Funny series of clips for this video. Kind of like those 70s Saturday nights on HNIC, Habs 8, Toronto 2. Molson Cup three stars from Maple Leaf Gardens......third star, with 2 goals and an assist Larry Robinson.....the second star, with 3 goals and 2 assists Guy Lafleur.....and, the first star, with an assist Borje Salming. The good old days were fun.
Phil Esposito did say.. later on... that the Bruins of Orr & Esposito were a party team, that didn't focus sufficiently on winning. ... For the seventh game in Boston, the day before, many Bruins were at Suffolk Downs, watching the ponies. Meanwhile, the Canadiens were spending the day before watching lots of game film. The Habs, as an entire organization, was planning to win.... not just 'show up'.
Gee you'd almost think Boston won --- THINK AGAIN! Habs beat Bruins in all 3 playoff meetings with Orr/Espo, '68, '69 and '71 -- and won cups those years.
If I didn't know better I would have thought the Bruins beat the Canadiens in the playoffs. Unfortunately the Bruins lost. How about showing game 2 in Boston after the Bruins led 5-2 going into the third period only to have the Canadiens score 5 goals and beat the Bruins 7-5. Go Habs Go!
Walter Balan -You had to rub it in eh? What a great game The Canadiens Captain has that night. The Bruins forgot that you don’t leave big John Beliveau around the net to long by himself and he made them pay dearly in that 2nd game. Nice pass from behind the net also!
Would someone please explain to me how Orr scored that goal behind the goal line with Dryden blocking the side of g T he net…..that was Orr, always making the impossible possible.
Let's not forget that as far Boston had Orr, Montreal had several good players. No need to name them all!!! That is why Montreal won all those playoffs against them, for several years. Nowadays, a team with a star alone cannot win the Stanley Cup.
The Bruins also had "several" good players besides Orr. Esposito, Bucyk, Sanderson, Hodge, to name a few. Except for 1968 the series were close,In 1969 the Canadiens won in 6 ( three OT wins for C's, in which in all 3 the Bruins were ahead LATE). In 1971 the B's blew a 5-1 lead in game 2 which pretty much decided it.( that and Dryden in game 7)
As Jay Davidson has pointed out, Montreal won twelve of seventeen Bruins - Habs playoff games during the Orr & Esposito era, losing all three series: in '68, '69, & '71.What can mitigate against such facts?
C's won all playoff series during that period vs B's but the B's ALWAYS dominated regular seasonmuch more and had superior stars in Orr and Esposito ( and they still won 2 Stanley Cups, albeit when being able to avoid C's in playoffs). Remember the B's -C's series of those years were very close affairs, especially in 1969 when they B's were already better and should have won that series, also C's always had better goalies. Save for 1970 Cheevers and Eddie J. were always a bust.
IMO Earle was a much better play by play man and more articulate than Fred "the bore" Cusick. Earle was canned after he was loudly booed during an on ice presentation at BG. Thinking him unpopular Bruins management let him go.
well what really happened was Mr. Adams was in failing health and with an only son , had to turn the shooting match over to Jr. At the same time, A local sports talk show on the same station WBZ AM was taking pot shots at the Bruins mgmt for letting the Garden deteriorate. This talk show organized an away game for few fans. The team, players, and media was ORDERED by Jr. to ignore these fans at the away game. THE ONLY ONE TO SIGN AUTOGRAPHS, fo these people and act like a gentleman was DON EARLE, because that's the kind man he was. After the 1971 disaster Fred Cusick took over the TV MIKE His name was mudd with Bruin mgmnt after that. Don died in 1993, The leaser of that sports show man who's weight has always exceeded his IQ lives on............there is no justice
I agree: Don Earle WAS better than Fred.Why D. Earle was ever booed.. is a big mystery to me. What I heard or read.. was that 'Westy' thought that Don had criticized the Bruins or the organization "on mic"... and 'Westy's' ego couldn't take that.
Probably the worst possible set of clips ever thrown together. Montreals huge upset over this heavily favored Bruins team was one of the greatest upsets in the history of professional sports. This video is a joke.
Had to be the biggest upset in NHL history. The Bs were dominant that year, including pasting the Canadiens in a couple of games at season's end. The Bruins came into this series fat and happy, and overconfident. If they had played to their capabilities, Boston would have won in a 4 game sweep.
WHY did Orr not score a single goal in the 5th, 6th, or 7th games in this 1971 playoff series against Montreal? Orr's Bruins never beat Montreal in the NHL playoffs.
I think, as in the final the following year vs the Rangers, Orr was playing this series on one leg. I think that explains his inconsistent form in this series as it was later revealed Orr had constant pain in this series in his left knee. In'72 Orr was dogcrap in the first two games of the final , then took over and singlehandedly won games 4 and the clincher, game 6.
indoctus41 -The nature of his offensive minded play caught him sometimes during his career but that being said Orr is the best defenseman I’ve ever seen. For every outstanding offensive play Orr made he had many more spectacular defensive plays. People forget that about Orr.
Mr. Thompson, we're dealing with SUBJECTIVE opinion here: thus, there cannot be any right or wrong. We can only fairly discuss actual fact, such as number of games, number of goals, etc.....It seems odd that you would feel so insecure.. just 'cause someone disagrees with you. Good luck in therapy.
Orr was not the best defenseman in NHL, far far far from that!!!! He was the best OFFENSIVE defenseman, Robinson was way ahead of him as the best defenseman as to be a real defense for the goal tender.
You are truly delusional--no one in their right mind would say that Robinson was better than Orr. Orr was hands down the greatest player to ever play the game (not simply the best defenseman)--he dominated the game like no other player in the history of the league, and with beat up knees to boot.
consider this, Bobby Orr has the best plus minus in NHL history at plus 125 in 1971, Robinson was second at plus 120 in 1977. I guess they both were pretty good defenders. They did it in different ways though. orr did it thru possession of the puck ( he seemed to always have it when on the ice). Robinson was a physical specimen( much like Chara is today), and he just pounded his opponents into submission and had long reach.
@@laudace1764 ... nah, most hockey experts would agree that Orr is a fantastic player, but his defensive skills lacked in comparison to his offensive skills. I'd take Robinson in his prime over Orr on the basis of defensive play. Offensively, Orr was par excellence! Without equal and that includes Gretzky ... mainly because Orr changed the game fundamentally whereas Gretzky capitalized on the way the game changed .
@@billybenden4431 B's fan my entire life. Don't know if Orr was better than Robinson, its very close. Orr won 2 scoring titles, Robinson 0, Orr won 2 Stanley Cups, Robinson won 6. Orr was all time plus minus for a season at 125, Robinson did 120 once. Robinson was more imposing physically and was most effective as a defender this way than Orr. Orr relied more on speed and anticipation defensively. Robinson was much more durable and as a result played much longer than Orr( so his point total is higher career wise). All in all as far as both being complete players its pretty much a wash. Also i liked Brad Park a lot as well.
This is a pathetically one-sided highlight reel. To be sure, what is seen here is interesting, and the Bruins look basically strong. Most of these goals, however, are from games that the Bruins won that April of '71. What about the four games they lost to the Habs in this playoff series? How about the fact that Esposito and Orr both scored NOTHING in the critical 7th game in Boston, the Bruins losing 4 - 2 ? Frank Mahovlich scored seven goals in this series, which is almost more than Espo & Orr combined! How about the fact that in the second game, 4/8/71, the Bruins had a 5 - 1 lead late in the second period. Montreal scored six (6) unanswered goals to win, 7 - 5, and Orr was on the ice [allegedly he was a defenseman] for at least five of those seven Hab goals. The Bruins SHOULD have won this series..... but took the gas pipe, for sure.
34Packardphaeton -That playoff series your talking about, any other player would not have been playing. Orr left knee was blowing up between periods and he had to pack it in ice. So please, if your going to be critical of one of hockey's bravest, know what your talking about.
Tv 38. I loved watching their broadcasts. I still remember the theme song
Don't think I've ever seen all the spectacular highlights by the losing team
Funny series of clips for this video. Kind of like those 70s Saturday nights on HNIC, Habs 8, Toronto 2. Molson Cup three stars from Maple Leaf Gardens......third star, with 2 goals and an assist Larry Robinson.....the second star, with 3 goals and 2 assists Guy Lafleur.....and, the first star, with an assist Borje Salming. The good old days were fun.
In the 1970-71season, the bruins were rewriting the record books but in the first round of the playoffs, Ken Dryden stopped them.
.... along with new acquisition, Frank Mahovlich, who led the Habs over the Bruins with seven (7) goals.
If the Bruins gave up drinking they would have defeated Montreal 🍺
Phil Esposito did say.. later on... that the Bruins of Orr & Esposito were a party team, that didn't focus sufficiently on winning. ... For the seventh game in Boston, the day before, many Bruins were at Suffolk Downs, watching the ponies. Meanwhile, the Canadiens were spending the day before watching lots of game film. The Habs, as an entire organization, was planning to win.... not just 'show up'.
Also at that time record for wins( 57-14-7)
They won the Stanley Cup in 71-72 that means people should stop whining about what happened the season before
Jean Beliveau ' s last season went out as SC Champion
You would think that the Bruins won based on this clips. Reality is that the Habs won in 7 and went on to win the Cup.
Orr's goal at 2:23, one of the most incredible i've EVAH seen!
Sick!
Game 2. Orr goes from +4 to -2 in 16 minutes
Great series.
Gee you'd almost think Boston won --- THINK AGAIN! Habs beat Bruins in all 3 playoff meetings with Orr/Espo, '68, '69 and '71 -- and won cups those years.
There were a total of seventeen games between them, over those three playoff series. Boston won five; Montreal won twelve.
I guess Boston was just fortunate that somehow the Habs didn't show up to play them in the 1970 and 1972 playoffs, right?
@@laudace1764 Exactly!!
@@joanschooley5160 LOL!
If I didn't know better I would have thought the Bruins beat the Canadiens in the playoffs. Unfortunately the Bruins lost. How about showing game 2 in Boston after the Bruins led 5-2 going into the third period only to have the Canadiens score 5 goals and beat the Bruins 7-5. Go Habs Go!
Walter Balan -You had to rub it in eh? What a great game The Canadiens Captain has that night. The Bruins forgot that you don’t leave big John Beliveau around the net to long by himself and he made them pay dearly in that 2nd game. Nice pass from behind the net also!
rather watch the westfall boo kinder
Later in that 3rd period, Jacques Lemaire intercepted a pass intended for Orr for a breakaway goal, tying the game at 5 - 5.
the entire highlight video of game 2 is available on another video on you tube.
Great hockey.
Would someone please explain to me how Orr scored that goal behind the goal line with Dryden blocking the side of g T he net…..that was Orr, always making the impossible possible.
That's Bobby Orr and the way he played the game
I still haven't found any videos of the Canadiens' 8-3 shellacking of the Bruins in game 6 of that 1971 series. Why is that one mysteriously missing?
czcams.com/video/_Hb7sHlJXH8/video.html
@@the1101experiment That's the link for game 2, not game 6.
Let's not forget that as far Boston had Orr, Montreal had several good players. No need to name them all!!! That is why Montreal won all those playoffs against them, for several years. Nowadays, a team with a star alone cannot win the Stanley Cup.
The Bruins also had "several" good players besides Orr. Esposito, Bucyk, Sanderson, Hodge, to name a few. Except for 1968 the series were close,In 1969 the Canadiens won in 6 ( three OT wins for C's, in which in all 3 the Bruins were ahead LATE). In 1971 the B's blew a 5-1 lead in game 2 which pretty much decided it.( that and Dryden in game 7)
Orr wasn't alone.... lol.....
As Jay Davidson has pointed out, Montreal won twelve of seventeen Bruins - Habs playoff games during the Orr & Esposito era, losing all three series: in '68, '69, & '71.What can mitigate against such facts?
C's won all playoff series during that period vs B's but the B's ALWAYS dominated regular seasonmuch more and had superior stars in Orr and Esposito ( and they still won 2 Stanley Cups, albeit when being able to avoid C's in playoffs). Remember the B's -C's series of those years were very close affairs, especially in 1969 when they B's were already better and should have won that series, also C's always had better goalies. Save for 1970 Cheevers and Eddie J. were always a bust.
2:16 thats an incredible goal. also kens pads look like theyre way too small for him lol
That was from the 2nd game in the quarters. Ahead 5-1 Boston allowed 6 unanswered goals to lose the game.
MVP was Ken Dryden or Art Skov ?
Once again blaming referees when someone loses what else is new?
a Bobby Orr Bullet!
For the Bruins it was too much Ken Dryden , was the difference in the series
... and that the Bruins played poor TEAM defense
that's Don Earle on the call
I liked Don Earle more than Fred Cusick.... but Weston Adams got on his high horse. Hey, he "owned the football", right?
IMO Earle was a much better play by play man and more articulate than Fred "the bore" Cusick. Earle was canned after he was loudly booed during an on ice presentation at BG. Thinking him unpopular Bruins management let him go.
well what really happened was Mr. Adams was in failing health and with an only son , had to turn the shooting match over to Jr.
At the same time, A local sports talk show on the same station WBZ AM was taking pot shots at the Bruins mgmt for letting the Garden deteriorate.
This talk show organized an away game for few fans. The team, players, and media was ORDERED by Jr. to ignore these fans at the away game.
THE ONLY ONE TO SIGN AUTOGRAPHS, fo these people and act like a gentleman was DON EARLE, because that's the kind man he was. After the 1971 disaster Fred Cusick took over the TV MIKE
His name was mudd with Bruin mgmnt after that. Don died in 1993,
The leaser of that sports show
man who's weight has always exceeded his IQ lives on............there is no justice
+Jay Kendall Did the Bruins own the Garden in those days?
I agree: Don Earle WAS better than Fred.Why D. Earle was ever booed.. is a big mystery to me. What I heard or read.. was that 'Westy' thought that Don had criticized the Bruins or the organization "on mic"... and 'Westy's' ego couldn't take that.
How the hell did we lose this series???
I know eh? I don't know which loss was more painful: 1971 or '79!
.. poor team defense.
Dryden and taking the Canadiens lightly.
..... and Frank Mahovlich scoring seven playoff goals vs. the Bruins in '71.
Esposito only scored three goals in the '71 series . . . .
Probably the worst possible set of clips ever thrown together. Montreals huge upset over this heavily favored Bruins team was one of the greatest upsets in the history of professional sports. This video is a joke.
Well it's good to watch those vintage clips but the real highlight is that our Canadiens won that series....
Had to be the biggest upset in NHL history. The Bs were dominant that year, including pasting the Canadiens in a couple of games at season's end. The Bruins came into this series fat and happy, and overconfident. If they had played to their capabilities, Boston would have won in a 4 game sweep.
@@laudace1764Agreed.
WHY did Orr not score a single goal in the 5th, 6th, or 7th games in this 1971 playoff series against Montreal? Orr's Bruins never beat Montreal in the NHL playoffs.
I think, as in the final the following year vs the Rangers, Orr was playing this series on one leg. I think that explains his inconsistent form in this series as it was later revealed Orr had constant pain in this series in his left knee. In'72 Orr was dogcrap in the first two games of the final , then took over and singlehandedly won games 4 and the clincher, game 6.
I have only one word for anyone who says they have seen better than Mr. Robert G Orr-LIAR!!
indoctus41 -The nature of his offensive minded play caught him sometimes during his career but that being said Orr is the best defenseman I’ve ever seen. For every outstanding offensive play Orr made he had many more spectacular defensive plays. People forget that about Orr.
Mr. Thompson, we're dealing with SUBJECTIVE opinion here: thus, there cannot be any right or wrong. We can only fairly discuss actual fact, such as number of games, number of goals, etc.....It seems odd that you would feel so insecure.. just 'cause someone disagrees with you. Good luck in therapy.
When I say Mario Lemieux I'm not a liar
But the Habs win the series...and that's all that matters..lol
Orr was not the best defenseman in NHL, far far far from that!!!! He was the best OFFENSIVE defenseman, Robinson was way ahead of him as the best defenseman as to be a real defense for the goal tender.
You are truly delusional--no one in their right mind would say that Robinson was better than Orr. Orr was hands down the greatest player to ever play the game (not simply the best defenseman)--he dominated the game like no other player in the history of the league, and with beat up knees to boot.
consider this, Bobby Orr has the best plus minus in NHL history at plus 125 in 1971, Robinson was second at plus 120 in 1977. I guess they both were pretty good defenders. They did it in different ways though. orr did it thru possession of the puck ( he seemed to always have it when on the ice). Robinson was a physical specimen( much like Chara is today), and he just pounded his opponents into submission and had long reach.
@@laudace1764 ... nah, most hockey experts would agree that Orr is a fantastic player, but his defensive skills lacked in comparison to his offensive skills. I'd take Robinson in his prime over Orr on the basis of defensive play.
Offensively, Orr was par excellence! Without equal and that includes Gretzky ... mainly because Orr changed the game fundamentally whereas Gretzky capitalized on the way the game changed .
Bobby orr played hurt most his Hockey days! Orr was better then Robinson!! Coming from a ranger fan
@@billybenden4431 B's fan my entire life. Don't know if Orr was better than Robinson, its very close. Orr won 2 scoring titles, Robinson 0, Orr won 2 Stanley Cups, Robinson won 6. Orr was all time plus minus for a season at 125, Robinson did 120 once. Robinson was more imposing physically and was most effective as a defender this way than Orr. Orr relied more on speed and anticipation defensively. Robinson was much more durable and as a result played much longer than Orr( so his point total is higher career wise). All in all as far as both being complete players its pretty much a wash. Also i liked Brad Park a lot as well.
This is a pathetically one-sided highlight reel. To be sure, what is seen here is interesting, and the Bruins look basically strong. Most of these goals, however, are from games that the Bruins won that April of '71. What about the four games they lost to the Habs in this playoff series? How about the fact that Esposito and Orr both scored NOTHING in the critical 7th game in Boston, the Bruins losing 4 - 2 ? Frank Mahovlich scored seven goals in this series, which is almost more than Espo & Orr combined! How about the fact that in the second game, 4/8/71, the Bruins had a 5 - 1 lead late in the second period. Montreal scored six (6) unanswered goals to win, 7 - 5, and Orr was on the ice [allegedly he was a defenseman] for at least five of those seven Hab goals. The Bruins SHOULD have won this series..... but took the gas pipe, for sure.
+34Packardphaeton that game 2 collapse by the B's is well documented in another video on you tube.
34Packardphaeton -That playoff series your talking about, any other player would not have been playing. Orr left knee was blowing up between periods and he had to pack it in ice. So please, if your going to be critical of one of hockey's bravest, know what your talking about.
well he does no what hes talking about & it is pathetically one sided
Its a Bruins High Lite package! Theres plenty out there on the Habs
... such may be true... but Orr fans always have to make excuses for him.