Le 9 octobre 1974, l’une des plus récentes équipes d’expansion de la LNH, les Capitals de Washington, est entrée sur la glace lors du tout premier match de leur franchise. Au fil de la saison, les Capitals ont fini par jouer si mal qu’ils cimenteraient la place de leur équipe dans les livres d’histoire du hockey pour toutes les mauvaises raisons… C’est l’histoire de la pire équipe de l’histoire de la LNH. Devenez mécène ici : https://www.patreon.com/OddManRush Twitter : https://twitter.com/OddManRushYT N’hésitez pas à aimer, à vous abonner, à partager ou à regarder certaines de mes autres vidéos et merci beaucoup d’avoir regardé !
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This years wings werent much better unfortunately, atleast this was the caps inaugural year
The worst team ever? Did you miss the Red wings season that was cut short this year? Even with the year being cut short 17-49-5.
0:24 Why would a map a map display Michigan people being a fan of Chicago black hawks?. I understand the extended range for states without a team, but sorry Chicago wouldn't own fan base in Michigan, at least not that deeply. We kind of hate them.
0:23 how do the rangers have Suffolk county????
This record may never be broken
How does a young british chap like yourself know so much about hockey? Not just the present era, but the 90s, and prior decades?
Worst team in NHL history but still beat Toronto
British people shouldn’t talk hockey, it just sounds strange.
Imagine putting up 58 points on a team like that
10 years later Ovechkin was born
I’m 1000 like
3:44 why do they all look the same?
It’s funny that the worst ever expansion team won the stanley cup by beating the best expansion team. Not a caps fan but i loved it when they beat vegas
Zero percent chance that Seattle will have a record even close to this. It's just not possible the way the draft is set up now.
Reminds me of the inaugural season of the London knights (uk) in the old superleague. 10 wins in 42 games, mostly against equally inept Newcastle, a revolving cast, beleaguered goalies and cast off Basingstoke players, topped by a shock 6-2 stonking of champions Manchester. Oh, and Pat Sharpe as MC. Wonderfully bizarre days gone by.
The Capitals wore white pants with red jerseys in that first game, and as I remember, it was kind of unusual just for that! Of course they would lose that game, and 66 more to follow. But we will never forget the Washington Capitals of 1974-75!
I read a book about the 74-75 Capitals, one of many funny stories from that season and book that really sticks out is that after one of their 8 wins the team took the garbage can from the dressing room, brought it out on the ice and skated around with it over their heads like they just won the Stanley Cup, lol…… They knew they were garbage, but at least they were graceful and humorous about it….
The terrible 1974-75 Washington Capitals had no real goaltender. Ron Low won eight games, and Michel Belhumeur won none. Belhumeur did not do much of anything behind the twine, but he had perhaps the best surname:
Belhumeur is French for "good humor".
I came here to be distracted from the evil in the world .Those poor caps.
As a DC native I’m glad I wasn’t there but my dad was and he told me no one really cared because no one really cared about hockey in dc
I feel like in about 65% of the pictures he put in, you can find at least one person that has an oddly funny facial expression
Senators 2021
I'm trying to figure out why Poulin would change the team colours and logo? It was definately breaking tradition.
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The Winnipeg jets organization should be up their with the rest if the garbage teams in the NHL. Absolutely disgusting behavior from a team captain like Wheeler being jealous of
Lanie stealing his captain position shame on the Winnipeg jets organization.
I'll never watch Another Winnipeg game ever again…. and I'm from Winnipeg.
I saw this team play my Penguins on March 15, 1975 at the old Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. We won 12-1. Michel Belhemur gave up 7 "quick" goals and was relieved by Ron Low, who coughed up 5 more. This team was devoid of the concept of defense and I remember feeling sorry for them.
I'm a native Washingtonian born in 1981. It's hard to believe that the inaugural season for the Caps will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. Their record in 1974-75 would have made both incarnations of the Senators blush and I would probably think after the novelty wore off, the Cap Centre was virtually empty. Nowadays, trying to get tickets to a Caps game is near impossible just like the Washington Football Team and Georgetown Hoyas Basketball, who played their big Big East games at the Cap Centre in Landover in the 80s.
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Jolly was an ENORMOUS bust.
Your hockey team "map" at 0:23 is ridiculous. There's a certain little country that was somewhat influential in hockey's development, called "Canada". Maybe you've heard of it?
As a Sabres fan, I needed to watch this lol
As a life-long Washington Captials I appreciate you spotlighting our franchise. Ever since the VGK season I always wondered if they, the VGK got a sweetheart deal as an expansion team. Was the Capitals / Scouts expansion draft that worse of a deal?
it was around this time that the WHA was pretty much on par with the NHL..on average , expansion and the WHA really started to effect the NHLs overall talent pool
The Kansas City Scouts/Colorado Rockies/New Jersey Devils gave the Caps a run for their money.
Speaking of bad starts – when the narrator mispronounces the owner's name in the first sentence after the intro?
That was a bad time for nhl expansion as the '70's expansion teams didn't get the Bettman expansion draft gifting vgk and kraken get today. And with the wha out there the talent pool was drained. And markets were saturated as well. Due to the instability of caps and kc scouts (who moved to denver (a '76 expansion site with seattle) and atl. flames floundering at the gate as well nhl called off '76 expansion. And moved cali golden seals to cleveland to become the barons. And caps just like scouts got a garbage expansion list of re-treads and never will be's to choose from. Probably why caps only won 8 games that inaugural season.
Couldn't stand the voice..what donthe Brits know about hockey
I saw the 74-75 Capitals live in Vancouver with my Dad. I heard my Dad say "that's terrible" to a song the organist was playing. I asked him what's terrible? He's playing Bye, Bye Blackbird while rookie Mike Maarson who is black was skating by during the warm up. That flew over most people's heads but not my Dad's. Those were the Archie Bunker days when people just called it comedy. Could you imagine that happening in this day and age? Anyway, the whole vibe of that team was the worst and that organist didn't help matters. Greg Joly? I don't think so.
Many Long Time Washington Capitals Fans Had a Rough Time Rooting For a Bad Team Before Washington Became Suddenly Good in 1982!
I just came back to predict that the Arizona Coyotes could that spot for the 2021-22 season
I am 1 of 88 people that gave the Capitals their team name through a contest to name the new hockey team. I still have the autographed Victoriaville stick I received at the Capital Center buffet dinner. Signed by Pollin, GM Schmit plus 1st pick Greg Joly. I had 2 season tickets the 1st season. A very tough first season.
As I sat in Legends Restaurant with my 2 sons watching the Caps finally hoisting the Cup for the first time, I cried like a baby. My boys asked what was wrong and all I could think of was all of the terrible years that the Caps struggled .As a boy I listened to every game on WTOP radio. I never gave up because I knew that someday they would prove everyone wrong. I had met many of the early players , and even got to skate with them in an open practice at Tysons Ice rink. I would cut out newspaper clippings of every win and hang them on my bedroom wall. I would wear my authentic Caps jersey to school { which I still have }.
I can die now HAPPY !!!!! Lets Go Caps….. forever and always !!!!!
You might want to research how some of the name are pronounced before you did the story, lol
1974-75 Caps: We're the worst expansion team in history!
1976-77 Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Hold my beer.
Man, and I thought the 2016-17 Avalanche were bad