More great photos in hockey history you've just seen for the first time!

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Pasha71

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I have to ask. This photo was actually posted in this thread (part 1):

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I am dying to know: is it possible to identify the game or even the season? The Google search gives dozens of hits, but none with the info.

Now, this link places this photo on the 1983 O-Pee-Chee card:

1983 O-Pee-Chee Wayne Gretzky (Hart Trophy) | PSA CardFacts™

The card also mentions the 1982/83 Hart Trophy.

And this link from HHOF (also with this photo) mentions 1982/83 Art Ross Trophy:

Silverware -- 1982-83 Art Ross Trophy Winner -- Gretzky, Wayne -- Legends of Hockey

So, can we assume this is 1982/83?
 
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SealsFan

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That strongman stunt picture is lunacy! What if he tipped the board and all those players went tumbling off?!
 
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It's funny to me how the past connects slightly with the future in regards to stick brands. We have 4 main stick brands in the current era, Bauer, Warrior, CCM, and True. Back then it seems like Koho, Sherwood, Victoriaville, Northland and Titan ruled the stick market back then. The technology has changed, but I wonder what made these sticks different besides the fact that they were wood. :huh:
 

tarheelhockey

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I could be wrong..but that was taken either right after or the day after a team function and no one on that team was quite awake

This is completely anecdotal and unrelated, but in roughly the same era my university fraternity started doing their annual "composite" photos in a similar way. Everyone picked some sort of prop or funny pose, rather than the traditional set of almost identical clean-cut studio headshots. As the years went on it made for quite a historical collection of silliness.

Seems like part of the ethos of that era, taking a very straight-laced occasion and lightening it up. Kind of like nowadays they're incorporating fans into the team pictures, to express a very community-driven ethos.
 

Staniowski

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I think this is after Bobby's second knee surgery of his career, which took place in June of 1968 - following his 2nd NHL season - at Toronto General Hospital.
 
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