Not as flashy and colorful as today’s game, but I love the simplicity and ferociousness of old time hockey. I like how the announcers are so simple in how they describe the game too. Hockey, no matter what time period, has always been and will always be the greatest game on the planet.
Much faster than today's game and quicker..the players knew where they were going with the puck second naturedly because they played against more experienced competition in the minors and learned how to think the game at lightning speed, or they would be home pumping gas. Yeah, I know video is around today and they all play systems, with creativity milked out. Well, there is a resson for that: Too unpolished to have quick play recognition. Back in '50's&early '60' they played two more seasons on the average.. of Junior Hockey, and about three more seasons in the minors on the average. Goalies unless they were once in a generation phenoms= LIKE A PLANTE, were not in the NHL until they were on the average in their late 20's, AT THE EARLIEST. Teams today may have some 30-something skaters on their rosters, but most of those are over the hill and in a 6-team league would be playing in the AHL OR WHL OR CPHL..not occupying a third or fourth line in the NHL as they do today. Just imagine..JOHNNY BOWER did not permanently make the NHL until he was about 34.. Look at his minor league numbers, they were good. Today, he would've been in the NHL as a goalie at 25 or younger.. Yep..
@robertsprouse9282 Back then to play in the nhl you had to be one of the top 150 players in Canada. And they played all season against the same 5 teams. You had to get really creative if you were going to deceive an opponent. The players had to give maximum effort every shift and play a complete game to stay in the league. If you played back then you had to really love the game because their wasn't that much money in it. Not to mention the fact that all these maniacs were rushing around without helmets, let alone the mandatory visors the all have to wear today. And there were more blue collar guys and farm boys in the league back then. Doctors and lawyers could yet afford to give their kids the advantages in training that they do today. The only weakness of the league back then compared to now was the higher level of prejudiced and discrimination that permeated society at the time. Non white players had to put up with even more bullshit then than they do today and it kept more of the truly minority players out of the league.
There were only 6 teams so imagine creating 6 teams today of only Canadian players? Goalies today are light years harder to score on due to equipment and size of goalie. D men and forwards much bigger and faster. G Price would be a giant in net.
@@KMK7355, these O-6 guys made better decisions and did that much quicker than today. As for goalies today, many of them are sloppy at covering in their stance pre-shot, all of the net's corners and its posts. Secondly, shooters back then did not telegraph their shots nearly as much. Sometimes, the shots then were out of nowhere, released when they did not look like they were going to be, and accurate, rarely wide of the net. Slapshots today are telegraphed, seemingly a mile away..
During the Gordie Howe interview you can see a tv camera for the old Yankee Network. That was a TV and radio network that broadcast Boston sports throughout New England. It disbanded in 1967.
the Howe interview warms my heart..thats the man I remember as a youth at the Gordie Howe Hockey School in suburban Detroit...in the last 15 minutes of the days session, he'd skate around with the puck challenging 10 kids to try and take it from him...being ambidextrous, it was impossible!
@@olrikparlez3152, but after playing the whole season he was a 13 year vet. And, the STANLEY CUP playoffs are at the end of the season. 46-58= 13 seasons because the first year counts as one. In other words, '46-47 season to the '47-48 season= 2 seasons completed, not one where '48 minus '47(the spring season backend numbers of the year in those regular playing seasons)= 2 seasons, not one. Just as '47 back end is subtracted from 59= 12+1(1=first season)= 13.. A.K.A., your unlucky math number, genius. How is that fer yuh, Jethro Bodine?
@@robertsprouse9282 I'm conversing with some anal guy who's overlooking th' whole point of the comment to begin with. You actually a hockey fan Wahbut???? I'm guessin' not much.*chuckle*
Bill almost never talked to the Color guy, whoever it was, except to introduce him into the conversation. He was old school that way. He called what was on the ice and that's it. I think Bill's problems in his later years involved him being caught between the long-time, mutual hatred between Foster and Leaf's ownership. Foster owned the station he worked on. The Leafs couldn't touch him. Bill didn't, so he wasn't protected. It must have been paranoia inducing for the poor guy.
A real gem. Lumley's face save, Howe interview, Hewitt reflecting back on the details of the 1st period fights and who got some blows in (and even describing a fight in the stands! ). Classic. Real struck me how fast paced some of the game was. This era often gets labelled as grittier/slower and maybe it was but some really great, quick playmakers here.
Most would say “this is so old and grainy in picture quality” yet the best technology of the recording is being watched and experienced today regardless of what modern technology could provide to improve it. Thanks for the upload!
Absolutely awesome!! Loved the game and the interviews with the players from the 20's and 30's like Shore and Gagnon. And of course Gordie Howe makes any old broadcast better.
Agreed! This is original six hockey at it's best! I'm really impressed with how fast and exciting the game was back then. I've heard it said that today's game is so much faster. With the lack of conditioning in those days compared to today, those players are plenty fast for me! Not to mention tough as nails! Heck, they didn't even have water to drink at the bench. I loved those interviews too! Honest, ad-lib, without today's cliched answers.
I am amazed with these old timey hockey games...goalies didn't wear masks...no backup goalies. Lumley took a shot in the Chiclets and play continued for at least 90 seconds, in spite of the mouth full of blood.
Almost 60 years later and I still remember the words to the Esso theme song! Still a Leafs fan and yes, the game is faster now but there's something about the pre-expansion era that's special.
@@robertsprouse9282 I always wondered during the Gretzky era, if he would have been as prolific a scorer had he played at the time of the Original Six. Thoughts?
@@lovesmusic36, yes&no.. He would not have made it until he became better on defense and put on a little more grit-muscle. I can see him spending three or four years in the minors, but I can also see him eventually making it and eventually being a consistent 90-100 points scorer in 70 game seasons= 38-40 goals&-58-60 assists, and a 110 pt. man at his peak maybe two years peaking(45-65)..and playing nonstop with no sidetrip to the minors for 10-12-15 years, making the HALL. However, if he did not get better on d, having a 60-70 point career for about 7 or 8 years only because he created instant offense, but that is only if he grit-muscled up, even without better "d", would be the extent of his career. If he did neither= muscle nor "d" improvement..look up OLD WESTERN HOCKEY minor pro LEAGUE LEGEND GUYLE FIELDER or AHL AND WHA LEGEND ANDRE LACROIX.. Gretzky would not have had many seasons, if any, in the six-team NHL.. And, he admits that he was lucky to play in a wide-open era 1979-1994.. He could think quickly enough to play in a faster paced, better flow, defensemen really knocking you down at the blueline or in the offensive zone and forwards very aggressively forechecking six-team NHL. Its just a question of durability and being able to dish it out right back.. In a 12 team league, 14, 16, 18, 17, 21, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31 team league, he would be in the NHL and in the Hall of Fame eventually, but would not score as much post-1994 in a better deeper, defensive era with better goaltending than in the 1980's. And, that was proven by what he did from '94-99..from '92-94 he battled injuries, but recovered, but the players got bigger and faster, psrticularly d-men at skating backwards, and more physical as the Eastern Euro Iron Curtain guys came over and really increased roster depth. The latter era's rougher play has somewhat stopped because of emphasis today on less checking and less concussions at the amateur level. There are no Vlad Konstantinovs or Darius Kasparaitises around today, nor Scott Stevenses.. Nope..Tom Wilson? maybe.. Anyway, Gretzky in his prime would score 150 points today with the lack of checking and hitting. The salary cap and more teams and the KHL keeping mid- grade talented RUSSOS home, and thinning offensive scoring depth, would hinder him on the assisting side. In his prime he would find a way to get the puck past bigger on their knees butterfly goalies, though. He was very accurate with his shot. And, I believe he would muscle up, toughen up, and learn better "d"..too in an O-6 era. So, in sum, he could have played in the O-6 era, but with that caveat in tow. But..who knows?
@@lovesmusic36 So difficult to compare eras in any sport. But yes, it is fun to consider. A tougher helmetless Gretzky of that era, may have been similar to Henri Richard. He would have taken a few elbows from Howe!
Fans could relate to the players bc they were down to earth, no helmets, and they had CHARACTER. They played for the love of hockey not for $hekel$! Too bad the video was so bad we can't make out the numbers on their backs! I'd love to watch O-6 hockey on 4K TV!
Two noteworthy streaks began from this game: The Leafs haven't ousted the Bruins in a playoff series since this game. The Bruins didn't make the playoffs again until 1968.
Storey became an NHL referee in 1950 and worked in the league until 1959. On April 4, 1959, he was officiating a playoff game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Chicago Black Hawks, which Montreal won, along with the series, scoring the winning goal with 88 seconds left in the sixth game. Chicago fans nearly rioted, and Black Hawks coach Rudy Pilous accused Storey of choking by not calling penalties against the Canadiens late in the game. Storey was scheduled to referee the final game in the series between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Boston Bruins, but when an Ottawa newspaper reported that NHL president Clarence Campbell said that Storey had "frozen" on two calls that should have been penalties against the Canadiens, Storey immediately resigned.[4] He never returned to the NHL. His career included 480 regular season games and seven consecutive Stanley Cup finals from 1952 through 1958
Red Story was a man of his word. Later on he would expose Campbell for his arrogant mind games with Richard and the fact he was a lacky for the owners in crushing the Nhl players union headed by Ted Lindsay .
это тот самый матч, про который рассказывал Майоров на матче присутствовали игроки сборной СССР там было много болельщиков и наши игроки стояли между рядов и охреневали от такой игры🏒
Get real, today's players are much more physical and bigger. There would be literally a death a week if they had no helmets today given how big players are today. Incidentally I can remember going to my first game in the 1962-63 season.
Great video for the interviews, if nothing else. I remember Harry Lumley playing for the Leafs. He still played, after the NHL, for the Owen Sound North Stars in the OHL Senior A league. There is an exhibit honouring Lum in the Grey Count Museum, southwest of Owen Sound, well worth a visit.
I saw Gordie play in person when I grew up in Houston. JEAN-GUY Gendron who played in this game, played for the QUEBEC NORDIQUES in the WHA. I saw him, too. I saw J.C Tremblay, Harry Howell, Ralph Backstrom, Bobby Hull, Mark Howe, and Jacques Plante, and Pat Stapleton, and Dave Keon, all in person..in Houston, Tx. Damn, I am old!
For those wondering why the broadcast starts in the second period, in its wisdom the NHL believed that showing the entire game would reduce the number of butts in seats 😅
I had thought that CBC/Hockey Night In Canada carried playoff games in full as far back as the early 1950's. Perhaps Toronto, stations in Ontario, or all of Eastern Canada got this game in full with other areas (Manitoba-westward?) getting the game in progress.
@@plumbherhub1664 .. lol ... yes true but could you believe the first masks only protect the teeth and the cheek bones and not at all the eyes. The dentures before the eyes ... lol ..
Agreed. The masks were heavy and uncomfortable, I'm sure. Glenn Hall said he wore a mask in practice on occasion, but could not see or hear properly, and felt he would play poorly with a mask, so he didn't(until 1968).
The original masks were for cuts and this game shows why. Glenn Hall said aside of the cuts the early masks didn't do so much. As far as not having a mask, prior to the 1950s, there was no slap shot, so the most dangerous shot was a deflection (which is still dangerous but probably won't kill you like a Bathgate slapper would.) The evolution of the slap shot directly led to the mask.
A highly entertaining game.Lots of Bruins whose names are familiar but i,ve never seen them in action.The Leafs dominated and deserved the win.Larry Regan had a great game,Harry Lumley really played well and kept the B,s in the game,despite being cut for 7 stitches in his mouth.
this series was played shortly after Buddy Holly and others were killed in that tragic plane crash in Clear Lake Iowa. I would have started school that year. I have no doubt that my grandfather watched this game on tv. Does anybody know what happened to cause Red Storey to resign so suddenly before the game started. I remember as a child Murray Westgate doing the Esso commercials during the game. The majority of these people have left this world and may God rest their souls. I grew up watching men play this game now here I am watching boys who look like they should be in high school playing in the NHL. I guess that's the wheel of life turning as it does. Good luck to one and all.
Storey made a couple of controversial non-calls in the Montreal-Chicago semifinal series. One allowed Montreal to score when everyone thought they would be penalized for tripping. Clarennce Campbell was less than supportive of Storey, so he resigned.
I remember one year in the sixth grade Leo Bovins son was a classmate of mine he lived not far from me for the season.. this is a rare opportunity to see Harry Lumley I don't think he played too many playoff games at this stage in his career and I'm not sure if they even had Don Simmons on the roster I'd have to look carefully at a trade that. Forced me to have Eddie Johnston instead of Don Simmons?great action here!
I just can't help but think these guys were tougher and better than todays pro's . no two line passing and all the disadvantages that yesteryears equipment this is just as fast if not faster than todays game . Also great puck movement.
Enjoy this one if you watching it there are legends that you Don't see too often on film in it .sorry red story quit I guess mr. Campbell didn't support his efforts in Chicago😕
@@pellelindbergh4455 He didn't quit during the game. His previous game, which turned out to be his last, the Blackhawks felt he had choked on a couple of late non-calls, allowing Montreal to win. Clarence Campbell did not support Storey, and Storey resigned immediately due to non-support, so they had to find a replacement referee quickly.
@@pellelindbergh4455 At 1:17:35 - they have Clarence Campbell, who was the league president at the time, on for an interview, and he addresses that situation.
Yes, Storey was scheduled to work Game #7 in Boston if it was necessary--and it was--but the controversies in the Montreal-Chicago series caused Storey to quit when Clarence Campbell said unkind things about him.
Great thing about hockey player past and present when its playoff time unless the player has been killed or is dead on the ice they will come out and play. I always remember Duncan TEETH Keith took a shot in the mouth lost 7-8 teeth swallowed a few of them as I recall they shot him full of novicaine and was on the ice for the next period
Well since these days the camera work covering hockey games certainly has improved. What the hell were the cameramen doing on Ehman's winning goal late in the third? You didn't see the puck go into the net on Ehman's shot. You didn't even see Lumley in the net until he turned around and dug the puck out of the net.
Why was it, in the 30s, 40s, 50s and even into the 60s, in both Canada and here in the States, that radio and TV broadcasts of hockey matches would not be of a complete match, but only of 2 periods, and, on some occasions, just the 3rd period.
The owners figured full broadcasts would hurt the gate. Fans would stay home instead of buying tickets to the game. This was patently ridiculous in Toronto where they had constant sellouts since 1946.
The announcer said there numerous fights in the stands, and the fans threw debris on the ice, as usual, delaying the game. In 1959? It was that crazy at NHL games? First time I've ever heard such things.
You heard correctly. The Referee was Red Storey, he faced criticism for supposedly missing some calls in a game between the Chicago Blackhawks and Montreal Canadians. Which nearly caused a riot. His last straw came after the NHL president, Clarence Campbell, was among those who criticized him.
Started with the 1963 Army v. Navy football game on CBS with late, great producer/director Tony Verna, who I believe had a daughter Andrea Macchiaverna, a terrific tv sports games producer/director in the 80's- 2,000's first decade, herself. TONY VERNA showed an ARMY Qb, ROLLIE STICHWEH's tdown run from a different angle immediately after showing it live. That was REPLAY#1.
I think it was another five years before the NHL made having a backup goalie on the bench mandatory. The Leafs got a good goaltending duo out of it, having both Johnny Bower and Terry Sawchuk on their roster.
If Lumley would have been too hurt to play, Don Simmons or a local senior goalie would have filled in. For Bower Ed Chadwick would have come down and get ready.
Games were always televised from the second period back in the day. Too bad because Tim Horton punched somebody out and sent them for a coffee and a donut in the first.
The puck on each goal stays in the goal! Todays shots go in amd out of the net , it just takes a fun part of the game away . Go back to slacked netting the modern goals might as well be a piecce of plywood with a red pipe on it
Red Story NHL refereeing career Storey became an NHL referee in 1950 and worked in the league until 1959. On April 4, 1959, he was officiating Game 6 of the Stanley Cup semifinal between the Montreal Canadiens and the Chicago Black Hawks, which Montreal won, along with the series, scoring the winning goal with 88 seconds left in the sixth game. Chicago fans nearly rioted, and Black Hawks coach Rudy Pilous accused Storey of choking by not calling penalties against the Canadiens late in the game. Storey was scheduled to referee the final game in the series between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Boston Bruins, but when Ottawa Journal sports editor Bill Westwick reported that NHL president Clarence Campbell said that Storey had "frozen" on two calls that should have been penalties against the Canadiens, Storey immediately resigned.[4][5] He never returned to the NHL. His career included 480 regular season games and seven consecutive Stanley Cup finals from 1952 through 1958. He was popular with NHL players because he talked with them. Gump Worsley said of Storey in his autobiography They Call Me Gump: "When Red Storey was refereeing in the NHL, I used to ask him where he was going to get a beer after the game. He usually told me, too."
Red Storey resigned from his position as a referee after Clarence Campbell said he missed 2 Obvious penalties in a previous game. He claimed Storey “Froze up”
Sixty years have passed. Toronto has not beaten Boston in a playoffs series since this game. On the other hand Boston won the series in 1969, 1972, 1974, 2013, 2018...and 2019.
The Leafs best all time left winger the Big M. The interviews in intermission on former players is brilliant. I never watch HNIC intermissions as it's garbage.
When I started watching hockey in 1968 the home teams wore the dark colors and the visitors were in white. This is not the case here. When did they change?
From 1970-71 until 2002-03 the home teams except for an occasional appearance where teams might wear a colored jersey at home, the home teams wore white jerseys
"(He is) going into the dressing room for repairs." OUCH!! 😯 Why ALL goalies now wear a face mask while on the ice. When did the NHL finally require face masks for their goalies?
I think they made it mandatory sometime in the late 60's or around 1970. They made exceptions to those already playing without one such as Terry Sawchuk and others from that era. The helmet rule was also mandated sometime in the early 1980's, but certain players were grandfathered in. The last helmetless player I remember seeing was Craig MacTavish for the Oilers in the late 1980's.
Not as flashy and colorful as today’s game, but I love the simplicity and ferociousness of old time hockey. I like how the announcers are so simple in how they describe the game too. Hockey, no matter what time period, has always been and will always be the greatest game on the planet.
Much faster than today's game and quicker..the players knew where they were going with the puck second naturedly because they played against more experienced competition in the minors and learned how to think the game at lightning speed, or they would be home pumping gas. Yeah, I know video is around today and they all play systems, with creativity milked out. Well, there is a resson for that: Too unpolished to have quick play recognition. Back in '50's&early '60' they played two more seasons on the average.. of Junior Hockey, and about three more seasons in the minors on the average.
Goalies unless they were once in a generation phenoms= LIKE A PLANTE, were not in the NHL until they were on the average in their late 20's, AT THE EARLIEST.
Teams today may have some 30-something skaters on their rosters, but most of those are over the hill and in a 6-team league would be playing in the AHL OR WHL OR CPHL..not occupying a third or fourth line in the NHL as they do today.
Just imagine..JOHNNY BOWER did not permanently make the NHL until he was about 34..
Look at his minor league numbers, they were good.
Today, he would've been in the NHL as a goalie at 25 or younger..
Yep..
Earth is ...FLAT, and NOBODY can prove any different!
@robertsprouse9282
Back then to play in the nhl you had to be one of the top 150 players in Canada. And they played all season against the same 5 teams. You had to get really creative if you were going to deceive an opponent. The players had to give maximum effort every shift and play a complete game to stay in the league. If you played back then you had to really love the game because their wasn't that much money in it.
Not to mention the fact that all these maniacs were rushing around without helmets, let alone the mandatory visors the all have to wear today. And there were more blue collar guys and farm boys in the league back then. Doctors and lawyers could yet afford to give their kids the advantages in training that they do today.
The only weakness of the league back then compared to now was the higher level of prejudiced and discrimination that permeated society at the time. Non white players had to put up with even more bullshit then than they do today and it kept more of the truly minority players out of the league.
I am old now but I remember these well. This is real Hockey!! Thank you for the look back.
There were only 6 teams so imagine creating 6 teams today of only Canadian players?
Goalies today are light years harder to score on due to equipment and size of goalie.
D men and forwards much bigger and faster.
G Price would be a giant in net.
@@KMK7355 "Light years harder"??? WHAT does that mean in LEGIBLE English?
@@KMK7355, these O-6 guys made better decisions and did that much quicker than today.
As for goalies today, many of them are sloppy at covering in their stance pre-shot, all of the net's corners and its posts.
Secondly, shooters back then did not telegraph their shots nearly as much. Sometimes, the shots then were out of nowhere, released when they did not look like they were going to be, and accurate, rarely wide of the net.
Slapshots today are telegraphed, seemingly a mile away..
Loved it! They have about 8 guests for the intermissions. Wow!!
During the Gordie Howe interview you can see a tv camera for the old Yankee Network. That was a TV and radio network that broadcast Boston sports throughout New England. It disbanded in 1967.
the Howe interview warms my heart..thats the man I remember as a youth at the Gordie Howe Hockey School in suburban Detroit...in the last 15 minutes of the days session, he'd skate around with the puck challenging 10 kids to try and take it from him...being ambidextrous, it was impossible!
The Yankee Network !! There's a blast from the past. Wow.
Mr. Howe...already a12 yr veteran in '59. Played in the League until 1980.
Nope, played in the WHA 1973-74 TO 1978-79..
NHL 1946-71, 1979-80..
Try 13 years.
@@robertsprouse9282 Howe was a 12 yr NHL veteran *at the start of the 58/59 season.* That clear it up fer yuh?
@@olrikparlez3152, but after playing the whole season he was a 13 year vet. And, the STANLEY CUP playoffs are at the end of the season.
46-58= 13 seasons because the first year counts as one.
In other words, '46-47 season to the '47-48 season= 2 seasons completed, not one where '48 minus '47(the spring season backend numbers of the year in those regular playing seasons)= 2 seasons, not one.
Just as '47 back end is subtracted from 59= 12+1(1=first season)= 13..
A.K.A., your unlucky math number, genius.
How is that fer yuh, Jethro Bodine?
@@robertsprouse9282 I'm conversing with some anal guy who's overlooking th' whole point of the comment to begin with. You actually a hockey fan Wahbut???? I'm guessin' not much.*chuckle*
Foster Hewitt's voice bring my back to my childhood, loved him and Danny :)
very strange how Foster and his son never spoke..during all 3 periods! Foster was great but was a mic hog..no wonder Bill had problems in later years.
I'm NOT a Habs fan but Danny Gallivan was a GREAT commonTATER! L0L
Bill almost never talked to the Color guy, whoever it was, except to introduce him into the conversation. He was old school that way. He called what was on the ice and that's it. I think Bill's problems in his later years involved him being caught between the long-time, mutual hatred between Foster and Leaf's ownership. Foster owned the station he worked on. The Leafs couldn't touch him. Bill didn't, so he wasn't protected. It must have been paranoia inducing for the poor guy.
A real gem. Lumley's face save, Howe interview, Hewitt reflecting back on the details of the 1st period fights and who got some blows in (and even describing a fight in the stands! ). Classic. Real struck me how fast paced some of the game was. This era often gets labelled as grittier/slower and maybe it was but some really great, quick playmakers here.
no hand shake?
Real struck me ???? Was that "Real" Lemieux??? Did jou hit him back???
Chara's rookie season.
Lol...GORDIE's 13th..
haaaaaaaaa!!!!!!
He doesn’t look as tall as he is now
i know I am pretty off topic but do anybody know a good website to watch new movies online?
@Christopher Emanuel i would suggest FlixZone. You can find it by googling :)
i love this old games no flash no over the top just game
I agree...!! It's so awesome to see really...!!
Most would say “this is so old and grainy in picture quality” yet the best technology of the recording is being watched and experienced today regardless of what modern technology could provide to improve it. Thanks for the upload!
Absolutely awesome!! Loved the game and the interviews with the players from the 20's and 30's like Shore and Gagnon. And of course Gordie Howe makes any old broadcast better.
Agreed! This is original six hockey at it's best!
I'm really impressed with how fast and exciting the game was back then. I've heard it said that today's game is so much faster. With the lack of conditioning in those days compared to today, those players are plenty fast for me!
Not to mention tough as nails! Heck, they didn't even have water to drink at the bench.
I loved those interviews too! Honest, ad-lib, without today's cliched answers.
@@garyhersemeyer2642 Yup, nothing more BORING than today's PC NHL interviews. "Oh we worked hard and got pucks to the net!" Blah blah blah....
@@garyhersemeyer2642 I wonder if they really are faster now
WHO loved the game???
I am amazed with these old timey hockey games...goalies didn't wear masks...no backup goalies. Lumley took a shot in the Chiclets and play continued for at least 90 seconds, in spite of the mouth full of blood.
Almost 60 years later and I still remember the words to the Esso theme song! Still a Leafs fan and yes, the game is faster now but there's something about the pre-expansion era that's special.
Faster? Not from what I see. The passing is phenomenal. There is more flow, too.. this is ORIGINAL SIX hockey..
@@robertsprouse9282 I always wondered during the Gretzky era, if he would have been as prolific a scorer had he played at the time of the Original Six. Thoughts?
@@lovesmusic36, yes&no.. He would not have made it until he became better on defense and put on a little more grit-muscle.
I can see him spending three or four years in the minors, but I can also see him eventually making it and eventually being a consistent 90-100 points scorer in 70 game seasons= 38-40 goals&-58-60 assists, and a 110 pt. man at his peak maybe two years peaking(45-65)..and playing nonstop with no sidetrip to the minors for 10-12-15 years, making the HALL.
However, if he did not get better on d, having a 60-70 point career for about 7 or 8 years only because he created instant offense, but that is only if he grit-muscled up, even without better "d", would be the extent of his career.
If he did neither= muscle nor "d" improvement..look up OLD WESTERN HOCKEY minor pro LEAGUE LEGEND
GUYLE FIELDER or AHL AND WHA LEGEND ANDRE LACROIX..
Gretzky would not have had many seasons, if any, in the six-team NHL..
And, he admits that he was lucky to play in a wide-open era 1979-1994..
He could think quickly enough to play in a faster paced, better flow, defensemen really knocking you down at the blueline or in the offensive zone and forwards very aggressively forechecking six-team NHL.
Its just a question of durability and being able to dish it out right back..
In a 12 team league, 14, 16, 18, 17, 21, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31 team league, he would be in the NHL and in the Hall of Fame eventually, but would not score as much post-1994 in a better deeper, defensive era with better goaltending than in the 1980's. And, that was proven by what he did from '94-99..from '92-94 he battled injuries, but recovered, but the players got bigger and faster, psrticularly d-men at skating backwards, and more physical as the Eastern Euro Iron Curtain guys came over and really increased roster depth.
The latter era's rougher play has somewhat stopped because of emphasis today on less checking and less concussions at the amateur level.
There are no Vlad Konstantinovs or Darius Kasparaitises around today, nor Scott Stevenses..
Nope..Tom Wilson? maybe..
Anyway, Gretzky in his prime would score 150 points today with the lack of checking and hitting. The salary cap and more teams and the KHL keeping mid- grade talented RUSSOS home, and thinning offensive scoring depth, would hinder him on the assisting side. In his prime he would find a way to get the puck past bigger on their knees butterfly goalies, though. He was very accurate with his shot.
And, I believe he would muscle up, toughen up, and learn better "d"..too in an O-6 era.
So, in sum, he could have played in the O-6 era, but with that caveat in tow.
But..who knows?
@@lovesmusic36 So difficult to compare eras in any sport. But yes, it is fun to consider. A tougher helmetless Gretzky of that era, may have been similar to Henri Richard. He would have taken a few elbows from Howe!
Fans could relate to the players bc they were down to earth, no helmets, and they had CHARACTER. They played for the love of hockey not for $hekel$! Too bad the video was so bad we can't make out the numbers on their backs! I'd love to watch O-6 hockey on 4K TV!
Two noteworthy streaks began from this game: The Leafs haven't ousted the Bruins in a playoff series since this game. The Bruins didn't make the playoffs again until 1968.
Good trivia to know! Thanx!
Great stuff---the NHL at the beginning of its 1960s Golden Era.
Storey became an NHL referee in 1950 and worked in the league until 1959. On April 4, 1959, he was officiating a playoff game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Chicago Black Hawks, which Montreal won, along with the series, scoring the winning goal with 88 seconds left in the sixth game. Chicago fans nearly rioted, and Black Hawks coach Rudy Pilous accused Storey of choking by not calling penalties against the Canadiens late in the game. Storey was scheduled to referee the final game in the series between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Boston Bruins, but when an Ottawa newspaper reported that NHL president Clarence Campbell said that Storey had "frozen" on two calls that should have been penalties against the Canadiens, Storey immediately resigned.[4] He never returned to the NHL. His career included 480 regular season games and seven consecutive Stanley Cup finals from 1952 through 1958
Interesting story. Sad one as well.
Red Story was a man of his word. Later on he would expose Campbell for his arrogant mind games with Richard and the fact he was a lacky for the owners in crushing the Nhl players union headed by Ted Lindsay .
это тот самый матч, про который рассказывал Майоров на матче присутствовали игроки сборной СССР там было много болельщиков и наши игроки стояли между рядов и охреневали от такой игры🏒
At the end, Imlach out there without his toupee says the play by play guy, no shame and hillarious.
Notice how in those days, the first names of any of the players are NOT mentioned!
thats real hockey hitting for real... hard grind it out hockey not that junk they play today no hits no fights no checking
Get real, today's players are much
more physical and bigger. There would be literally a death a week if they had no helmets today given how big players are today.
Incidentally I can remember going to my first game in the 1962-63 season.
I will watch any game, any era when the Big M is playing.
Great video for the interviews, if nothing else. I remember Harry Lumley playing for the Leafs. He still played, after the NHL, for the Owen Sound North Stars in the OHL Senior A league. There is an exhibit honouring Lum in the Grey Count Museum, southwest of Owen Sound, well worth a visit.
Lum??? Is he Chinese??? L0L
A lot of these guys were so good that many were still playing well into the 70's
What no Coaches Corner with Don Cherry? I TELL YA THAT LUMLEY!! WHAT A TOUGH GUY!!! SEVEN STITCHES!!! GOOD CANADIAN FROM OWEN SOUND!!!
Thank you for showing and sharing.
In 1959 Gordie Howe was already considered one of the all time greats!
at 12 years a veteran.
I saw Gordie play in person when I grew up in Houston.
JEAN-GUY Gendron who played in this game, played for the QUEBEC NORDIQUES in the WHA.
I saw him, too.
I saw J.C Tremblay, Harry Howell, Ralph Backstrom, Bobby Hull, Mark Howe, and Jacques Plante, and Pat Stapleton, and Dave Keon, all in person..in Houston, Tx.
Damn, I am old!
This is HNIC GEM indeed !
Is it foggy inside ? Or cigs?
Future Seal Gerry Ehman with the game-winner...
He gets a puck to the face, seven stitches, and comes back to play. Beast!
For those wondering why the broadcast starts in the second period, in its wisdom the NHL believed that showing the entire game would reduce the number of butts in seats 😅
I didn't know this. I just figured the tape of the first period was lost.
I had thought that CBC/Hockey Night In Canada carried playoff games in full as far back as the early 1950's.
Perhaps Toronto, stations in Ontario, or all of Eastern Canada got this game in full with other areas (Manitoba-westward?) getting the game in progress.
Up until sometime in the '60's, HNIC always joined the game in progress at the start of the second period.
Jacques Plante was the first goalie with brain in his head when he became the first to wear a mask.
This simply hurt me inside seeing the goalie without any face or eye protection
@@plumbherhub1664 .. lol ... yes true but could you believe the first masks only protect the teeth and the cheek bones and not at all the eyes. The dentures before the eyes ... lol ..
Agreed. The masks were heavy and uncomfortable, I'm sure. Glenn Hall said he wore a mask in practice on occasion, but could not see or hear properly, and felt he would play poorly with a mask, so he didn't(until 1968).
The original masks were for cuts and this game shows why. Glenn Hall said aside of the cuts the early masks didn't do so much. As far as not having a mask, prior to the 1950s, there was no slap shot, so the most dangerous shot was a deflection (which is still dangerous but probably won't kill you like a Bathgate slapper would.) The evolution of the slap shot directly led to the mask.
Hockey was so Savage back in the day. #bostonstrong
This happened three years before my birth,but I'm pretty sure the Leafs haven't won a playoff series from the Bruins since.
Hardly any TV Ads.
A highly entertaining game.Lots of Bruins whose names are familiar but i,ve never seen them in action.The Leafs dominated and deserved the win.Larry Regan had a great game,Harry Lumley really played well and kept the B,s in the game,despite being cut for 7 stitches in his mouth.
I worked with the late Doug Mohns
in the Boston area. Such a nice guy.
this series was played shortly after Buddy Holly and others were killed in that tragic plane crash in Clear Lake Iowa. I would have started school that year. I have no doubt that my grandfather watched this game on tv. Does anybody know what happened to cause Red Storey to resign so suddenly before the game started. I remember as a child Murray Westgate doing the Esso commercials during the game. The majority of these people have left this world and may God rest their souls. I grew up watching men play this game now here I am watching boys who look like they should be in high school playing in the NHL. I guess that's the wheel of life turning as it does. Good luck to one and all.
Storey made a couple of controversial non-calls in the Montreal-Chicago semifinal series. One allowed Montreal to score when everyone thought they would be penalized for tripping. Clarennce Campbell was less than supportive of Storey, so he resigned.
The legendary John Kiley at the organ.
Ahhh ... the good ole days! None of this expansion crap ...
I remember one year in the sixth grade Leo Bovins son was a classmate of mine he lived not far from me for the season.. this is a rare opportunity to see Harry Lumley I don't think he played too many playoff games at this stage in his career and I'm not sure if they even had Don Simmons on the roster I'd have to look carefully at a trade that. Forced me to have Eddie Johnston instead of Don Simmons?great action here!
he lived not far from me for the season.???
I just can't help but think these guys were tougher and better than todays pro's . no two line passing and all the disadvantages that yesteryears equipment this is just as fast if not faster than todays game . Also great puck movement.
Never saw this,wow.
Great game.
Great hockey.
End of game > Foster Hewett says '' Punch Imlach is out there congratulating his team , you can see him there without his toupee . "
Leaf player gives his stick to Boston fan at the very end
Enjoy this one if you watching it there are legends that you Don't see too often on film in it .sorry red story quit I guess mr. Campbell didn't support his efforts in Chicago😕
Foster Hewitt's son Bill called the game...see 2:40...
great game, great skills
Check out a fine example of Torpedo hockey with Don McKenney at 1.47 Lightning Fast!!!
The game after Red Storey quit, very historic.
never heard of a somebody quitting when the game is still on odd
@@pellelindbergh4455 He didn't quit during the game. His previous game, which turned out to be his last, the Blackhawks felt he had choked on a couple of late non-calls, allowing Montreal to win. Clarence Campbell did not support Storey, and Storey resigned immediately due to non-support, so they had to find a replacement referee quickly.
@@generalbullmoose thanks never heard that story before. ☺
@@pellelindbergh4455 At 1:17:35 - they have Clarence Campbell, who was the league president at the time, on for an interview, and he addresses that situation.
Yes, Storey was scheduled to work Game #7 in Boston if it was necessary--and it was--but the controversies in the Montreal-Chicago series caused Storey to quit when Clarence Campbell said unkind things about him.
Awesome!
The last time the Leafs won a Game 7 against the Bruins in Boston.
WOW!!! Father and son Hewett calling the game they almost sound alike
Too bad the 1st period is missing here would have liked to see good old fashioned hockey fights
Great thing about hockey player past and present when its playoff time unless the player has been killed or is dead on the ice they will come out and play. I always remember Duncan TEETH Keith took a shot in the mouth lost 7-8 teeth swallowed a few of them as I recall they shot him full of novicaine and was on the ice for the next period
The last time they Leafs beat the Bruins in a playoff series still stands after their playoff meeting in 2024
at 35:00 god bless foster for describing a fight among the gallery gods..lol..lol..lol..
Well since these days the camera work covering hockey games certainly has improved. What the hell were the cameramen doing on Ehman's winning goal late in the third? You didn't see the puck go into the net on Ehman's shot. You didn't even see Lumley in the net until he turned around and dug the puck out of the net.
Hopefully the Leafs can repeat this this year!
They didn't
@michaelleroy9281 Well, maybe next year! Though we've been saying that for quite awhile 😞
Nope
Why was it, in the 30s, 40s, 50s and even into the 60s, in both Canada and here in the States, that radio and TV broadcasts of hockey matches would not be of a complete match, but only of 2 periods, and, on some occasions, just the 3rd period.
The owners figured full broadcasts would hurt the gate. Fans would stay home instead of buying tickets to the game. This was patently ridiculous in Toronto where they had constant sellouts since 1946.
@@Lava1964 thanks for the answer. Kind of like the blackout rule here in the Statez.
It was a status symbol for those who paid to watch ....
man the fans are right next to the players as they coming out the locker rooms
Epic
The announcer said there numerous fights in the stands, and the fans threw debris on the ice, as usual, delaying the game. In 1959? It was that crazy at NHL games? First time I've ever heard such things.
Did the announcer say someone resigned before the game?
Yes, ref. RED STOREY..look it up..its nuts..
You heard correctly. The Referee was Red Storey, he faced criticism for supposedly missing some calls in a game between the Chicago Blackhawks and Montreal Canadians. Which nearly caused a riot.
His last straw came after the NHL president, Clarence Campbell, was among those who criticized him.
Like Messier says on the ESPN commercial: "THIS is hockey."
there was no such thing as instant replay in 1959
Started with the 1963 Army v. Navy football game on CBS with late, great producer/director Tony Verna, who I believe had a daughter Andrea Macchiaverna, a terrific tv sports games producer/director in the 80's- 2,000's first decade, herself.
TONY VERNA showed an ARMY Qb, ROLLIE STICHWEH's tdown run from a different angle immediately after showing it live.
That was REPLAY#1.
God bless the introduction of the back up goalie.....That was some delay
Simmons was out a broken thumb
Too cheap to call up an AHL guy?
I think it was another five years before the NHL made having a backup goalie on the bench mandatory. The Leafs got a good goaltending duo out of it, having both Johnny Bower and Terry Sawchuk on their roster.
Bruins wore the same jersey home & away until around 1968. Real cheapo organization.
If Lumley would have been too hurt to play, Don Simmons or a local senior goalie would have filled in. For Bower Ed Chadwick would have come down and get ready.
Foster's pretty open about Storey's resignation. No time for the story to hit the tabloid.
It was interesting to see there was no handshake line at the end of the series.
Foster is still play by play here. Same guy from 1933 I think?
Bill Hewitt is his son doing the pbplay. Foster is doing the "color" and sidebarbs.
Son sounds just like dad..natch..
Games were always televised from the second period back in the day. Too bad because Tim Horton punched somebody out and sent them for a coffee and a donut in the first.
Obviously before the spare goalie era. Goalie gets hurt - game is held up.
The puck on each goal stays in the goal! Todays shots go in amd out of the net , it just takes a fun part of the game away . Go back to slacked netting the modern goals might as well be a piecce of plywood with a red pipe on it
it took a lot of guts for Lumley to stay in but they should have used masks a lot sooner
Red Story
NHL refereeing career
Storey became an NHL referee in 1950 and worked in the league until 1959. On April 4, 1959, he was officiating Game 6 of the Stanley Cup semifinal between the Montreal Canadiens and the Chicago Black Hawks, which Montreal won, along with the series, scoring the winning goal with 88 seconds left in the sixth game. Chicago fans nearly rioted, and Black Hawks coach Rudy Pilous accused Storey of choking by not calling penalties against the Canadiens late in the game. Storey was scheduled to referee the final game in the series between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Boston Bruins, but when Ottawa Journal sports editor Bill Westwick reported that NHL president Clarence Campbell said that Storey had "frozen" on two calls that should have been penalties against the Canadiens, Storey immediately resigned.[4][5] He never returned to the NHL. His career included 480 regular season games and seven consecutive Stanley Cup finals from 1952 through 1958.
He was popular with NHL players because he talked with them. Gump Worsley said of Storey in his autobiography They Call Me Gump: "When Red Storey was refereeing in the NHL, I used to ask him where he was going to get a beer after the game. He usually told me, too."
Wow nice game
5:23
Red Storey resigned from his position as a referee after Clarence Campbell said he missed 2 Obvious penalties in a previous game. He claimed Storey “Froze up”
35:05
Sixty years have passed. Toronto has not beaten Boston in a playoffs series since this game. On the other hand Boston won the series in 1969, 1972, 1974, 2013, 2018...and 2019.
Nope, it's on the SAME hand!
That is one reason the TMLs have not been back to the Finals since '67.
The Leafs best all time left winger the Big M. The interviews in intermission on former players is brilliant. I never watch HNIC intermissions as it's garbage.
Where's Keon?
He didn't join the team until 1960-61 won the Calder Trophy 🏆 as rookie of the year
Was Jagr a healthy scratch in this game, I never heard his name once.
At the time the Bruins wore 🪙 gold jerseys at home
When I started watching hockey in 1968 the home teams wore the dark colors and the visitors were in white. This is not the case here. When did they change?
From 1970-71 until 2002-03 the home teams except for an occasional appearance where teams might wear a colored jersey at home, the home teams wore white jerseys
@@michaelleroy9281 I know that but this video is from 1959 and the home team should have dark
The Bruins wore gold jerseys as their home uniforms until 1966 which force other clubs to bring their colored jerseys into Boston Garden
He is getting paid
The last time the Leafs won a series and a game 7 vs boston..of course this is after eddie Shore and before bobby orr 😂
In the interviews I see that camera in the back YANKEE NETWORK That looks like treason in Boston I would think (Maybe i am seeing it wrong)
19:02 Old timer Johnny "Black Cat" Gagnon looks like he is wearing a black cat on his head!
1:43:30
Boivin got a goal then immediately got another goal using the same technique
"(He is) going into the dressing room for repairs."
OUCH!! 😯 Why ALL goalies now wear a face mask while on the ice. When did the NHL finally require face masks for their goalies?
I think they made it mandatory sometime in the late 60's or around 1970. They made exceptions to those already playing without one such as Terry Sawchuk and others from that era.
The helmet rule was also mandated sometime in the early 1980's, but certain players were grandfathered in. The last helmetless player I remember seeing was Craig MacTavish for the Oilers in the late 1980's.
Technically there was no rule when the last guy played without a mask, Andy Brown in 1974.
Hawaii wasn’t even a state with the Maple leafs beat the Bruins 😂😂😂😂😂
Stewart with a broken hand, lol. When men were men.
Doug diesel mohns
Yea, but if he was wearing his mask he wouldn't have been injured.
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Who says the Leafs can't beat the Bruins?
Everybody born after 1959.
Call it coincidence, but how is it that ALL of the Original 6 teams players wearing #9 became HOF'ers...Howe,Hull,Bucyk, Richard,Goyette,etc...
Hull also wore 7 for a while before wearing 9
Matt Pizzano Andy also spent some time with the Red Wings if i remember...
Goyette never wore #9 for Rangers. That was Andy Bathgate.
@@wendellblackett8317 He also wore #16 and why Brett donned that number.
@@markrocovich2234 Bathgate was also a Leaf and Penguin, then to the Canucks.