First game at new Forum 1968
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- 'La Soirée du Hockey' on CBC/ Radio-Canada: First game at newly renovated Forum in Montreal on Nov. 2, 1968
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I had a horrible toothache when I was there. The habs won and I waltzed down to the players bench (Montreal) and sat down. No security bullies, no glass behind, just a quiet building. What a great feeling. Next day I went to the Dentist.
Here's the complete game : czcams.com/video/BGcC5MXOv9c/video.html
Still can’t believe CBC sold the rights to that intro song to TSN... only to have TSN cheap out on the next NHL tv contract. Now you’re lucky to hear it once a month during the season.
Needed the extra money to finance their politically correct woke bs.
CBC didn't sell the rights to the song. The composer kept the rights, CBC licensed it for 40 years. Then the composer wanted a nice retirement and so asked the CBC for a million bucks to sell the song to them. CBC was like "hell, no, we're not paying a million bucks to buy a song that's only famous because we played it on our network". TSN, in a drunken stupor, was like "hey, we'll take that amazing offer, it will be great to have it once we get NHL TV rights in a few years". Then they both lost TV hockey rights to Sportsnet. So now the song is gathering dust in a TSN basement.
those escalators were so iconic.
Gordie Howe watching the first goal at the Forum going in off the stick of Beliveau, this is like Hockey Holy Grail stuff
Frank Mahovlich in the picture, too. Love watching these old games!
I miss this theme song every saturday night during hockey season. I also miss the voice of reason and the smartest man in hockey,,,,Donald S Cherry!!
Dunce cherry no thx....keep his war / cop crap & stick to hockey.
@@quiricomazarin476 keep swallowing
learned French as a kid watching the habs
Learned English as a teen reading Tolkien xD
@@HawkFest Learned Greek as a student reading Plato.
Learned biology growing up reading playboy.
The most Famous Hockey Rink in the World!
@Sativa Rommola Maybe but definitely not "Extremely debatable"!!
And where is it now???? It's &^%&&EN gone!!!!!!
@@appolop8273 Actually no its not gone its Now a hockey Museum hall of Fame. Sorry to let you down!!😁
Sorry, you're wrong. The old forum is not a museum. It's nothing but a building with a movie theater and restaurants and offices I think. I should know, I live in Montreal.
@@appolop8273 But still there
the first goal at the forum was scored by Beliveau, how perfect was that....
Love that classic hockey night in Canada theme music. This must be the first game at the rebuilt Forum. They eliminated the poles and built a beautiful front entrance.
Love those hockey stick escalators 😍
Columbo, it says it was the first game in the title!
@@euchalobcool, all those years 70’-‘95 (?) watching Montreal on tv they would always have a shot of those. I never knew they were escalators. The rabbit ears weren’t great I guess.
Awesome!! SO many All Stars on the ice at the same time! Tough hockey. Bring back the red line!!!! More skill!!
Red line was taken out so that Gretzky could hover around center ice and breakaway!!!!
I miss the forum
Those were the good old days of hockey. And now in 2020, hockey is "JUNK'"!!!
I remember my dad taking me to my first game, our seats were obstructed by a pillar. Loved it.
Remember how you could hardly see by the third period owing to all the cigarette smoke rising? And the huge analog clock!
If my memory serves me right, Paul Anka was the pre-game entertainment...A great hockey venue for the ages...
1st Pd.- Mon: Beliveau 6 (Provost, Tremblay G) 4:38. 2nd Pd.- Det.: Stemkowski 4 (Macgregor, Unger) 8:23. 3rd Pd.- Mon.: Cournoyer 7(Tremblay J, Backstrom) 3:37. SOG- Det. 27 Mon. 34. Goalies- Det. Sawchuk, Mon. Vachon. Att.-18114.
I did not know Sawchuck was back with the Wings in 68-69. I figured he had gone from LA to NY. I thought that was Roy Edwards in goal! Thanks!
The original HNC theme music is pure magic and history. They ruined it when they faught for the rights to it.
At the very beginning of the video there's a butterfly logo. The whole 14+ minute clip is in black and white, so I don't know what the colours would be. It's beautiful to see in colour. When did SRC used the logo and for how many years did they used it? Merci in advance
Love that intro music!!!
Whoever was responsible for not keeping the old Forum as an historical building, has no class at all. Just like the tearing down of Blue Bonnets, it's shows how classless the city of Montreal is. Since the Canadiens moved to the Bell Centre, I'm glad that they never won another Stanely Cup. I also think that the old Forum ghosts, are happy too.
I so agree with you my friend. I wasn't a Habs fan growing up in the 70.'s. But they were my favorite hockey villains. When I came back to Montreal about 10 years ago and found out the only thing kept was the center ice area I just about cried. The Forum wasn't just hockey history, it was Montreal, indeed Quebec's history. You might as well have torn down the Roman Coliseum to make way for a mall. Same effect and same mentality.
Blame Molson.
@@mikesaccoia5748 At least they kept the building. They demolished the Boston Garden and Chicago Stadium.
Yes. I truly believe that. You may not believe or call it ghosts. But 'negative energy/ rapacious greed still has the same effect. You reap what you sow.
It was a colossal error in judgement, absolutely!. They could have easily kept it intact and turned it into a practice facility + Montreal HOF/museum. It's a damn shame.
Terry Sawchuk played in just 13 games for Detroit that year. This was one of Danny Lawson's first NHL games (#18, Detroit), and one of the few that Bob Falkenberg (#3) played with the Red Wings that year. It's interesting to see both Mahovlich brothers (Pete is #11) playing for Detroit in Montreal, where they played together as Canadiens a few years later.
Who is the Detroit goalie in this game?
@@ruffntumble1964 Terry Sawchuk
Harkness the darkness was he behind the bench yet for Detroit.
@@quiricomazarin476 Bill Gadsby had just taken over as coach. Ned Harkness took over at the beginning of 1970-71.
@@orbyfan thx jack.....
Kind of fitting that Béliveau scored the first goal.
I remember this night, albeit watching from the West Coast!
The Habs won a lot of cups thanks to the lingering Hash and Weed smoke from all the concerts I went to as a kid. They owe me !!
To think the Leafs were defending Champions... never heard that sentence since lol.
Qui?
OMG...the PA guy announces the penalty with the offender player right next to him.
I watched this on TV as a kid in Montreal! Good memories. Rough game, all their helmets fell off, lol
N.D G ?
Vern Buffey, along with Frank Udvari, were two of the most despised referees in the NHL in that era...
That Hockey Night in Canada song is more famous than the national anthem in Canada.
Anyone remember the name of the smoked meat place right next to the forum. It had paintings of former Montreal players. It was either Swartz, Lester's or Dunns.
I would guess Schartz or was there a Ben's Smoke Meat also? Dunn's is now franchised as Dunn's Famous Deli or something like that right ?
Was it originally broadcasted in color back then? Sorry for my poor French...
Mahovlich, Baun, and Sawchuk playing for the Wings...trades. were in their future....
Et dire que ce lieux fantastique est rendu une grosse boite a P'psti...
Quel désastre
The fans must have shit themselves when the moved to the bell Centre.😯
Rene Lacavalier announcing
There's a few names from my youth!
Are you sure this is the Forum? Where are all the silhouettes standing and blocking the cameras?
Maybe a dumb question, but at 3:35, why is the opening faceoff NOT at center ice?
Likely because of editing purposes just for this person's CZcams. I'm sure the actual game began with the opening faceoff.
Back in those days the façeoff took place where the puck may have been shot out of play or a two line pass by Detroit.
At 10:10 was a hand pass from where the façeoff takes place.
Who is the P.A Announcer at 13:53 ?
Do you notice back in the good old days that when the play was whistled down they quickly went and lined up for the face off and got the game going again. On the other hand they were aloud to freeze the puck along the boards to force face offs.
Clean ice n boards..no advertising.
What does M.L.T.P. mean, and in the 1st musical segment, what kind of stand-up bass was the bassist playing?
M (Aime) L (le) T (Ton) P (Plaisir) Love Your Pleasure in sync with the Molson Beer Ad
Thanks, Daniel. I saw a color version of this ad, and the piano is yellow with red lettering and designs. The piano is, as they say in Montreal, "C'est Magnifique!" By the way, who is this musical group, and did they do any English songs?
M (olson) L ('as) T (u) P (arles) listen carefully right after the letters and the French voice over matches the M.L.T.P.
Molson, Là, Tu Parles! (Molson, now you're talking!)
Looks like an upright electric bass.
Wby couldnt post the whole game
I don't ever remember a lineup to get into the Forum.
Molson Export Ale..a greatly underappreciated beer from the Great White North...
crap beer
O'Keefe...Dow.....Champlain
crap
Those Detroit unis look sharp. But the hockey... compared to today, it looks like an old timer's game.
No glass needed behind benches or penalty boxes!
@3.36...why is the face in that spot?
My guess is that is the spot where an offside pass originated.
4:08 Le commentateur chante !! 🤣
Qui est ici a cause de l'article de Michel Beaudry dans le JDM?
Il parlait de quoi cet article ?
@@MonTube2006 il se rappelait les souvenirs de la première partie au forum et nous recommendait de visionner ce video. Il disait que c'était le meilleur video et que "malheureusement"; il est en Anglais
@@thefrenchy4977 was Roger Doucet doing the anthem then....& was Claude Mouton there also?
Nobody's wearing a helmet!
User2718218 that’s old school hockey
With the good ol' toothless smile.
User2718218 lol yep
Yep!
And they’re all playing with......GASP!........Wooden sticks!
Helmets have actually been around the NHL since the late 1920's. Even Maurice "Rocket" Richard and Elmer Lach wore one for awhile and in the early 1930's the Toronto Maple Leafs attempted to make them mandatory for all their players after one of their star players, Ace Bailey, suffered a career-ending head injury after being checked from behind by Boston's Eddie Shore.
However, they didn't really start to catch on in the NHL until the league suffered its first player death as a direct result of an injury suffered during a game midway through the previous season.
Minnesota's Bill Masterton struck the back of his head on the ice after being checked to the ice in a game against Oakland on January 13, 1968 and died 20 hours later.
They began popping up afterwards and the league made them mandatory for all players in 1979.
c est drole d entendre Le Cavalier dire pénalisation...
Back when the reffs let them play the game instead of controlling the game. The game sucks big time now. Haven't watched a full game in a few years and none this year. Iam done with the bullshit. Loved the video though.
Fergie!!