Bruins vs. Blues 1970 Stanley Cup final highlights Bobby Orr Dan Kelly

Highlights from the Boston Bruins vs. St. Louis Blues Stanley Cup final in the 1970 NHL playoffs.
Games 1 and 4: CBS Sports, announcer Dan Kelly, analyst Bill Mazer. From "Frozen in Time", a Boston Sports Museum DVD on the 40th anniversary of the Bruins' '70 Stanley Cup win.
Games 2 and 3: WSBK-TV Boston, announcer Don Earle, rerun on NESN's Fan Attic.
This is a handy-dandy compilation of series highlights; I'd seen them all on KZbin seperately but never on one file. I also used the sharpest video I could find. It's not all great, but it's watchable.
After dispatching the Rangers in 6 and the Blackhawks in 4, Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Derek Sanderson, Gerry Cheevers, and the Big, Bad, Bruins battle Phil Goyette, Red Berenson, and Glenn Hall in a series Boston sweeps. Brilliant defenseman Orr, who was all-everything that season, fittingly scored at 40 seconds of OT to clinch the Cup, his first goal of the series even though he had dominated.
The on-ice celebration is awesome (the locker room celly is elsewhere on my channel), as there might have been teams equally loved by fans, but none more loved (this team and the 1967 Red Sox are my favorites). Ted Green, who comes on the ice, was a rock-ribbed defenseman who missed that season after he was struck in the head during a stick fight in an exhibition game, suffering a fractured skull and brain damage. Veteran wing and captain Johnny Bucyk finally getting to carry the Cup around was tremendous. And kudos to the person who tossed the Pabst Blue Ribbon inflatable 'can' on the ice, product placement before any of us knew what that was!
The best hockey announcer ever, Dan Kelly, exhibits all his full-throated mastery in the Sunday afternoon games, and his legendary call of Orr's goal can be recited by most Bruins fans. Local guy Don Earle is excellent, too.
Copyright, National Hockey League, Boston Bruins, or any other party. I don't claim the rights to, and don't profit from, any of these highlights. I just posted them for historical and educational purposes, and for those who would enjoy them as much as I did.
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[@bufnyfan1]

St Louis defenseman Noel Picard #4 was the one who tripped Orr on the OT goal that won the Stanley Cup for the Bruins. Years later Orr helped Picard's daughter attend college in Boston (helping her pay tuition and find a place to live)

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

Bobby is a class act!

[@LeahysLads]

That sounds like the Bobby Orr I loved when I was a kid. As my dad called him, the most stand up guy in the NHL.

[@tbell61]

That photo of Orr for the Cup winning goal is one of the most iconic sports photos of all time, I believe. Even as a Blues fan, I have to say that was an amazing picture.

[@OldRustySteele]

@@tbell61 Hi T-Bell! Been a Blues fan since 1968. Yeah, even though Bobby broke my heart, that’s an iconic photo. Fortunately it’s been replaced by 3 other photos in my home office: Pietrangelo hoisting the Cup is the obvious one. But 2 others are even dearer to me. The first is Ben Bishop and Pat Maroon in the handshake line, with one of the cheerleaders skating the City of St. Louis flag in the background. As you probably know Bishop and Maroon are both STL boys! The other is Bobby Plager hoisting the Cup. For years, I thought I’d cry if the Blues EVER won the Cup. I didn’t cry until they gave it to Bobby. Then the tears cascaded down!

[@robertparazaider1958]

Loved that Sanderson breakaway.

[@screechowl75]

An old Bruins fan died and went to heaven. As St. Peter was showing him around they came to.a large ice rink with a lone figure in flowing robes skating at center ice with a hockey stick in hand The fan asks St.Peter who it was and he says Oh that is God he thinks he is.Bobby.Orr...

[@touco9077]

Excellent joke! I love it😂

[@JImStarr-bn8zu]

Jim Starr - Hershey, PA ... Thanks Pete, I bookmarked your post. Don Marcotte and Ace Bailey played for the Hershey Bears the year before and they helped the AHL Bears win the Calder Cup in 1968-69. I remember, Dan Kelly, on the CBS Sunday afternoon NHL games, he was the St. Louis Blues Play-by-Play announcer at the time and was picked to do the CBS NHL games ... he was great!

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

You're welcome, Jim! Always cool to see the guys from your city's team hit the big time. And yes, nothing like the excitement generated by Dan Kelly's booming calls!

[@screechowl75]

Thanks for reminding me that the Hershey Bears and the Bruins had a minor league agreement way back when long before the Providence Bruins and the Dunkin Doughnut Center existed Mascotte after that did do a couple of rehab stints in Hershey if I am not mistaken.

[@bwarner3567]

i would have liked to see if the series would have closer if plante had been able to play more without being injured....

[@daviddionne3682]

Wish they had included the play in the 1st Period of game 1 where Espo tipped a Stanfield slapshot and it deflected right off of Plante's mask. They reference it but the play itself was huge. Plante was top-shelf....

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

Yeah, it's funny, it's like they might not have that play at all because you never see it. Plante and Hall were old pros, and even Wakeley had some success, but I don't think anybody was stopping the Bruins that year!

[@chriszenko3598]

That was the All time great Bruins team lots of Hall of Famers

[@nightintheruts617]

Thank you for uploading, excellent video 👍👍

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

You're welcome!

[@mariomercier9334]

Incredible hockey. Compared to today's game, it is so better.

[@diamonddog13]

Compared to today's game it's super slo-mo.

[@mariomercier9334]

@@diamonddog13 Maybe slo-mo but team play is far superior. Today, the game is only based on fast skating and the long pass,. No red line, no strategy.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

In 1970s all the NHL players were from Canada only! In 1970s NHL no talent no skating skills no good passing only Goons enforces fighting violence so bad ERA for hockey! Today under 60% of The NHL players from Canada! Much better and tougher league today! Canada have 650000 hockey players! Ovechkin's Russia under 100000 hockey players! Canada should have 7 guys today who have scored over 800 goals like Ovechkin! Big reason is Don Cherry who brainwashed the people of Canada to hate other countries! Cherry said that players from USA Finland Russia Slovakia CzechRepulic Sweden are Ilegal aliens not Human! Cherry claiming do not draft USA born Auston Matthews! Cherry loved boring fighting awful 1970s ERA when no talent players boxing all the time! Cherry said that the MVP today is Ryan Reaves!

[@bufnyfan1]

This was the year that n on the last weekend of the season that the NY Rangers beat the Red Wings 9-5 on a Sunday afternoon and scored just enough goals to make the playoffs over Montreal. Montreal later that same Sunday pulled their goaltender throughout a game against Chicago to try and take advantage of a 6th attacker to try and score as many goals as they could but ended up losing 10-2. As a result Montreal completely missed the playoffs.

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

That's wild!

[@michaelleroy9281]

I was at that last game in Chicago between Habs anf and Hawks 15 at the time 10-2 unbelievable 5 empty net goals

[@donhuber9131]

I remember that! The Blues took 5 of 6 points from the Habs in their three visits to the forum in 69-70. That bit of sweet revenge for the previous cup playoff sweeps came back to haunt the Habs. And in those three games, the Habs only scored 5 goals, and were shut out by Glenn Hall in one of those games.

[@bufnyfan1]

@@donhuber9131 My friend lived in Montreal at that time and he said that the city was literally in shock and mourning on the Monday after this weekend as the Habs hadn't missed the playoffs for 46 years leading up to that season. The Habs were also bitter as they felt that the Red Wings essentially let the Rangers run up the score on them to help them beat out Montreal. Yvan Cournoyer was particularly bitter saying that Detroit had "no pride whatsoever".

[@donhuber9131]

@@bufnyfan1 Wasn't that a strange season in Montreal! The year Gump walked off and joined the North Stars...and helped them make the playoffs! Who would have thought that the Habs would have come back to win the Cup the following season! Interesting story concerning the Wings and Rangers. Thank you. I was amazed that Detroit finished third, and how quickly Ned Harkness would destroy the team shortly there after!

[@touco9077]

I have never been so delighted in my life as the moment Bobby put the puck in the net to sale the deal, i was eleven years old watching every second of that game on NESN, and i absolutely loved Bobby Orr and the Bruins, a lot of memories from then old days down on causeway st.

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

It was poetic justice, for sure, that he got the goal!

[@user-lf2lw3vr4v]

Раньше жёстче рубились, сейчас больше когда дерутся думают о гонорарах и страховке

[@richardkeyes5844]

Two years later Don Earle took on the play by play announcement for the Philadelphia Flyers.

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

Loved Don Earle, and wondered why he left, but we did get Fred Cusick, who was awesome as well.

[@richardkeyes5844]

He was cut loose from WSBK at rhe end of the 70-71 season after the Bruins fans booed him inside the old Garden while he was announcing the 7th player award. he was widely hated by the fans.

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

@@richardkeyes5844 I didn't know that! Any idea why the fans would've disliked him?

[@20thCenturyManTrad]

I think if only Scotty had played Hall instead of Wakely they'd have at least gotten a win. I loved Ernie's play but he wasn't sharp.

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

Why do you think he didn't play Hall? Seems like his experience would win him the assignment.

[@20thCenturyManTrad]

@@petegoodwinboston4825 Maybe he thought the tension would bring Wakely up. I didn't think Wakely was all that bad, but after the two games Hall played, it was an obvious mistake.

[@Mike___Honcho]

@@petegoodwinboston4825 hall had played only ten games that season, while wakely had a 2.11 GAA in 30 games. his stats were a bit better than plante, too. it was the blues overall defensive play that drove those stats. plante and hall would have had higher GAA in the east because they were both over the hill, and wakely could only catch on with an expansion team and have good stats facing the seals and the kings all the time.

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

@@Mike___Honcho You're the head honcho with that kind of detailed analysis!

[@OldRustySteele]

@@petegoodwinboston4825 Yes, Hall was easing into retirement, and Ernie Wakely was the “designated backup”. When Plante played, Wakely was the backup on the bench and Hall would have the night off and wouldn’t even be dressed. When Hall played, Wakely was the backup and Plante would have the night off, just like Hall. It was the Blues and Scotty Bowman’s way of keeping Hall and Plante fresh and energized since they were both near the end of their careers. Unfortunately for Ernie, he never quite developed into the goalie the Blues had hoped for. After the Hall/Plante combo, the Blues had mediocre goaltending until Mike Liut came along in the late ‘70’s. Liut in my opinion is one of the most underrated goalies in NHL history. He could have been a Cup winner on a better team.

[@RSTI191]

I was 8 years old. Orr was God back then. I'm 60 now. Heck who am I kidding, He still is..

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

🤣

[@OldRustySteele]

Blues fan since 1968. I’m 69 years old. Bobby Orr is the greatest player in NHL history. Full stop. Nobody else compares. Not because he broke my 16-year-old heart in 1970, but because he REVOLUTIONIZED the game!!! Gordie Howe, Rocket Richard, Jean Beliveau, Guy Lafleur, Mike Bossy, Wayne Gretzky, Ray Bourque, et al, were fabulous players, but ONLY ORR totally changed the way Hockey was played.

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

@@OldRustySteele You're rusty, but still wise!

[@OldRustySteele]

@@petegoodwinboston4825 I keep a bottle of WD-40 in my hip pocket to mitigate that rust!! Oh wait, the label says “Jack Daniels”. 🤣

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

@@OldRustySteele 😜

[@nicklane7472]

if you took the best players from the 70s, in their prime years, with their training/equipment/gameplay/etc..., and put them up against the Sharks of this year (2024), the Sharks would absolutely destroy them and it wouldnt be close.

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

Probably true but impossible to know. I enjoy both eras.

[@warehouseworkwithkim]

i was 13 years old

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

🙃

[@higgy04]

Unless I'm mistaken but does the spoked B in centre ice at Boston Garden look upside down on TV?

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

LOL. You're not mistaken. It was that way for more than a few years.Why, I don't know. Maybe somebody else does.

[@screechowl75]

Johnny (Pie) McKenzie a great little hockey player!!!

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

One of a kind, that one!

[@OldRustySteele]

And a feisty little one at that! Would have loved him on my beer league team!

[@michaelleroy9281]

At one time he also played for the Blackhawks

[@kennethcamilleri4678]

Game 4 from this series is most iconic game in NHL’s history ….yet the whole game can’t be found anywhere…..there are whole games from the 1950’s…..I don’t get it…..Dan Kelly’s son been doing St Louis Blues games for years…

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

I believe somebody has it, but it's probably cost-prohibitive at this point to get it out to the public.

[@michaelleroy9281]

In those 40 seconds of overtime I don't believe the Blues even handled the puck

[@donhuber9131]

Keenan touched the puck for a second when he tried to clear the zone, but Orr took it away and sent he puck behind the net to Sanderson.

[@20thCenturyManTrad]

The sad thing is the Blues played their best game of the series and Glenn Hall was a monster in the net.

[@donhuber9131]

@@20thCenturyManTrad I agree! And Hall was even better in game 3, stopping 17 shots in both the 2nd and 3rd periods, or it would have been a blowout. Hall's two final seasons in STL were difficult to watch at times, as he was inconsistent, but he was great in the two final games at Boston Garden. Many people scorn the Blues for their poor performance in the finals vs the Bruins, but I feel differently. By the time the series got to Boston, the Blues were not only without their number one goalie, Plante, but their two best defensemen, Al Arbour and Barclay Plager, were also out. And Bob Plager was playing on painkillers with a separated shoulder. This is why the Blues had two minor league calibre defensemen, Ray Fortin and young Billy Plager in the lineup. Against the wildly high scoring Bruins . Bob Plager's injury is why Jean-Guy Talbot was on the ice with Picard when Orr flew thru the air. The aging Talbot, certainly an all-time great in his glory years, was completely caught flat-footed by Sanderson at the side of the Blues net. Finally, I might add that the Bruins were on a six game winning streak against East teams en route to the finals. They mauled the Rangers in the final two games of the opening round, and then swept the East champion Black Hawks to reach the finals. In light of that, the Blues and Hall, were indeed heroic in game four!

[@20thCenturyManTrad]

@@donhuber9131 I think Talbot just honestly slowed down, good in a role on the 2nd pair not a top pairing guy by that time. Losing Arbour and Barc Plager, really killed them. They weren't a bad team, I mean I still think that if they had stuck to twelve teams throughout the 70s, the league might've returned to original six levels in terms of talent.

[@donhuber9131]

@@20thCenturyManTrad I agree 100%! The league expanded way too fast.

[@screechowl75]

Never mess with Wayne Cashman!!!

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

Key part of two great Bruins eras. Should be in their Hall of Fame.

[@davidsuarez3003]

Has cashman ever won a fight? Picard would have killed him if not for the linesman grabbing on to Noel. The Bruins were scared shitless of him. 2:55

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

@@davidsuarez3003 Uh ... no. Be better, David Suarez!

[@davidsuarez3003]

@@petegoodwinboston4825 Show me one Buffy. Keep on believing in your Wayne Cashman, Bigfoot, aliens and God. None of them are the truth

Joke

[@ldhorricks]

I'm wondering why the Blues had home-ice in the finals? They finished with less points than the Bruins during the reg season.

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

The Blues had home-ice advantage in 1970, having won their division 22 points clear of the Pittsburgh Penguins (86-64), with Boston finishing second in the East, tied with the Chicago Black Hawks with 99 points but ranked second based on wins (45-40).

[@OldRustySteele]

Hello, LD. In the first 3 years of the big 1967 Expansion the 6 expansion teams were in the so-called Western Division. The “Original 6” were in the Eastern Division. In those 3 years, they assigned home ice just like Major League Baseball did it back then with the National League and American League- they alternated home ice and home field each year. So in the 1968 Finals and 1970 Finals, St. Louis had home ice (not that it did us any good, ha), while in the 1969 Finals, Montreal had home ice. The Blues being the “best of the worst” were cannon fodder those first 3 years, losing 4 games to zip in all 3. In 68, Montreal paraded the Cup at the Forum then paraded it the next year at the St. Louis Arena. In 70, the Bruins paraded it at home after Bobby Orr’s iconic OT goal. It took me almost a half-century (49 years) to see my Blues finally win THE CUP! My best buddy from high school died in January of 2019 and it still hurts me to think he never got to see it.

[@williamlacombe8958]

Wayne cashman rarely ever lost a fight

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

Fact. And for his role with the early 70s Bruins, and then the Lunch Pail AC of the late 70s, he should have his number in the rafters.

[@garywalsh3487]

Farce. NHL alignment was a complete joke. Boston was in the middle of a 40 year drought vs montreal in the playoffs, losing EIGHTEEN series in a row against them. In 1970, league alignment left Mtl out of the playoffs with 92 points, well ahead of the top team in the expansion division. Habs won 6 of the next 9 cups btw. SIX out of nine!

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

Them's the breaks.

[@OldRustySteele]

Totally disagree, Gary. The NHL strategy of having the new 6 expansion teams in 1967 play each other in the playoffs and the winner going to the Finals was brilliant. If you just dumped them into the same division as the Original 6, they would have done poorly and fan interest would have been terrible and the whole expansion would have fallen flat on its face. Besides, if there had been no expansion teams, how do you know the Habs wouldn’t still have finished 5th and out of the playoffs in 1970 anyway? Clearly, the Bruins, Rangers, and Blackhawks were better that year. And the Red Wings were enough better to sneak past Les Canadiens. So rather than complaining about the ONE year the Habs didn’t make the playoffs, be glad they did so well right afterwards.

[@garywalsh3487]

@OldRustySteele The league recognized the error in its ways and fixed it immediately. Habs 92 points were way ahead of all expansion teams, so they clearly deserved to be in the playoffs. As for NYR being better, you are kidding I hope. They were tied at the end of the season, with identical records.

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

@@garywalsh3487 Careful Gary, or you're going in the sin bin.

[@garywalsh3487]

@@petegoodwinboston4825 ok ok I toned it down lol

[@4houndswhoheal479]

Notice how few stupid penalties they called back then?? Nowadays, ya skate by someone too fast, they call a penalty. OLD time hockey, ya just kept playing.

[@petegoodwinboston4825]

You're right. They did let a lot go!