Les Oilers et les Flyers se retrouvent en finale pour la deuxième fois en trois ans. Cette série chronologique avait besoin des sept matchs complets.
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Les Oilers et les Flyers se retrouvent en finale pour la deuxième fois en trois ans. Cette série chronologique avait besoin des sept matchs complets.
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I was 12 years old and watched this entire series on ESPN (during ESPN's first go-around with NHL broadcasts) and I became a gigantic Ron Hextall fan throughout the playoffs that year. The Red Wings (my local favorite) were already bounced out by the Oilers. I was really pulling for the Flyers this entire series. When Glenn Anderson made that killshot late in the 3rd and I saw Hextall's head look behind him and then down in defeat….man, I was so gutted 🙁
We tended to take those Oilers teams for granted…..you knew they were going to be there at the end….who was going to take them out, finally? Looking back as a 40-something now, you truly respect and gaze in awe as that dynasty had so many great players…..Gretzky, Kurri, Messier, Anderson, Coffey, MacTavish, Lowe, Fuhr…..with free agency and salary restrictions nowadays, you will never see a team stacked like this ever again. Sure, the Red Wings had a pretty good crew when they had their run with the Russian Five….but they never had that aura of invincibility like these Oilers teams had.
If my memory is correct, this was the last game that ESPN broadcast for a while as they lost their NHL broadcast rights to Sportschannel America the following year. My area didn't have Sportschannel on the cablesystem, so I was relegated to just Red Wings broadcasts on WKBD 50 for a few years. I loved that ability to check out different teams around the league and ESPN's "breaking in" to other network feeds to show different games during a lull in the original game. That period sucked for me with hardly any hockey on television, It wouldn't be until the 1990's when ESPN got the NHL contract back for US broadcasts and it just wasn't the same. You had the judge Bill Pidhto who was awesome and of course, the mullet himself Barry Melrose and you couldn't have NHL on ESPN without John Saunders and Tom Mees. When Mees passed away later in the decade, a part of my hockey-loving youth went with him :-(. Part of what made ESPN 2.0 NHL lackluster to me was that it was glitzed up a bit versus the original run. That just reflected the changing times and ESPN becoming a larger network with bigger production budgets. I guess a part of me misses the early ESPN where it was so freewheeling, you didn't know what sport they were going to show next. The NHL was ESPN's first broadcast contract and they did a wonderful job with it.
I love how Edmonton used the Neutral Zone Trap.
I remember the exact excitement I felt when watching this originally. It's like I'm 15 again.
Thanks!
7:31 – if only.
Is it just me or after mark mesai got the penalty who saw a winger man punch the other winger
Wayne giving the Cup to Smith- class move from a class guy.
Wow Doug Crossman really had some missed chances!
Oilers' original home arena, Edm., Alta.-Canada's Northlands Coliseum had seating capacity, 16,000+
Funny seeing boards with no advertising back then. I preferred it that way..
Losing goaltender wins MVP? Please some one tell me how that works.
Great upload. I remember this game 7 so well. This was the closest the Flyers came to a cup since 1975. Now 45 years and counting HAHAHA !! Love it, FLYERS LOSERS 🙂
This Flyers team looked really good. High energy, fast and didn't give Edmonton a whole lot of time and space.
I am from Philly and remember these games. Now, I know they're all scripted. I can prove it. Back then the oilers could have won 8 cups.
what if oilers had drafted a robitaille, etc, another HOF during this run, they scored large in 79 80 81 drafts, didnt do to well after, imagine in they added a gilmour/hull/robitialle in other drafts
The Oilers were one of the best teams in history
John Ziegler also got booed. 1:57:05 Great tradition.
A team having Kevin Lowe on defence is a lucky team!
Where is Semenko? Kent Nilsson, another great addition.
Damn that Oilers team was stacked
watching in 2021. I'm 46 years old. I watched this wen i was 12.
TODAYS HOCKEY AINT GOT NOTHING ON THIS. Thank you so much for posting this I love watching
Hextall was a great goalie before he went batshit crazy.
Ah yes, the good ol' days…Back when Don Cherry could say anything on Coach's Corner when there was no political correctness & all that other B.S. goin on today….Back when no one got offended
The 1980s. What a decade for hockey. The New York Islanders win 4 Stanley Cups, including one over the Edmonton Oilers, then the Oilers finally win their 1st beating the Islanders to end the Islanders dynasty, then they defeat the Philadelphia Flyers the following season, then in this video defeat Philadelphia again, then in 1988 defeat the Boston Bruins to win their 4th cup. Those Oilers teams were awesome back then.
THAT EDMONTON TEAM, WITH MESSIER AND GRETZKY BOTH IN THEIR PRIME, WAS JUST TOO MUCH. YES IT'S TEAM GAME AND YES THEY HAD OTHER GOOD PLAYERS, ( I THINK THEY EVEN HAD ANOTHER SUPER STAR PLAYER,( CURRY, OR KERRI OR KEIRI, WHATEVER, I THINK HE WAS FROM FINLAND SO GOOD LUCK WITH THE SPELLING), BUT WHEN EITHER ONE OF THOSE GUYS WAS JUST ON THE ICE,DOING NOTHING, TYING THEIR LACES, TAKING A LITTLE CAT NAP, THEY STRESSED PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR NORMAL GAMES THAT GOT THEM TO THE PLAYOFFS. THEN THEY LOOSE.
As an 11 year old Flyers fan, this game broke my heart. Hextall was amazing and the rest of the team gave it everything they had but Edmonton was just too good. If the Flyers had Tim Kerr, I think they win the cup. He would have been good for 3 or 4 goals and that really could have made a difference with most of the games being close.
My accountant attended this game! 🤔😀
Thanks for posting the entire game.
1987 was a great year in sports for Edmonton (and therefore the whole world). Oilers won the Stanley Cup. D'uh! And the Eskimos won the Grey Cup.
One Steve Smith mistake away from at least 5 in a row
I was 9 and Oilers were my team, my mom pulled for Flyers. We named our cats that we just got Kurri and Hextall. Lol they lived for 20 years. Anyway, this series was awesome and I’m thankful for YouTube to relive my childhood memories.
Very interesting story about Craig MacTavish and how he became an Oilers. Such a great, honest hockey player.
Ron Hextall became the 4th of 5 Current NHL Players(In 2022) to win the Conn Smythe Award while playing for the losing team after this Stanley Cup Finals.
The 5th Player was Jean-Sebastien Giguere in 2003 when his Anaheim Mighty Ducks lost a tough 7 game Stanley Cup Finals to the New Jersey Devils.
this series was really good. one of the best possibly. so many strong performances. i did notice that keenan could not seem t figure out the line combos particularly in this game. sather played his hand all series. kerr was hurt and that was a big loss for philly. in the end philly player for player was actually was as good if not better than EDM. like said so many strong performances. thanks for the upload.
Wow. If this were hockey I'd never follow anything else. Epic doesn't do this game justice.
Has anyone else ever played a worse championship game than Doug Crossman did in this game? Ugh 🤮
Amazing how Edmonton skated in this game.
The LA Kings stole three Stanley Cups from the Oilers; 1982, 1983,..and 1989 ,..
Little did we know the influence this game would have on the 1994 New York Rangers Cup run.
I remember watching this with my dad in the living room…hes gone now but we loved the oilers
Kurri is such a sniper. Great balance and great hockey savy.