1970 02 7 Leafs vs Seals Orig Broadcast interviews and commercails

[@muloiner62]

My dad, Wayne Muloin #4 Seals

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

Cool👍

[@truckerman8301]

Wow! What a treat to watch vintage Hockey Night in Canada games again. Some of the greatest players seen here that went on to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Hockey Night in Canada was always the "gold standard" for viewing hockey games. Great production and on-air talent. Sorry to say that some of that great "play-by-play" and "intermission host" talent has sadly passed away, as well as a number of NHL players in the game presented here. The Oakland Seals were a collection of up and coming hockey players, and a few veterans at the end of their careers. The Seals are still remembered fondly even though they are now part of NHL history. Thanks Newton, for these memorable hockey games and to view them once again!

[@buffuzo4201]

Dave Keon my hero! I have a #14 jersey with his name on it. And I am 66 years old!

[@buffuzo4201]

And Eddie Shack...

[@mreppen1]

Keon was the best leaf ever so far.

[@basilcarroll9729]

He should of been on Team Canada 72.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Dave Keon played in the NHL through the 1981-82 season

[@michaelfitzgerald3467]

I had his hockey card in '72. That was the year when most of the photos for the cards are taken in a studio and in lots of the pics, like Ken Hodge and Phil Esposito, you can see the player wearing slacks below the uniform jersey.

[@rockinyouallnight]

Comedian Freddy Lewis was a HUGE California Golden Seals fan. He even had their logo tattooed on his forearm.

[@OldRustySteele]

Still the BEST presentation of our two nations’ flags - the iconic drop-down fixture from the Maple Leaf Gardens scoreboard with blowers making the flags flutter.

[@Jay87539]

Three of the best summers of my life included attending the Ted Hampson hockey school in Flin Flon. Someone invent the damn time machine. Thank you for posting.

[@jamessollazzo4860]

flin flon LOL!

[@jman22009]

Home of Bobby Clarke.

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

As a kid I had a soft spot 🥰 for the Oakland Seals, later California Golden Seals. I liked Gilles Meloshe as their one time goalie.

[@markwilliamson4628]

Geez, Howie was a giveaway machine...BTW, four year old Craig Redmond, featured in the first intermission, ended up playing 191 games in the NHL.

[@jamesanthony5681]

In his draft year, I remember he told the Leafs not to draft him. Harold Ballard was still around.

[@alanb287]

This is so great! Thank you for uploading!

[@stephenatgraceland]

First NHL game I ever attended!

[@tgfabthunderbird1]

The original Hockey Night in Canada theme...love seeing these.

[@reneleclerc6119]

The 1955-56 season was the last season for Bob Goldham - the gentleman providing the colour commentary. That was the fourth season of Harry Howell, wearing # 3 for the Seals. Howell would play a few more seasons beyond the 1969-70 season. He played 17 seasons with the New York Rangers before joining the Seals.

[@goddessservant6669]

Pristine boards without the hideous adds. That I miss

[@hucz]

apples to orange, only a fool would see them as equal comparison.

[@NicEeEe843]

@@huczhow is it not the same sport but with worse ads?

[@THECLARENCES]

Little known fact: Comedian Freddy Lewis claimed he played for the California Golden Seals. xoxo The Clarences

[@rockinyouallnight]

He used to alledge that he OWNED the team during his tour of Waxahachie in '82.

[@THECLARENCES]

@@rockinyouallnight True story! xoxo The Clarences

[@orbyfan]

Watch Gary Smith rush with the puck almost to centre ice, outskating a few teammates, at about the 1:56:15 mark.

[@bordersonbudgets]

Thanks for making a note about this. I'd always heard about this guy's on-ice exploits.

[@OldRustySteele]

Gary “Suitcase” Smith. He got that nickname because of all the teams he played for. He got traded a lot! He (and to a lesser extent Eddie Giacomin of NYR) was also the main reason the NHL made a rule that goalies could not play the puck beyond the red line. Both Smith & Giacomin were excellent skaters and puck handlers who often charged out of their nets.

[@elvicare35]

@@OldRustySteele While with the Canucks, he made some exciting rushes trying to score AND PUNTING the puck!!!!!

[@sle71r]

OMG, this footage is so fantastic to see for me as I had just started following sports around this time as a kid, and to see this kind of stuff again is so nostalgic. That HNIC opening sequence and music is so classic, just as great as the MNF opening music. How on earth did you uncover this footage, and can you please get more?

[@jamestiscareno4387]

I loved the Seals.

[@MalWave]

I still do :P

[@michaelleroy9281]

Unfortunately many people in the bay area didn't, they didn't come out to see them play

[@rokutv5855]

Vadnais starting on left wing. Normally on defense.

[@julianciahaconsulting8663]

love this!

[@scarbourgeoisie]

I would have only been six around this time, but I still watched hockey on occasion. Interesting Leaf jersey's here; the old style 60's jersey with the new 70's Crest. I always thought that the new crest appeared the same time as the new jerseys with the broad stripe that ran up the arms to the neck. I don't recall this combination, either on TV or in hockey cards.

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

The Seals played a role in Montreal drafting Guy Lafleur. In the 1969 season Montreal had the Seals 1st. Round pick. That year the chase for hopelessness was between the Los Angeles Kings and the California Seals. Trader Sam, Sammy Pollack GM of Montreal wanted to draft Guy Lafleur. He needed the Seals to finish last place. So he engineerd a trade with L.A. by sending Ralph Backstrom and Goalie Dennis DeJordie to the Kings. This helped the Kings finish above last place Seals, thus giving Montreal first pick in the '69 entry draft and history was made as Guy Lafleur became a Hab. Sammy Pollack tried a similar trade to get Marcel Dionne the next year, but it didn't come his way as Detroit drafted Dionne... Imagine if Dionne was a part of the Powerhouse 1970's Montreal Canadiens?🤔

[@michaelleroy9281]

I have heard Ralph Backstrom requested a trade anyway

[@michaelleroy9281]

Smart move for the Red Wings that they turned Trader Sam down for that one

[@jamesanthony5681]

I remember that very well. I couldn't imagine Lafleur playing hockey in California. In the 1973 amateur draft, Sam Pollock tried to engineer a trade with the Islanders to get their no. 1 pick (Denis Potvin, as it turned out), but NYI GM Bill Torrey said no. As the story goes, Pollock walked Torrey around the block a few times, upping the ante with players & draft picks each time, but Torrey held firm. Can you imagine a defense of Potvin, Savard, Lapointe and Robinson?

[@PatFrenchLeafsFan1]

The graphics at the start of the game are nearly similar to the mid 2000's one that I remembered as a kid, with loads of footage of the players at the time.

[@robbkardas3641]

I believe the Seals were the first team to wear white skates.

[@orbyfan]

Yes, a year or two later, after Charlie Finley bought the team. The Athletics looked and played better in white shoes than the Golden Seals did in white skates.

[@pjet8042]

They had four different color variations. They started with yellow skates with green trim, and green skates with yellow trim in 70-71. After that they went to white with green trim, then all-white with only green laces. Finley sold the team back to the NHL in March '74 and the Seals got to wear standard skates for the last 16 games of the season.

[@michaelleroy9281]

When the league took over the team in 1974 back to the standard skates and the main color was Pacific blue which they wore for ther final 2 seasons 74/75 and 75/76

[@michaelleroy9281]

Not in 1969-70

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

Gary 'Suitcase' Smith... In 1974-75 he was the biggest reason why the Vancouver Canucks made the playoffs for their first time. He was so significant that he was nominated for the Hart Trophy. Trivia tid bit. Smith was very eccentric. He would completely take off his gear at each intermission, shower and put his gear back on. All within the allotted 20 min. Intermission. Also he forced a rule change in the NHL. He was accustomed to at times rush up the ice into the other team's zone and set up plays for his forwards. The NHL changed the rule to not allow goalies go past the center red line. 🤔

[@jamesanthony5681]

He was a big goalie (6'4", 210+ lbs). I saw him in a 1970 preseason game in Oshawa against the expansion Buffalo Sabres and rookie Gil Perreault. Suitcase came rushing out of the net about halfway to the blueline before passing the puck.

[@michaelleroy9281]

This was the last season the Maple Leafs had those jerseys

[@dirkdiggler3350]

And that song... I miss that song

[@julianciahaconsulting8663]

Bring back the Seals!

[@wendellblackett8317]

Why Not. @@michaelleroy9281

[@wendellblackett8317]

Actually the sharks are in a way the Seals from the Bay area .

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

​@@wendellblackett8317 And in 2023-24 season the Sharks are playing as pitiful as the Seals did in most of their NHL seasons.🤨

[@michaelleroy9281]

Gary Bettman wouldn't allow 2 teams in the bay area even though there's 2 teams in LA

[@michaelleroy9281]

These Seals jerseys were with green and blue they went away after that season, and those colors were picked up by Vancouver when they same into the league the next season

[@ldhorricks]

Yeah their original jerseys were really nice...then got uglier and uglier until they finally relocated to Cleveland

[@michaelleroy9281]

Between periods, they're talking with a Seals player about their attendance issues

[@leafyutube]

Later the California Golden Seals and Cleveland Barons.

[@pauljackson8282]

The Barons were merged with Minnesota, then the Sharks were partly broken off of Minnesota, so it could be said that the Seals returned to the Bay area. I believe it was also suggested that the team be renamed the Seals but ownership wanted to forget the old lousy team so they were named the Sharks.

[@michaelleroy9281]

​@@pauljackson8282Why start a new franchise with a name of a team with a legacy of failure

[@FredBarney-zs1bz]

Wrong

[@michaelleroy9281]

The 3 rd season of the the 6 expansion clubs

[@doctorbraino4689]

KInd of sad. Oakland once had four teams and now they are down to one.

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

The Leafs P.A. announcer I forgot his name was iconic. He did that job for decades. Just like Montreal's P.A. announcer Claude Mouton was for decades in Montreal and John Asperidge was in Vancouver.🤔

[@OldRustySteele]

That long-time Leafs PA man is Paul Morris. He was in that position 38 years from 1961-1999. Paul will be 86 on his birthday this year.

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

@@OldRustySteele That's right thanks for reminding me his name.

[@OldRustySteele]

@@DigbyOdel-et3xx Glad to help, Digby! 👍

[@jamesanthony5681]

Paul Morris. He sounded older than he was, and I thought he lived in the clock above ice level. Friends and I would mimic his deep voice, "Goal scored by no. 27 Mahovlich, assist by no. 14 Keon and no. 20 Pulford. Time 9:27."

[@OldRustySteele]

In addition to the iconic Paul Morris at Maple Leaf Gardens and Claude Mouton in the Forum, the other iconic PA announcer was Harvey Wittenberg at Chicago Stadium. Harvey was the Blackhawks PA man from 1961 to 1995. Harv had that classic nasal Chicago accent, plus outstanding, clear diction, so he was easy to understand over the PA. Now all the PA people scream at you when the home team scores like a cheap disc jockey on a low rent local radio station.

[@dirkdiggler3350]

Go Leafs Go! Look, a game we could win!

[@sonnythecuckoobird8645]

Still no Cup , after all these years .

[@orbyfan]

@@sonnythecuckoobird8645 As a longtime Leafs fan, it doesn't make me proud to say that the definition of a senior citizen is someone who can remember the Maple Leafs winning the Stanley Cup.

[@lovesmusic36]

@@orbyfan Yes, Jack, a little too much truth there! I was almost 17 when the Leafs last won the Cup. Please don't do the math...! I still remember the excitement, watching the game with my father.

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

​@@sonnythecuckoobird8645 Well they are on a 55+ year rebuild process.😂😂😂

[@jimmeasel1712]

Did you see the Buck Owens sign during the anthem? I bet he was picking and grinning that night....

[@jimballardband]

What happened to the color presentation?

[@johncarrara9784]

Whoever recorded it probably only had a black and white TV. That's what a lot of people still had back then

[@ryanortega1511]

This is a kinescope. That's why you got scratches and everything. And color film was expensive, so they recorded it in black and white.

[@ldhorricks]

Wrong...This is a CBC (Kinescope) VTR recording. The original broadcast was in colour ,but the VTR was in B&W... CBC didn't begin full time colour VTR until 1974...American networks were using Colour VTR from the late 60's. @@johncarrara9784

[@ldhorricks]

honestly does this to be explained over and over again...do some research

[@garyhersemeyer2642]

@@ryanortega1511 Yes. I believe they recorded the game by filming the action directly off of a black and white television monitor, not by filming the actual game on the ice. That's why the picture quality of kinescopes is so poor.

[@danielbowden6330]

Gary Smith had a long night!

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

He had many games in his career like that. But one of the most underrated NHL goalies of that era.

[@michaelfitzgerald3467]

I think it was the following year that the Seals started wearing white skates and calling themselves The California Golden Seals.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Charlie Finley bought the team in the summer of 1970 changed to colors to green and gold , actually they were called the Bay Area Seals for 2 games, then California Golden Seals

[@jacksmith5692]

Horton had a unique skating style and would be dealt to the Rangers not long after this game.

[@royanderson3478]

Buffalo. He died on the Qew going home from Toronto to Buffalo.

[@jacksmith5692]

@@royanderson3478 Outside St Catharines.

[@jamesanthony5681]

Punch Imlach brought Horton to the Sabres in 1972, and when Tim was killed in a car fatality in Feb/74, Punch said that was the beginning of the end of his (Imlach) days in Buffalo. Imlach was an autocrat, but it was Horton who settled down some of the younger players that didn't like Imlach's command and control management style.

[@joedimaggio3687]

Go Seals!

[@michaelleroy9281]

They did to Cleveland and then Minnesota

[@ralphvantienhoven]

Interesting, they only played "O Canada" and not the "The Star Spangled Banner"...I'm 52 yrs. old so just a little before my time...

[@lovesmusic36]

When I was a child, there was a picture of Queen Elizabeth and they played "God Save The Queen." This was before "O Canada" was designated as our national anthem.

[@ralphvantienhoven]

@@lovesmusic36 My mom (born 1927) told me about how in school they sang "God Save the Queen" and also "The Maple Leaf Forever". :)

[@ralphvantienhoven]

Actually, when she was growing up, it was "God Save the King"...

[@rokutv5855]

I've seen a game on youtube from the early 60's where they played God Save the Queen instead of O Canada.

[@brianhanley1903]

Leafs are home.

[@austonboston4361]

At this point in time, the Leafs were only 3 years removed from their last Cup win. Who'd have thought that now in 2023 they still haven't won another. Shame 😔

[@michaelleroy9281]

Wouldn't you think it was easier to win a Stanley Cup in 1967 with only 6 teams than it is in 2023 with 32 teams?

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

They are in a 55 year rebuild.😂😂😂😂😂

[@jamesanthony5681]

I knew they weren't going to win another Cup so long as Ballard owned the team. He died in 1990, but since then, poor management has continued to rule the day.

[@Ray3645]

The arenas were so quiet back then.

[@Libertyjack1]

Do you see how people are dressed? When you're in your Sunday best, it doesn't put you in the mood to cause trouble. Also, fans from opposing cities were more rare, and beer wouldn't be served at MLG until the 90s.

[@johncarrara9784]

Maple Leaf Garden was also quiet all time

[@michaelleroy9281]

Not Boston Garden since Bobby Orr arrived in 1966 and the big trade in 1967

[@OldRustySteele]

Not at the St. Louis Arena! The Blues crowds were raucous, singing, stomping their feet, etc. The uppermost cheap seats were added to The Arena and were on metal floors rather than concrete. We teenagers would stomp as loud as we could!!!

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

No 120 decibel crap music either.. just a classic hockey arena organist.

[@barrydimmock5771]

These guys were lucky to complete 2 passes in a row

[@ldhorricks]

when you have played in the NHL then you can make the comment you made....otherwise you know what you can do.

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

Actually passing was much more important back then as systems were not the style of hockey as is today. It was a more cerebral, flowing type game back then.

[@Lava1964]

Oakland made the playoffs that season. The Leafs did not.

[@mike196212]

Yes,but in an all expansion division. Still,your point is well made. Throughout the 70s the Leafs(I'm a 60 year old still suffering Leafs fan) usually had little trouble with these guys at home, but the trip to Oakland was often a very different story. The Seals once beat the Leafs 8-1 in early 71. Conversely,in either late 72 or early 73(I forget which) the Leafs clobbered the Seals 11-0. The Leafs were an almost completely different team when they went to Oakland. Similar thing happened in LA. All the sun and the girls? I used to think the Seals were finally making a breakthrough when they folded over into Cleveland. They never got a whiff of the playoffs again after 1970 and became the worst team in the league.

[@michaelleroy9281]

The Seals and North Stars just barely got in on Saturday of the last weekend of the season

[@michaelleroy9281]

The East and West divisions were like night 🌉 and day you can't compare the two

[@michaelleroy9281]

St Louis won the West with 86 points they would have missed the playoffs if they were in the East

[@michaelleroy9281]

The Maple Leafs had 71 points the Seals 58 on the season

[@leafyutube]

How many Stanley Cups did the Seals win?

[@discoveryman59]

Same amount as the Leafs in the last 54 years.

[@pjet8042]

but they made the playoffs in this season and the previous season, for what it's worth. They only became a subject of ridicule when Finley took over the team.

[@discoveryman59]

@@pjet8042 Fair enough..

[@steveprestegard5151]

@@pjet8042 they made the playoffs because all the expansion teams were in one division and the Original Six were in the other.

[@pjet8042]

@@steveprestegard5151 well yeah, but the playoffs are the playoffs and they still had a chance to be in the Stanley Cup finals, even if that meant being swept in 4 games as the Blues were several times.

[@xeriemmazahn765]

Bruce Gamble not wearing a mask. One of the NHL's last maskless goaltenders.

[@richardsutherland5326]

Joe Daley and Andy Brown were the last two

[@adgo22]

@@richardsutherland5326 ..and the Gumper..:-)

[@leonardbonitt3586]

I Saw Joe Daley Andy Brown and gump Worsley play maskless In the spectrum.. Bruce gamble was traded to the fliers and was playing some of the best hockey of his life when he suffered a heart attack in Vancouver. I really enjoyed his short time with the flyers. Is Reston peace…. Bruce gamble

[@deanouellette1868]

I remember when Gamble suffered a heart attack when he was later with the Flyers.

[@OldRustySteele]

@@adgo22 You’re correct that Gump Worsley was one of the last, but even he finally relented and wore a mask his last year in the NHL. I believe his wife pleaded with him to do so. There’s another good KZbin vid showing the home life of Gump and Cesare Maniago when both were with the North Stars. It shows Worsley at home playing pool with his wife and daughter, and shows Cesare with his wife and kids. They were a fine veteran tandem for Minnesota in the early ‘70’s, much like Glenn Hall & Jacques Plante were for St. Louis. I remember Gamble rocking the long 1970’s style sideburns back when he played. He was slightly balding and with the long sideburns he looked a bit like Bela Lugosi as Dracula! 🤣 Sad that Gamble died when he was still quite young.

[@WiggleBabies]

Forever Oakland

[@MaestroDawg65]

Yes indeed children, back in the day goalies were man enough to not wear masks......