1968-69 L.A. Kings vs Canadiens (3rd period)

[@ldhorricks]

This is great as there is very little HNIC tape of this era involving 67 expansion teams

[@ldhorricks]

Oh Saturday nights at the Forum...just so special...no place or city like it in the league...and then the nightlife after.

[@Marcel-fo2cb]

Fantastic,hockey worth watching in the good old days.thank you

[@MrPunkforlife]

The Montreal nightlife is right up there with NYC and Los Angeles, late night clubbing, 24 hour restaurants, making Love afterwards. On the other hand, I unfortunately live in the Toronto area where the Hockey fans head home, even on the weekends, to go straight to bed to sleep.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Maple Leafs Gardens was similar

[@daspoohmunich7235]

​@michaelleroy9281 lots of great spots in Toronto after a Leaf game if you're young you go out after the game older married with kids yes you can go home it's the same in both cities

[@VintageOnline100]

March 8, 1969 - LA Kings (12-34-8) @ Montreal (39-17-9). Montreal went on to win the Stanley Cup that l year sweeping the St. Louis Blues.

[@donhuber9131]

Kings snuck into the playoffs and upset the Seals. Then they were swept by the Blues in the West final.

[@Edwardo485]

Scotty Bowman, of course was the coach of that Blues Team that got swept by Les Canadiens who would have thought Scotty Bowman would go on to win 9 Stanley Cups Bowman is regarded as the greatest coach in NHL history.

[@Edwardo485]

Nine as a Coach.

[@RogerBeaulieu-ef8ym]

Fantastic!

[@michaelleroy9281]

Gold road jerseys, with purple 💜 for the Kings

[@icm1970]

Wouldn't colour videotape footage from a game like this be even more neat to see, even though this is a very nice find.

[@Masterhab]

They were broadcast in color but taped in black and white. CBC/SRC were too cheap to use color video tape. Also, they would often re-use tapes so a lot of games are lost forever because such classics as the 1971 series between the Bruins and Habs were taped over with episodes of the Tommy Hunter Show or some other CBC crap.

[@rokutv5855]

From what I understand, in those days they often reused tapes and taped over previous gqmes as the tapes were expensive. Thus videotapes of many of the old games no longer exist

[@donhuber9131]

@@rokutv5855 And what a tragedy! The St. Louis TV station that aired Red Berenson's 6 goal game in Philly even erased that tape.

[@timburr4453]

Gerry Desjardins in net for LA

[@delmofritz3964]

Thank you.

[@kamikazes03]

I was waiting for René Lecavalier to mention his name during the broadcast but it seems he never did, just calling him 'the goalie'.@@delmofritz3964

[@micheltremblay-m2y]

Rene Lecavalier..!!!!!

[@delmofritz3964]

Hooray the good old days of ties instead of that stupid shoot out. Anyone know who the Kings goalie was?

[@dominich.279]

Gerry Desjardins

[@delmofritz3964]

@@dominich.279 Thanks

[@donhuber9131]

And Wayne Rutledge was the backup goalie.

[@dino.jay2007]

In those days, a tie game would have been like a loss for the Habs.

[@chrisuncleahmad789]

Any chance you have the Habs/Kings SCF preview from January 1993?

[@rjsweda]

fun thanks