Felix Potvin vs Curtis Joseph, 1993 NHL Playoffs

I edited this video to be mostly just the saves and goals from game 1 of the 1993 Norris Division Final between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the St Louis Blues. The video ends with Doug Gilmour's famous overtime wraparound goal.
Bob Cole is at his best doing the play by play! Harry Neale is doing the colour commentary.
#leafs #leafsnation #leafsforever

[@orderlyclerk]

The most classy goalie of the 90's!!! The Stance, gears, and everything. I am so proud that Potvin was with the Leafs!!

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

And he was drafted and developed by the Leafs too! Which the Leafs hardly ever do with great goalies for some reason. It's more typical of the Leafs to let guys like Tuukka Rask go to other teams it seems.

[@AlligatorAdam999]

Those Potvin pads were absolutely unreal! Go Leafs Go!

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

And he was an unreal goalie too! Go Leafs!!!

[@Juno_Beach]

Unbelievable '90s Era !! Pearl Jam Ten, The Cranberries Zombie / Linger, DC Talk Jesus Freak, Nirvana Nevermind, Clannad Theme from Harry's Game, Enya Shepherd Moons, & the 1993 Stanley Cup GOALTENDING MEGA SENSATIONS Curtis Joseph and Felix Potvin. ( This decade was unbelievable whether you were 5 or 35 ) and it's all gone

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

Seems like you love the 90's! Lol! That's cool.

[@LePhil79]

The "1993 Stanley Cup GOALTENDING MEGA SENSATION" was named Patrick, though...

[@Juno_Beach]

@@LePhil79 nobody here said Joseph & Potvin were officially named mega sensations . Learn to distinguish between personal commentary & official declarations. Joseph & Potvin displayed mega sensational goaltending during the 93 playoffs

[@Juno_Beach]

@@LePhil79 who said Patrick wasn't named ? Do you live in a medical tent ? Joseph and Potvin had spectacular performances during the 93 playoffs.

[@hockeyed]

Bob Cole in his prime!!

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

I took a look at your channel, you aren't too bad at play by play yourself!

[@Wanderlust598]

Curtis Joseph was a stud with the BLues, Oilers and Leafs and was consistently overlooked.

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

I agree.

[@flannelfield5255]

ive heard this but growing up in this era we all knew as kids he was outstanding i dont know what the thought was among older people but cujo was as good as anyone and one of the best, at times the best....we all thought he was better than potvin but the cat was special

[@SuperStrik9]

That Gilmour wraparound goal is an all time classic Leafs moment. I was 12 at the time and every kid in the Greater Toronto Area was practicing that move on the ice or in their driveway the next day.

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

It was an all time classic goal, and what a way to end an all time classic game too!!!

[@thelivingdaylights8611]

I am a Potvin fan at heart but cujo is a monster. These guys look like twigs in net saving shots. Today it's all about beef. These are the real goalies. The sounds coming off the pads making saves gives me chills!

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

I would like to see goalies today still using the equipment that Potvin and Joseph used. I am not a big fan of the pads that rotate on the the legs to make it easier to do the butterfly that they started using in the early 2000's.

[@georgekiraleos9770]

im not a fan if sticks made out of airplane material that shoot 110 mph either lol

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

@@georgekiraleos9770 That's another thing that's changed the game so much that's for sure.

[@georgekiraleos9770]

@@JeffTheLeafsFan 100% as a goalie, anything we get an advantage we deserve lol. ps felix is the best

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

@@georgekiraleos9770 Felix Potvin was the last great goaltender that the Leafs drafted and developed!

[@thelivingdaylights8611]

Having Guy hebert as a back up is insane! Three legends between the pipes!

[@kingmasonry]

never heard of him before.

[@TheMightyOdin]

2 goals in almost 5 periods and it was riveting!

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

It was a fantastic game!

[@Charlie-qe6lv]

I would take either one in their prime.

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

They both were great!

[@ratboy717]

dude thank you for these!

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

Thank you for watching them!

[@robertcarley924]

So nice to see two stand up goalies who didn't rely completely on the butterfly. Kick saves, stick saves, double pad stack saves, poke checks - nothing you see in today's formula goal tending.

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

The 1990's was a great era for goaltending! It's the era when they really started to cover the bottom part of the net, yet goalies still had a lot of that old school individuality though. It seemed like each goalie still brought something different to the position, unlike the pretty much cookie cutter moves of today. I often wonder how many of today's goalies would do if they didn't have the pads that rotate on the legs making it easier to do the butterfly. They started to wear those pads in the early 2000's.

[@mrcrowley109]

@@JeffTheLeafsFan I started playing goalie back in the 90s as a kid. Rotating the pads was easily doable, tight on the bottom loose on the top. It's just that most goalies didn't do it until Patty Roy started doing it with such success. Modern pads, yes, it's way way easier to do.

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

@@mrcrowley109 Plus modern pads are built so the goalies can slide around the crease while down in the butterfly too. I was a beer league goalie in the 90's, I used to do the pads up pretty tight. Covering the bottom part of the net really started became a huge thing in the 90's, I couldn't do much of a butterfly, so I used half butterfly's and sometimes that 90's paddle down technique for stuff in close. Looking back I can't believe how we used to think skates saves and kick save were proper technique back in the 60's and 70's. Lol!

[@nbarealtalker]

Greatest Leaf’s goalie of the last 50+ years.

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

I know you mean Potvin, and he was definitely one of the best Leafs goalies since Mike Palmateer. And Potvin was for sure the absolute best goalie developed by the Leafs since Palmateer. But I was a huge Curtis Joseph fan though, even before he was with the Leafs.

[@nbarealtalker]

@@JeffTheLeafsFan oh ya! I grew up in Edmonton so I know all about Cujo 🙌

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

@@nbarealtalker He should be in the HHOF for sure!!!

[@alpha-male1959]

Thanks for this awesome memory I miss this era of hockey so much 🙃

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

It was a great era that's for sure!

[@kingmasonry]

hockey was so much better then

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

@@kingmasonry In some ways, but I figure you have to respect the skill level of some of today's players too though

[@foreverafanfilmmusic]

Probably two of the best hockey games ever played in history those first two games. I am a huge Cujo fan and even now I still cannot believe the amount of rubber the Maple Leafs threw at him. I also happen to be a fan of Felix Potvin, and he was equally as stellar

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

Both goalies were probably at their absolute best that year. Cujo was unbelievable in the first round against the Black Hawks also.

[@foreverafanfilmmusic]

@@JeffTheLeafsFan, if I remember correctly, I believe they swept the Blackhawks, who had the best record in hockey that year

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

@@foreverafanfilmmusic They did beat the Hawks in 4, it was a huge upset, and it was mostly do to Cujo's goaltending!

[@foreverafanfilmmusic]

@@JeffTheLeafsFan, this was such a great time to not only be a fan of hockey, but to watch goalies! Not only were the goalies better back then, but more entertaining to watch. It didn’t hurt that we had Gary Thorne and Bill Clement either!

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

@@foreverafanfilmmusic The 1990's was really the time when goaltending transitioned from a stand up style to a style that covered the bottom part of the net better. So it had the best of both worlds. Plus goalie pads that rotate on the legs making it easier to do the butterfly didn't exist until about the early 2000's. So goalies had to be more creative to cover the bottom part of the net, they didn't have the equipment do it for them. As for as Gary Thorne and Bill Clement go, they are legends, but I hardly ever heard them do games though. I'm up in Canada and we had our own broadcasting legends like Bob Cole on Hockey Night in Canada, and still have the voice of the Toronto Maple Leafs Joe Bowen. It's Bob Cole doing the play by play on this video.

[@kingchrisepoo]

1993 was the last year it was quality, after this betman came in the league and fucked it all up

[@BrokTheLoneWolf]

Pure finesse and mastery.

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

The 1990's was really the transition from old school stand up goaltending to modern butterfly goaltending, so it had the best of both worlds. It's probably my favourite era of goaltending.

[@BrokTheLoneWolf]

@@JeffTheLeafsFan oh man. That’s what it is. Also the equipment was half the size so they had to be more acrobatic. But they had less weight so they could move better. And players weren’t nearly as deadly

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

@@BrokTheLoneWolf Since the early 2000's goalie pads are made to rotate on the legs so even somebody who doesn't have the flexibility to do a butterfly will now be able to do a perfect butterfly. So it's the equipment doing a lot of the work now, not the goalies.

[@BrokTheLoneWolf]

@@JeffTheLeafsFan lol great insight. I’m a goalie and I did not even know that

[@Taylor-gb5gf]

funny that potvin was actually a few years younger than joseph, i guess it doesn't get remembered that way because of potvin's shorter career and joseph playing for the leafs in the 2000s. met curtis joseph maybe 10 years ago and i asked him about the time the leafs tested using him as a "shootout specialist" and it seemingly backfired, he told me he was not the right guy for that because even though he felt prepared and focused, he had never played in a shootout before

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

It's kind of the opposite for me, he is the last great goalie the Leafs drafted and developed. They drafted Tuukka Rask since but the Bruins developed him obviously. I remember Potvin becoming the Leafs young star goalie after they traded Grant Fuhr. And then I wondered why they brought in the older Curtis Joseph to replace him.

[@flannelfield5255]

i remember this game all the talk was about cujo vs the cat, i was a young kid and everyone was up watching this game and the goalies rose to the occasion

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

That was a really fun playoffs to watch that year!

[@BudSchnelker]

"What can you say about Kelly Hrudy? He made Curtis Joseph look like Jim Ralph." Don Martin after game 1 of the 1993 conference finals.

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

I don't remember who Don Martin even was, but Curtis Joseph wasn't in the conference finals lol!

[@BudSchnelker]

Don Martin was one of the hosts of Global's Sportsline show. He said that after game 1 of the Kings-Leafs series, after the Leafs eliminated the Blues. His point was that Hrudy had played so well that he made Joseph look like a journeyman minor leaguer. The pun is that all three guys had last names that were the same (pronounced, at least) as first names. Jim Ralph also worked for Sportsline at that time.

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

@@BudSchnelker It is a funny statement! I guess I didn't watch Global's Sportsline much back then, I kind of remember Mark Hebscher on that show, the name Don Martin is really familiar, I just don't remember him. I'm in my early 60's, a lot of the past is a bit of a fog for my old repetitively concussed head, lol! I faintly remember events, but then have to do at ton of research in order to make a lot of my videos, because my memory is not so great with a lot of stuff. I get a ton of trolls on here, so I'm a bit cautious at first at times, but you turned out to out to be a really good commentor.

[@BudSchnelker]

@@JeffTheLeafsFan This is a video containing the quip; one that I uploaded many years ago. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYqlmJywmreqgs0

[@brianlb78]

I remember this game. One of the Blues players on that wrap around goal should of gone after Gilmore not given him all that time back there because it wasn't a power play or anything. Force him to commit but they didn't. At least the Blues have won a Cup since then :)

[@JeffTheLeafsFan]

I guess he kind of fooled everybody when he turned around and came back.

[@battistaverardi1240]

Oh how I miss this style of hockey! The goalies were amazing! Todays NHL is pure trash compared to this!

[@beanlegume9965]

Nah. The skaters are way better now, but the goalies aren’t as good anymore. Basically the shooting got way harder and more accurate, so the goalies can’t rely on their reflexes as much anymore. They just try to be huge.

[@battistaverardi1240]

@@beanlegume9965 not true at all. So Gretzky and Mario Lemieux didn’t have as hard of a slap shot or as accurate? Or Al Maccinis didn’t have a bullet of a slap shot? I’ll agree with you that the goalies absolutely suck today they all have the same style and play on their knees and are not unique at all! But the last era of hockey was 1000x better than today in all areas! Today they are bubble wrapped sissy’s wearing purses!

[@szahmad2416]

@@beanlegume9965 Gretzky mentioned that in his heyday, it was way easier to score goals, because the goalies weren't great as athletes...and then, they got a whole lot better as athletes and having greater reflexes, and so made it much harder to score goals. Same with defensemen; no one expected them to be more than pylons you skate around, but suddenly, defensive game was amped up. Today, once again, the players have pushed ahead, and the league has cut out a lot of the stuff that would have made it more difficult for a Sidney Crosby to score a goal...hooking from behind, for example...so it's no surprise that the goalies and defense look silly sometimes. They'll catch up again eventually.

[@jaseys]

Thanks for the upload, this to me was the last great era of hockey being hockey

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