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The great Grant Fuhr as a rookie

 

[James Laverance]

Early Hockey Images.

1945 Eveleth Golden Bears State Hockey Champions.

1948 Olympic Winter Games.

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

November 29, 1936 – Roy Worters (# 1) – John Sorrell (# 10) – John Doran (# 17)

1953 – Soviet game at the Dzerzhinets stadium in Chelyabinsk. Metallurg Vostok in the striped sweaters led by a young Vladislav Smirnov (closest to the camera)

November 12, 1969 - Charlie Hodge sees the puck fly past the goal while Doug Roberts (# 2) and John Ferguson (# 22) battles it out in front of the goal

1974-75 ca – Bobby Orr cruising like shark in the warmups

December 31 1975 – Red Army’s Boris Aleksandrov (# 11) have just equalized to make it 3-3 behind Ken Dryden. Larry Robinson can just look on

1975/76 – Gary ”Cobra” Simmons in goal keeping a close eye on LA’s Marcel Dionne (# 16). The Seals players – Jim Moxey ??? and Mike Christie ???

December 15, 1993 – Jarrod Skalde (# 10) for the first year Mighty Ducks of Anaheim battling it out with future HHOF’er Dave Andreychuk (# 14)

November 7, 1996 – John Leclair have just scored one of his two goals in the game against Dominik Hasek. A disappointed Garry Galley (# 3) is skating to the bench

April 1, 1998 – Coach Scotty Bowman going bananas on the bench as Patrick Roy and Chris Osgood are going at it. Brendan Shanahan (A) amused by the whole situation and the 218 penalty minutes handed out

December 22, 2007 - Rick Dipietro stretching out in goal. L to R – Freddy Meyer (# 44) – Rick DiPietro (# 39) – Josef Vasicek (# 63) – Aleksander Semin (# 28) - Andy Sutton (# 25) – Nicklas Backstrom (# 19)

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

1961-63 – Jacques Plante kicking out the puck. Don Marshall (# 22) and Dickie Moore (# 12)

1964-66 ca – Bill Gadsby (# 4) and a helmeted Red Kelly

1977-79 – The Howe family. Mark leaning his head against dad

November 30, 1979 - Chicago Blackhawks captain Terry Ruskowski watches a brief ceremony from behind a Star Wars Stormtrooper

May 1983 – F**k you Smitty ! – Wayne Gretzky having words with Billy Smith

February 19, 1985 – Bobby Nystrom (# 23) slugging it out with Neil Sheehy (# 5)

1987 - Honk for Herb !

1989 – Chris Kontos (# 15) and the dying swan (Theo Fleury?)

September 2017 – Loui Eriksson contemplating

May 27, 2019 – A helmetless Torey Krug (# 47) laying out Robert Thomas (# 18)

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

Going down memory lane - Player portraits from the 70s

Christer Abrahamsson

Garnet "Ace" Bailey

Bill Barber

Gerry Cheevers

Vitaly Davydov

Doug Favell

Rod Gilbert

Jocelyn Guevremont

Vic Hadfield

Jiri and Jaroslav Holik

Gordie Howe

Guy Lafleur

Reggie Leach

Jacques Lemaire

Ross Lonsberry

Ron Low

Vladimir Lutchenko

Aleksandr Maltsev

Rick Martin

Terry Murray

Bob Nevin

Vladimir Petrov

Jacques Plante

Eddie Shack

Vladimir Shadrin

Rick Seiling

Billy Smith

Pat Stapleton

Pete Stemkowski

Juhani Tamminen

Jean-Claude Tremblay

Rogatien Vachon

Valeri Vasiliev

Dennis Ververgaert

John Wensink

 

[MeHateHe]

Where did the sticks branded "Toronto" and "Montreal" originate? I've only ever seen Soviets with them. And what's the deal with naming sticks after cities? Back in the 80s, my club hosted a Soviet team and one of their players left a "Mockba" branded twig in the bench. It was pretty beaten up, so I left it there and have always regretted not grabbing it and holding onto it for posterity.

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

Where did the sticks branded "Toronto" and "Montreal" originate? I've only ever seen Soviets with them. And what's the deal with naming sticks after cities? Back in the 80s, my club hosted a Soviet team and one of their players left a "Mockba" branded twig in the bench. It was pretty beaten up, so I left it there and have always regretted not grabbing it and holding onto it for posterity.

These sticks originated from Finland (Toronto and Montreal). In the mid 1970s the Finnish hockey sticks started to compete with the North American brands among the pro players (WHA & NHL).

North American brands like Sher-Wood, Northland, Victoriaville, Louisville, Canadien, Christian bros. and CCM started to get challenged by Finnish stick makers like Koho, Karhu/Titan and Toronto. Koho at the time made up for 75% of the imported hockey sticks to North America, the other 25% was divided between Titan and Toronto.

Later on there were other European brands that entered the North American market, but weren't all that successful. Montreal (Finland), Torspo (Finland) and Jofa (Sweden - more succesful when it came to helmets and shoulder pads for example), Very few, if any Czechoslovakian (Artis & Forward) and Soviet (Mockba) sticks entered the market. Although I remember that Mats Naslund in Montreal used to play with Torspo for a few years, and Glenn Anderson played with Artis for a while in Edmonton.

However, Finland had an impact, and there was an investigation made by the department of the treasury in the USA to determine if the import and sales of the Finnish hockey sticks was hurting the American hockey stick market. This came after a complaint by the North American hockey stick manufacturers of lost sales. They alleged significant losses to Koho.

The Finnish hockey sticks were generally more expensive, but Koho earned a good reputation and sold well, later on of course, Titan managed to have guys like Gretzky and Bossy playing with their sticks.

But why the names, Toronto and Montreal ? I have not researched that, but logically these are and were two of the largest hockey markets available, so I guess it was only logical to name the sticks after these two iconic hockey teams/cities.

 

[FerrisRox]

T Although I remember that Mats Naslund in Montreal used to play with Torspo for a few years.

It was more than a few years. As far as I recall, Naslund used Torspo sticks his entire time in Montreal. When he returned to the NHL with Boston he used a Titan twig.

Kjell Dahlin, who's brief NHL career overlapped with Naslund's in Montreal also used Torspo.

EDIT: Actually just found a pic of Naslund from 1988-89 or '89-'90 and he's using at Titan. He also used Titan at the 1991 Canada Cup.

 

[James Laverance]

A game of Shinny on the Ice on Lake Champlain, Vermont Circa 1870.

 

[ICM1970]

November 29, 1936 – Roy Worters (# 1) – John Sorrell (# 10) – John Doran (# 17)

Red striping on the sleeves and the circular stars over the numbers, anything the New York Americans wore was so cool.

 

[tarheelhockey]

1961-63 – Jacques Plante kicking out the puck. Don Marshall (# 22) and Dickie Moore (# 12)

1964-66 ca – Bill Gadsby (# 4) and a helmeted Red Kelly

1977-79 – The Howe family. Mark leaning his head against dad

November 30, 1979 - Chicago Blackhawks captain Terry Ruskowski watches a brief ceremony from behind a Star Wars Stormtrooper

May 1983 – F**k you Smitty ! – Wayne Gretzky having words with Billy Smith

February 19, 1985 – Bobby Nystrom (# 23) slugging it out with Neil Sheehy (# 5)

1987 - Honk for Herb !

1989 – Chris Kontos (# 15) and the dying swan (Theo Fleury?)

September 2017 – Loui Eriksson contemplating

May 27, 2019 – A helmetless Torey Krug (# 47) laying out Robert Thomas (# 18)

Man, that's a particularly good set of photos.

 

[DannyGallivan]

Ol' Rogie looked so rolly-polly. But he kept the puck out of the net. He'd be right at home with a sombrero, relaxing against a dusty building in Mexico.

 

[DannyGallivan]

If a jersey could be so bad that it's good, it's this one. Love it.

 

[DannyGallivan]

Ron Low

You could fit about four sets of his pads into the average goalie today.

 

[DannyGallivan]

The Riverton Rifle before he was a Flyer. Love it. Like to see one of him in a Bruin jersey too.

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

December 15, 1940 or January 5, 1941 – Bert Gardiner in goal as Alex Singbush (# 18) and Tony Graboski (# 17) are making sure that their goalie is protected while Ray Getliffe is clearing the puck in front of him

1950s – Ted Lindsay in action

1970 ca – Village People or Derek Sanderson?

1972 – Philadelphia’s first four draft picks in 1972 – Tom Bladon (2nd) – Jim Watson (3rd) – Bill Barber (1st) – Al MacAdam (4th)

1972/73 – WHA action - Ken Brown of the Alberta Oilers making a save on a breakaway from Ottawa Nationals Rick Sentes (# 8)

1970s – Gerry Cheevers handling the puck

October 1976 – Ron Ward in action against San Diego (WHA)

February 20, 1998 – Dominik Hasek making his signature move against Eric Lindros

November 21, 2008 – Hanson brother ! - Steve Carlson from the movie Slapshot

2017 – Boom ! – Head first into the boards

 

[DannyGallivan]

The Riverton Rifle before he was a Flyer. Love it. Like to see one of him in a Bruin jersey too.

Alright, speaking of Leach on teams other than the Flyers...

Leach as a Bruin

Leach as a Red Wing

 

[DannyGallivan]

Bobby Clarke of the Flin Flon Bombers

 

[DannyGallivan]

Unidentified members of Team Canada '81

 

[DannyGallivan]

Guy getting lit up as a Rempart.

 

[The Panther]

The 1959-60 Japanese Olympic team:

In January / February 1960, they toured the US and Canada (mainly Alberta & BC, Canada), playing games against local teams right before and after the Games in Squaw Valley, California.

Their only win was 8-6 over the Brandon Wheat Kings. It appears their closest games otherwise were a 4-4 tie with the Lethbridge Maple Leafs, and a 10-9 loss to the Pacific Coast Amateur League All Stars (at Vancouver). Less impressive was their 9-1 loss to Victoria Navy, their 17-2 loss to the Central Alberta Hockey League All Stars (at Lacombe, Alberta, of all places), and their 12-1 loss to the Soviet Union at Squaw Valley.

At these same 1960 Games, the US upset the Soviets (not for the last time, ha!) with a 3-2 win. Pictured here is Bill Christian scoring the winning goal with five minutes remaining:

 

[DannyGallivan]

At these same 1960 Games, the US upset the Soviets (not for the last time, ha!) with a 3-2 win. Pictured here is Bill Christian scoring the winning goal with five minutes remaining:

Since you posted Bill Christian, here is his son, 1980 Olympian Dave Christian... one of the handful of USA 1980 members who distinguished themselves in the NHL...

 

[James Laverance]

Hockey game, Kingston Harbour Front, 1898.

 

[James Laverance]

The Queen's University team from 1933 in the Second Jock Harty Arena.

 

[James Laverance]

Following up on Kingston Hockey History.

The first mentioned game in Kingston traces back to 1839.
Sport in Canada

First played under the term Hockey by 1843.
Sport in Canada

In 1855.
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And Again here in 1867.