chicago. Braves stars I remember were Dennis Hull (brother of Bobby Hull), Al Boom Boom Caron, Art Stratton, and Oscar Gaudet who all had very limted if any time in the NHL. They did have 2 goalies named Denis DeJordy and Dave Dryden who made it in the NHL and I believe if I am right Fred Stanfield who became a good NHL goal scorer. I sure remember Jacques Plante getting hit like you mentioned. My Dad and I only went to one Blues games a year when I was in high school but maybe 6 or so Braves games a year. The Blues sure were popular right away, and that first playoff run led by Glenn Hall and Red Berenson was really exciting.
support the channel:
donatepay.ru/don/559227
I wonder how many of these folks were still alive to finally see the blues win the cup in 2019?
Glenn Hall was unbelievable in this series! All four of the games could have been victories by the Blues. Montreal sure knew how to win in the Finals.
RIP Alex Trebek.
Indeed he was! The Blues did have one stroke of luck though. Jean Beliveau was out with a broken leg.
The Plager bros.were the heart and soul of the franchise...
I remember my parents taking me to my first Blues game in I believe in 68, I was of course hooked for life.
Hi Dave,
Me too! Was 14 years old in ‘68 and went to my first game against the Red Wings and Gordie Howe. My dad was a big Cardinal baseball fan but knew nothing about hockey, so during warmups, I told him, “See #9 for Detroit? He’s the Babe Ruth of hockey!” So Dad kept watching Gordie for the rest of the game!
@@OldRustySteele My first game was also against the Red Wings. Gordie Howe scored a hat trick off of Seth Martin.
@@donhuber9131 Oh, wow, Don! Seth Martin is a name I almost forgot! He wound up being Glenn Hall's backup in the first season for the Blues. I never attended a game in the '67-'68 season, so I never saw Martin in person. Didn't really get on the Blues bandwagon until Ron Schock's OT goal against the North Stars, then I was hooked for life. So for that matter, didn't see or hear much about Seth Martin period. By that time Hall played most of the games, then Jacques Plant joined the next season.
The first Blues game I attended was that game against Detroit in Fall '68 sometime. Can't rightly remember if Glenn or Jacques was in goal for our Boys in Blue. Glenn Hall was my first hockey hero, and I wound up being a street hockey goalie, then a club hockey goalie, and finally a beer league hockey goalie because of Glenn. (And also, Tony Esposito -- I liked him too).
The first pro hockey game I ever attended was the old St. Louis Braves in 1965. My oldest brother had free tickets, so we went. They were a Blackhawk farm club and wore the same Indian head logo sweaters as the Blackhawks. (So, even as a Blues fan, I've always had a soft spot in my heart for the Blackhawks, which of course, is almost heresy for a native St. Louisan.) I was 11 years old at that time and knew very little about hockey, but those vivid bright red sweaters and the speed of the game caught my eye. The Arena was a filthy, dark dump in those days before the Salomons got the Blues franchise and spent lots of money renovating The Arena.
Years later, I discovered that I had probably seen Phil Esposito in his youth, since he was on that team. Also learned that Gus Kyle was their head coach. Like I said, I was only 11 and not at all knowledgeable about hockey at that time. My whole sports world revolved around Cardinal Baseball until the Blues were a new NHL team and captured Our Town by storm. Gus, as you probably know, was the Blues first Ticket Sales Director and color commentator on KMOX. I can almost hear him now talking to Dan Kelly, "Dan the best defense is a good offense." And of course, during a tight competitive game, "This is a real barn burner!" And after a rather vicious, two-handed slash, "Heh, heh, that's laying the lumber to him!" (Yeah, hockey isn't quite as brutal as it used to be!)
Cheers,
Old Rusty
Oops....Jacques Plante, not Plant.
@@OldRustySteele Thank you for the lengthy response; I enjoyed every word! Hockey was fun in STL those first few seasons. The Blues had almost a "cult" following. Even the STL media was slow to pick up on hockey initially. KMOX actually carried a Cardinals exhibition game from FL instead of the Stanley Cup opener vs. Montreal at the Arena, the first coast to coast USA telecast of a hockey game. Also a lot of media people realized that the Blues were eclipsing the Hawks basketball team, and hated the Blues for that. Two media heroes were Les Charmichael on Channel 4, and Wally Cross who covered the Blues for the Post-Dispatch. The Globe Democrat did not cover the Blues well in the beginning; the musta thought hockey was a socialist plot from Canada! And KPLR, channel 11 would immediately erase the videotape right after every game because they were so cheap. Yes, they even erased Red Berenson's 6-goal game and didn't give a damn.
I envy the fact that you saw the Braves. I passed on a couple of chances to go with a friend whose dad loved hockey before STL did. Other players who played for the Braves on their way to the Hawks were goalies Denis DeJordy and Dave Dryden. Both Maki brothers also played for the Braves along with, as you mentioned, Espo.
I could write all night about this stuff. I thought briefly about writing a book about the Blues first four seasons, almost as a song-cycle, through the lenses of Bowman, Hall, Berenson, and Picard and their dramatic rise and precipitous fall. The way the magic died in that fourth season, 70-71, was almost a Shakespearean tragedy, and you could see it coming. Bowman was furious with Sid lll; Picard was getting beat up in fights due to his horseback riding injury affecting his balance; Hall was inconsistent and not able to finish games; Berenson had stopped scoring. Camelot was over, and a new era had begun.
Great memories that you unleashed! Thanks!!!
Great hockey.
Worsley and Hall are so nimble in goal. Canadiens skating and passing outclassed the Blues who had lots of heart, love Al Arbour on D with his glasses on, what a player!
Great series.
Narrated by Alex Trebek
RIP Trebek
Great games.
i think scotty bowman was named coach of the year when he took the blues to the stanley cup finals that first season 1967-68
No, the Jack Adams was not introduced until 1973-74 when it was awarded to Fred Shero.
The brand new St Louis Blues vs the Montreal Canadiens 4 tough games
Scotty Bowman coaching against his mentor.
‘The parade will follow the usual route.’
Where di youfind this old film? Looks like it was first transfered to video. THe tracking on this copy is so bad. Would love to find a film or video version and make a cleaner copy. Any leads on where to find one?
23:53…Since 68…Flyers Kings Blues won the cups and of course Montreal won in 69 70s 80s and 90s blackhawks also boston won the cups as well and the rangers.
Islanders Oilers Flames Hurricanes Lightning Devils Stars Capitals Red Wings also
i'm sorry it was former boston bruin's coach harry sinden for bringing the bruin's out of last place the previous season to second 2 nd place the 1st year of expansion
scotty bowman can make any team a stanley cup team champ
He has , Montreal Pittsburgh and Detroit where he won Stanley Cups
Not in St. Louis or in Buffalo.
I have a question... Why did the Blues get home ice in the 1968 finals? Montreal finished 1st in the East while St-louis finished 3rd in the West.
Sort of a help the Expansion Team move.
@@20thCenturyManTrad good reason just couldn't find it anywhere
Could it be that it was going to be a 2road3home1road1home
series? Although, they may have just given the expansion division playoff champ team an alternating home-ice each year. I don't know. I do know that from 1971's Final till 1985's the team with the better record was given home-ice advantage with only a few exceptions. I'll explain about that and about '85's Finals, shortly.
In '68 though, would Montreal have had game five at the Habs, and game 7, too..I don't know.
One other time that I have heard of that lesser team record-wise getting home-ice in the playoffs Final was in '85's CHAMP. SERIES when best regular season series combined record of one conference vs. all the other conf. clubs total combined during the reg. season determined home-ice in the Final, and not overall reg. season record. That was scrapped after one year. Edmonton ended up with fewer points than Philly.. with the Flyers getting home-ice adv. regardless anyway more points or not, because of the new rule= WALES WAS BETTER IN ALL WALES V. CAMPBELL CONFS. HEAD TO HEAD GAMES AGGREGATE THAT SEASON, which was a format determiner that was scrapped after one year, but the Oilers also had three games- #3 thru #5 at home in that format, and beat the Flyers in five..(There was a 2-3-2 Finals format played in '84's as well when Edmonton and Gretzky won Cup#1 over the NY ISLES, and twas a 2-3-2 in 1985, too, again..scrapping it after that, going back to the 2-2-1-1-1 for now..)
in all Cup playoff games in modern times(post 1942 with orig. six and with expansion) in the first round with division winners having home ice advant., with only a few exceptions, regardless of season records from 1993-2014, and in the first two rounds if division winners were alive after round one from '14 till 2019 in the first two rounds, which would have continued this season except for the re-formatting due to the suspension of the reg. season because of the viral pandemic.
The exceptions in the first round and second round and third round would be during the '90's for one year in '93-94 when the team with the better record or the lone division winner involved in any series featuring Pacific Division vs. Central Div. clubs was given the alternative of surrendering home ice adv. by determing if they wanted to play the first two at home or the middle three on the road in any 2-3-2 format.
Otherwise, I have never heard of the surrendering of home-ice advant. to the weaker team in any Cup playoff series post 1942, except for just a few times, more on that in a bit, and in any FINAL with only one exception. In 1970, BOSTON PLAYED THE FIRST TWO of the final IN ST.LOU because the Bos. Garden was tied up with, I believe, the circus.
The Celtics were already eliminated from the NBA that season. The CUP FINAL had it gone the full seven, instead of only four, would have been for the better club(Bos.) 2road2home1road2home..
I think that's right because I believe I heard the narrator of the '70's Finals film, the late great Dan Kelly say in his game four voiceover that ST. LOUIS was trying to avoid a sweep and was trying to get the series back to St.Lou. for game five.
I could be mistaken, but I think I heard that right/remember him saying that.
If not, the series would have been a 2road3home1road1home for the full seven games.
Boston had home-ice..I know that.
One more thing, in the CUP SEMIFINALS OF 1971, 72, and '73, the CHICAGO
BLACK HAWKS= 2 WORDS ON NICKNAME
(BLACKHAWKS= ONE WORD SINCE 1986-87) then, had home ice adv. with fewer points each time because they won the West and played a non division winner from the East in the crossover semis..They also had home-ice in either '71 or the 1973 FINAL because they won their division and in one of those years, Montreal did not, yet the CANADIENS with more points, won the series, anyway.
There were also the three-division per conference travesties from the 1998-'99 season till '13-14's season= in the first round where the old Southeast Division(one time a Northeast Division club) teams up until they changed it in the late 2000's first decade where #three seeds that did not fit with the three best records in the conference, would drop no lower than sixth place, akin to what the NBA did in the three division era before this latest format change where the worst division winner, record-wise would drop no lower than fourth seed.
The NHL changed that almost completely when they went to the 2014-19 CUP playoffs format, top three auto qualifiers in each division, with two wildcards for the 8 club makeup in each conference..
Its up in the air to see if we have that coming back in hopefully, future non-COVID suspended seasons, lol.
Yep..
Yep, to welcome expansion to the league, plain and simple.
For the first 3 years after the 67-68 Expansion, they did it just like they used to do the World Series in baseball. Home team advantage simply flipped from the West Division (the expansion teams) in ‘68 to the East (the Original Six) in ‘69, and back to the West in ‘70. Much like the National and American Leagues alternated home field advantage in baseball for many years.
So the Blues had home ice advantage in the ‘68 and ‘70 Finals. Not that it did us any good, losing all 3 years in 4 games straight.
Come to think of it, home ice wasn’t much of an advantage when we finally won it all in 2019. We won 3 in Boston and only 1 at home. Also won 10 road games and only 6 at home for the entire 2019 playoff run.
23:55….it took them another 51 years for that to happen lol
The Blues were really not the second best team in the league. They were the team that made it through to the Finals in a division with the 6 expansion team all together. I think it was done that way as a compromise with original six teams not all in agreement on expansion. I remembered hall of fame goalie Glenn Hall playing really well but from the highlights the Montreal goalies were also playing well. Blues coach Scotty Bowman brought in veterans such as Dickie Moore and Doug Harvey to help the new team. This turned out to be the closest the Blues got to winning the Cup until they finally did in 2019. This was sure an exciting time in St. Louis. I was a freshman in high school this year and had grown up going to St. Louis Braves games as they were the AAA team of the Chicago Black Hawks.
Just wanted to add I realize the Blues went more times in their early years to the Cup finals as the best of the expansion teams, but it was only in their first year that they played the Finals as competitive as they did in that first year 1967-1968.
The Blues started the season horribly they caught fire in February and March and in the playoffs up until the final
@@michaelleroy9281 Thanks for the info. I remember they finished 3rd or 4th in the regular season with the top 4 going to the playoffs. I remember there werre some very exciting playoff games in those early 2 rounds with some games going to overtime. Each game with Montreal was very close with Glenn Hall playing so well.
Larry,
I remember those first 3 years of the Blues vividly. Like you, I had gone to one game of the St. Louis Braves in 1965 when they were the Blackhawks farm club. I was only 11 at that time, so really didn’t know the players. Turns out that Phil Esposito was on that team. Gus Kyle, later our radio color commentator, was their coach.
By 1970, I was 16 and me and my buddy stood in line in The Arena parking lot and got 2 tix for Game 1 of the 1970 Finals against the hated Bruins. That was the afternoon (yeah, remember Sunday matinee games?) that Jacques Plante got hit in the head by a deflected slap shot. He was out cold and I was afraid he was dead. You could hear a pin drop in The Arena as they took him off on a stretcher. We lost that game 6-1.
Forty-nine years later, I spent $3,800 for 4 tix to Game 3 of the Finals against the same hated Bruins. Had to drive all the way from San Antonio (I moved from STL years ago). And, of course, we lost 7-2. The same goddamn 5 goal loss that I saw in 1970!
But fortunately, we finally overcame all those disappointments and won The Cup!!!
@@OldRustySteele I enjoyed reading your memories of the Blues. Their first year in St. Loiis was my freshman year in High School, so the Braves were part of my grade school years. Funny you mentioned Phil Esposito. It was through my mom's best girl friend from her high school days who was married to a hockey fan of the Braves that got my Dad interested in seeing a Braves game. I remember my Dad and i going to our first game right after Phil Esposito was called up to Chicago. Braves stars I remember were Dennis Hull (brother of Bobby Hull), Al Boom Boom Caron, Art Stratton, and Oscar Gaudet who all had very limted if any time in the NHL. They did have 2 goalies named Denis DeJordy and Dave Dryden who made it in the NHL and I believe if I am right Fred Stanfield who became a good NHL goal scorer. I sure remember Jacques Plante getting hit like you mentioned. My Dad and I only went to one Blues games a year when I was in high school but maybe 6 or so Braves games a year. The Blues sure were popular right away, and that first playoff run led by Glenn Hall and Red Berenson was really exciting.
23:54 "Someday, there will be a Stanley Cup parade in St. Louis."
2019
@@michaelleroy9281 Imagine telling them that.
@September2004 2019 couldn't have happened at all , in 1983 the team could have moved to Saskatoon Saskatchewan or folded
Back when women didn’t shave it 😝
😀
Doesn't really matter this is a film about hockey
And yes, the goalie is not wearing a mask! Wow!
Both of them..
@@robertsprouse9282 Final final were both goalies were maskless. Next season, Vachon was the last maskless goalie to win the cup!