1971 LEAFS VS PITTSBURGHHHHHHHH CBC ORIGINAL BROADCAST

[@glenimlach1892]

Thanks for sharing this game , I still have my 70/71 Esso power player collection a great time to be a kid

[@Lava1964]

I do too! It's seen better days, but I have all the stickers.

[@scarbourgeoisie]

Couldn't wait for my dad to stop at Esso and fill up. Got my player card and a slight buzz from the smell of the gasoline.

[@scarbourgeoisie]

That Esso commercial at about the 40 minute mark is great piece of history. Didn't know Canadians drove their convertibles with the top down in the winter. Total hardcore. How'd we get so soft?

[@hollywoodjoe123]

Noe me -But a lot of people are wimps - And they got soft because the government wants wimps that they can control - and people just go along with it - because they are weak wimps -

[@truckerman8301]

Isn't it a pleasure to watch a vintage hockey game without the ads on the dasher boards and the ice itself. Also want to point out that very few NHL players at the time wore a helmet when playing. A much different game in a long ago era. But entertaining. Moreover, when the game finished, you have a brief game wrap up from the "hosts", then it's good night everyone from Hockey Night In Canada!!

[@BillMorganChannel]

So true! The defensemen did not try to obliterate the forwards thus no helmets and smaller skilled players!

[@notanothershrubbery]

I had a personal boycott against Sony for being the first on the boards. Didn't buy a Sony product for 20 years. Unfortunately there was no internet at the time to help gain any traction from others. The game was slower back then.

[@jaymorgenthal9479]

@@BillMorganChannel I saw Bill Masterton play vs the Rangers at the old MSG on 12/27/67. He died a few months later after hitting his head on the ice. Making helmets mandatory was the smartest thing the NHL ever did.

[@thomastherriault6199]

Yup. They used to play like everybody had no helmets. Moreover, the padding was soft.

[@pocobull]

@@jaymorgenthal9479 you don't actually think the NHL mandated helmets over player safety do you? The insurance companies that covered players medical bills were going to refuse to provide coverage to NHL teams unless they mandated helmets. So the NHL owners, not wanting to cover those expenses themselves agreed, and helmets were mandated. But it was basically a moot point, as about 70% of NHL players were already wearing helmets by 1979, when the rule came into affect. Even without the rule, by the early to mid-80's, 99% of NHL players would have been wearing helmets, which is what it was in any event, as the rule was grandfathered.

[@BillMorganChannel]

THANK YOU!!!!!!! I was raised in Buffalo NY and NEVER missed hockey night in Canada...I am giddy!

[@lindsaydoke9308]

Amazing footage thank for bringing me back to my childhood sir. Every time Keon lost the puck he was so tenacious in his forechecking. So many HOF in this game players and coaches.

[@moelarrythecheese4507]

Loved Bill Hewitt. “ Plante stopped that” We Sabre fans loved Spinner. Tragic.

[@jamesanthony5681]

I remember when he called Dino Ciccarelli, ' *Sickarelli* .'

[@jamesanthony5681]

Darryl Sittler, Leafs' no. 1 pick (no. 8th overall) in the 1970 draft, had the best NHL career of all players in his draft class with the exception of Gilbert Perreault, who went no. 1 overall to Buffalo.

[@Leafman67]

Jacques Plante had the greatest save % in the history of the league in this season (.944). He was 42 years old.

[@davemercer4779]

I was at this game!!

[@alanwhite6936]

My Late Dad use to go in the Fifties to the Gardens I'm 60 an we use to tune in Every Game !

[@pauljensen9678]

Brian "Spinner" Spencer with the hat-trick just one month after his father was shot and killed by the RCMP. Brian's father was upset that the local station was showing another game instead of the Leafs. He drove to the station with a gun to get them to switch to his son's game, but they couldn't. Roy Spencer was gunned down when he opened fire on the police.

[@samkohen4589]

He was furious because Brian was to be interviewed on HNIC that evening, but because he was living in BC the CBC showed the Canucks game instead

[@manny4552]

And Brian was shot and killed in Florida years later by alleged drug dealers

[@michaelleroy9281]

Brian Spencer was later shot and killed in a drug deal that went bad

[@michaelloprete2324]

Look how much net you can see not like today when the larger goalies and equipment take up most of it

[@xeriemmazahn765]

I miss those balconies at the Gardens.

[@jamesanthony5681]

*ALL STAR WRESTLING JAN. 10, 7:30 P.M.* A familiar sign in the old cash box on Carlton Street @ 37:56

[@thomastherriault6199]

With Edward Carpantier and Tiger Jit Singe. Those were the days.

[@mike196212]

The refinery in Dartmouth!! I'm in Halifax. Hurray!! lol

[@timrobinson5626]

I have another request don't know if anybody has a copy of this any place. GM 7 of the 1971 SCF Hawks and Habs. Would love to see the tv broadcast of this game or a complete radio broadcast of this game I would be happy

[@OldRustySteele]

My favorite thing from this era was the device which was lowered from the scoreboard at Maple Leaf Gardens which presented the Canadian and American flags at 3:48. It had a blower which unfurled the flags and made them ripple just like they were outside in the breeze.

[@leafyutube]

CBC didn't even think to preserve these older games in color. Our tax dollars at work.

[@Lava1964]

Before the late 1970s, few North American TV networks thought sports events were worth preserving. Those that were, were often preserved on kinescopes--which were usually black and white.

[@thomastherriault6199]

Nobody had VCRs back then. There was no reason to preserve those tapes. They just the used same tape over and over.

[@leafyutube]

@@thomastherriault6199 There are plenty of baseball games in color from the 1960s. They're available on youtube and you can check for yourself.

[@rokutv5855]

Love this. With Paul Morris the PA announcer

[@jamesanthony5681]

I think he lived in that clock above center ice.

[@bluebear1985]

I think it was close to this time that CBC was considering replacing Ward Cornell as host of the Saturday night telecasts. There was one broadcaster the network had at the time from Sudbury who possibly could have done a good job, but he was supposedly turned down because of his mustache. That man was Alex Trebek. He was turned down in favour of Dave Hodge.

[@christopheroliver9854]

1:40:45 Conn Smythe was a mad boss!

[@halwarner3326]

Hockey Night in Canada. Nuff said

[@michaelleroy9281]

Ageless Andy Bathgate playing for the Penguins

[@leemark63]

If this was in colour you'd see the Pens wearing their "blue" skates! Spinner saw a lot of ice time!👍

[@1959markie1]

Yep, Seals, Blues and Pens were rocking the colored skate boots then.

[@sidDkid87]

1:21:17 ... *_old time hockey! Eddie Shore!!!_*

[@1963tlaw]

Where can we find more of these complete broadcasts?? Particularly 60s and 70s?

[@mike196212]

And Lowell McDonald.

[@tomservo56954]

40:30 Oh, Canada! Going top-down in winter...

[@mike196212]

Some ex Leafs with the Penguins: Smith,Boyer,Rupp and Shock.

[@user-oo2cm4ks5y]

And Bathgate

[@user-qv3wb2gy1f]

On 2 separate occasions Pgh., Penna. had franchise in long since-extinct Amer. Basketball Assn. (A.B.A.) in late-1960s/early-1970s. Franchise had 2 team names:Pipers/Condors. It folded after 1971-1972 A.B.A. season/"Iron City" (Pgh., Penna.) has been without major league hoops team since 🏀. I think it's time that Pgh., Penna. gets N.B.A. team. Maybe not in the near future, but hopefully in our lifetime

[@user-qv3wb2gy1f]

And as I've mentioned before, I.M.O., one lone Penna.-based in N.B.A. team in '76ers from Phila. isn't enough. It's time for llnd N.B.A. team in "Keystone State", Penna. for Pgh. metro. area

[@Penalty-Box]

9 jan 1971

[@martinfelsenfeld6012]

That fell on a Saturday, and I do know where I was at--Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor in Whittier, California--for a birthday party! (A girl named Dominica had a birthday on January 9th.) And in this hockey video--the Esso sign makes an appearance! Somebody said that game should have been in colour! Thank you for it!

[@mike196212]

And Andy Bathgate! Sorry!

[@OldRustySteele]

Is it just me, or does Ward Cornell look like Gump Worsley? (that is, Gump after joining the North Stars and letting his hair grow out).

[@tomservo56954]

1:10:20 Canadian proto-preppie, in a Lacoste shirt.

[@xeriemmazahn765]

Did the CBC announcers even realize Pittsburgh has a nickname?

[@jln55]

RIP Greg Polis.

[@user-qv3wb2gy1f]

1970-1971 season was penultimate season that N.H.L. played games on Christmas Day 🎄 (December 25, 1970-Fri.). They'd play games on that late-Dec. h'ldy one more time season later (1971-1972) before those games went way, dinosaur as major league basketball 🏀 was becoming more followed sport on Christmas Day 🎄itself

[@michaelleroy9281]

1971 was also the first time the NFL played on Christmas 🎄 Day with 2 playoff games

[@user-qv3wb2gy1f]

@michaelleroy9281 Yes, it was. Pair, div. playoff games were played on Christmas Day 🎄, 1971 (December 25, 1971-Sat.):C'wbys at V'kngs in N.F.C. Div. Playoffs won by eventual Super Bowl, VI-winning Cowboys, 20-12 in Game l/in Game ll it was Dolphins at Chiefs in A.F.C. Div. Playoffs won by eventual A.F.C. champion Dolphins in "walk-off" fashion, 27-24 in llnd OT in Pro Football's longest game ever as late Dolphin PK Garo Yepremian kicked game-ending FG just :10 past halfway pt., llnd OT earning D'lphins berth in A.F.C. Championship Game at home wknd. later where they'd beat defending Super Bowl winners from season prior (1970-1971), Colts, 21-0

[@user-qv3wb2gy1f]

After that D'lphns at Ch'fs ll OT A.F.C. Div. Pl'yffs game on X-Mas Day 🎄, 1971, N.F.L. w'ld create p'lcy which there'd be no g'ms pl'yd in that league on Christmas Day (December 25) itself. That policy would be lifted in 1989-1990 season when visiting Bengals/host Vikings played late reg. season game on evening, Dec. 25, 1989 (Mon.-X-Mas Day). It was also ABC-TV N'twrk-aired "M.N.F." game

[@user-qv3wb2gy1f]

N.F.L.'s played 20+ Christmas Day 🎄 (December 25) games all-time

[@user-qv3wb2gy1f]

And as I've mentioned before, l speculate that ABC passed up televising 1976 College F'tbll season's XVIIIth Astro-Bl'bnnt Bowl classic bet. Univ., Neb./Tex. Tech on New Yr.'s Eve night, 1976 (December 31, 1976-Fri.) fearing that its affiliates in Eastern time zone were concerned that w/live sporting event such as XVIIIth Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl classic starting at 8:00 PM (E.T.) on last day, 1976, affiliates' 11:00 PM newscasts would be impacted/in worst possible scenario, stretch into "alphabet" network's annual "New Yr.'s R'ckn' Eve" m'scl 🎼 sp'cl

[@stevep8445]

PITTSBURG H

[@jeff901]

It's not in colour

[@mike196212]

Jim Morrison faked his own death and ended up with the Penguins.

[@buffuzo4201]

I was never fond of this version of the Leafs jersey, although I still bought a #14 (guess why). I also did not like the home whites. Went to Maple Leaf Gardens and Olympia many times, no better atmosphere in sports.

[@michaelleroy9281]

The new jerseys for the Leafs was probably done to give them a new look for the 70's although they were worn until the 1991-92 season

[@ButchMcLarty]

All-Time Greats of the LEAFS: Dave Keon, Frank Mahovlich, Charlie Conacher, Norm Ullman, Darryl Sittler, Allan Stanley, Red Kelly, Terry Sawchuck, Johnny Bower, Bobby Baun, Tim Horton, Ron Ellis, Mats Sundin, Bobby Pulford, Paul Henderson, Mike Walton, George Armstrong, Turk Broda, Ian Turnbull, Dick Duff, Rick Vaive, Wendall Clark.

[@jamesanthony5681]

Borje Salming, Lanny McDonald and some others.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Pete Stemkowski Orland Kurtenbach Brian Conacher Jim Pappin Brit Selby some more