Great Hockey Photos You've Just Seen for the First Time!

[Cotton]

This is Joe Malone (early 70's) with Aurel Joliat (mid-60's) in front of their displays at the opening of the HHOF.

This is the only photo of Joe Malone post-playing I've ever seen.

 

[Cotton]

Nice photo of Dit Clapper.

 

[Cotton]

Hamilton Tigers Joe Malone, someone added Hamiltons colour to sweater.

 

[VanIslander]

18-year-old NHL rookie David Pastrnak celebrating one of the goals he scored during the 2014-15 season.

 

[Cotton]

King Clancy buddying up with Cyclone Taylor.

 

[Cotton]

Lach, McNeil and Harvey

 

[Killion]

^^^ Nice one Cotton.... Thats from a fishing trip taken near O'Connell Lodge on Lac du Loup in Quebec in 1952. A company called Columbia Sports Films produced a series called Angling Around & one of the shows featured these 3 players. Unfortunately I cant seem to find it on youtube.

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

1913 - We've seen this photo of the Vancouver Millionaires many times before, but in Black and White.

1922 - Future Hall of Famer Duke Keats when he played for Edmonton Eskimos.

1928 - Toronto Maple Leafs training camp, playing tennis.

1931 - Leo Bourgeault on the rowing machine while Bud Cook is admiring his workout. Photo taken at Jasper Park Lodge in Alberta.

1933 - Taffy Abel (with the puffy cheeks) saves the bacon for goalie Charlie Gardiner while Red Jackson threatens to score.

1934 - Stanley Cup hero Mush March working the pumps during the summer. Like many other players of that time he had a summer job. Unthinkable today.

1935 - Herbie Lewis getting a shot from Detroit ‘s trainer Honey Walker.

1939 - Ebbie Goodfellow with his son Ebbie Jr.

1941 ca - Chicago Stadium in the pre Zamboni days.

1947 - Syl Apps and Turk Broda

1947 - Joe Klukay is put on a stretcher after having been boarded by Ken Reardon. Leaning over Klukay is Montreal's Butch Bouchard along with Toe Blake (glove on stick), Glen Harmon (# 8), and Buddy O’Connor (# 10).

1950 - Teeder Kennedy (# 9) sliding into goalie Turk Broda while Jim McFadden is on his way to taste Broda's stick.

1950 - "Wild" Bill Ezinicki is swinging for Detroit’s Motor City Open. On the right golfer and actor Joe Kirkwood Jr. Ezinicki was an excellent golfer and later became a pro in that sport.

1951 ca - Newspaper boy who fell asleep after having watched hockey the night before...nah, but who knows? Anyway, this was Lou Turofsky's personal favourite among all the photos that he had taken. The Turofsky brothers were of course better known for the many awesome NHL photos that they had taken over the years. So it's not a hockey photo, but there's a hockey connection, and it's a damn great photo for sure.

1951 - Boston University player taking a sip.

1952 - Harry Lumley and Terry Sawchuk.

1952 ca - Frank Selke surrounded by his players. Left to right - Paul Masnick, Reg Abbott, Jean Béliveau and Dickie Moore.

1953 - A family affair. Bertha "Bert" Rollins (with husband Al) and Mary Gardner (with Cal).

1950s - Ted Lindsay in the cooler guarded by an officer of the law.

1950s - Ted "Teeder" Kennedy with the battle scars of a true captain.

1961 - Gordie Howe practicing for the Michigan Open.

1961 - Pierre Pilote in the hospital with a broken arm. Ab MacDonald with the ice bag and Jack Evans with the thermometer.

1963 - Russian Yuri Gagarin captaining the Cosmonaut team. Gagarin was the first human to journey into outer space.

1964 - Bobby Baun being carried off on a stretcher.

1967 - Marcel Pronovost posing with the Stanley Cup.

1960s - Stan Mikita

1966 ca - Murray Oliver (# 16) in hot pursuit of Jean-Claude Tremblay (# 3).

1969 - Bobby Orr majestically gliding over the ice.

1970s - Gerry Cheevers in action.

1970s - Fred "The Fog" Shero in total control behind the bench.

1976 - Actor Paul Newman receiving a Johnstown Jets jersey from team president Ed Hoke. Also pictured are Jets executive director John Mitchell (left) and NAHL commissioner Jack Timmons. Years later Paul Newman said that "Slapshot" was one of his favourite movies, and that it was one of his most enjoyable films to have been part of.

1983 - President Ronald Reagan taking a few shots while the Washington Capitals visited the Rose Garden. Rod Langway is amused.

1984 - Mark Messier, Conn Smythe winner.

1985 - Rick Vaive welcoming Wendel Clark to the club at draft day.

2009 - Montreal Canadiens wearing the 1912/13 throwback jerseys.

Ok, maybe there are a few photo's that we've seen before, but they are all enjoyable.

 

[alko]

Peter Stastny playing for Canada

 

[The Panther]

1931 - Leo Bourgeault on the rowing machine while Bud Cook is admiring his workout. Photo taken at Jasper Park Lodge in Alberta.

But on the main board I learned that fitness didn't exist before 2005...?

1969 - Bobby Orr majestically gliding over the ice.

Holy Hannah, that's a great photo!


Quality post, btw.

 

[Howie Hodge]

Truly some absolutely amazing pictures of hockey history Gentlemen!

 

[VanIslander]

The Sparta Prague hockey team in 1934 with... I wanna say, the inflatable mascot?

 

[VanIslander]

Evander Kane scores against a state rival.

 

[VanIslander]

Two years before this 1936 photo of the Blackhawks jumping over the boards, Chicago had won the Stanley Cup and two years after the photo they would win it again, but this and the following season would belong to Detroit. The teams top three scorers in order in their championship 1934 season were Paul Thompson, Johhny Gottselig and Doc Romnes. In their 1938 championship season the team's top three scorers in order were the same as 1934!

 

[VanIslander]

If God were to be asked, "Who is the greatest goaltender of all time?" he just might say "Mr. Goalie.".

He's the only goalie to be a 1st team all-star seven times. He "only" beat out Terry Sawchuk, Jacques Plante, Johnny Bower and Gump Worsley. He played 502 consecutive regular season NHL games, in one of which Rocket Richard scored his 500th goal against him. The total is really 551 games in total if you include playoffs (without a mask and without a single injury stopping him) and it's him in net when Bobby Orr jumps in celebration after his cup-clinching goal against St. Louis. He allowed a record six cup-winning goals against, four of them against dynasty Habs, the netminder a big reason why his team was in the Stanley Cup Finals in the first place. In his 500th consecutive game the Chicago owners presented him with a miniature car toy and declared he can choose any car he wants and the franchise will buy it for him. In an era of average job salaries and expensive sports cars, this netminder chose a station wagon for his wife and kids.

He was interviewed after his 500th consecutive game by a magazine and asked to give an all-star team of greatest players he played against during that long span. He chose - not surprisingly since they had two dynasties over that span - Habs at every position: Jacques Plante, Doug Harvey, Jean Beliveau, Dickie Moore and at right wing a tie between Rocket Richard, Bernie Geoffrion and the only non-Hab Gordie Howe.

If you don't know who by now shame on you, or shame on us for not singing the glories of this guy, who may very well really be the greatest goaltender of all time.

 

[Cotton]

Women playing hockey at Rideau Hall in 1890. (earliest known image of women's hockey).

 

[Cotton]

Gordie Howe and Johnny Bower on a fishing trip. The two were close friends.

 

[Cotton]

Howie Morenz Jr mourns at his fathers gravesite.

Manager Hart and team-mate Aurele Joliat in the Canadiens' dressing room after learning of Morenz' death.

After he passed his family was left with no money and during the depression. The benefit game the Habs played to raise money for the family raised a good amount, but it was placed in trust until the families youngest child was 25.

Miss Morenz took ill after the death and was unable to care for her children. As a result Howie Jr and his younger brother and sister were orphaned, with the youngest dying of pleurisy weeks after Christmas in 1939. He was buried next to his father.

Howie Jr was left with his fathers jersey, skates, stick and gigantic expectations as a young player, and was indeed hyped to be the second coming of the stratford streak. He never made the NHL.

From the day his father died until his own death, in October 2015 at the age 88, he served in the role as surrogate. He endured autographs and question about his legendary namesake, questions about his own disappointing Hockey career, and spoke out against the different rumours as to how his father had passed, the ones about alcoholism, the romanticized broken heart (which the family took as an insinuation of suicide) and told them he died of a blood clot from his broken leg reaching his heart.

His sister Marlene is Bernie Geoffrions widow.

Morenz Jr with Dallas Texans in the 1940's. He looks like Auston Matthews.

 

[VanIslander]

Captain Austin Czarnik of NCAA 4th ranked Miami scores against the 11th ranked team in 2014.
The Michigan-born center had scored 5 goals in 7 games in the USA gold-medal world juniors in 2010.
Czarnik was undrafted but signed an NHL contract at the end of his 4-year university degree and scored 13 points for the Boston Bruins last season.

 

[Killion]

Gordie Howe and Johnny Bower on a fishing trip. The two were close friends.

One of them newfangled McCullough/Scott aluminum cartoppers there
Cotton. Like riding around in a sink. Gimme cedar strip or go away....

Johnny woulda caught a way bigger Pike than that puny thing in a Peterborough Sportsman....

 

[VanIslander]

The Bryan Bickell family's productive day with the Stanley Cup.
A small fry they put in the cup and they even had a life vest on the cup at one point.

 

[VanIslander]

Boom Boom in 1961.

 

[Killion]

^^^ Cool. Fishing theme going on here uh?.... Any of you guys remember the Red Fisher Show?... Grandaddy of all fishing shows that followed, a radio program starting in 1963, television starting in 1968 & running for 20yrs thereafter. Sporting goods retailer, former Coast Guard Officer Red Fisher the host, 30 minute episodes, Red based on Lake St. Clair near Windsor in the mythical Skuttlebutt Lodge. Red & a guest, including Johnny Bower, Gordie Howe & Eddie Shack (Ted Williams, Roger Maris etc) over the years would fly off to some virgin lake in the middle of nowhere northern Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba or wherever... catch fish.... tell tall tales... Used to watch that show religiously for a few years. Was the inspiration for Steve Smiths' Red Green comedy show that most are likely familiar with... Fishing's always been (along with golf) a big sport amongst hockey players going back generations. Bobby Orr for example, avid fisherman, grew up fishing Georgian Bay, the Moon River. In BC, the Gulf Island & northern channel salmon fishing lodges hosts to a who's who of players, coaches & managers etc.

 

[VanIslander]

Can you spot the other Red Fisher?

 

[Killion]

^^^ Gee I wonder eh?