Great photos in hockey history you've just seen for the first time (Part III)

[The Panther]

June 7, 1993 - Wayne Gretzky (# 99) checking Mathieu Schneider (# 27) just in front of a flinching actress Goldie Hawn and her children Wyatt Russell (future hockey goalie) and future actress Kate Hudson during the Stanley Cup finals

Bruce McNall to the right of Gretzky, looking strangely dispassionate...

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Bruce McNall to the right of Gretzky, looking strangely dispassionate...

Planning his next "deal".

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

The Panther, Good catch with McNall. I thought it might be him, but wasn't 100% sure.

1928 - Miss hockey of New York, Madeline Cameron Gaxton (born Seitz) [1897-1990], who performed at the Ziegfeld Follies shows at Broadway with her sister Dorothy (The Cameron sisters) in the 1920s.
Notice the crest, a very similar one was worn by NY Rangers almost 50 years later

1930/31 – Hunters or mafiosos? - Bruins players at Lionel Hitchman’s cabin. Dit Clapper, Cooney Weiland, Red Beattie and Harry Oliver having a good time, some of them in their Bruins sweaters

December 21, 1966 – L to R – Gary Smith (in his 5th NHL game) – John Ferguson (# 22) – Eddie Shack (# 23)

February 23, 1978 - Guy Lafleur (# 10) in pursuit of the puck in front of Gilles Meloche (# 27), as Jean Potvin (# 6) tries to stop him

January 20, 1982 – New York playboy Ron Duguay and Cher. The photo was taken at Studio 54 in New York a few hours after NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 3-2 (Duguay had one assist). Duguay & Cher ended up in Gene Simmons (KISS) apartment and bed that same night…

April 4, 1982 – Val James, the first American-born African American in the NHL. Here in his 7th NHL game

1988/89 – The two # 10’s. Mike Allison (Los Angeles) and the late Dale Hawerchuk (Winnipeg) at the Great Western Forum

February 29, 1996 – Wayne Gretzky scoring his first goal as a Blues player in his first game with the team. His victim was Kirk McLean

September 21, 2009 – Theo Fleury (# 14) and Christian Ehrhoff (# 5) in a preseason game.
This was Fleury’s second to last game in his comeback attempt

October 5, 2020 – Vintage feel - Women's hockey in France between Evry-Viry and Garges-St-Ouen.
Photo by Laurence Bichon

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Is it my imagination, or does John Ferguson look slow (in a still picture)?

 

[The Panther]

Man, she's fine! I wouldn't mind taking Miss Hockey for a few intense laps around the rink...

December 30, 1987 – The two # 10’s. Mike Allison (Los Angeles) and the late Dale Hawerchuk (Winnipeg) at the Great Western Forum

Not that it matters, but the date is at least a year off. The Kings first wore the silver & blacks in October 1988, so this'll be 1988-89 or 1989-90.

 

[Jahara]

Tommy Boustedt – Swedish hockey coach and former general secretary over the Swedish Ice Hockey Association.

http://www.hammarbyhockey.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Namnlost-1-890x467.jpg

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Man, she's fine! I wouldn't mind taking Miss Hockey for a few intense laps around the rink...

Not that it matters, but the date is at least a year off. The Kings first wore the silver & blacks in October 1988, so this'll be 1988-89 or 1989-90.

I heard when she was with the Ziegfeld Follies, she knew Ogilthorpe.

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

Not that it matters, but the date is at least a year off. The Kings first wore the silver & blacks in October 1988, so this'll be 1988-89 or 1989-90.

You are correct. Hawerchuk is wearing the redesigned "Goals for Kids" patch. I think it's from a game in December 1988.
I appreciate it when things like this gets corrected. It's not easy to date the photos, as most of them are undated. I usually stay away from dating them unless I'm pretty sure of the exact date. In this case I concentrated on the Jets uniform and missed that the "Goals for Kids" patch was redesigned in 1988/89.

PS: I have posted more than 2,500 photos in these photo threads, so one have to dig deep for good photos now.

 

[ICM1970]

Saw this in a book I just started reading, and felt it was appropriate (sorry for the quality):

Harold Snepsts, one of the last helmetless players in NHL history, sporting not just a helmet but a visor as well during an early-1980s game.

I recall reading somewhere it was to temporarily protect some sort of injury. Harold did not like wearing the headgear as he said that the perspiration and movement from it caused him to have a rash.

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

I recall reading somewhere it was to temporarily protect some sort of injury. Harold did not like wearing the headgear as he said that the perspiration and movement from it caused him to have a rash.

I think the photo is from December 1982 when Snepsts wore the helmet and faceshield for a few games.

Edit: Vancouver Sun, December 10, 1982 - At least Harold Snepsts has a couple of legitimate excuses. His eye still looks like it belongs on Tex Cobb's face. He's wearing a helmet for the first time in his career, and the attached protective plastic shield might just as well be a blindfold. And he's breaking in new skates, wallowing like a kid testing a pond for the first time. These first two games back for the big, likeable defenceman have been horror shows. Snepsts described himself as "clumsy and awkward" after Thursday night's 9-6 spanking by Minnesota North Stars. He was also describing his teammates, and they had no excuse for being duped into a shootout against a team which at home rivals the explo-siveness of Edmonton and Quebec...

 

[BobbyAwe]

A fun detail — on the right side of the first picture, you can see Red Horner just starting to lunge toward Shore (off camera). He knocked Shore out cold, hitting his head on the ice so badly that in the moment it wasn’t completely clear whether both Shore and Bailey might need doctors.

The second picture, taken just a moment later, gives us a sense that the teams are in the process of rushing back to Bailey after going to break up Horner and Shore. The before-and-after has an almost artistic effect... we’ve all seen enough hockey brawls to fill in the gaps.

Which one is Horner going back to see Bailey in the 2nd pic? Number 5?

 

[tarheelhockey]

Which one is Horner going back to see Bailey in the 2nd pic? Number 5?

I don’t have a roster in front of me, but I think Horner was #2.

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

November 10, 1932 – Chicago’s legendary goalie Charlie Gardiner [1904-34] poking away the puck in training

April 1951 – Ted Lindsay (far left) running into a brick wall in the form of Bud MacPherson. We also see Floyd Curry (# 6), a helmeted Gordie Howe and Doug Harvey (far right)

1969 ca - A maskless Rogie Vachon making a pad save on a helmeted Norm Ullman (# 9)?(did he ever wear a helmet?), Ron Ellis (# 6), Yvan Cournoyer (# 12) and Ted Harris (# 10) are also seen

January 15, 1971 – Goalie Gary Smith skating all the way up to mid ice, trying to score a goal. Smith saved 38 out of the 39 shots in the game

1971-72 ca - Dennis Hull (# 10) swooping in on goalie Eddie Giacomin (# 1). Bill Fairbairn (# 10) looks on helplessly

May 9, 1986 – Patrick Roy is just about to catch the puck

November 4, 1998– Darren Puppa (# 93) making a desperate attempt to protect his goal from Adam Oates (# 77). Puppa went on to play only ten more NHL-games

January 10, 2009 - KHL All Star Game between ”Team Jagr” and ”Team Yashin” at the Red Square in Moscow with the Saint Basil’s Cathedral as a great backdrop

November 19, 2018 - Josh Morrissey (# 44) and Elias Pettersson (# 40) colliding

2019 – Lake Louise, Banff, Alberta. Not a bad place to play hockey

 

[alko]

2019 – Lake Louise, Banff, Alberta. Not a bad place to play hockey

Some people from NHL wanted, that the first game of season 20/21 should be played exactly there.

 

[Primary Assist]

Incredible! One of the greatest pieces of hockey photography i've ever seen:

1952 – Youngsters playing spirited hockey at the South Inch Pond in Scotland.

(Bears repeating. Shouldn't get lost in a sea of merely "good" pics.)

100% agreed, absolutely beautiful picture. It leaves so much to the imagination too: what's that kid in the middle doing? Was he the puck carrier and did he get sandwiched between those two guys? Is this a free-for-all where every player is going for the puck? What's that shoe doing there??

Just an absolutely gorgeous shot too with the framing, the spectators, the foggy background and the ultra crisp ice... This is a complete gem.

 

[VanIslander]

Some people from NHL wanted, that the first game of season 20/21 should be played exactly there.

Gawd... for years and years i have dreamed of an NHL game broadcast without an audience in Alaska or the Rocky Mountains (thought of Banff, as I have been there three times, lived a mere 8 hours west of it).

An NHL game played on an actual pond/lake surrounded by mountains, the infrastructure being simply real benches off the ice plus camera equipment plus all regular on-ice gear.

Gawwwd. COVID19 gave the world a news highlight moment.

I truly believe, in a pre-Internet world of high ratings for network tv and non-fragmented viewership, a virus-motivated no-attendance game at New Year's would have motivated producers to pick the most awesome scene imaginable, it being frozen ice against a mountain backdrop, no stadium.

 

[Doctor No]

Despite the claim in the tweet:



I believe that this is a photo of Marc D'Amour with the Colorado Flames (who shared logos with the parent club at the time). But I can't find any photos that match the rather unique helmet being used.

Any ideas? I've added several photos of both Vernon and D'Amour in various parts of the Twitter thread.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Despite the claim in the tweet:



I believe that this is a photo of Marc D'Amour with the Colorado Flames (who shared logos with the parent club at the time). But I can't find any photos that match the rather unique helmet being used.

Any ideas? I've added several photos of both Vernon and D'Amour in various parts of the Twitter thread.

What the heck is that helmet? Was that commercially produced, or some FrankenHelmet made in a mad goalie's basement?

 

[Doctor No]

It looks like a bootleg SK600 with Harrison/Dryden-type modifications:

 

[Doctor No]

And the winner is Marc D'Amour:

 

[kaiser matias]

Hockey match in Bakuriani, Georgia (then part of the Soviet Union) in 1960 or 1961. The captions says (in Georgian) "Skating in Bakuriani".

Likewise:

"The first generation of Georgian hockey players, shot in 1960".

Both are via the Georgian hockey federation's Facebook page; they put up a bunch of photos a few years back. The Soviets tried to introduce hockey to the semi-tropical Georgia in the 1960s (it didn't really take), but by the end of the decade it was pretty much over.

Lastly:

Kote Bakhutashvili (left) and Tretiak (centre-right), plus the two men who tried to revive Georgian hockey in the 1980s, from 1983. Bakhutashvili (b. 1983) played in the CSKA system, and played part of a match in 1988-89 (plus 2 games in 1991-92 with Kazan). His one game with CSKA came at the end of the season when he played 9 minutes against Sokol. He had also been asked to change his name to be less "exotic" but refused; I don't think it's a coincidence his time with CSKA ended shortly after.

The sport still didn't work, in part because the one arena in the country was torn down after the USSR ended (it's since been replaced with a smaller one, and plans to build more).

 

[Doctor No]

Another thing we figured out yesterday (although it seems obvious now) - Reggie Lemelin's mask early in his Atlanta career (pictured here) is actually the Philadelphia Firebirds' logo (he had played with the Firebirds the prior few seasons, and the Flames started the year loaning him back there).

 

[Doctor No]

Still no idea on Mike Liut's Bowling Green Falcon, however. (It's probably a falcon.)

 

[DJ Man]

100% agreed, absolutely beautiful picture. It leaves so much to the imagination too: what's that kid in the middle doing? Was he the puck carrier and did he get sandwiched between those two guys? Is this a free-for-all where every player is going for the puck? What's that shoe doing there??

Just an absolutely gorgeous shot too with the framing, the spectators, the foggy background and the ultra crisp ice... This is a complete gem.

You have to wonder if the lake could cope with all the TV equipment and staff. It'd be a shame if melted or broke and both teams drowned.

Typically, how thick is that ice anyway?

 

[leetch99]

Incredible! One of the greatest pieces of hockey photography i've ever seen:

1952 – Youngsters playing spirited hockey at the South Inch Pond in Scotland.

(Bears repeating. Shouldn't get lost in a sea of merely "good" pics.)

Would the shoe possibly be one of the goalposts ? A lot of the time we would use them for posts back 50 years ago when playing pond hockey . As a rule somebody would always get mad and bang....there goes one boot slapped into the fir trees 30 feet away ....