Classic: Nordiques @ Bruins 04/25/82 | Game 7 Division Finals 1982

Game 7 between the Quebec Nordiques and the Boston Bruins in the 1982 Division Finals.

[@Achilles5937]

I lived through this era. Best period of hockey ever. Watching, seeing and living with legends like Gretzky, Esposito, Lafleur, the latter years of Gordie Howe and many many more, brings great memories growing up! Best time ever!!

[@canuck_gamer3359]

Amen pal. People today have no idea what hockey was like back then. It only could have been made better had the Oilers and Islanders had won fewer times. There were so many great teams in those years that never won, the Capitals, Flyers, Habs, Flames and others all would have been worthy champions!

[@Achilles5937]

@@canuck_gamer3359 Well said!

[@floxy20]

No, you were young then and that's why you kid yourself that this street hockey on ice was the best ever. Everyone connected with the game on a professional level admits that today's game is far superior.

[@Achilles5937]

@@floxy20 show me someone in today's hockey who had a 200pt season or a team who's won 5 straight Stanley Cups? We're done, have a great night.

[@jeffreyg4626]

@@floxy20 I don't know man. Have a quiet dinner with players from that era who are still "connected" with the game and see what they tell you in private. Gretzky, Mike Peca, Yzerman, Rob Ray, Messier etc. I'd like to hear their view.

[@Muffinarm_]

It is shocking how much hockey has changed in roughly 40 years.

[@thomaspsanzi8947]

"What a Stanley Cup Series It the Was!" "Still No Helmets!"

[@Chrisman77]

40 years is a long time bro. It's not shocking lol

[@jamespykonen4017]

most notably the goal pads, today they look like gorillas

[@kennystephan3876]

and NOT for the better , today's game is so boring

[@MisterMister5893]

@@Chrisman77 it is if you lived and survive them.

[@jaimejachete]

Merci beaucoup! I enjoyed every single minute of this. Go Nordiques Go!

[@ilyamukhachev7193]

Огромное удовольствие наблюдать за игрой, которую ты никогда не видел в силу различных обстоятельств. Спасибо всем кто выкладывает хоккей в общий доступ.

[@mikethevike2539]

Best moments : 16:00 Breakaway 22:25 Breakaway 32:20 Scoring chances Bruins 50:30 Great saves Mike Moffat 1:01:25 Slashing in front of the net, then GOAL !!! 1:08:30 GOAL !!! 1:16:00 Great save Daniel Bouchard 1:32:39 Scoring chance Bruins 1:38:55 Scoring chance Nordiques 1:40:45 Penalty Bruins 1:42:00 Great save Mike Moffat 1:45:00 GOAL !!! 1:51:20 Scoring chance Bruins 1:55:25 Breakaway Nordiques 2:05:15 Scoring chances Bruins 2:07:30 Terry O'Reilley doing his thing

[@eastman7037]

I like the history games... Please more

[@b-retrogamer2324]

Bob Cole and Mickey Redmond! That’s gold

[@Boxingbear]

I remember this series so well. I was cheering for the Nords because I was a big fan of Dan Bouchard. He was out for a few games due to food poisoning but came back in this game.

[@bobsmith962]

Biggest win in franchise history!!!

[@Chupacvabra]

You could see how Goulet was a vastly better skater than anyone else on the ice.

[@ars6091]

I attended this game way back when I was 21 years old...wasn't happy with the results but pretty cool watching it again

[@OrThatsIt]

Pure gold!!

[@lordhighexecutioner]

Patrick Roy's favourite goalie as a kid there in the Quebec goal...

[@marcpaquet3469]

Dan Bouchard was Patrick Roy's idol ! :)

[@jeffreyg4626]

This Hockey night in Canada play by play man is my all time favorite and a pleasure to listen to. I also loved Rick Jeanneret and Harry Neal when they were together in Buffalo. Today the ones on TNT, and ESPN talk too much during play. Call the game man! Stories are for breaks in play and intermission.

[@krezzykrezz]

Couldn't agree more but the younger folks seem to like it. The great Bob Cole retired from announcing in 2019. He and the Habs Danny Gallivan were my favorites on HNIC.

[@seanleonard7602]

What a game what a series they just don't play like this anymore great players on both sides I'm a Boston boy born n bread still here my favorite teams was those of the 80s we had great players what an Era for Boston hocket

[@erickcancino3442]

DEAR SIR DO YOU HAVE ANY MORE GAMES FROM THIS GREAT SERIES PLEASE AND THANK YOU

[@craigostopovich4860]

remember like yesterday.....ouch.....l m bruins fan since 1970s..thanks for uploading

[@chrisuncleahmad]

Do you have Sabres/Flyers Game 1 1995 first round?

[@lisahardy9707]

Classic HNIC on CBC Playoffs Sunday Apr 25 1982 7 pm ET Boston Gardens Attendance - 14,673

[@paulmendrina1449]

1 year later Bruins would be in the same spot this time beating Buffalo in Game 7 OT on a goal by Brad Park I remember watching that game

[@procyonant6805]

I understand that I'm 2 months late - Gerry Cheevers happy 80th birthday to you! Health! In Russia, they still remember you!

[@2KHOCKEY]

pure awesomeness :)

[@Kruc101]

Wow. what a game !! I'm a life long Islanders fan and this was great !!

[@franktheo2055]

Wow ! the Stastny brothers. There are so many players on both sides of the ice in this game that I got to see that were in and out of the NYR line up from the 1970's throughout the late 1980's. Great memories & a great posting !

[@GetBenched2010]

This Bruins team simply wasn't built to win in May. They would have been Cup contenders in 1977 but that was 5 years into the rear view mirror and it showed. Young legs embarrassing old legs.

[@bryanburnap4537]

The Bruins unfortunately have lost a few game 7's at home over the past 40 years :(

[@budhall4813]

Best player on the ice that night: Mike Moffat. Tremendous performance in a losing effort.

[@chrisod22]

5:37 - Rene looking good

[@Chupacvabra]

I was in Boston last summer and I swear there are still people that look exactly like 1982 Rene, right down to the peanut butter leather coat.

[@senorsoupe]

HNIC's light blue suits were very 70's/80's

[@hockeyfanism]

Bourque did not play in this game. You wonder how things would've turned out had he did.

[@im_beta_youre_vhs6048]

And only 9 years later, Milbury would lead his beloved B's to......um, Ulf Samuelsson

[@johnny-r]

I haven't followed hockey through the years, so maybe somebody can tell me - were helmets not mandatory in this era? Are they mandatory now (2023)? When did they become mandatory?

[@KHayes666]

Was this the biggest win in Quebec history? I don't remember them ever getting to the East Finals after this.

[@lisahardy9707]

1984-85

[@KHayes666]

@@lisahardy9707 Good call, I stand corrected

[@hockeyfanism]

O'reilly horrendous penalty that cost the Bruins and Moffat the season.

[@jamespykonen4017]

a young micki redmond!

[@nelsonnepinak359]

I mean the griefs n teams

[@bareknuckles2u]

Game 7s at the "Gahden" don't always work out so well! Unless they play the Leafs! Kidding!

[@lisahardy9707]

It looked like mcnab kicked in his 2nd period goal

[@scorpius6667]

All O'Reilly got for punching a ref was a 10 game suspension and a $500.00 dollar fine! With the history O'Reilly had this was a extremely light penalty! but it seems like Commissioners of all sports leagues seem to go light on Boston teams! Boston, "The City of Cheats"!

[@leafyutube]

O'Reilly practicing his right jab on the referee's face @2:07:53.

[@canuck_gamer3359]

O'Reilly was the Bruin player who I hated the most in my 40 plus years of being a huge fan of the Montreal Canadiens. I was rooting for the Nordiques in this series if you can believe that. O'Reilly was always a meat head and if you can believe this, he was only suspended for 10 games for hitting the referee!!! In today's NHL you would get 30 for fun and if you ever did it again you'd be facing a ban for life. The guy was an absolute meat head, surpassed only by Lucic in the long list of Bruin meatheads lol.

[@leafyutube]

Still amusing to see O'Reilly punch the referee after all these years.

[@dennis3351]

Van Hellemond deserved it after a very bad ref night letting Hunter get away with alot all night.

[@garysimard5674]

The officials protected Hunter from getting punched by guys larger than him. Van Hellemond had no right swinging O'Reilly around like that, he should have let them go, but Hunter of course was skating away like a coward.

[@Boxingbear]

Oh screw you. Hunter was no coward. They won the series because they didnt take stupid penalties needlessly.

[@garysimard5674]

@@Boxingbear You're taking it awful personal, aren't you?

[@garysimard5674]

@@Boxingbear Thing is, he was holding onto his stick, swinging his stick and then when O'Reilly went after him he's doing figure 8s to get away from him. It's all there. 2:07:45.

[@ECWnWWF]

There were no Colorado Avalanche in the real NHL

[@jogendron6320]

There was the Rockies before the Devils thou ;)

[@kingjamesmedia2843]

WHERE IS RAY!!!!!

[@craigostopovich4860]

he was 5 yrs old that time....lol

[@Chrisman77]

Did oreilly get suspended for bitch slapping van hellemond like that? I mean it's the early 80s so that was probably allowed back then

[@nelsonnepinak359]

Soup n sandwiches at my place

[@nelsonnepinak359]

Through the mask of warrooms busting staches

[@markschlesinger]

Caarrrrazzzzzzyyyyyy!

[@paulmendrina1449]

The Islanders easily swept Quebec in the next round

[@ramram349]

Well, it was the Islanders.

[@scorpius6667]

Oreiley should never have played another game in the NHL after that! He punched a NHL referee! ...OPEN SEASON on NHL Refs? Or is it simply BOSTON.....City of CHEATS who get away with it! Right Tom...Bob?

[@Bruins-vq5ey]

Obviously by your name your a Bruin hater..stfu

[@lindoluciano431]

Boston is the City of Champions Everybody that's anybody knows that!

[@seveglider8406]

@@Mike___Honcho Spoken like a true IDIOT! You're a typical Bruin fan who hates the Montreal Canadiens because they have continually beat the crap out of the bruins in the Playoffs! Check out the results of all the times they have met in the playoffs. The Canadiens have won 25 times, the bruins 9 times! Have a good cry!

[@seveglider8406]

@@Mike___Honcho Since the early 80’s the soft Habs have won more Cups than then Dirty bruins! Yes the Bruins had the Greatest Hockey Player EVER, Bobby Orr an some exceptional players. However, the Canadiens have usually been superior in skill and tougher than the DIRTY bruins. NO, I am s Habs fan and I always want to see the Bruins beat them because the Habs have won enough Cups. Unlike You, I don’t cry!

[@seveglider8406]

@@Mike___Honcho First of all, It is asinine for you to assert what the Anaheim franchise was created! Secondly, I don't give a crap about your sport history. This is about the fact that You're a whiny little child who can't deal with the fact the Quebec Nordiques beat the DIRTY bruins in game 7 of the 1982 Stanley Cup Playoffs! Your comments prove You hate French People! You're a SCHMUCK!!! 4Q!!!

[@rushrules81]

Goalies look like 9 year olds and play like a table hockey goalie. Guys today like Ovechkin would score a 120 goals if he played in 1982....and no I don't think I'm exaggerating!

[@jogendron6320]

Ovechkin with a wooden stick and a shot 40mph slower? Yeah sure. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@rushrules81]

@jogendron6320 🤪 so Al MacInnis would have a 150 mph shot if he used a composite? Lol. Much easier to score in the 80s than today, no one debates that. Goalies are all well over 6 ft and cover most of the net now. The 80s had a bunch of Andy Moogs. 5' 7" Goalies who cover 1/3 of the net. Ovi could've netted over 100 in 80s. McDavid would have 250 point seasons. Hockey has progressed thanks to the greats ( Orr, Gretzky, Lemeiux etc...). Other sports like baseball and basketball have regressed, except for the long balls( 3 pointers).

[@nelsonnepinak359]

Quebec sucks they could've had the kleefs