Famous Games You Attended
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tjcurrie
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Not sure how "famous" these are, but...
April 20 1997 game 3 round 1 Dallas @ Edmonton
Star have 3-0 lead and set to go up 2-1 in the series when bing bang boom oilers tie it up in dying minutes then win it in OT.
January 4 2007 Dallas @ Edmonton
Patrick Stefan's infamous missed empty netter. Puck goes back the other way and Hemsky ties it 5-5 with 2 seconds left. We still "won" in the shootout though after being down 4-1 at one point in the game.
April 20 1997 game 3 round 1 Dallas @ Edmonton
Star have 3-0 lead and set to go up 2-1 in the series when bing bang boom oilers tie it up in dying minutes then win it in OT.
January 4 2007 Dallas @ Edmonton
Patrick Stefan's infamous missed empty netter. Puck goes back the other way and Hemsky ties it 5-5 with 2 seconds left. We still "won" in the shootout though after being down 4-1 at one point in the game.
TheDevilMadeMe
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I was at the game when Brodeur broke the all-time wins record. (Same game that Elias became the Devils' all-time leading scorer, but nobody remembers that).
Buck Aki Berg
Done with this place
I was at the game where Damian Rhodes became the first goalie to be credited with a goal and a shutout in the same game.
Captain Bowie
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None. I only go to canucks regular season games. 
Actually... I was at the game when some idiot at Rogers Arena pointed a laser pointer at Kiprusoff (09/10 season).
Actually... I was at the game when some idiot at Rogers Arena pointed a laser pointer at Kiprusoff (09/10 season).
Boreal01
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tarheelhockey
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My bit of fun personal trivia:
There have been only two incidents in pro hockey where goals were scored BY a goalie ON a goalie. One in Charlotte in 1996, the other in Raleigh in 2013.
I am probably the only person who witnessed both goals.
There have been only two incidents in pro hockey where goals were scored BY a goalie ON a goalie. One in Charlotte in 1996, the other in Raleigh in 2013.
I am probably the only person who witnessed both goals.
My Grandma and Grandpa were on a date back in 1931 when Maple Leaf Gardens had their opening night. After the game, they and the other fans got to skate on the ice afterwards (this was commonly done at the Gardens on Saturday nights following the games back then).
Killion
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Isnt that an interesting bit of trivia. Had no idea they did that. Nice perk, way to round out the evening.
The Panther
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That's all kinds of awesome.
(I've never been at a 'famous' game. There is a Gretzky-with-L.A. highlight they always show on his highlights reels, where he skates to the blueline, MacInnis falls down, and Gretz goes in to score on Vernon after a quick deke. I was at that one!)
Captain Bowie
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Never been to a "famous" game. These two are the closest I've got:
April 8, 2000, Oilers at Flames. Last game of the season for both teams. Freddy Brathwaite started the game for the Flames and Mike Minard started for the Oilers. It was a nothing game, really: the Oilers were on their way to the playoffs and the Flames were second-last in the conference.
Mike Minard's NHL career was brief: he only ever played in this one game. So this was Mike Minard's only career NHL appearance. I'm one of about 16,000 people who ever saw Mike Minard take to the ice at the NHL level.
It was a close game until the second period, when the Oilers' offence opened up. Shots after two periods were 22-16 Oilers, and the score was 3-1 on goals from Dan Cleary, Alex Selivanov and Rem Murray. Marc Savard scored the lone Flames goal in the frame.
Poor Freddy Brathwaite wasn't haven't a good game and by the end of the second period a chant began echoing throughout the Saddledome, something that fifteen years earlier would have been absolutely unimaginable: "We want Fuhr! We want Fuhr! We want Fuhr!"
Grant Fuhr was the Flames' backup.
It was Fuhr's last year in the NHL, his lone year playing for the Flames. He was clearly washed-up at this point and it was a foregone conclusion that this was his last year, and last game. Sort of fitting that it was a Battle of Alberta. When the third period started number 40 sat on the bench and out skated number 31 to the Flames net. The crowd, Flames and Oilers fans alike, went nuts.
The Flames finally started pouring on the offence. Two minutes into the period Andrei Nazarov scored. 3-2 Oilers. Two minutes later rookie Sergei Varlamov scored to tie it up. The crowd was ecstatic. It looked like the Flames might actually win it. One final W for Grant Fuhr.
Around halfway through the period Alex Selivanov scored again. 4-3 Oilers. Minutes later Doug Weight scored. 5-3. The Flames threw all they had at Mike Minard, who did his part and kept 18 of 20 Flames shots out of the net in the third period. Selivanov potted an empty-netter to complete a hat trick.
Grant Fuhr let in two goals on seven shots. He was done.
The other game was December 2, 2008; Stars at Flames. Sean Avery said something stupid in the media that day:
Avery was suspended immediately. He never played another game for Dallas. I was looking forward to whatever brou-ha-ha Phaneuf (whom the comment was directed to, re. then-girlfriend and now-wife Elisha Cuthbert) and Avery would have gotten into and was disappointed when I got to the Saddledome and the buddy I went to the game with told me Avery wasn't playing that night.
I didn't remember the score, so I looked it up: 3-1 Stars. It was a boring game.
April 8, 2000, Oilers at Flames. Last game of the season for both teams. Freddy Brathwaite started the game for the Flames and Mike Minard started for the Oilers. It was a nothing game, really: the Oilers were on their way to the playoffs and the Flames were second-last in the conference.
Mike Minard's NHL career was brief: he only ever played in this one game. So this was Mike Minard's only career NHL appearance. I'm one of about 16,000 people who ever saw Mike Minard take to the ice at the NHL level.
It was a close game until the second period, when the Oilers' offence opened up. Shots after two periods were 22-16 Oilers, and the score was 3-1 on goals from Dan Cleary, Alex Selivanov and Rem Murray. Marc Savard scored the lone Flames goal in the frame.
Poor Freddy Brathwaite wasn't haven't a good game and by the end of the second period a chant began echoing throughout the Saddledome, something that fifteen years earlier would have been absolutely unimaginable: "We want Fuhr! We want Fuhr! We want Fuhr!"
Grant Fuhr was the Flames' backup.
It was Fuhr's last year in the NHL, his lone year playing for the Flames. He was clearly washed-up at this point and it was a foregone conclusion that this was his last year, and last game. Sort of fitting that it was a Battle of Alberta. When the third period started number 40 sat on the bench and out skated number 31 to the Flames net. The crowd, Flames and Oilers fans alike, went nuts.
The Flames finally started pouring on the offence. Two minutes into the period Andrei Nazarov scored. 3-2 Oilers. Two minutes later rookie Sergei Varlamov scored to tie it up. The crowd was ecstatic. It looked like the Flames might actually win it. One final W for Grant Fuhr.
Around halfway through the period Alex Selivanov scored again. 4-3 Oilers. Minutes later Doug Weight scored. 5-3. The Flames threw all they had at Mike Minard, who did his part and kept 18 of 20 Flames shots out of the net in the third period. Selivanov potted an empty-netter to complete a hat trick.
Grant Fuhr let in two goals on seven shots. He was done.
The other game was December 2, 2008; Stars at Flames. Sean Avery said something stupid in the media that day:
Avery was suspended immediately. He never played another game for Dallas. I was looking forward to whatever brou-ha-ha Phaneuf (whom the comment was directed to, re. then-girlfriend and now-wife Elisha Cuthbert) and Avery would have gotten into and was disappointed when I got to the Saddledome and the buddy I went to the game with told me Avery wasn't playing that night.
I didn't remember the score, so I looked it up: 3-1 Stars. It was a boring game.
Dennis Bonvie
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Bruins vs. Kings November 25, 1975 (one of the Orr/Park together games)
New England Whalers defeat Soviet National team December 27, 1976
Canada vs. USA Sept. 3, 1984 Canada Cup (Montreal) not famous but pretty cool
Mario Lemieux's first NHL game (and goal) October 11, 1984 (Boston Garden)
Canada vs. USA August 31, 2004 Canada Cup (Montreal) not famous but pretty cool
New England Whalers defeat Soviet National team December 27, 1976
Canada vs. USA Sept. 3, 1984 Canada Cup (Montreal) not famous but pretty cool
Mario Lemieux's first NHL game (and goal) October 11, 1984 (Boston Garden)
Canada vs. USA August 31, 2004 Canada Cup (Montreal) not famous but pretty cool
The Panther
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Yes, that was the one... the Wayner scored twice in this game, and L.A. won the game with exactly 1 second left in overtime!
thegoldenyear
RIP Mike Bossy
My high point remains G1 1993 Western conference final, LAK 1 @ TOR 4: McSorley clotheslines a dominant Gilmour, Clark responds, Burns challenges Melrose at the benches. In my 100-125 lifetime games at Maple Leaf Gardens, I don't recall the building so loud as it was during that event chain. Ridiculously electric. Fighting, y'know?
My brother was at MLG the night Rick Vaive broke the 50-goal barrier for the first time in Leafs history, in March 1982. Dad used to alternate taking us to games when he only had a pair of tickets. I was awfully jealous I missed that one.
My brother was at MLG the night Rick Vaive broke the 50-goal barrier for the first time in Leafs history, in March 1982. Dad used to alternate taking us to games when he only had a pair of tickets. I was awfully jealous I missed that one.
Claude The Fraud
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I don't know if they're famous, but I was at the last Nordiques game at Quebec, in the playoff against the Rangers, and I was at the Canadiens game where they retired Patrick Roy's number.
March 27, 1997: Detroit vs Colorado. Vernon vs Roy, McCarty vs Lemieux and the turtle incident, many other fights and scrums, and of course a comeback OT win for Detroit.
And slightly off topic, but I also attended the largest crowd ever at a football game in 2013 when Michigan played Notre Dame during a night game at the Big House. 115,000+.
And slightly off topic, but I also attended the largest crowd ever at a football game in 2013 when Michigan played Notre Dame during a night game at the Big House. 115,000+.
Off top of my head, the two most famous would probably be:
Habs comeback from 5-0 to beat the Rangers in 07/08
Devils win the cup in game 7 against Anaheim in 2003
Habs comeback from 5-0 to beat the Rangers in 07/08
Devils win the cup in game 7 against Anaheim in 2003
Mr. Fancy Pants
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I was at the LA Kings @ Vancouver Canucks game on March 27, 1994. This was 2 games after Gretzky scored his 802nd goal. Oh how close was I to seeing it live (Although if he didn't score at home against Vancouver, he probably would have made sure to score the next game in Edmonton).
It was an awesome game with Bure getting a hat trick. The full game used to be up on Youtube but it looks like it got taken down.
(Although if he didn't score at home against Vancouver, he probably would have made sure to score the next game in Edmonton).It was an awesome game with Bure getting a hat trick. The full game used to be up on Youtube but it looks like it got taken down.
Terrier
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As incidents go, I won't forget this, as I was in the balcony right above where Ron Asselstine leveled this fan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y6tc84scIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y6tc84scIA
Terrier
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The Bloodbath Game, one of the most memorable regular season games. Watched it in a Milwaukee bar, where I was attending the Frozen Four.
I haven't been to that many games. 20 to 25. The only three that were noteworthy:
* Trevor Linden's retirement ceremony
* Henrik Sedin's 4-point night to cap off his Art Ross/Hart season
* Ovechkin's first ever game in Vancouver (Luc Bourdon made a beautiful sweeping stick check on him to prevent a breakaway)
* Trevor Linden's retirement ceremony
* Henrik Sedin's 4-point night to cap off his Art Ross/Hart season
* Ovechkin's first ever game in Vancouver (Luc Bourdon made a beautiful sweeping stick check on him to prevent a breakaway)
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