Hi-lites d’une équipe de première année des Sabres de Buffalo qui comprend Joe Daley (dans le but), Gilbert Perreault (année recrue), Eddie Shack et Floyd Smith (le capitaine). Jacques Plante est le gardien des Leafs.
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Sabres de Buffalo @ Maple Leafs de Toronto 19 décembre 1970
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I seem to remember Henderson wearing that football mask for quite a while. Does anybody remember why and how long did he wear it.
Strange to see a goalie without a mask….
Its a strange feeling watching it from my living room here in Prague, as I know for sure I would have been sitting in the living room with my dad watching the game…I would have turned 10 a little over a month before. School would be out..Christmas tree would have been up with the lights on…my mom would have been making us some kind of snack for us while doing her Christmas baking…always loved that last Hockey Night In Canada game before Christmas from the Gardens…the seasons greetings painted at Centre Ice. Happiest times of my life.
REAL hockey as played by REAL men. Take notes kids
Plante was awesome in goal during his time with the Leafs.
Keon was such a good skater
I would have been four weeks old then
Larry, your thoughts and emotions while watching this are almost exactly the same as mine. That time of year was almost magical for me, as I was surrounded by all the things that made life seem happy and safe. Watching the Leafs with my dad on Saturday night was something that was a given. Like you, in December the living room would have the scent of the Christmas tree, the colours of the lights on the bows and the excitement of counting down how many more sleeps until Christmas morning. I too wish I could do it all again.
I remember the Esso Power Players too. Eventually I had the set. Took some time: my Dad,trading at school,some friends. I remember the little blue pouches and the book you put the stamps in. Friend of mine NEVER got the last two he needed. lol. Looking at other people's books, I discovered something unusual: the ones you didn't have to collect,already small photos in the book,varied from book to book. I guess a true collecting fiend went after those anyway. Maybe a decade later,a friend showed me his Power Players,stuck in the ''fancy'' hard cover edition. Sadly,my collection is long,long gone. I think I stupidly took it apart over time. My Mom likely finished it off. lol. I was nine in 1971.Time fades away. Still waiting,in vain,for a Leaf Cup. lol. Great memories. Thanks.
Always wondered why Dave Keon was on the 72 Team Canada team. With his skating and work killing penalties it's almost a non brainer.
I was a wee little baby back then.
Ullman, Henderson and Ellis, Holy Cow!
I remember watching this exact game as a 11 year old on black and white. Amazing.
Keon was the best player on the ice.
The sound is sometimes a little muffled with these kinescope recordings. Still very happy these exist. Leafs goalies (Parent & Plante) really led the team this year. Wonder how good the Leafs would have been if Parent Ley Selwood etc hadn't jumped to the WHA.
This was Ryan Miller's rookie season.
Jacques Plante was the Leafs goalie for almost all of the games in 1970-71. He lead all goalies with a 1.88 GAA…he was 42 years old!!
Both Jacques Plante and Dave Keon were on the NHL 2nd All Star team in 1970-71. It was Darryl Sittler's rookie season, he played as a 19 year old. The Maple Leafs played the The New York Rangers in the 1st round of the playoffs and lost in 6 games. They did have a HUGE bench clearing brawl in one of the games, it's on YouTube if you search it out, hard to believe how fast time has gone by, I was 18 when this game was played….YIKES!
The first year for that Toronto Maple Leafs logo, which has been (with a few tweaks along the way) been used ever since, until 2017.
1970's hockey was real Canadian hockey. French Canadian and English Canadian playing together or against each other. The Canadian dream from my childhood.
Leafs beating Sabres? That doesn't happen very often. Curse of Punch Imlach!
Amazing that Daley didn't wear a mask, and most of the other players didn't wear helmets.
That Perreault! What a hockey player. McDavid, kid, I think your great. But Perreault was one in 5 million of a hockey player! If he would have had the concentration/drive of a Orr or Gretzky and played in a bigger market; he would have achieved what those two greats achieved. Punch was lucky.
Bob Goldham. He set the standard for the Howie Meekers and the Don Cherrys
Glad to see this is still up…I always like to watch it as the holiday season approaches…hard to describe the comforting feeling and the sense emory I get from this.
I was 6 years old when my dad took me to see this game. We sat in the reds as there was no gold seating at the time, maybe 10 rows above the Leafs bench. I remember Punch's hat behind the Buffalo bench and a smiling Eddy Shack carrying the puck while the fans booed LOL! I idolized Jacques Plante and Dave Keon back then and felt somehow that they were truly invincible players. It was pure heaven!
Love you Dad.
One of the goalies in this game was a man, the other goalie was Jacques Plante.
One of the great rivalries in all sports in it's infancy.
I simply love watching oldtime hockey. Thanks.
This is before Jack Eichel.
Little did Leafs Nation know what pain the next 50 years would hold, lol. With some memorable moments of course!
Awesome rivilary.
Fuck utube
Dave Keon turned 80 this past March.
Watched on HNIC in Buffalo🇺🇸NY. Day after Dad's 54th b-day. Mine was in 6 days. Would turn 11. 1st year playing goal. Had a JP Fibrosport mask. Wow. Good days.
The Jim Watson playing for Buffalo was not the Jim Watson who was the younger brother of Joe, when the brothers played for the Flyers a few years later.
Where's the color. The video quality harkens back to 1950 not 1970. Men had already walked on the moon twice by then.
Keon a fireplug out there 👍🇨🇦
Dave Keon was my first Hockey hero
Daley was nuts. One of the last maskless goalies
Love the old videos..I was 10 years old at this time and my favorite goalie Jaques Plante playing
I had the same helmet/mask for lacrosse Henderson is wearing
Great videos to watch! HNIC was and will always be the gold standard for hockey telecasts. Many of the players seen here joined the Hockey Hall of Fame. Was a joy to watch. Grew up watching these players and idolizing many of them.