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

[Staniowski]

 

[David Bruce Banner]

On the ice at Chamonix in France’s Haute-Savoie, a meeting of the French and Belgian national teams in January of 1922. Two years later, Chamonix would host the first official Winter Olympic hockey tournament. (Image: Agence Rol, Bibliothèque nationale de France)
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[Staniowski]

Tony.

 

[MeHateHe]

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Tony.

Swatting a fly, it seems.

Goalies, man.

 

[Fenway]

Albert "Battleship" Leduc breaking the net during the 1930 Stanley Cup Final at Boston Garden

 

[Staniowski]

Who would've thought circa 1970 that Bobby Orr's name would one day be much less famous in Canada than the other guy in the photo.

 

[Gilles Meloche]

 

[Staniowski]

Jacques Plante.

 

[Staniowski]

Ken Dryden.

Dave Keon.

 

[Staniowski]

 

[Staniowski]

The Big Four.

 

[Staniowski]

Young Ray, old Gordie.

 

[Staniowski]

Ed Staniowski.

 

[Staniowski]

Ratelle and Sanderson.

 

[seventieslord]

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Albert "Battleship" Leduc breaking the net during the 1930 Stanley Cup Final at Boston Garden

Why do so many pictures from the 30s and 40s have this look to them as though they've been touched up with a pencil?

 

[Staniowski]

Red Kelly, Terry Sawchuk, Gordie Howe, Maurice Richard.

 

[Staniowski]

Holik, Reichel, Jagr.

 

[82Ninety42011]

Leo Gudas looks a lot like Jagr there. Just needs longer hair.

I actually thought it was Jagr until read.

 

[MeHateHe]

Why do so many pictures from the 30s and 40s have this look to them as though they've been touched up with a pencil?

Slow shutter speed for one, partly because the terrible lighting made it impossible to shoot anything else. Judging by the angle of the shot, the photographer was probably a couple hundred feet away, without a decent lens, so the image would have to had to have been blown up (notice how big the grain is - that's an indication of how much it was blown up. And then finally, whoever was in the darkroom would have tried to save the image by burning the edges of the player to get something resembling definition.

tl:dr technology

 

[sr edler]

Here's G. Howe and W. Gretzky on the same line with the WHA All-Stars vs Dynamo Moscow in early January 1979. The third wheel on the line was Mark Howe.

 

[The Panther]

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Young Ray, old Gordie.

This photo is great on so many levels.

First, it's as nice in-action, game shot (why in black and white, though?). Unless it's pre-season (and I don't think Bourque wore #7 in pre-season, did he?), the date of this is November 18th, 1979. Here's the box-score, etc.: Hartford @ Boston Nov. 18th, 1979

Second, the obvious generational stretch between these two legendary players:
-- the guy on the right played in the NHL against Dit Clapper, who was born in 1907 and whose NHL career started in late 1927, skating with a young Eddie Shore.
-- the guy on the left played in the NHL against Joe Thornton, whose last NHL game was 1 year ago.

Third, look at their skates! Bourque appears to have standard 80s'-era skates, while Howe's look like he hasn't changed them since 1950.

Last, I have never seen a photo of these two on the ice together before.

 

[Staniowski]

look at their skates! Bourque appears to have standard 80s'-era skates, while Howe's look like he hasn't changed them since 1950.

Just about everybody would've changed from the old tube skates to the molded plastic type sometime in the late '70s or very early '80s, so there are probably quite a few pics where you could see both.

I'm sure the tube skates improved a lot over the decades too. The '70s models were pretty good quality.

 

[FerrisRox]

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Jacques Plante.

...wearing the "C"

 

[Gilles Meloche]

Showdown 1976…

 

[tinyzombies]